Witcomb Cycles

No More of these then ........................
http://www.flickr.com/photos/81558062@N05/7472241378/

RIP - WITCOMB , Tanners Hill, Deptford Broadway, London, ES8 4PJ

If they paint over the details on the front they should be punished.

wednesday :-(

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I may pop round and give them an ear full

anyone got a decent contact for anyone at witcomb? got a frame I want to ID...

knowthejo does.
Pop down to union cycle works with it and we can hok you up

You might get Barry via Dave at Colourtech http://www.colour-tech.co.uk/

cheers chaps, have texted Jo, will try colourtech.

Is anyone from witcomb still doing frame repairs? Chatted with the guys at wilson cycles oin Peckham and they seemed to think they're still active but I can't find a contact online?

Very occasionally they do.
But they seem to only do work for people they know as far as I can tell.
Probably only on their frames aswell

Cheers, will get in touch with oak cycles I think

I got a witcomb frame that I would like to get some more information about, anyone know where to turn to?

holla at Jo Harrington at Union Cycle Works - knowthejo on here.

not 100% bout this, but if youre into witcomb then give them a buzz

http://www.gumtree.com/p/for-sale/large-vintage-witcomb-bicycle/1010133456

Loveliness.

I have just brought an old witcomb frame with these lugs does anyone know what make the lugs are?

I went to the witcomb bicycle shop on friday, it is now a gallery and residence, at least they are collaborating with English Heritage to restore the building respectfully. They've done it up tastefully and are revealing the brickwork. I got chatting with one fo the neighbours and she said at one point they were just chucking old frames in a skip. if only I'd been there. She told me the story I'd heard before of them getting into business with a shady character and it all failing within a year. sad, but at least the shop has some new life now

I am getting one witcomb on friday and building another one up with a modern campagnolo groupset at the moment. Pictures soon

I went to the...................blah,blah..........some new life now

i guess 2 pages is a long way to go back.

'chucking old frames in a skip' is the most horrible thing I heard about that time.

I walk past the gallery that's there now, mostly I think it's sad how they removed the old handpainted sign. I have never seen the gallery open.

The skipping of stuff was done by Whitcomb's representatives, not the new owners (who are friends of mine). I saw the state of the place as it had been left by Whitcomb, and it was pretty bad upstairs, looked like more than a year's neglect. The gallery has a show on now, open Thursday to Saturday 12-6.
My wife's Whitcomb was built in the 70s in what's now their living room.

That place is never ever open.
i go past it at least twice a day everyday and have not seen inside ever.

not impressed

Darkin, they've not been living there for that long, the first show was only in April, with the same opening hours as this show. I'll grant you that a fuller program wouldn't be a bad thing.

sounds like a scam to turn a commerical property into residential

It's not.

I went to the witcomb bicycle shop on friday, it is now a gallery and residence, at least they are collaborating with English Heritage to restore the building respectfully.

Pics;

http://www.dowjonesarchitects.com/project/tanners-hill/

This month's Architects' Journal describes the building as transformed from a "humble bicycle workshop".

I chatted with someone on a blue and white Witcomb going down Old Kent Rd the other day. They were always my first choice for a custom if I could ever justify such a thing... Does anyone know what happened to Barry and the kid? Why doesn't he make still frames, etc?