London vintage bike shop

I'll be in London next week visiting friends near Hammersmith. I'm looking for some recommendations for some bike shops in the area (or anywhere really) where I can look at vintage road bikes, components, clothing, etc., preferably a place that doesn't mind me looking around and maybe buying something. Names of shops and addresses would be great. Thanks!

Try the Hackney Peddler in Stoke Newington: http://www.thehackneypeddler.co.uk/
They have quite a large stock and are friendly.

It is quite far from Hammersmith but there's another one nearbyish called Pedal Pedlar (https://www.pedalpedlar.co.uk/pages/about) on Balls Pond Road so you could visit both.
I've never been to Pedal Pedlar so I don't know what it's like.

Rob Sargent had a shop (Sargent & Co) near Blackstock Rd, not sure if he’s still open?

Second Sargent & Co, he's a nice guy

a bit east but easy to get to from liverpool st

brick lane bikes has a lot of classic frames but less classic bikes built up, parts galore, just have a nose around they won't mind you browsing, can be a bit pricey if you get them to build up a bike, some people say the staff can be a bit of a ballache but in 15yrs of going in there i've never had any issues

Ask for Jamie at SBC cycles

Don't know of any vintage bike shops in West London - but as suggested above if you're up for venturing East there are a few places to make it worth your while

Rob Sargent, Hackney Pedlar, Pedal Pedler, Skinny Eric's, Vintage Bicycle Cave (? if he's still going), Seabass Cycles Peckham have vintage frames (don't buy the gazelle Lo-Pro - it's my old frame I'm saving to buy back!)
Not sure if Velorution have Fitzrovia Cycles stock of vintage gear for sale?

Best to give Rob Sargent a call before going there. He was restoring a Thames sailing barge a few years ago and not running the shop. The shop's still there, but I don't know if it's actively open--and as Mountgrove Road was one of the streets affected by the recent Finsbury Park flood, I imagine that Rob will have had at least his basement flooded.

https://www.sargentandco.com/contact.htm

^^ Skinny Eric's has been sold and now trades as Frankenbike:

https://frankenbike.cc/

Still vintage-y, possibly more so (although I never went to Skinny Eric's much, @dicki will know more).

The Hackney Peddler is great.

Yes, Oliver, Rob is now, more or less, full time on the barge since getting Heritage Lottery funding to restore it (but still going over the website). He's currently moored at Queenborough (where we met up for a ride on Wednesday), waiting for the right conditions to take it up Milton Creek where the Raybel was originally built 100 years ago next year. Raybel Charters is the community interest company for anyone interested, and,yes, he was flooded but the shop window is still fascinating.

Yeah Frankenbike is still pretty vintage, we have a lot of interesting stuff still hanging about :)

Thanks, good to hear the restoration is going well! Hope the flood didn't cause too much damage. He used to have his framebuilding stuff in the basement, so I hope that's still usable.

Ha. Must visit sometime.

The framebuilding equipment was moved on sometime ago - unfortunately, the kitchen and living room took the brunt of the flood.

Ah, there was a sad quote in an article from someone in a basement flat near there who said he had 'lost everything'. A friend of mine was flooded a few years ago and it took ages for the compensation to come through (although I have since heard that Thames Water have upped their game in that respect, fingers crossed that's true).

One of my regular customers at TWG lives in the area and was hit pretty badly. Most of his bikes were in the basement and were ruined. He’s been told he probably won’t be back in his house for at least 9 months :(

Sorry to hear that. Were they really nice bikes, too?