Soho Bikes

I got an awesome service on the Robin Mather:

• Full wheel rebuilds (new spokes for both wheels)
  
• New brake pads
  
• Hydraulic brakes bled and levers reset (bite and reach back to original)
  
• BB check and tighten
  
  

The lot... a deluxe service with overhaul of some parts.

The bike felt like new and a joy to ride on the way home.

In fact it was so good I then got very drunk and mistakenly sent Soho bikes a load of text messages meant for my wife. Which means I told them I love them.

a happy ending ?

It's an easy mistake to make, Nick does look very striking.

Everyone loves a happy ending.

It's a bike shop - email is rarely their thing in my experience.

It fucking well should be! not a difficult thing to do.

Small, busy businesses struggle with all kinds of things Ed - honestly I'd expect most people to just go to the shop and say hello. It's not like they are out in the sticks or anything.

Pretty much every shop I've used - with the exception of one boutique place, and I struck up a relationship with them first by phone - has been uniformly uncommunicative by email.

Small, busy businesses struggle with all kinds of things Ed.

Having experiences this, I agree, the email thing I find hard to agree, partly because it is the only form of communication with customers for me which contributed greatly.

I also learnt that my shop is one of the very few shop in the company that actively use emails a lots, right down to writing a full report of what kind of work have been done to customer's bike.

Nick is moving on to new things and SoHo Bikes will be closing down. Sad news.

Sad, so many independent have gone.
It'll be nice to see more like brixton cycles types that stay in business for decades and not years.

Just had a delux service from soho bikes - utterly fantastic and had resolved to use them as my go-to shop. Pretty gutted they are closing.

When are they actually shutting their doors?

When are they actually shutting their doors?

This month - 26th Jan. Seems sudden.

Yes, you would think they would have a few months notice at the very least. I wonder whether some development of the site is going to happen?

I work just around the corner the building next door has wood across the front so your probably right.

The whole street is being developed into apartments and have completely priced everyone out.

Edit: well not the whole street but large section of Berwick street, which is why they are fixing all the pavements and resealing the roads from the new pipe work.

That is really sad, is there anything firm on why they are closing and why so suddenly, other than speculation?

Came a bit late to the party having started working around here only 18 months ago, but have seen so many small independent places closing down due to outrageous rent increases. Who is doing these rent increases, and is it the duke of westminster and can we march towards his castle with torches and pitchforks?

https://www.bikebiz.com/news/soho-bikes-to-close

"Unfortunately," said Hawker, "and as clichéd as it sounds, all good things must come to end. I have taken the decision that for personal reasons I can no longer continue to run Soho Bikes and I have been left with no other alternative but to close the doors for good."

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The whole street is being developed into apartments and have completely priced everyone out.

Nope.

Sad news, I'll miss Soho Bikes TV with Rob Warner and the Santa Cruz boys.

Which begs the question why they didn't sell going concern.

Perhaps it will resurface again in another format.

Eitherway, shame. Nice vibe, nice coffee.

Good case, you actually have no idea what happened.

They owe me a set of brake pads. Bugger.

Look mum, no hands!

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