Oh and Charlie the Bikemonger too.

Moose cycles in Colliers Wood, always good service there.

Spa cycles Harrogate. used em for 30 years…..enough said.
Specialized shop Harrogate. top service.

Two Wheels, Amblecote
Fred Williams, Wolverhampton (used to be good, but haven’t been there for a long time)
Dave Mellor, Shrewsbury
Condor Cycles, Holborn
Charlie the Bikemonger, Swanage
Imperial Cycles, Isleworth

Globalbike in Tattenhall, near Chester. Great family run business and crackin prices.

Garage Bikes in Morley – top lot.
Interesting fact – it’s pronounced like ‘Farage’ of UKIP Fame. 😆
RM.

Giant Store – Bromley

Cedric- top bloke.

Rich & Shonas’ Keep Peddaling in Manchester.
Tims’ Sideways in Alsager
And Al and all the crew at Garage Bikes in Morely..

Lulz Rogermoore

Anyone who’s had the misfortune to deal with my Leeds speedmumble on the phone will testify it more like garridge 😉

But otherwise all warm and fuzzy feelings when I’m again in on a day off removing a *really* stuck BB cup when I should be out on my own bike.

Pedalphiles, Savilles Road
Pedal Dicks, Cocksborough
Menstrual Cycles, Cramptown
I-Cycles, Norway

All good guys and gals

Rockin Bikes in Yelverton. Seriously friendly, helpful bunch of guys. Plus they do excellent tea and cake on demo days!

Luke @ Black8 Bikes, Nailsworth, Glos. I’m not their best customer as I do most of my tinkering myself. They do have a great shop ride on a Wednesday evening though, nice chilled vibe ride, playing around in the local hills.

SOANES CYCLES in Colyton, Devon. Top blokes, been using them forever and they are both great mechanics and great blokes to deal with.

Also, Wheels in Motion in Chard is a sound shop. Andy is a top bloke too.

Rides On Air, Wallingford.

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

Possibly, yes 🙂

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!

For some businesses it may be worth the extra staff costs of doing that. For the one-man-bands and those that can’t justify it, couldn’t they offset the time at a quieter period? e.g if you open late two days a week, close early two days a week. Surely the bit of passing trade you lose closing mid-afternoon Wednesday would be offset by regular trade popping in on a Thursday after work, once they know the deal (and perhaps that other like-minded people would be frequenting the shop then 🙂 )?

JM Richards in Perth are excellent.

Synergy in Auchterarder do an excellent coffee and are pretty good service wise.

BaseCamp in Grantown on Spey, and OrangeFox bikes in Muir of Ord.

http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/tamed-earth

Plus Nirvana and East Street (latter a bit mixed)

But some shockers in Surrey too – especially those linked to a certain brand that tried to rip me off badly.

Cyclesense in Tadcaster are always helpful. One of the few places I’d trust with my bike if I didn’t like doing my own maintenance so much 🙂

Ghyllside Cycles Ambleside

Was over for the weekend. We headed out on a ride and the back brake failed. Popped in and they were doing a stock. They took time out and helped me get back on the trails.

Euro – Member

Pedalphiles, Savilles Road
Pedal Dicks, Cocksborough
Menstrual Cycles, Cramptown
I-Cycles, Norway

All good guys and gals

Just to prove some of us to read these things not just mention their own…

EDS Bikes.

Billy Bilsland Cycles.

Law Cycles.

All very good indeed run by nice folk.

The Cycle Garage in yummy mummy central West Bridgford, Nottingham. Unpretentious, practical and high quality – unlike so much else on “bread & lard island”!

Pedalphiles, Savilles Road
Pedal Dicks, Cocksborough
Menstrual Cycles, Cramptown
I-Cycles, Norway

All good guys and gals

Just to prove some of us to read these things not just mention their own…

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Noticed Menstrual Cycles and Norway, and just assumed it was a Scandinavian niche shop named by someone with a sense of humour, especially as there was a BMX company in the ’90s with the same name (started by Keith Treanor, in case anyone else remembers).

Slam69 – Gloucester. Super helpful, friendly do anything for anyone kind of attitude. Love spending my money in there!

18 Bikes in Hope have always been first class for us. Not the nearest bike store to us but by far the best. Well worth the extra journey.

Mammoth in Milford get my vote. Great service – warm welcome and let you get on with it. No high-pressure sales stuff. Plush Hill Cycles, again friendly, approachable people who understand their wide-range of customers.

Nice spot P-Jay 😀

I only popped back on to add Kuntson Bikes, Kuntson

Big love for The Cycle Centre in Penzance. Really helpful and friendly, excellent workshop, and – even though they’re a small shop – they cater for all flavours of cyclist. Seem really welcoming to total beginners and non-cyclists too.

I’ve never heard anyone say a bad thing about Dave Hinde in Northwich.

(I’ve seen plenty written, mind)

Bike & Run in East Finchley regularly help me out. This morning in fact!
Like Black Books ,but with bicycles… 😀

plus very the kind folk at Cyclewise/whinlatter have been very helpful in the past year or so.

The Bicycle Works on Argyle Place in Edinburgh.

Dave and the team in there are excellent – i wouldn’t take my bike anywhere else. Which reminds me – the machine is due a visit…

As far as buying stuff online Eds Bikes and Charlie the Bikemonger are fantastic for all my weird niche needs… Wayne and Charlie are top blokes as well.

I only popped back on to add Kuntson Bikes, Kuntson

Isn’t that Jeremy Hunt’s favourite shop?

a big +1 for Banjo Cycles in Newbury, although the Specialised Concept Store owned by the same people gets a big thumbs down. The guys in their have their heads so far up their *rs*s it’s untrue

Nevis Cycles are my only LBS, but they’re nice chaps, do work I can’t do for a very fair price, and get involved in community stuff.

Cycle Fast in Halifax, top bloke and great wheel builder
Blazing Saddles in Hebden Bridge always helpful and friendly

edit: plus Wills Wheels in Stockport.

@senor j – whats Bike and Run like as an actual shop? I’ve never been in but I cycle past it everyday and thought it looked like a proper little LBS

Beics Brenin at Coed y Brenin.
So lucky to have them on my doorstep!

Pedals in Edinburgh. Great guys, sell lovely bikes and perhaps most importantly sort out all my problems quickly and at good prices!!