Above and Beyond - the best LBSes!

Just popped into Brixton cycles for the first time... sweet jesus they are some helpful people. Spoke to two guys didnt get either of their names, one guy had lines tattooed on his wrists and i think an american accent, the other guy was ginger... two good people who gave me some excellent advice with my new bike!! cheers guys!

Barnaby (ginger bloke snigger) enjoyed helping me massively over spec my Steamroller.

Ross (I think) convinced my wife to get a Road Rat

Condor, the guy there that stays with all the clothing, grey hair not the skiniest,

he is a very helpful guy, ta!

any recommendations in the Cambridge area....Ben Hywards used to be fixie symphathetic....not any more....Outpoken are brilliant.....Peter is brilliant for wheels and stuff but they don't build bikes up......I have a project on the go....who to use?....local? or London?......or somewhere in between?.....Comments appreciated.

bicycle workshop, 27 all saints road, w11. Its the best bike shop I've ever known. A lady ran the place when I was last there, and the quality of work was always the highest.

Ninon! Bought up all the Sturmey Archer stock - really know their way around a 3 speed hub.

bicycle workshop, 27 all saints road, w11. Its the best bike shop I've ever known. A lady ran the place when I was last there, and the quality of work was always the highest.

ditto

Barnaby (ginger bloke snigger) enjoyed helping me massively over spec my Steamroller.

Ross (I think) convinced my wife to get a Road Rat

Ross is indeed the boss !
Top bloke who helped me out big time with my bike... built me a new front wheel, gave loads of advice, and didn't make me feel like a complete num-nuts by using layman's...

Updated listy:

London
1 - Bonthrone Bikes, Fulham
2 - Putney Cycles, Putney
3 - Bicycle Magic, Whitechapel
4 - Moose Cycles, Colliers wood
5 - AW Cycles, Colliers Wood
6 - Stratton Cycles, Wandsworth
7 - Cavendish Cycles, Central.
8 - Bicycle Workshop, All Saints rd., w11
9 - Bikefix, Lambs Conduit Street
10 - Edwardes, Camberwell
11 - Brixton Cycles, Brixton
12 - Mend-a-Bike, Arches off Munster rd., Fulham
13 - Condor, Grays Inn rd.

Nodnol:
1 - Oxford Cycle Workshop, Oxford
2 - Bike Workshop, Bristol
3 - Salvagetti, 1234 Speer blvd., Denver CO
4 - Blazing saddles, Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshiiirre
5 - Bike+, Croydon
6 - Putspoken Cycles, Cambridge

I still might make a gooogle map of these shops.. - honest!

Glad to see Blazing Saddles in the nodnoL list, may be moving up there in the next few months.

wheres the opening times and phone numbers? ;)

Glad to see Blazing Saddles in the nodnoL list, may be moving up there in the next few months.

Good Stuff . You'll be back riding geared after one look at the terrain.

Have thought about that, I'll see how I get on. These old knees should cope with it for a couple of weeks or so before they give out ;-)

It's a good point, does LFGSS have any counterparts in that area?

Updated listy:

London
1 - Bonthrone Bikes, Fulham
2 - Putney Cycles, Putney
3 - Bicycle Magic, Whitechapel
4 - Moose Cycles, Colliers wood
5 - AW Cycles, Colliers Wood
6 - Stratton Cycles, Wandsworth
7 - Cavendish Cycles, Central.
8 - Bicycle Workshop, All Saints rd., w11
9 - Bikefix, Lambs Conduit Street
10 - Edwardes, Camberwell
11 - Brixton Cycles, Brixton
12 - Mend-a-Bike, Arches off Munster rd., Fulham
13 - Condor, Grays Inn rd.

Nodnol:
1 - Oxford Cycle Workshop, Oxford
2 - Bike Workshop, Bristol
3 - Salvagetti, 1234 Speer blvd., Denver CO
4 - Blazing saddles, Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshiiirre
5 - Bike+, Croydon
6 - Outspoken Cycles, Cambridge

I still might make a gooogle map of these shops.. - honest!

Made a tiny correction...tis Outspoken Cycles

Just been to Bicycle Workshop, All Saints Road.

What a lovely, chaotic, give-you-the-time-of-day, friendly place. They got me my funny rims in (which have been discontinued and they bought up most of the leftover stock). The guy from the wholesaler of said rims was there at the time, and they were saying to him 'Why have you discontinued these rims? We've sold two pairs this week'. Which i liked.

When i went to pay they kept saying 'now what have you forgotten you need? You'll only kick yourself half way home'. They were right, so I remembered to buy some wicked (also old, discontinued) tyres for the Faudax.

:) the build inches closer.

Its called 'Fraudax' round these parts mate.
retrophile!

Fraudax sounds like the German Ladies' version

bike workshop in bristol - great place. lots of elusive second hand bits in stock. also have lots of fixed bits. very friendly too.

Edwardes is an odd one but I think that generally the better you get to know them the better they'll be for you. Avoid them during the summer holidays when they spend a lot of time dealing with locals and kids from the surrounding estates taking the piss.
When they were my lbs I regularly got queue jumped and they often went over and above in terms of queue jumping me, opening early, letting me in late, passing on the little deals that they got out of the suppliers etc. I never use my LCC discount with them because I would always come off better as a repeat customer.
The staff are a bit rough and surly, mostly from having to deal with the estate kids a lot.

For nodnol, I'll reccomend Bristows in Peterborough should any poor unfortunate fool get stuck here. Infinite patience, cracking dedication, rush tweaks for those in a bit of a hurry, flexible opening hours and no matter what you want they understand it and won't over/under pitch you ever.

my fuking local bike shop can't fix my broke spoke for 2 weeks! fucking summer.

AW cycles in Colliers Wood are fantastic as are Strattons in Wandsworth.

HTH did you break a spoke?

especially on a CONdor build, they are usually strong.

+1 for Putney cycles. Excellent service from Barry in their upper richmond road shop - he's sorting out my old motobecane nomade a treat.

AW cycles in colliers wood is amazing, like going back in time 30 years..
love it.

+1

I was in there today, super helpful bloke.

HTH did you break a spoke?

especially on a CONdor build, they are usually strong.

no idea. they were very strong wheels though, it's true. i heard it go yesterday, but didn't realise what the noise was. discovered it today. broke at the hub end.

Thread bump because The Bicycle Repair Shop on Mill Road, Cambridge might be shutting soon as the owner doesn't get enough custom. He is awful with opening hours but if you go in with a smile he will bend over backwards to do favours for you. He is a real fan of regulars and friendly folk, he'll happily spend as long as needs on a custom build or just chat about bikes with the local kids or turn around a job quickly if you're in a hurry and he can manage it.