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Looking to give a friend the heads up in who to use in Guildford.
Looking for recommendations for General maintenance and lower leg fork servicing.
Thoughts appreciated 🙂
I think it's only in the Giant store in Guildford itself. Just south is Beyond Mountain Bikes and then further afield there is Head for the Hills in Dorking. I would class both as good bike shops albeit i haven't used either for basic servicing. I have had very good service from both on wheel building and when generally buying stuff though. A riding friend uses HftH when replacing rear mechs, brakes knackered etc and has always has a good experience.
In GF, Evans Cycles are under the Travelodge at Ladymead. Not used them for servicing myself but have found the mechanic quite a reasonable chap when in asking for tool advice.
My advice though.....If you go a little way from Guildford, there's East Street in Farnham. Again, never used them for servicing, but a certain chap from here spanners for them and he did private jobs for me before he turned full time, and I wouldn't hesitate to recommend him.
Guildford
Cycleworks (you might catch brendog here sometimes)
Pedalpushers (a friend recommended once, never used them myself)
Usual suspects Evans
Further afield close to Cranleigh
Beyond Mountain Bikes
Dorking way
Nirvana and Head for the Hills
In Cranleigh itself you also have Pedal and Spoke.
For specialist fork servicing I would use Beyond, Nivana, HFTH or Pedal & Spoke given that all 4 are MTB focused (I have used all 4 over the years for shock and fork services/repairs and have found them all to be good).
Evans - good luck on the lucky dip for the quality of service
Pedal Pushers - not been in there for over 10 years but used to be more of a shopper/commuter bike shop
P&S in Cranleigh is no longer - goes by the name of Maison du Velo, not been in but seems like a roadie hangout
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P&S in Cranleigh is no longer - goes by the name of Maison du Velo, not been in but seems like a roadie hangout
To be fair, when it was P&S whenever I'd been in there it seemed to get a lot of roadies or general public just looking for a bike to ride on the roads to shops etc.
Beyond isn't as good as when i worked there. But it's still very good 😉
Another plug for Cycleworks here. My LBS is their branch in Petersfield, but use Haselmere regularly too. Good shops who try to carry most spares. Bought my roadbike 2nd hand from a chap in the Guildford store too.
Not been into Beyond on quite a while, I always found them quite expensive though.
Nirvana and P&S always have a very good rep but haven't been into either.
Evans will just send the stuff away to be serviced and from reports it can take a long time. May as well just send the stuff to TFTuned, Mojo etc.
Only been into Cycleworks in Guildford a couple of times and they just seemed miserable in there.
I hadn't been through Cranleigh since the end of January - apparently the change from Pedal and Spoke happened mid-Feb. It appears to the same mob who run a MAMIL shop in Reigate - and that is supposed to be as disparaging as it sounds (and I am an overweight old roadie who probably meets all their target market criteria). Very cliquey and condescending atmosphere - at a guess spent a week in Condor watching and learning, because they had heard that was the original and greatest bikeshop in the world....
I haven't been into the Cranleigh one yet maybe all of my expectations will be confounded
Tamed Earth - Hindhead
Nirvana - Westcott
Avoid Giant and their sister shop - tried to fleece me 2x
Cycle works - used to be my default until last service 🙁 but great demo days
Evans ok
Old thread but OP if he's still looking I lived in Guildford and always used Nirvana in Westcott for everything, purchase, bike build and maint.
Another thumbs up for east street in farnham or the road shop hoops velo down the road