Brick Lane Bikes (BLB) Bike Shop

I'm kind of a newbie and I wanted to build my first "cheap" conversion
Went in BLB with a frame I got off eBay (a very nice road Peugeot / SuperVitus), I wanted a very cheap way to adjust the chainline to begin, just to try the "fixie" experience (after which, btw, I never used freewheel anymore)
After treating me like an idiot they tried to sell me almost everything they had in the shop, pointing out that I was an ignorant and everything they were proposing me was absolutely indispensable to begin riding.
They asked me something like 150 quids to buy new crank set, bottom bracket, chainring etc. telling me that there was no other way to adjust the chainline but changing everything

I went to sheldon's, got some shims off ebay the very same day, £3.99, and never went back to BLB ever since

Its probably that one with the moustache. Hipster cunt.

I'm kind of a newbie and I wanted to build my first "cheap" conversion
Went in BLB with a frame I got off eBay (a very nice road Peugeot / SuperVitus), I wanted a very cheap way to adjust the chainline to begin, just to try the "fixie" experience (after which, btw, I never used freewheel anymore)
After treating me like an idiot they tried to sell me almost everything they had in the shop, pointing out that I was an ignorant and everything they were proposing me was absolutely indispensable to begin riding.
They asked me something like 150 quids to buy new crank set, bottom bracket, chainring etc. telling me that there was no other way to adjust the chainline but changing everything

I went to sheldon's, got some shims off ebay the very same day, £3.99, and never went back to BLB ever since

That was the 'fixie experience'. Hope you enjoyed it.

and the best part is that I managed to keep the same original peugeot chainring / crankset which looks just amazing, even though with the shims (3mm) is not 100% good-looking

That was the 'fixie experience'. Hope you enjoyed it.

Scarier than the London Dungeon

Its probably that one with the moustache. Hipster cunt.

Internet celebrity tbh.

awwww

Rather odd Keynoir deal at BLB: http://www.keynoir.com/london

£800 of spends for £680

anyone know where the safeest place to lock up is near BLB?

Up your arse

If your only going into the shop a a while, theres a bike rack on the opposite side of the road i seem to recall. But if your being paranoid theres the Rich Mix cinema further up the road, there's loads of bike racks (with lots of bikes attached so your bike has less chance of being the one targetted)

usually u can take your bike into store and leave in the racks out the back. but anywhere else, i'd take two locks.

ok cheers for the help

No problem man.

I don't. BLB, and the bagel shops let you take the bike in.

"damn theives" - (recent victim)

I love BLB, I usually get sorted out on prices, get a bit drunk, get shown how to do stuff and yeah you can leave your bike in the back and watch people trying to buy it. I f you worked somewhere, where you get shit loads of hipster cnuts and loaded city mocknies peacocking about, you may find on occasion that you want to fuck them off.

Just thought this thread needed a bump in the light of recent revelations.

Shit-stirrer extraordinaire ^

;-)

Just thought this thread needed a bump in the light of recent revelations.

What, the revelation that you're still a officious twat? :)

About time, it's like a car salesman ripping off your granny.

How, they sold the guy exactly bonafide products if they sold him a carbo-lite pug resprayed as a Pinarello with a bag of shite wheels and parts you'd have a point but you're comparing apples and oranges.

That's true. I'll rephrase that in a sec.

I bought what they claimed was a NOS Magna Carta from there but within weeks the binding had come off and it now I am told it is a second hand copy of The DaVInci Code that had simply been recovered.
If I can find my receipt I will be down there first thing Monday morning.

They haven't committed any crime. It's their customers who commit crimes against fashion on a daily basis. Dickhead tax, innit.

vote with your feet. end of story.