London bike shops closing

Dunno. Haven’t seen Sam or Matt for ages :(

I'll pass by again this evening and will pop by if they are still open. That's assuming that the notice is to inform the impending closure and not a To Let/For Sale sign...

Closing on July 20 according to their website.

Really sad news about Blue Door Bikes of Crystal Palace. A valuable local service gone partly due to online sales and deliveries. If you live in the area please consider dropping in for some discounted lights or whatever to support them, they might hang on in a smaller premises.

https://www.bluedoorbicycles.com/2019/06/11/the-future-and-a-sale/

The outer suburbs are rapidly getting emptied of local independent bike shops sadly.

Ah balls, really? That’s shit. Always seemed like a decent shop, with a good range of bikes too.

Cycles SE20 just down the hill in Penge is closing too, I hear.

Not a good time for the LBS.

Just came here to say about blue door, it's a shame, especially as its my local! Have always used them for stuff and tried to buy there when I need bits.

Where did you hear about SE20 closing down?!

Local Facebook group.

Swift Cycles in Spitalfields is closing down

You know how?

It was just announced by themselves on their own mailing list

I think the workshop has found the money to stay on servicing bikes in a new scaled down venture which is something

Is that the home of penge cycles or a different one?

I believe it is reopening as Strype St Cycles. Really exciting times for the guys there I reckon.

I have just found this thread.

My experience with Mycycle East has not been great when I used to live up in that part of town.

@Howard I don't if you know them personally but one of the people there (Sam I think with mid length curly hair) always seemed to be over his head with managing the shop and his personal life.

Everytime I would get in, he was just tell me how everything was going badly with his either wife/GF and that's why he had no time to order what I was after. But he would definitely remember to do it. Then not do it. Repeat this for about 3 months then I gave up and stopped going there.

It is unfortunate that bike shops have to shut but I wasn't surprised to see it closed last month when I cycled past.

Another place I have a poor experience with.

They have no time for you if you don't drop £5k+ there.

My first ever 1 star google review!

The same one.

Yeah that guy should absolutely not be running any kind of customer orientated establishment. Always found him super unhelpful and patronising, whilst also ironically not knowing enough about bikes to manage a bike workshop.

Yeah, that's him!

Just noticed that the Chiswick Evans has shut up. After the Brentford one closed a while back.
But a branch of the london cycle workshop I've heard will be opening in east sheen.
Nothing but good things to say about the Stamford brook one.
Hopefully some sort of evolution has occurred and the fittest have survived.

as far as i'm aware it's not shutting?

winnie does coffee now, and it is top notch.

That’s good news.

It was posted in the Penge Tourist Board Facebook group that it was closing, I was just reporting that, so I’m pleased it’s wrong. They should stick to moaning about Bromley Council’s failure to close roads for the Remembrance parade.

Cycle Surgery is no more. Their parent company is pulling the plug.

How did you find out?