Mosquito Rant

I saw and killed my first Mosquito yesterday the day after i visited the bike store. I was looking for it based on their web site, which i thought interesting enough, I passed it (my fault) and had to turn back and eventually arrived. I had a good look in the window and apart from 'Fixie Inc' and Scott (ugh) couldn't see anything interesting. What annoyed me though was a big in your face sign saying 'do not take your bike into the shop'.. . plus no where else to leave it in proximity in a highly dodgy area.Plus they saw me looking and never even looked up whereas Cavendish, Holdsworth,Prologue and
Up and Running open the door for you and smile. Perhaps, I'm being grumpy and old, but I won't go near them again. (And I wasn't on a Langster . . on a Litespeed).

there's space to lock up outside and so long as your bike is not covered in mud etc they're pretty cool about letting you in.

nice guy in there. He gave me 15 mins of his time for advice knowing I wouldn't be buying anything.

It's not a dodgy area!! I live behind that shop and it's the darned nicest place I've ever lived in in London!! Maybe it doesn't have as many expensive shops as Angel, but you shouldn't tun your nose up at a few pound shops .....

...but you shouldn't tun your nose up at a few pound shops .....

you should do if you've only got 50p to spend

so you killed a mosquito?

what?

plus no where else to leave it in proximity in a highly dodgy area.

Apart from the 3 stands right opposite the door, you mean?

they do look at you a bit weird if you don't immediately know everything about bikes...

You can take your bike in there. I always do, and even though the staff are a little off some times its normally a good shop.
And they have bike parking right outside the shop.

You can take your bike in there. I always do, and even though the staff are a little off some times its normally a good shop.
And they have bike parking right outside the shop.

Apologies to them, 'fraid I missed that, too busy looking in the window. However I still think that they shouldn't have the sign.

The slightly larger guy talked me out of buying a bike I was thinking about from his shop and getting one from somewhere on the internet. He did himself out of a rather big sale and with a smile. I always like going in there.

i never forgave them for this one time when i took my road bike in, not long after i'd started riding again after a layoff, and bought an inner tube, and used the track pump. their track pump was a bit shitty and the guy showed me how to use it, you basically had to hold the valve on at a precise angle. he then overpumped the tyre, which was inflated to around 60 to start with, to around 130, and it blew. he told me i had a puncture and i couldn't fix it in the shop.

then another time i went in there and they took about five days to serve me because they were busy preening their mullets out the back.

since then, i've found that if i go in there with a particularly spanking bicycle they bend over backwards to help.

stocking a pegoretti doesn't make you the lourdes of bike shops.

I've not been in there..

and it's unlikely I'll need to any time in the foreseeable future.

thanks for listening.

you should go there. just for the hell of it.

that'd be outrageous

live a little you old dog

http://www.cyclingindustry.news/mosquito-bikes-of-london-enters-liquidation/

Upset about that, I've always found them very good. Got my Lynskey there.

Cripes I remember Mosquito back in the day.

Think I bought the odd inner tube etc.

Always thought they were a bit overpriced?

Maybe that was the problem.

Never been myself. Wrong part of London.

#SouthLondonFoLyfe!

I blame the pegorettis.

But srsly RIP Mosquito, have been a fixture on Essex Road since I was bumbling in there with my shit BMX in the 90s and they were always dead nice about sorting things out for cheap or free.

And RIP 50x14 while I'm at it.

Hmmm that's bad news

always found them to be rude and unwelcoming. probably because I came in with a 'fixie biek' and not a 6k ti thing. get what you give.

I think it depended on the day you went in, they've been really good to me on one time, and then shouted abuse down the street after me the next (I had my Klein with me, chap shouted "enjoy your FUCKING TREK!")

Variable, for sure.