Following on from that LBS thread (http://singletrackworld.com/2016/03/10-ways-to-be-a-dick-in-your-local-bike-shop/) I wanted to say good things about my local bike shops.

TAV Cycles in Ryde (http://www.tavcycles.co.uk) and Wight Mountain in Newport (http://www.wightmountain.com) – both on the Isle of Wight – are awesome and deserve your trade. Both have great staff, great stock and run regular evening rides.

I should add, I totally agree with the sentiment of the article, even if I am occasionally a dick. 😳

Trek store Milton Keynes. Great guys and good service.

Kontour Cycles in Polegate

Evolution Cycles in Eastbourne

C6 Bikes just outside of Cambridge. Friendly staff and a good place to just drop in and have a browse. Weekly rides at Thetford too. Shame I’m not more local…

JE James.. Fantastic as an LBS.

Really helpful, non-pushy staff who just let you get on with it, but give great help and advice when you actually need it -plus they always have tonnes of stock!

BW Cycling, Bristol. Fantastic service & owned by Oli Beckingsale.

Bikeworks in oswestry has been good to me. Adam is helpful and knowledgeable.

Bikeworksoswestry.co.uk

Life on Wheels in Holywell North Wales. My LBS and top guys.
The bike shop at coed Llandegla, One Planet Adventure. Again, they often go above and beyond to help riders out.

The Missing Link, Droitwich
Banjo Cycles, Newbury
Specialized Concept Store, Newbury

Fantastic service from the guys and girls above.

Rotec Cycles in Reading, open till 8pm+ most evenings… Great bloke and knows his stuff.

Overspoke in Bewdley – have known Mark turn up super early in the morning so I could pick up something I needed to be able to ride that day with. Always above and beyond.

Kmb in Keswick and cyclewise were my locals and great shops.
Ride on in Rawtenstall
Sprung in Launceston Tasmania
Planet bike in Rotorua
My mountain and I ride in Melbourne
Jan’s mountain in Park city utah
Moab classic bikes in moab.

Tend to find good shops wherever I travel. Just follow rule one. Don’t be a dick

Lodge Cycles in Briton Ferry (actally moved to Cwmafan I think) are really good for mtb maintenance/repairs that are beyond me. Worth remembering if you’re visiting Afan and have an issue.

For cx stuff tend to go to Urban Cyclerly in Gorseinon. Really friendly and helpful.

Sowerby Brothers Cycles in Mirfield.

Top lads.

Any near North Birmingham? Would live to find a decent one round here.

Stonehenge Cycles, Salisbury.

Great people, great shop. Enough bling to drool over, while still fixing the puncture on Mrs Miggins’ old Raleigh. A proper bike shop.

East Street Farnham.

Good advice, happy to order stuff for you, decent mechanic / security advisor 😉

Wheels in motion Holyrood street chard sommerset

Andy owns it is the mech and knows his stuff restores a lot of old bikes and has a mass of knowledge. If you read this Andy I am still in France m8.

Icycles in inners for me, I take Steve all my pain in the arse stuff because everything that’s not a pain in the arse, I do myself. uh, you don’t necessarily get the most rapid or efficient of turnarounds and you do need to spend 30 minutes in the shop talking pish before you can get to business. But that’s just the deal.

Just Bike Repairs in Juniper Green are my actual local and they’re grand too- proper enthusiasts repair shop, place is always full of destroyed kids bikes and billion pound carbon fibre race weapons and they’ll do just about anything to get you going again. The sort of place you can run in and go “ZOMFG my wheel’s knackered and I’ll off to the alps in 4 hours”.

Leisure Lakes Newport
Leisure Lakes Wolverhampton
Swinnerton Cycles, Cannock Chase
Two Wheels Only, Tamworth
Unit Cycles, Newquay

All have great staff and plenty to look at in store

only tend to use Cooksons in Whitefield, Ride On in Rawtenstall or Spa in Harrogate.

All excellent.

+1 for Ride-On in Rawtenstall…been a customer of theirs since they first opened in 1996. great set of guys and Craig is one of the most honest and down to earth guys you could meet. only shop i would trust with my bike.

Sunset Cardiff – I’ve been bothering them with my inane questions and such for 10 years now and they haven’t thrown me out yet. Always friendly, never snobby or elitist even when I was utterly, utterly clueless.

Craig the guy in the workshop has fixed my stuff after hours, fixed my cock-ups and built endless wheels for me that have never failed, not once, despite the fact I’m fat and cack-handed on a bike.

Rotec Cycles in Reading, open till 8pm+ most evenings… Great bloke and knows his stuff.

+1

Great little shop. Reminds me I owe him some beer for doing a job.

Action Bikes in the town center is also pretty good for cheaper bits to keep singlespeeds going etc.

Crank Cycles, Alton

Tamed Earth, Hindhead

Condor are excellent – the service is very good – they’re very knowledgeable

Also Brixton Cycles, simply for being legends 🙂

surely this one !

Keith at Mugdock pretending sanny is acting out of normal character 🙂

open till 8pm+ most evenings

Don’t understand why more bike shops (and other small businesses) don’t do this more often, at least one evening a week, or til say 6? Not everyone works 9-5 but a lot of people do and being able to go after or on the way home from work makes it a lot more likely I’ll use them.

Pedal on aren’t local to me but I’ll happily make the trip as they are a good bunch of people and offer nice coffee.
Good range of stock and know their stuff. Very helpful and nice people, which is get are rare in all shops.

Not everyone works 9-5 but a lot of people do and being able to go after or on the way home from work makes it a lot more likely I’ll use them.

Possibly that most people say that in the same way as they will eat healthy, exercise more and drink less next week 😉

There are plethora of bike shops around Stoke, a couple are nationally famous and make their own stuff. I’m going to nominate the Velo store in Stone. The lads in there are excellent and always given me a great service.

My local in Aylesbury Buckingham Bikes are superb, always friendly and great service.

http://www.buckinghambikes.com/

Possibly that most people say that in the same way as they will eat healthy, exercise more and drink less next week

Possibly this, but also if you opened at 7 in the morning to catch commuters on their way in, and then open till 8 in the evening, you’re at work for 13 hours, LBS owners need a life too!

Skyline Cycles at Glyncorrwg.

Cycleworld in Sunderland for road/CX stuff and Cycleworld in Chester le St for mountain bikes.

Possibly this, but also if you opened at 7 in the morning to catch commuters on their way in, and then open till 8 in the evening, you’re at work for 13 hours, LBS owners need a life too!

I always figured if I opened a shop targeting commuters I’d do this. Obviously it’d require two people shifts tho.

Independent Bikeworks (or is it Cycleworks) in Cirencester.

Pearson East Sheen, Bicycle in Richmond

Stirling Cycles

Nice to see that their friendly and helpful service is winning and they’ve recently moved to larger premises. A good helpful and knowledgeable team of guys.

Bothy Bikes

Biketreks

Ghyllside Cycles

Dales

Bikelove

Mugdock Country Cycles

Escape Route

Wheelcraft

West End Cycles

ICycles

All are excellent! 😀