[Closed] *That* LBS thread. Let's give the good ones a shout

Trek store Milton Keynes. Great guys and good service.

Kontour Cycles in Polegate

Evolution Cycles in Eastbourne

C6 Bikes just outside of Cambridge. Friendly staff and a good place to just drop in and have a browse. Weekly rides at Thetford too. Shame I'm not more local...

JE James.. Fantastic as an LBS.

Really helpful, non-pushy staff who just let you get on with it, but give great help and advice when you actually need it -plus they always have tonnes of stock!

BW Cycling, Bristol. Fantastic service & owned by Oli Beckingsale.

Bikeworks in oswestry has been good to me. Adam is helpful and knowledgeable.

Bikeworksoswestry.co.uk

Life on Wheels in Holywell North Wales. My LBS and top guys.
The bike shop at coed Llandegla, One Planet Adventure. Again, they often go above and beyond to help riders out.

The Missing Link, Droitwich
Banjo Cycles, Newbury
Specialized Concept Store, Newbury

Fantastic service from the guys and girls above.

Rotec Cycles in Reading, open till 8pm+ most evenings... Great bloke and knows his stuff.

Overspoke in Bewdley - have known Mark turn up super early in the morning so I could pick up something I needed to be able to ride that day with. Always above and beyond.

Kmb in Keswick and cyclewise were my locals and great shops.
Ride on in Rawtenstall
Sprung in Launceston Tasmania
Planet bike in Rotorua
My mountain and I ride in Melbourne
Jan's mountain in Park city utah
Moab classic bikes in moab.

Tend to find good shops wherever I travel. Just follow rule one. Don't be a dick

Lodge Cycles in Briton Ferry (actally moved to Cwmafan I think) are really good for mtb maintenance/repairs that are beyond me. Worth remembering if you're visiting Afan and have an issue.

For cx stuff tend to go to Urban Cyclerly in Gorseinon. Really friendly and helpful.

Sowerby Brothers Cycles in Mirfield.

Top lads.

Any near North Birmingham? Would live to find a decent one round here.

Stonehenge Cycles, Salisbury.

Great people, great shop. Enough bling to drool over, while still fixing the puncture on Mrs Miggins' old Raleigh. A proper bike shop.

East Street Farnham.

Good advice, happy to order stuff for you, decent mechanic / security advisor 😉

Wheels in motion Holyrood street chard sommerset

Andy owns it is the mech and knows his stuff restores a lot of old bikes and has a mass of knowledge. If you read this Andy I am still in France m8.

Icycles in inners for me, I take Steve all my pain in the arse stuff because everything that's not a pain in the arse, I do myself. uh, you don't necessarily get the most rapid or efficient of turnarounds and you do need to spend 30 minutes in the shop talking pish before you can get to business. But that's just the deal.

Just Bike Repairs in Juniper Green are my actual local and they're grand too- proper enthusiasts repair shop, place is always full of destroyed kids bikes and billion pound carbon fibre race weapons and they'll do just about anything to get you going again. The sort of place you can run in and go "ZOMFG my wheel's knackered and I'll off to the alps in 4 hours".

Leisure Lakes Newport
Leisure Lakes Wolverhampton
Swinnerton Cycles, Cannock Chase
Two Wheels Only, Tamworth
Unit Cycles, Newquay

All have great staff and plenty to look at in store

only tend to use Cooksons in Whitefield, Ride On in Rawtenstall or Spa in Harrogate.

All excellent.

+1 for Ride-On in Rawtenstall...been a customer of theirs since they first opened in 1996. great set of guys and Craig is one of the most honest and down to earth guys you could meet. only shop i would trust with my bike.

Sunset Cardiff - I've been bothering them with my inane questions and such for 10 years now and they haven't thrown me out yet. Always friendly, never snobby or elitist even when I was utterly, utterly clueless.

Craig the guy in the workshop has fixed my stuff after hours, fixed my cock-ups and built endless wheels for me that have never failed, not once, despite the fact I'm fat and cack-handed on a bike.

Rotec Cycles in Reading, open till 8pm+ most evenings... Great bloke and knows his stuff.

+1

Great little shop. Reminds me I owe him some beer for doing a job.

Action Bikes in the town center is also pretty good for cheaper bits to keep singlespeeds going etc.

Crank Cycles, Alton

Tamed Earth, Hindhead

Condor are excellent - the service is very good - they're very knowledgeable

Also Brixton Cycles, simply for being legends 🙂

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Keith at Mugdock pretending sanny is acting out of normal character 🙂

open till 8pm+ most evenings

Don't understand why more bike shops (and other small businesses) don't do this more often, at least one evening a week, or til say 6? Not everyone works 9-5 but a lot of people do and being able to go after or on the way home from work makes it a lot more likely I'll use them.

Pedal on aren't local to me but I'll happily make the trip as they are a good bunch of people and offer nice coffee.
Good range of stock and know their stuff. Very helpful and nice people, which is get are rare in all shops.

Not everyone works 9-5 but a lot of people do and being able to go after or on the way home from work makes it a lot more likely I'll use them.

There are plethora of bike shops around Stoke, a couple are nationally famous and make their own stuff. I'm going to nominate the Velo store in Stone. The lads in there are excellent and always given me a great service.

My local in Aylesbury Buckingham Bikes are superb, always friendly and great service.

http://www.buckinghambikes.com/

Possibly that most people say that in the same way as they will eat healthy, exercise more and drink less next week

Possibly this, but also if you opened at 7 in the morning to catch commuters on their way in, and then open till 8 in the evening, you're at work for 13 hours, LBS owners need a life too!

Skyline Cycles at Glyncorrwg.

Cycleworld in Sunderland for road/CX stuff and Cycleworld in Chester le St for mountain bikes.

Possibly this, but also if you opened at 7 in the morning to catch commuters on their way in, and then open till 8 in the evening, you're at work for 13 hours, LBS owners need a life too!

I always figured if I opened a shop targeting commuters I'd do this. Obviously it'd require two people shifts tho.

Independent Bikeworks (or is it Cycleworks) in Cirencester.

Pearson East Sheen, Bicycle in Richmond

Stirling Cycles

Nice to see that their friendly and helpful service is winning and they've recently moved to larger premises. A good helpful and knowledgeable team of guys.

Bothy Bikes

Biketreks

Ghyllside Cycles

Dales

Bikelove

Mugdock Country Cycles

Escape Route

Wheelcraft

West End Cycles

ICycles

All are excellent! 😀

Oh and Charlie the Bikemonger too.

Moose cycles in Colliers Wood, always good service there.

Spa cycles Harrogate. used em for 30 years.....enough said.
Specialized shop Harrogate. top service.

Two Wheels, Amblecote
Fred Williams, Wolverhampton (used to be good, but haven't been there for a long time)
Dave Mellor, Shrewsbury
Condor Cycles, Holborn
Charlie the Bikemonger, Swanage
Imperial Cycles, Isleworth

Globalbike in Tattenhall, near Chester. Great family run business and crackin prices.

Garage Bikes in Morley - top lot.
Interesting fact - it's pronounced like 'Farage' of UKIP Fame. 😆
RM.

Giant Store - Bromley

Cedric- top bloke.

Rich & Shonas' Keep Peddaling in Manchester.
Tims' Sideways in Alsager
And Al and all the crew at Garage Bikes in Morely..

Lulz Rogermoore

Anyone who's had the misfortune to deal with my Leeds speedmumble on the phone will testify it more like garridge 😉

But otherwise all warm and fuzzy feelings when I'm again in on a day off removing a *really* stuck BB cup when I should be out on my own bike.

Pedalphiles, Savilles Road
Pedal Dicks, Cocksborough
Menstrual Cycles, Cramptown
I-Cycles, Norway

All good guys and gals

Rockin Bikes in Yelverton. Seriously friendly, helpful bunch of guys. Plus they do excellent tea and cake on demo days!

Luke @ Black8 Bikes, Nailsworth, Glos. I'm not their best customer as I do most of my tinkering myself. They do have a great shop ride on a Wednesday evening though, nice chilled vibe ride, playing around in the local hills.

[b]SOANES CYCLES[/b] in Colyton, Devon. Top blokes, been using them forever and they are both great mechanics and great blokes to deal with.

Also, [b]Wheels in Motion[/b] in Chard is a sound shop. Andy is a top bloke too.

Rides On Air, Wallingford.

Possibly that most people say that in the same way as they will eat healthy, exercise more and drink less next week

Possibly, yes 🙂

Possibly this, but also if you opened at 7 in the morning to catch commuters on their way in, and then open till 8 in the evening, you're at work for 13 hours, LBS owners need a life too!

For some businesses it may be worth the extra staff costs of doing that. For the one-man-bands and those that can't justify it, couldn't they offset the time at a quieter period? e.g if you open late two days a week, close early two days a week. Surely the bit of passing trade you lose closing mid-afternoon Wednesday would be offset by regular trade popping in on a Thursday after work, once they know the deal (and perhaps that other like-minded people would be frequenting the shop then 🙂 )?

JM Richards in Perth are excellent.

Synergy in Auchterarder do an excellent coffee and are pretty good service wise.

BaseCamp in Grantown on Spey, and OrangeFox bikes in Muir of Ord.

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Plus Nirvana and East Street (latter a bit mixed)

But some shockers in Surrey too - especially those linked to a certain brand that tried to rip me off badly.

Cyclesense in Tadcaster are always helpful. One of the few places I'd trust with my bike if I didn't like doing my own maintenance so much 🙂

Ghyllside Cycles Ambleside

Was over for the weekend. We headed out on a ride and the back brake failed. Popped in and they were doing a stock. They took time out and helped me get back on the trails.

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Pedalphiles, Savilles Road
Pedal Dicks, Cocksborough
Menstrual Cycles, Cramptown
I-Cycles, Norway

All good guys and gals

Just to prove some of us to read these things not just mention their own...

EDS Bikes.

Billy Bilsland Cycles.

Law Cycles.

All very good indeed run by nice folk.

The Cycle Garage in yummy mummy central West Bridgford, Nottingham. Unpretentious, practical and high quality - unlike so much else on "bread & lard island"!

Pedalphiles, Savilles Road
Pedal Dicks, Cocksborough
Menstrual Cycles, Cramptown
I-Cycles, Norway

All good guys and gals

Just to prove some of us to read these things not just mention their own...

Noticed Menstrual Cycles and Norway, and just assumed it was a Scandinavian niche shop named by someone with a sense of humour, especially as there was a BMX company in the '90s with the same name (started by Keith Treanor, in case anyone else remembers).

Slam69 - Gloucester. Super helpful, friendly do anything for anyone kind of attitude. Love spending my money in there!

18 Bikes in Hope have always been first class for us. Not the nearest bike store to us but by far the best. Well worth the extra journey.

Mammoth in Milford get my vote. Great service - warm welcome and let you get on with it. No high-pressure sales stuff. Plush Hill Cycles, again friendly, approachable people who understand their wide-range of customers.

Nice spot [b]P-Jay[/b] 😀

I only popped back on to add Kuntson Bikes, Kuntson

Big love for The Cycle Centre in Penzance. Really helpful and friendly, excellent workshop, and - even though they're a small shop - they cater for all flavours of cyclist. Seem really welcoming to total beginners and non-cyclists too.

I've never heard anyone say a bad thing about Dave Hinde in Northwich.

(I've seen plenty written, mind)

Bike & Run in East Finchley regularly help me out. This morning in fact!
Like Black Books ,but with bicycles... 😀

plus very the kind folk at Cyclewise/whinlatter have been very helpful in the past year or so.

The Bicycle Works on Argyle Place in Edinburgh.

Dave and the team in there are excellent - i wouldn't take my bike anywhere else. Which reminds me - the machine is due a visit...

As far as buying stuff online Eds Bikes and Charlie the Bikemonger are fantastic for all my weird niche needs... Wayne and Charlie are top blokes as well.

I only popped back on to add Kuntson Bikes, Kuntson

Isn't that Jeremy Hunt's favourite shop?

a big +1 for Banjo Cycles in Newbury, although the Specialised Concept Store owned by the same people gets a big thumbs down. The guys in their have their heads so far up their *rs*s it's untrue

Nevis Cycles are my only LBS, but they're nice chaps, do work I can't do for a very fair price, and get involved in community stuff.

Cycle Fast in Halifax, top bloke and great wheel builder
Blazing Saddles in Hebden Bridge always helpful and friendly

edit: plus Wills Wheels in Stockport.

@senor j - whats Bike and Run like as an actual shop? I've never been in but I cycle past it everyday and thought it looked like a proper little LBS

Beics Brenin at Coed y Brenin.
So lucky to have them on my doorstep!

Pedals in Edinburgh. Great guys, sell lovely bikes and perhaps most importantly sort out all my problems quickly and at good prices!!