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Nice one, I've told a couple of people that you may be there, unfortunately I'm racing for the next 3 weekends so won't be there, though I may find out where the rides are going and ride out to meet at the cafe and come back with everyone afterwards (good excuse to wind down from the races :) ).
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Nope just turn up and join in, no need to join till you've done a couple of rides to see if its for you
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I've thought about that before, but I'm not back from work in time.
Sunday rides leave Fitt Signs, Pitt Street on Sunday's at 9.30 for normally 50 miles, mostly we are back by 1pm though this depends on speeds, distance, weather etc
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Yes most do wear lycra and have carbon road bikes, but some just ride in baggy shorts and some ride single speeds, but they all ride bikes.
Yes I'm a member of VC Norwich (vcnorwich.co.uk) I ride as you say a carbon roadie bike and wear full lycra, but at the end of the month I'll be out almost solely on my fixed (Giant Omnium) and still knocking out 150+ miles a week throughout the winter.
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Just a thought, if you all want to do some miles why don't you go out with the local clubs at the weekend, 50 odd miles, cafe stops and most have groups that are slow enough for you :) or if you are feeling fit faster ones are there too, most of the local club riders switch over to fixed/SS at the end of the month for the winter so you won't be alone :)
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Sent you a PM
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Well actually I was looking for a bit of advice about what to go for; chainlines etc. Of course they won't have much fixed stuff on the shelf, but pretty much any LBS in the country can get you anything in a couple of days. Nice to know these guys are proper cyclists, and in no doubt at all that they know more than most who go in there, judging by the customers I saw in there (including myself). And of course I didn't say that they didn't know anything. Couldn't get near the counter so I didn't ask, but I did get a lot of someone's time somewhere else. However I couldn't escape the feeling that CR was a bit like being in a Porsche dealers.
And yes JR, it is opposite the back of Waterstone's, once Ottakars.
Sorry you found the store busy and couldn't talk to anyone, oh and just for the record I'm a very happy CR customer and have no ties with them. But if they were busy and you couldn't or didn't want to wait to talk to someone thats not their fault. I'm glad you got PR's time and were well treated, they are a great shop.
Oh and as for CR looking like a Porsche dealers, whats wrong with that, or would you rather LBS's all looked dark, drab and boring places where you feel that some dodgy deals are going down? Whats wrong with bring cycle stores into the 21st century? other stores in others lines of businesses have done the same and helped give their trade a better image, cycling is meant to be the way forward so bring store forward, those who can't or won't move with the times deserve to die and close, and I speak as a owner of several businesses, move forward or sit and die, there is no middle ground and you should not want that either.
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Norwich fixed shopping update. Cycle Repubic (owned by Halfords) in city centre expensive wank-parlour with little of anything except Dura Ace. Unless you need a tube in a hurry mid-city.
I don't suppose you bothered to even think about asking then, otherwise you would have found that they hold some fixed bits and can get almost anything within a couple of working days. How many shops in East Anglia do you think carry fixed cranksets? the call for them is very very limited and not good business to tie up money in gear that may or may not sell this year. May I suggest that you try ordering one or look on ebay etc
Yes they are owned by Halfords, however each member of staff is an avid cyclist, one is an ex pro racer, one is a 2nd cat racer with Olympic cyclists in their family, the mechanic used to turn a spanner for a couple of pro/am teams (mountain bike and roadies) so sorry but I think they know more about bikes than most who go in there.
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Borwell cycles normally have some fixed rear wheels in stock, Cycle Republic can get them in normally within a couple of days
Glad you enjoyed the ride, and you're more than welcome to come again, I should have stopped racing by the 2nd weekend in Oct and will then be back out on the rides, complete with my fixed :)