Brick Lane Bikes (BLB) Bike Shop

I've found them very helpful.

Mind you, last time I was in there, brother with a long goatee was fucking horrid to some lady he claimed was late picking her bike up. It seemed an apology wasn't enough.

blb - love them.

sometimes they're moody sometimes not. but i'd take their attitude and range of stock over pretty much any of the customer-service orientated alternatives. i know there have been a few horror stories but i waited six months for Evans to order me a spoke (of course i didnt actually wait, bought it through condor, but i called in to check every once in a while to see their explanations get progressively more implausable).

Actually they just called me to tell me the rims i brought in for a build are structrally unsafe... score one more for the brick lane crew.....

here we go another blb discussion...

never had any issues with brick lane bikes
great shop
great people
great selection of sweet, drool worthy stuff

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never had any issues with brick lane bikes
great shop
great people
great selection of sweet, drool worthy stuff

had plenty of issues
shit shop
grumpy people
ridiculous prices

^^^^^ I agree, my friend got ripped off massively from there, they had a big shop window cause they certainly see him coming!

yup it is 27th of the month
like critical mass the blb discussion comes around monthly
get used to it

There is good and bad in everyone,
We learn to live, we learn to give
Each other what we need to survive together alive.

^^^^^ I agree, my friend got ripped off massively from there, they had a big shop window cause they certainly see him coming!

Posh Lady : 'ohhh high lavely, a rayl vantage peasant biyke, I'll take it. High much?'

'Antiques' Dealer: 'What does your husband do?'

PL: 'Oh, he's a merchant banker, fwar fwar,'

AD: 'oh well seeing as I fiyund it in a skip, and it cost me, ohhhh, about wun pighnd fefty to renovayte, I'd say you owe me four thighsand pighnds.'

There is good and bad in everyone,
We learn to live, we learn to give
Each other what we need to survive together alive.

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Ummm yes BLB.....They tried to steel a friends Pinerrelo off of him in shoreditch......

The only thing that stopped them was a police car pulling up.

They have since said sorry....but that makes it ok..

I heard they sell tyres made from the skin of Aboriginals

Ummm yes BLB.....They tried to steel a friends Pinerrelo off of him in shoreditch......

The only thing that stopped them was a police car pulling up.

They have since said sorry....but that makes it ok..

what all the staff from the shop? The owners? One of the employees, whilst he was being paid, and under instruction from one of the owners?

you twat.

what all the staff from the shop? The owners? One of the employees, whilst he was being paid, and under instruction from one of the owners?

you twat.

Ha ha ha ha........... nice fred.

No it was the owner and one of his employees

C'mon you gotta flesh this one out.

Did they think it was a stolen one they were trying to rescue? Had your friend just bought it off Scumtree?

I heard they sell tyres made from the skin of Aboriginals

Not true.

C'mon you gotta flesh this one out.

Did they think it was a stolen one they were trying to rescue? Had your friend just bought it off Scumtree?

exactly. pretty serious accuasation to throw around on t'internet without substance.

This happened a month or so after they opened.

They have since said they were trying to recover a stolen bike. My Mate has had it for 6+ years.

I Don't care if they were "trying to recover a stolen bike" Imagine if the police didn't roll past? They were getting pretty violent. My friend would have lost his 2k + bike to a couple of thugs

Right - thats it!
I'm shall go and recover a nice stolen vintage Italian track frame from them...

This happened a month or so after they opened.

They have since said they were trying to recover a stolen bike. My Mate has had it for 6+ years.

I Don't care if they were "trying to recover a stolen bike" Imagine if the police didn't roll past? They were getting pretty violent. My friend would have lost his 2k + bike to a couple of thugs

I'm struggling with this one. A new shop opens and within a month they're "caught stealing" a bike (presumably to resell in the shop) within 1/2 a mile of where they're planning to sell it. If the cops were there why weren't they arrested? Could you think of a worse way to launch your business?

No offence but the story doesn't exactly stack up. I'm not saying it didn't happen...

fred, there are plenty of stories of bike shops in london. however, BLB does pop up more than others, for a reason.

probably just bad judgement calls.

DB: yeah I know. Just that I think that london would be a poorer place without BLB, cavendish and BC.

And this bike shop in Dalston who's business seems to be entirely based on stolen parts barely gets mentioned here...

I'm struggling with this one. A new shop opens and within a month they're "caught stealing" a bike (presumably to resell in the shop) within 1/2 a mile of where they're planning to sell it. If the cops were there why weren't they arrested? Could you think of a worse way to launch your business?

No offence but the story doesn't exactly stack up. I'm not saying it didn't happen...

Who knows what they wanted to do with the bike. Like you say they would have been stupid to try and sell it in the shop.

They didn't get arrested because they spotted the police car before it spotted them.

It would've been understandable if they stopped my friend and said - look we think this bike is stolen - but they didn't. they said nothing.

who knows what they were thinking....

u can't put cavendish and BC on the same level, they are way better or 100% trustworthy. BLB you gamble.