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I saw the sign in the window today as I was riding past but a search for www.thebikeroom.com only brings up a shop in USA.
I'm not even sure it's open yet.
Any more info. anyone?
I need a new job and I liked working in a bike shop. I'd give them a ring if I could fine out what it's all about.
City centre MAMIL's will be soiling themselves...... 😆
Blimey theyll need good security
Thanks for the link project.
i spotted that yesterday morning too on my ride in to work.
it definitely doesn't look like it's open yet though.
There's a Bike Rooms store at the Westfield Centre in Stratford, that big shopping centre next to the Olympic Park.
It's super high end kit only - top end Pinarellos, electronic groupsets, Assos. Kind of like a Ferrari showroom for bikes. Cheapest bike in the Westfield Centre one was about £3500.
Most expensive was about £16,000.
😯
Thanks for the heads-up guys. Since Wiggo invented road cycling last month, I've been looking for a suitable entry level road steed and this place looks just the ticket. Just need to source some spangly road flats now and suitable compression Lycra.
I wonder what would Harry Hall would make of this.
"Fight, Fight..."
Or was that Harry Hill?
You'd have thought for such a s****y bikeshop they would have taken some decent pictures and made a decent website.
Might be worth going in my scruffy clothes to see what kind of reaction I get from the sales assistants 😈
I cycle up/down Deansgate as part of my commute, but haven't spotted a new bike shop. Is it near Barton Arcade end or more towards Great Northern/Deansgate station?
EDIT: just looked on their website, it's near The Great Northern. I think I'm too poor for that place anyway.
It looks very "Hip". Sadly I'm not.
BadlyWiredDog - Member
Thanks for the heads-up guys. Since Wiggo invented road cycling last month, I've been looking for a suitable entry level road steed and this place looks just the ticket. Just need to source some spangly road flats now and suitable compression Lycra.
What! They have invented a bike you can use on the road? Interesting. Sounds like it might be a bit boring and cause confrontations with car drivers over who pays for the road though....
justatheory - MemberI cycle up/down Deansgate as part of my commute, but haven't spotted a new bike shop. Is it near Barton Arcade end or more towards Great Northern/Deansgate station?
EDIT: just looked on their website, it's near The Great Northern. I think I'm too poor for that place anyway.
right opposite the great northern, in fact. next to richer sounds.
budget/discount hi-fi, and uber high-end bicycling. perfect neighbours.
Isn't that where the church of Scientology 'shop' is as well ? I have visions of the scientologist shaking their heads at the clientele of bike room muttering 'I think it's a cult, someone told me they give 20% of their wages directly to the shop'
It looks like a lightly restocked Apple store. .... I'm sure the stuff is very nice in there but it looks a little soulless .
I like your thinking colint, it'll be full of level 47 thetans checking it out as soon a it opens 😆
I give it 6 weeks but then I would have said the same about the scientologists!
I wonder how they will play the customer service card? My LBS (6 miles up the A56 from this shop), where I have spent a shed load over the last 15 years, is all "first name terms, tea mugs, radio playing in the background and a bit of banter". Will this place be the same or will they go "uber cool"?
I know where I'd rather spend my money, but I may not be their target customer.
"6 miles up the A56 from this shop"
HtS - I've becoming increasingly frustrated with the poor customer service from my LBS, looking for one I can trust in north Manchester. Care to share the name etc?
Cheers
Ta.
I know where I'd rather spend my money, but I may not be their target customer.
i could walk to this new place in 2 mins from my work at lunchtime and not be able to afford anything at all in there, or ride back to ken foster's in 15 mins when i finish work, and where i know they're good lads and do a great job every time. yeah...
Can't see it lasting but then again the uber specialist running shops in the Arndale and the Triangle seem to do well and they cater for a sport that requires some trainers, a pair of shorts and a t-shirt.
Can't see it lasting...
All is needs is one wendyballer in there a week and it'll do fine.
Deansgate seems to be the Manchester street of choice for people to ponce around in Lamborghinis and Ferraris. A couple of them stopping and buying "Wiggo's Tour de France replica bike" at £12,000 will probably see the shop through the year!
😉
All this negativity about my next potential employer hurts me. Could you please stop it.
Thank you.
Isn't there a branch of Evans pretty much across the road? I am aware the target markets will be rather different...
+1 for Cookson's; I usually go to LL in Bury (who are also good, and nearer my house) but when I've had to get odds & ends in Cookson's (most recently an emergency QR skewer purchase) thay've been great.
Andy
Is it open now? Might pop in later
didn't look like it was open this morning, but having said that it was about 7.50am when i rode past (although i'm sure the opening hours listed on the door say 8am to 6pm so i'd have expected to see some sign of life if it were indeed open for business).
and yeah, evans is just along the road too. i doubt they'll be much competition for one another.
Hello Ladies and Gents
I'm the manager opening the shop, Any questions and I'll answer them for you.....See you soon
hello pennineroadie, might want to edit your profile to make clear you're vested interest in the trade, not sure if it's forum rules or just etiquette. Think you might get a bit of a hard time from some on here, but hey ho.
I'm the manager opening the shop, Any questions and I'll answer them for you.....See you soon
OK - starter for 10. Are you open yet, and if not, when's the big day?
Andy
Is it open now? Might pop in later
Its one of those shops where they take a look at you before they buzz you in.
Good luck with that.
Mr Eternally Sniping Smith has passed yet another negative comment. It's the ultimate seal of approval
I was commenting on hora's chances of getting in to such an establishment.
I'm unlikely to ever patronise the shop as it's in Manchester, that's near Liverpool isn't it?
This place (based on the links) looks utterly hideous. What the hell is with these places? Its the antitheses of the cycling spirit.
The very embodiment of the slur "all the gear no idea"
Have you got any 8sp powerlinks....Evans hav'nt got any? 😕
It's a bike shop, it sells bikes.
Better than it selling a whole range of other shite 🙄
Somewhere to pass a bit of time.....
Im going to walk in and loudly ask 'what top bike to fit into my Mitsubishi Warrior at Llandegla'!
Or I must just ask for stickers 😆
Hora you mean 'free stickers' 😉
Looks like you guys ooop North have a top end bike store that will no doubt enhance the image and profile of biking, and half or you seem to be kinda moaning... you nuts or something?
And what bloody use is a top end bike store when you've got no elecktrickery and still use an outside privvie? Eh?
... Its the antitheses of the cycling spirit.
That wins my vote for ****iest post of the week.
Its still not open, me thinks it never will be.
They've got some very generous opening offers
When you purchase a Pinarello 2012 from The Bike Rooms you can benefit from FREE British Cycling Membersip and a FREE CNP nutrition pack!
Cool! So spend the cost of a decent second hand car, and we'll bung in some free energy gels. 😆
Manc shoppers are a fickle bunch at the best of times. My vote is that this won't last, even if it ever opens.
I went in this shop in Birmingham a couple of months ago... [url] http://www.bicicielo.com [/url] It was so clean in there I felt dirty.
Looks like you guys ooop North have a top end bike store that will no doubt reinforce the image of cyclists as a bunch of preening elitist ****wafflers riding excruciatingly overpriced tat.
Could I congratulate you on the use of the word ****wafflers! 😀
Doesn't everyone in Manchester get a free Pinarello to ride with it being the home of BC?
I would think that the members of a certain forum have already ensured that the image of cyclists as a bunch of preening elitist ****wafflers is profoundly embedded in popular culture...
Bike Magic?
That manager didn't hang around to answer many questions did he / she?
I live right opposite, but will stick with Cooksons / Harry Halls.
It just re-enforces the old adage, never trust a clean bike shop.