http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Tag: eastside bikes new shop open abbeyhill - Recent Posts en Thu, 23 May 2013 21:30:31 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6017&page=2#post-102151 Wed, 27 Feb 2013 08:22:10 +0000 chdot 102151@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"next to l'alba d'ora superior fish and chip shop?"</p> <p>Same block, next but one. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6017&page=2#post-102147 Wed, 27 Feb 2013 07:40:39 +0000 Dave 102147@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>What I don't like about GreaseMonkey (although this may be unreasonable!) is that I always see big vans being driven about. Whatever happened to cargo bikes?</p> <p>One of the many career paths I'll never explore; an e-assist cargo trike repair service that comes to you... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6017&page=2#post-102144 Wed, 27 Feb 2013 07:18:18 +0000 gembo 102144@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Not in Tollcross but the fourth shop on the Stockbridge to cannon mills route - alpine, the posh bike cafe / shop (is it still there?) this one - is 17 Henderson row next to l'alba d'ora superior fish and chip shop? Or along a bit? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6017&page=2#post-102137 Wed, 27 Feb 2013 00:04:06 +0000 chdot 102137@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/chdot/8511214668/"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8247/8511214668_db6ebbc7f8.jpg"></a></p> <p><a href="http://edinburghcycleshops.wordpress.com/2013/02/27/new-new-town-repair-shop" rel="nofollow">http://edinburghcycleshops.wordpress.com/2013/02/27/new-new-town-repair-shop</a></p> <p>Bike (22") in window looks good value -</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/chdot/8511215986/"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8236/8511215986_088ddf7395.jpg"></a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6017&page=2#post-98847 Sat, 02 Feb 2013 21:32:17 +0000 BikeFan 98847@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>In fairness, the previously mentioned HartsCyclery (I hate Mericanisms outside of Merica) and GreaseMonkey will come to you as well, but so far there are 2 to 1 recs for Matt from JustBikes. GM gave me some good advice when I delivered some stuff to them, but I only have "customer" experience of JB.</p> <p>Harts are the newest guys and have pitched their prices on some things just a bit less than the other mobiles. Prices might creep up once they're more established - but I didn't say that. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6017&page=2#post-98833 Sat, 02 Feb 2013 17:24:29 +0000 Charterhall 98833@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Bikefan, thanks for the link to justbikerepairs, they look very interesting, I'm definitely inclined to give them a go. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6017&page=2#post-98832 Sat, 02 Feb 2013 17:18:26 +0000 gembo 98832@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I can recommend justbikerepairs, Matt comes to you can fix there and then if poss or takes it away brings back promptly. He knows his stuff too. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6017&page=2#post-98824 Sat, 02 Feb 2013 12:23:21 +0000 Arellcat 98824@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Time to add The Bike Smith et al. to the collection?</p> <p><a href="http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=517" rel="nofollow">http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=517</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6017&page=2#post-98822 Sat, 02 Feb 2013 11:47:30 +0000 SRD 98822@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Grease monkey off Russell road. </p> <p>Harts cycles also comes to you. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6017&page=2#post-98821 Sat, 02 Feb 2013 11:40:23 +0000 BikeFan 98821@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Freewheelin at Slateford Road, has a couple of spaces outside if you're lucky enough to get one, but class it as having non-existent parking on the main street. Drive round the back to Hermand Crescent and you should be ok. </p> <p>Mobile mechanic <a href="http://www.justbikerepairs.co.uk" rel="nofollow">http://www.justbikerepairs.co.uk</a> is based in Juniper Green/Balerno and comes to you. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6017&page=2#post-98818 Sat, 02 Feb 2013 11:32:21 +0000 gembo 98818@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>mr freewheelin at Shannon or pedal power in west calder </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6017&page=2#post-98816 Sat, 02 Feb 2013 09:40:42 +0000 Charterhall 98816@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The city centre seems to have no end of bike shops. So if your bike needs fixing you have to either brave the unpleasantness of city centre traffic or become part of the same in a car and do battle with the city's parking regulations. Does anyone know of any in the west of the city, eg Sighthill/The Gyle ? Obviously I'm not counting Halfords/Decathlon. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6017&page=2#post-98809 Fri, 01 Feb 2013 21:56:16 +0000 kaputnik 98809@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Innovative use of chainrings for the street number. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6017&page=2#post-98806 Fri, 01 Feb 2013 21:18:12 +0000 Instography 98806@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Aye, it has the 'still getting ready' look about it when I pass it in the morning. To be honest, I take that as a bad sign. Suggests too little startup finance and limited access to supplier credit. Risk is that it never gets well enough stocked to take off. Hope not. It's not a bad site - close to the station and paths and on a main route with nearest competition McDonalds, a good bit away. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6017&page=2#post-98802 Fri, 01 Feb 2013 18:30:54 +0000 chdot 98802@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/chdot/8436221364/"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8073/8436221364_8d593beeef.jpg"></a> </p> <p>"no obvious web presence"</p> <p>It's coming. </p> <p>Shop actually been open a couple of months! (I'd never noticed either.)</p> <p>Owner (<a href="http://chariotmedia.co.uk/About.html">pedicab business background</a>) is still still 'getting shop ready' and will promote more in future. </p> <p>Mix of secondhand and new with brands including <a href="http://www.corratec.com/en">Corratec</a>. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6017&page=2#post-98575 Thu, 31 Jan 2013 10:22:50 +0000 Coxy 98575@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>It's called The Bike Smith</p> <p>Just googled it but no obvious web presence. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6017&page=2#post-98556 Thu, 31 Jan 2013 09:34:58 +0000 Baldcyclist 98556@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>New Bike shop (to me) on Haymarket Terrace, missed the Name. Seems to do bike repairs and second hand bikes.<br /> Probably been there for ages ;) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6017&page=2#post-64570 Mon, 09 Apr 2012 17:16:37 +0000 Instography 64570@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Stumbled across a new shop in Canmore Street in Dunfermline - Planet Velo - with parking space for about 10 bikes and a coffee shop. Almost the perfect venue for a day ride from Edinburgh. Good selection of bikes at a range of prices. There was a tempting Python single speed at £299 but I resisted. Settled for black coffee and chat at £1.50 instead.</p> <p>No connection. Other bike shops in the Dunfermline area are available. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6017&page=2#post-64508 Sun, 08 Apr 2012 20:37:07 +0000 chdot 64508@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Dawes isn't quite the classic British brand it used to be. </p> <p>Interesting thing 'brands'.</p> <p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dawes_Cycles" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dawes_Cycles</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6017#post-64507 Sun, 08 Apr 2012 20:29:00 +0000 Smudge 64507@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Crowriver, fair argument, except that for many people the Dawes Galaxy is the benchmark for a touring bike, whereas the Raleigh name has, to be blunt, been viewed by many in the same way that Austin Rover were viewed by car enthusiasts, a formerly good brand now producing nothing of worth. Imho to re-establish their brand they either need to produce astonishingly good bikes at a comparable price point or simply good bikes at a cheaper price point. Compared with the Dawes, this is an ok looking bike with a "nothing special" spec sheet, pretty, but the smart money would always pick the Dawes as it's a proven product (at a year old the Dawes will have held a chunk of it's value, the Raleigh considerably less) . Now in a few years it might prove its worth, but for now it's a gamble and in tourers that is not a good thing. Also, as I intimated, they're missing the bike to work mark by only £100, seems a strange price point if they want to take sales from established touring brands. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6017#post-64506 Sun, 08 Apr 2012 20:19:17 +0000 chdot 64506@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Bianchi??</p> <p>Not worth that! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6017#post-64505 Sun, 08 Apr 2012 20:01:46 +0000 Uberuce 64505@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>There as a 1985 Galaxy in Soul Cycles for under £200 that I missed due to lax browsing.<br /> Cursed myself and moved on with life.</p> <p>Next time I was in there, I mentioned it and Euan the Kurt Cobain lookalike cursed the fact they sold it for that little since it was *immaculate*. </p> <p>I know this since I saw it the next time I was in there and the b@!f#c~''*1!! who bought it was walking it in, at which point I cursed him to his face. Only mildly, I assure you, unless you are of Judaic or Islamic persuasion, in which case I guess being called a swine is bad. The young lad took it with pride, as I hoped he would. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6017#post-64503 Sun, 08 Apr 2012 19:49:56 +0000 crowriver 64503@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Same price point as a Dawes Galaxy, with similar spec: 631 frame, etc. Disc brakes rather than cantis, 8 speed instead of 9, Brooks B17 in place of a Selle Italia gel, otherwise quite similar.</p> <p>Basically if folk will pay 1200 quid for a Galaxy then the Sojourn is fairly priced at 1100. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6017#post-64500 Sun, 08 Apr 2012 19:09:11 +0000 Tom 64500@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>This looks like a do-er-upper with a similar long wheel-base:<br /> <a href="http://www.gumtree.com/p/for-sale/bianchi-azura-vintage-road-bike/99307821"><br /> <a href="http://www.gumtree.com/p/for-sale/bianchi-azura-vintage-road-bike/99307821" rel="nofollow">http://www.gumtree.com/p/for-sale/bianchi-azura-vintage-road-bike/99307821</a></a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6017#post-64496 Sun, 08 Apr 2012 17:26:35 +0000 Smudge 64496@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Another nice looking bike, if they'd shaved a couple of hundred off the asking price it could have made a great cycle to work bike! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6017#post-64494 Sun, 08 Apr 2012 16:15:06 +0000 chdot 64494@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"Designed in the US"</p> <p><a href="http://www.raleigh.co.uk/ProductType/ProductRange/Product/Default.aspx?pc=1&amp;pt=14&amp;pg=8075" rel="nofollow">http://www.raleigh.co.uk/ProductType/ProductRange/Product/Default.aspx?pc=1&amp;pt=14&amp;pg=8075</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6017#post-64493 Sun, 08 Apr 2012 16:04:09 +0000 gembo 64493@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Raleigh sojourn that was in the Harrods catalogue that came in guardian yesterday also looking good - black with cream lemond style decals, drops, black mudguards and disc breaks </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6017#post-64464 Sat, 07 Apr 2012 18:35:26 +0000 crowriver 64464@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Had a close look at the Clubman this afternoon, when I popped in to check out the new Eastside. It's a nice bike, it has to be said.</p> <p>Some interesting second hand bikes and frames in there too... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6017#post-64447 Sat, 07 Apr 2012 13:23:27 +0000 crowriver 64447@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Oh, and I take your point about the mid-range/mid-price steel frame offering from Raleigh. They do seem to offer plenty of bikes in this area to the US market, but alas not here in the UK.</p> <p>Maybe that will change under new ownership, maybe not... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6017#post-64445 Sat, 07 Apr 2012 13:13:58 +0000 crowriver 64445@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The Raleigh International frameset spec given is:<br /> Frame: Lugged Reynolds 853 Butted Chromoly <br /> Fork: Flat Crown Lugged Reynolds 853 Road</p> <p>If it's lugged construction, then I presume it has been fillet brazed rather than welded?</p> <p>I don't know what the price of an International frameset is, but the rather differently specced (canti bosses, welded construction, no chrome bits) Dawes Ultra Galaxy 853 frameset has a list price of £700.<br /> <a href="http://www.dawescycles.com/p-608-ultra-galaxy-frameset.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://www.dawescycles.com/p-608-ultra-galaxy-frameset.aspx</a></p> <p>I'd expect the International to cost a bit more than that. Only prices (rumoured) I've found have been around $1500/£900 mark. No idea what the availability of the frameset is. The whole bike is apparently quite expensive, hardly surprising when a Dura Ace groupset alone will set you back around £1300... </p>