Not sure if there is a post on this already but how about using this one to give a shout out to your local bike shop
marshalls cycles welwyn garden city 🙂
redkite cycles, Shirley, Solihull.
great little shop, they don't sell bikes I like just the staff are really helpfula nd dead friendly. Always willing to help.
What's a local bike shop.?
Very lucky in Edinburgh with a range of decent LBS
The one I use the most is The Bike Chain on Rodney street. helpful / knowledgeable, good customer service, decent prices
East Street Cycles in Farnham. Very friendly, helpful, always enthusiastic and happy to talk bikes!
Ellis Briggs in Shipley at the moment.
Oh, and a shout out to Chester Cycles in Chester le Street, (used to be Cestria Cycles).
PedalPushers in Grantham.
Not an MTB shop, mostly TT bikes, but Neil is the only mechanic I trust with my bike! Has built 2 very good wheels for me.
melksham cycle centre.have recommended them more than once here.the managar has let me buy bikes from him interest free,let me take the bike,even though he knows i am unemployed.i cannot think of many shops doing that.also really great guys 😀
Dales cycles in Glasgow
Merlin cycles
Its true
I've had great service locally from
Two wheels
Race Co cycles
Leisure lakes (Wolvo)
Brotherton Cycles
& On Your Bike (Brum)
all fufilled a need I had at the time, but were spoiled for choice my way and haven't even tried Fred William, who a friend throughly recommends.
Freewheel in Nottingham have always done me proud, especially for servicing - not cheap, but good.
For purchasing, Evans in Nottingham have a huge amount in stock and will pricematch on the spot. Surprisingly good advice and guidance given the rep as well.
Two Wheels in Stourbridge
Race Co in Stourbridge
Both have been very good to me in the past and I would reccommend both to anyone in the area.
Brixton Cycles.
In err, Brixton.
lovely bunch of lads and ladeeys and the odd celebrity customer.
Specialists right through the field - Mountain, commuter,fixie, road, BMX, Skate and even wierd oldies.
A great antidote to the corporate Evans' and Cycle Surgeries out there.
Alf Jones - Wrexham - Great guys and customer service and a shiny new shop.
Garage Bikes in Morley, Leeds.
More a workshop than a shop shop (although spares are available!)
Finally found someone I trust to repair my bike!
Bicycle Smithy in Hazel Grove, on the A6 as you leave Manchester heading for the Peak District. Jon's a top lad and has seen me right on many occasions
I agree with TJ (which is weird) but The Bike Chain are the mutts nuts...
Bike Scene Guisbrough, usefull for those odds and ends that aren't worth waiting for/saving 50p on from CRC.
Pricing on other stuff is OK too, although no lightweight 2.35 innertubes seems a huge oversight! I'm running stretched out 2.0-2.2's as anything bigger was for DH. Bit odd as I know spesh brand some in that size/weight and thts the brand they stock.
Rayments in Brighton and Quest Adventure in Worthing. Both cracking shops.
Switchback Cycles, Knaphill (near Woking)- small shop but very helpful and keen on prices
excellent mechanic and good pricing at hot pursuits in totnes.
Streetlife Cycles, Norwich.
Great blokes, good deals for regulars, very accommodating and helpful, and they like to ride. I do sometimes wonder whether they might have signed something once that compels them to conform to the stereotype of disorganised, cluttered and slightly unreliable. I guess that's often part of the charm.
Hexham Bike shop, in, err, Hexham
Just been up there showing off the belt-drive to John Swan the younger and Tom the mechanic.
I use a few around the place:
Echelon in Pershore
Worcester Cycle Center in errrr Worcester
Brothertons Cycles Old Hill Birmingham
Sideways Cycles Alsager
All the above I'd happily recommend to anyone that is looking for great service.
awesome to see bike shops getting bigged up. 🙂 🙂
high5
Um would have recomended my local untill last week, over heard whilst paying for new bike " Hope he does not ****ing going to hang round all day" I will not be returning and yes I know I am a c**k but you make sure when someone is handing money over they don't hear it!
Not my LBS (quite far!), but they were very nice when mrs xiphon got her pashley.
Apple Bikes - if you're reading this, we walked in and bought the red pashley britannia less than 10mins later!
6-8 Orchard Road,
St. Annes-on-Sea,
Lancashire. FY8 1RY
01253 725349
Rick Green Cycles, Handforth (South Manchester) - roadie shop. Family run. Fantastic workshop skills. (Old LBS, I've now moved)
Harry Hall, Manchester - old reputation (of rudeness) went away. Always used them as were near old work. Finally became friendly..!
Sideways Cycles, Alsager - family run. Ace niche stuff. Friendly. Great service. Not local to me, but an ace business.
Paul Hewitt, Leyland - legendary wheels. Now close to me.
Merlin Cycles - now v nearby. Have used mailorder for years.
Harry Middleton, Ormskirk - another I don't yet know, but rep is good and they have a sizeable (road) club riding from the shop.
Evolution in Eastbourne
Castle Bikes in Caerphilly, not only a great shop but a friendly club as well.
http://www.stonehengecycles.com/
Great stock, great service and superb spanner men. Yes, even the ginger one!
Paul at Bike Shop Scotland in Dunfermline has been my LBS for a few years now. Brilliant service, friendly and always helpful.
Another vote for LeisureLakes in
Wolverhampton. Top bunch of blokes.
Cycleworks in Guildford every time for me.
J E James in Rotherham, used them for years and always had great service
Fred Williams in Wolverhampton
Two Wheels in Amblecote
18 Bikes (my not so local LBS)
Dave's Cycles in Aldridge.
Geographically local - 18 Bikes in Hope
'Virtually' local - The Bike Chain in Edinburgh
Devreux Cycles, Ashton on Mersey (Manchester) - top service from a top bloke (Ian)
Eddie McGraths, Urmston (Manchester) - as above!
BIKE (Bristol)
Spokes Cycles - Perth Road Dundee.
Good bunch of lads, seem to know their stuff and always very helpful
Spoiled for choice in Bristol - Bike UK, Psyclewerx, Bristol Bike Workshop, Evans, Spesh concept store, Strada, Zero G, Jake's Bikes and Mud Dock are all good shops within 10 minutes of the centre.
Further out of town Bools in Fishponds and Webbs of Warmley are both nice little shops run by top people.
Cadence, John's Bikes and Avon Valley Cycles in Bath are ace too.
Highly Recommended -
Red Ape Bikes in Bishop Auckland - Gavin is helpful and friendly - everyone who I've recommended them to has been very happy.
Bikesport in Darlington - bit expensive but very helpful
Sort of local - Westbrook Cycles in Stokesley is pretty good.
The polar opposite compared to Iron Horse in Darlington and Cycleways in Newton Aycliffe who I avoid like the plague.
BIKE (Bristol)
Currently strongly disagreeing with that statement <resists temptation to avoid the swear filter and post mini-rant-ette> 👿
Spokes Cycles - Perth Road Dundee.Good bunch of lads, seem to know their stuff and always very helpful
+1. Don't use them much myself as I do my own spannering nowadays but I recommend them to others and the feedback has always been very good.
LimitlessMTB; Chiclana de la Frontera, Cadiz, Spain.
Spanish run but the owner speaks pretty good English.
Ken Foster's (Chorlton, S Manchester) - Local and very helpful.
Devereux Cycles, Ashton on Mersey (S Manchester). Great prices.
Ralphies Taunton 🙂
Webbs of Warmley
Bummer, forgot to mention them when I wrote my bit. Great coffee there too!!
Moose Cycles in Colliers Wood. Build good wheels, good mechanic and generally just helpful (even if I'm having a bad day and just can't get the mudguard off to fix a puncture!)
Also pretty good on unbiased advice - they don't try to sell me what they've got in stock if they don't think it's the right answer, which is very unusual in my experience (female asking advice in a bike shop...)
[url= http://www.corridori.co.uk/ ]Corridori Cycle Sport[/url] in Epsom
or
[url= http://www.head-for-the-hills.co.uk/ ]Head for the Hills[/url] in Dorking
Both really friendly helpful shops
Rock and road Southampton, great shop great staff!
My LOCAL LBS is Evans HQ :|. Know loads of people who work there so do use them for bits.
Unfortunately as far as spanner men/wheel builders are concerned, the only two I've regularly used are 45+ mins away in opposite directions. - Don't use anyone closer
Revolver in Bourg Saint Maurice is my usual choice. Stephane doesn't carry loads of stock, but he's great for advice and will get most repairs done "next-day".
Intersport (just next door) have been really good this season as well. Good bunch of mechanics in their bike section, been really helpful to us and a few of our clients.
Another one here for Devereux Cycles in Ashton on Mersey.
Greenwheel Cycles - Peterborough
A new shop with LOTS of enthusiasm and great service - recently had an ongoing issue with a shock I sent away, via them, to get serviced (and was damaged by the service centre), and they have been really helpful and fought my corner all the way. You may think it's their job to as I paid them BUT I've had previous similar situations where other shops don't give a toss after they've got your cash, or moan and grumble when you want aftersales service....
The only bike shop I` d feel confident to do work on my bike is [url= http://www.bikeshedwales.com/ ]The BikeShed in Cardiff [/url] not so much a LBS here in Caerphilly .. but worth the 15 min drive.
Nevis cycles in Fort William have a superb workshop, and the staff are pretty friendly. Def worth the slight detour if you're up this way
Westbrook Cycles in Stokesley (North Yorkshire)
Great service, they are always getting me fiddly bits and pieces in that they probably make no money on. So if I have big money to spend it goes there.
Big Peaks in Ashburton. Excellent honest service and good coffee!!
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Dave's Cycles in Aldridge.
I have never been that keen on them they always seem to treat me as a noob. That is why I never use them unless I have no other choice even though they are by far my closest LBS. I prefer to travel to Swinertons at the Chase they really are good so friendly, they do have one lad that is a couple of sarnies short of a picnic but he is friendly enough.
Pro-bikes Hucknall
Al at Garage Bikes Morley evey time since they opened, ok they dont sell bikes but plenty of spares and accessories also come to think of it im not there to buy a bike too. Just trying to keep mine running in top form and he has never let me down yet, oh and they have free coffee and sweets the main clincher :O)
Another vote for [url= http://www.bikeshedwales.com/ ]http://www.bikeshedwales.com/[/url]
Spoilt for choice here, Paul Hewitts at the bottom of the road, Bill Nickson in the town centre, Merlins a couple of miles away and the missus has just started working for the leisure lakes so will hopefully be making use of her staff discount soon.
Twelve50 bikes in Frodsham, quality shop and good lads that own the place too - they even have their own beer!!
Yep, the Twelve50 lads are boss. Pretty much everything you'd want from a bike shop. Allthough I did not know about the beer....
Velocity Cycles - Cosham, Portsmouth
+1 for webbs of warmley. Too customer service. Just been down there for a couple of hours chatting while he was working on my bike. (chatting and drinking coffee)
Another recommendation for The Bike Chain in Edinburgh. Great shop with great staff.
Also have to mention Basecamp Bikes at Laggan. They saved the start of my stag weekend! Turned up from Edinburgh and realised that I had forgotten my SPD shoes. They kindly lent me a pair of flat pedals. And also allowed me access to their first aid kit when I picked up some nasty trail rash. Service above and beyond! Excellent.
+1 for [url= http://www.jejamescycles.co.uk/ ]JE James[/url] (Sheffield)
The absolute bestest LBS I've ever had, ever. No fuss, no worries, always very helpful to the point of awesomeness, excellent value, masses of stock.
The best thing about them is that they never once tried to tell me what they thought I should buy / do. They just let me buy stuff off them and hand stuff over occasionally for very rapid fixing. In essence, all you need from an LBS.
Shame I now live 180 miles away 🙁
Cycleworks Leatherhead.
Everything you'd expect from a good LBS, except free coffee...
Peasrson cycles in sutton good shop for roadies. Mechanic is top notch and the manager is a good friend of mine
Twelve50 Bikes, Frodsham. Even though I didn't get any bloody beer. Royles in Wilmslow have helped me out with some pretty obscure stuff recently.
I cannot recommend Chris of b-spoked cycles enough, mobile bike mechanic, SW London based - picks up and drops off at my work.
Cleans my bike before and after it goes into his workshop - its like its had a showroom valet every time it is serviced. I think he may have OCD.
http://www.b-spokebikes.co.uk/
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Cycle Shack, Heath Hayes, Just south of Cannock Chase
a really helpful proper LBS
http://www.cycleshackonline.co.uk/