http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: The future of Evans? en Sun, 17 May 2026 16:51:47 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19233&page=3#post-380320 Thu, 17 Jul 2025 21:59:27 +0000 Baldcyclist 380320@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Evans Cycles bosses announces plans for new Edinburgh shop after being 'served notice' by landlord <a href="https://share.google/bVRDZxOjqLtRpzZVG" rel="nofollow">https://share.google/bVRDZxOjqLtRpzZVG</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19233&page=3#post-380263 Sun, 13 Jul 2025 15:25:38 +0000 bakky 380263@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Boring update: Edinburgh page now removed from their website. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19233&page=3#post-380230 Mon, 07 Jul 2025 16:24:51 +0000 bakky 380230@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Reader email in response to news in Issue 100:</p> <p><blockquote> Re Evans, we were passing as they were frantically packing up and asked.</p> <p>It turns out that the landlord is going to do refurbishment of some sort in 2026 or 7 and was asking for a large increase in rent..<br /> Evans Cycles was trying to find another space in Edinburgh, but suddenly the landlord gave them less than a week to empty the store or pay a punitive amount.<br /> So four full timer and several part timers out of a job and all the store contents moved to Brighton!</blockquote> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19233&page=3#post-380198 Fri, 04 Jul 2025 20:40:03 +0000 chdot 380198@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Not on Twit or abSky </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19233&page=2#post-380197 Fri, 04 Jul 2025 20:26:55 +0000 LaidBack 380197@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@SRD Wow! I've not been on socials - no doubt lots of comments. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19233&page=2#post-380193 Fri, 04 Jul 2025 18:40:40 +0000 SRD 380193@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54633240245_c648c9ec8d.jpg"> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19233&page=2#post-380192 Fri, 04 Jul 2025 18:23:36 +0000 LaidBack 380192@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@chdot</p> <p>So does Edinburgh not exist in the Evans search engine? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19233&page=2#post-380187 Fri, 04 Jul 2025 15:29:36 +0000 chdot 380187@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54632699215_9d5d9e74d3_b.jpg"> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19233&page=2#post-376413 Mon, 02 Sep 2024 15:45:35 +0000 chdot 376413@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://bikebiz.com/evans-cycles-opens-new-bristol-store-with-further-expansion-on-the-way/amp/" rel="nofollow">https://bikebiz.com/evans-cycles-opens-new-bristol-store-with-further-expansion-on-the-way/amp/</a></p> <p>Maybe it has a future, this guy has a lot of useful experience (met him a few times). </p> <p>“</p> <p>“I’m gamekeeper turned poacher, having had obviously a lifetime on the other side of the table. Sometimes it’s quite useful to get the opposite perspective. I think my role is quite strategic leadership in that I do have a breadth of experience and understanding of the bicycle industry. If you then add what I think I bring, which is relationships, knowledge, and the specialism of the bike industry, and you add it to someone who is a retail expert.” </p> <p>“</p> <p><a href="https://bikebiz.com/frasers-groups-md-for-cycling-russell-merry-on-his-vision-for-the-future/amp/" rel="nofollow">https://bikebiz.com/frasers-groups-md-for-cycling-russell-merry-on-his-vision-for-the-future/amp/</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19233&page=2#post-376152 Mon, 12 Aug 2024 10:29:45 +0000 MediumDave 376152@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I have Microshift bar end shifters on my tourer.</p> <p>8speed. Solid replacement (in every sense of the word) for the Ultegra bar-ends that finally died a death after 20 years of abuse. </p> <p>No idea if this solidity is to be found in their other components. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19233&page=2#post-376134 Sat, 10 Aug 2024 16:11:34 +0000 mfcity 376134@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>They have some pretty decent sale bikes listed online. Has anyone used microshift drivetrains at all? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19233&page=2#post-376128 Fri, 09 Aug 2024 23:34:50 +0000 chdot 376128@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/reductions-of-up-to-90-at-evans-cycles-as-it-posts-pound228m-losses" rel="nofollow">https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/reductions-of-up-to-90-at-evans-cycles-as-it-posts-pound228m-losses</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19233&page=2#post-372308 Fri, 15 Dec 2023 22:51:20 +0000 acsimpson 372308@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>At it's simplest a dropship program allows a retailer sell goods without holding stock. Once sold they then arrange for the item to be shipped directly from their supplier. Your contract remains with the company "selling the goods".</p> <p>The cynic in me suspects that what Evan's are really planning will more likely resemble the amazon associates program where third parties can use the site to sell directly to you. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19233&page=2#post-372306 Fri, 15 Dec 2023 22:39:23 +0000 Greenroofer 372306@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>What, pray, is a 'dropship programme' and what does that have to do with bicycles? The only dropship I can think of is the one in Aliens (or was it Starship Troopers?) and neither of those ended well for the cargo. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19233&page=2#post-372296 Fri, 15 Dec 2023 17:22:44 +0000 acsimpson 372296@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I'm not sure strengthening is how I would describe such a move. It might extend their product line but it will likely reduce the quality of customer service even further. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19233&page=2#post-372291 Fri, 15 Dec 2023 14:24:21 +0000 chdot 372291@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://bikebiz.com/evans-cycles-strengthens-online-offering-to-complement-growing-store-footprint/amp/" rel="nofollow">https://bikebiz.com/evans-cycles-strengthens-online-offering-to-complement-growing-store-footprint/amp/</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19233&page=2#post-351621 Mon, 14 Jun 2021 17:53:40 +0000 crowriver 351621@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Also, who could forget Patrick Bateman in American Psycho, whose colleagues and acquaintances thought they heard him say he was into “mergers and acquisitions”., when he actually said “murders and executions”. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19233&page=2#post-351616 Mon, 14 Jun 2021 16:14:45 +0000 chdot 351616@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51245731825_1e130a99c9.jpg"></p> <p>(No that’s not JCauty, don’t think he was in Ed at all.) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19233&page=2#post-351615 Mon, 14 Jun 2021 16:09:14 +0000 gembo 351615@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Also I didn’t get where I am today by tearing five pound notes into small pieces</p> <p>If only Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty had listened to CJ they would be millionaires instead of sitting outside a container down in Muirhouse. But maybe they are happy sitting where the fifty p dentist used to be. Weather has been kind to Jimmy. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19233&page=2#post-351614 Mon, 14 Jun 2021 16:03:34 +0000 gembo 351614@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Grot - what have you come up with Jimmy? Jimmy - nothing. thinking not my line. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19233&page=2#post-351613 Mon, 14 Jun 2021 15:29:03 +0000 crowriver 351613@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"Yucaipa Acquisition Corporation is a special purpose acquisition company led by Ronald W. Burkle and formed for the purpose of effecting a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses or entities."</p> <p>I vaguely recall a running joke from 'The Fall And Rise Of Reginald Perrin' about some friend/colleague of C.J.'s being in "mergers and acquisitions". Or maybe I misremembered, maybe that's some eighties joke from somewhere else... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19233&page=2#post-351609 Mon, 14 Jun 2021 14:12:55 +0000 chdot 351609@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Not Evans, but another example of ’change’. </p> <p><a href="https://www.bikebiz.com/wigglecrc-to-be-acquired-by-signa-sports-united/amp/" rel="nofollow">https://www.bikebiz.com/wigglecrc-to-be-acquired-by-signa-sports-united/amp/</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19233&page=2#post-347947 Tue, 09 Mar 2021 23:58:12 +0000 chdot 347947@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Previously -</p> <p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/oct/30/fears-for-uk-jobs-as-sports-direct-buys-up-evans-cycles" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/oct/30/fears-for-uk-jobs-as-sports-direct-buys-up-evans-cycles</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19233&page=2#post-347946 Tue, 09 Mar 2021 23:40:44 +0000 Murun Buchstansangur 347946@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"Mike Ashley-owned Evans Cycles to axe 300 staff</p> <p>Remainder of workforce to be moved on to zero-hours contracts in cost-cutting move"</p> <p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/mar/09/mike-ashley-owned-evans-cycles-to-axe-300-staff" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/mar/09/mike-ashley-owned-evans-cycles-to-axe-300-staff</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19233&page=2#post-347753 Sat, 06 Mar 2021 10:09:13 +0000 chdot 347753@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>“</p> <p>The group, which includes Sports Direct, House of Fraser, Flannels and Evans Cycles, said retailers needed a complete overhaul of the business rates model for the high street to survive.</p> <p>“</p> <p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/mar/05/frasers-group-warns-of-store-closures-after-near-worthless-budget-support" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/mar/05/frasers-group-warns-of-store-closures-after-near-worthless-budget-support</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19233&page=2#post-316908 Fri, 01 Nov 2019 14:03:25 +0000 chdot 316908@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>“</p> <p>The accounts set out Ashley’s retail spending spree during the year, including the purchases of House of Fraser for £90m, Evans Cycles for £8m, Jack Wills for £12.8m and a shopping park in Hertfordshire for £25.4m. </p> <p>“</p> <p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/nov/01/mike-ashley-spent-millions-private-jet-helicopter-flights-profits-fell-billionaire" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/nov/01/mike-ashley-spent-millions-private-jet-helicopter-flights-profits-fell-billionaire</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19233&page=2#post-311293 Wed, 24 Jul 2019 14:27:05 +0000 neddie 311293@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I like the Vibram Extra Grip (or Super Grip) or some such branding. Got some Merrells with these at Decathlon.</p> <p>They really work well in Scottish wet rocks, mud, etc. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19233&page=2#post-311284 Wed, 24 Jul 2019 13:43:01 +0000 crowriver 311284@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Agree that the Gelert footwear is mince, though some other products in that brand are okay. The Karrimor stuff is, by and large, still decent quality. Some of the footwear has Vibram soles for instance. Certainly not the Karrimor of old, but in the middle to upper range of the product line still some reasonable offerings. Karrimor not the only previously steadfast British outdoor gear brand to be bought over and turned into a lifestyle fashion brand: Craghoppers is another one, though not owned by SportsDirect. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19233&page=2#post-311193 Tue, 23 Jul 2019 14:59:41 +0000 Ed1 311193@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I shop at sports direct, I buy Gelert walking boots, Karrimor outdoor jackets for a fraction of what would have cost in the 90s, but they are effectively like fakes.</p> <p>I cycled down to Dumfries earlier this year to go walking with my new Gelert walking boots. They were worse than good trainers to walk in, they split in may just using them as a causal shoe after walking for 20 miles and realising no good for that. Not Patch on the real thing.</p> <p>Sports directs sells what were good brands that it bought out when went bust or bought the brand and puts the brand on cheap rubbish and sells its cheap. It’s the Ratners business model. Lots of good brands of outdoor clothing is now owned by sports direct. I do buy it, I like the way they sell it, but have to remember not to confuse it with the real thing. As a rule of thumb if a brand is owned by sports direct it won’t stand up to hard use. Its fashion wear in the style of outdoor wear having no connection with the product you may already own from years ago with the same name that cost many times the price. </p> <p>Still worth buying for the price, I wonder if Pinnacle bicycles will end up rubbish. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19233&page=2#post-311159 Tue, 23 Jul 2019 08:24:11 +0000 chdot 311159@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://cyclingindustry.news/evans-cycles-opens-with-sports-direct-for-the-first-time/" rel="nofollow">https://cyclingindustry.news/evans-cycles-opens-with-sports-direct-for-the-first-time/</a> </p>