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Oh I'm in Edinburgh on Monday, can anyone recommend any good bike shops I could visit on my way back to Waverley?
The co-op are legendarily useless, and in honesty most serious riders in Edinburgh avoid them the same way we Londonders avoid Evans.
If you were heading up that way though, there's the excellent road shop Velo Ecosse at 25-28 Bruntsfield Place (pretty much diagonally across the links from EBC), Bike Trax just off the main Tollcross junction on your way up to the two above (small, but with a nice selection of classic stuff like Brooks and Ortleib), and MacDonald cycles on Morrison Street just down from the conference centre (mostly mountain bikes, but they've got a bunch of NOS Raleigh frames above your head in the long room, and there's a bit of a clothing / allsorts room toward the back of the shop with some NOS time trial frames and Shamals last time I was there).
Slightly off the beaten track are The Bike Chain on Rodney St near Tollcross (again, MTB focus but say hello to Tim the manager if you go in, he's great) and The Bike Station out on Causewayside which has the most amazing stock of old stuff - they may have fixie stuff, give them a call if you're planning on paying a visit (0131 668 1996)
Wow, after all that I wish I was coming with you....