[Glyno]

I’m in shopping mode at the moment and apart from Evans Cycles, there’s a shortage of good quality browsing where I am (Chester), probably due to some extent because dribs and drabs of 2018 stock is still being shifted? Maybe I’m a bit late and am resigned to looking at 2019 offerings?

Anyway, if anyone can recommend a really good shop or shops within reasonable distance, say 50/60 miles, then it might just keep me busy at the weekend. Rain is forecast after all.

 

Thanks 🙂

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[levarg]

I agree with davel. Twelve50

I agree with davel. Twelve50 in Frodsham is definitely worth a visit.

[Paul7189]

You should also check out

You should also check out Eureka Cycles. The owners of the cycle cafe have a shop in Mollington out the back of chester. Keith is brilliant and theres not much he cant do for you!

[WorkingMan]

ratherbeintobago wrote:

vonhelmet wrote:

Geoff Smith in Bolton for an excellent small old school bike shop with a somewhat grumpy but very capable owner.

Is that the one on Tonge Moor Road?

I think the one you are thinking of is MK Cycles which has moved to Belmont.

[Glyno]

right, I think my list is

right, I think my list is quite big enough now.

 

Thanks chaps : )

[StraelGuy]

Thatto Cycles in St. Helens

Thatto Cycles in St. Helens is pretty good.

[don simon fbpe]

Possibly, but until I have

Possibly, but until I have experience of it, it doesn’t directly affect me. As these particular knobbers proudly parade in their club colours, I’m happy not buying from them, so cannot recommend them. All the others I have buying experience and find them OK.

Which reminds me, I should add Jack Parker in Burscough.

[Kapelmuur]

don simon wrote:

No I didn’t, I wouldn’t recommend them based on their club riders, more often than not, being muppets. I’ve ridden and chatted with a few of them, so they’re not all bad, but the few that ride like pricks are. Therefore I have never spent money in the shop and can’t put them forward.

 

Doesn’t this apply to all (or most) club riders?

I’ve experienced impatient and arrogant behaviour by groups from my local club, the latest being a bunch of them coming up behind me with one of them shouting, ‘slow down so we can get past’.   

I’m not naming the club because some of them are OK and a couple are friends of mine.

[don simon fbpe]

No I didn’t, I wouldn’t

No I didn’t, I wouldn’t recommend them based on their club riders, more often than not, being muppets. I’ve ridden and chatted with a few of them, so they’re not all bad, but the few that ride like pricks are. Therefore I have never spent money in the shop and can’t put them forward.

[fenix]

Good list Don but you missed

Good list Don but you missed Graham Weigh in Deeside  : 

 

http://www.grahamweighcycles.com/gwcshop/

[60kg lean keen climbing machine]

If you head over to Alf Jones

If you head over to Alf Jones in Wrexham then you could drop in at Tweeks as they are only a few miles from Alfs

[Kapelmuur]

Bike Shak in Altrincham,

Bike Shak in Altrincham, direct rain from Chester.

 

 

[longassballs]

ratherbeintobago wrote:

ratherbeintobago wrote:

vonhelmet wrote:

Geoff Smith in Bolton for an excellent small old school bike shop with a somewhat grumpy but very capable owner.

Is that the one on Tonge Moor Road?

St Helens Road. Very old school ha

[Glyno]

Despite my ‘googling’ I haven

Despite my ‘googling’ I haven’t heard of most of those – I didn’t even realise The Edge had gone until the other day!

 

[ratherbeintobago]

vonhelmet wrote:

Geoff Smith in Bolton for an excellent small old school bike shop with a somewhat grumpy but very capable owner.

Is that the one on Tonge Moor Road?

[vonhelmet]

Geoff Smith in Bolton for an

Geoff Smith in Bolton for an excellent small old school bike shop with a somewhat grumpy but very capable owner.

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