http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Popup vintage bicycle shop en Sun, 17 May 2026 22:36:16 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19856#post-314752 Mon, 23 Sep 2019 22:10:56 +0000 the canuck 314752@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>must remember to check tomorrow! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19856#post-314641 Sat, 21 Sep 2019 22:54:21 +0000 gembo 314641@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I suspect prices steep </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19856#post-314635 Sat, 21 Sep 2019 18:50:34 +0000 MalkyB 314635@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I'm looking forward to visiting the pop up.<br /> Any indication of prices? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19856#post-314465 Wed, 18 Sep 2019 12:21:06 +0000 LivM 314465@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I've arranged (probably) to trade in my late 80's Edinburgh Bike Continental with 531 tubing for store credit to fix up my 1970s steel Peugeot single speed drop handlebar bike (sized for 6yo me) so my son can ride it in a couple of years. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19856#post-314408 Tue, 17 Sep 2019 20:06:40 +0000 gembo 314408@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Unlikely to be two Walters?</p> <p>I met him in office once, he is keen, which is nice, talks slow, but underneath mad keen</p> <p>That endura endurance article tho is way TLDR like some sort of endurance test </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19856#post-314406 Tue, 17 Sep 2019 19:40:37 +0000 dessert rat 314406@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>think he used to be down in The Shore, on Constitution St. As I went to see a Walter there who had a bike building studio. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19856#post-314401 Tue, 17 Sep 2019 18:11:17 +0000 gembo 314401@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Walter seems fine. Many stories on his website. He mostly sources original fittings. Not sure of the costs? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19856#post-314388 Tue, 17 Sep 2019 16:20:08 +0000 urchaidh 314388@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@mcairney It is, same building. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19856#post-314387 Tue, 17 Sep 2019 16:14:50 +0000 mcairney 314387@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Their main location sounds like where Earthy Portobello used to be?<br /> I've been eyeing up old-school steel recently so might have to take a gander.... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19856#post-314378 Tue, 17 Sep 2019 13:17:36 +0000 Murun Buchstansangur 314378@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@crowriver</p> <p>Yes, a well-kent name from Strava. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19856#post-314377 Tue, 17 Sep 2019 13:08:55 +0000 crowriver 314377@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Here's a profile of the Velow chap who it seems is also a product tester for Endura and former hill climbing champion. Make of it what you will, but it seems for him, cycling is not so much the new golf as the new tennis.</p> <p><a href="https://stories.endurasport.com/walter-hamilton" rel="nofollow">https://stories.endurasport.com/walter-hamilton</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19856#post-314375 Tue, 17 Sep 2019 12:58:10 +0000 Frenchy 314375@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>That's also (perhaps arguably) true of Morningside, the New Town, Wester Hailes etc., though, and they're all quite definitively "in" Edinburgh. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19856#post-314374 Tue, 17 Sep 2019 12:17:59 +0000 davecykl 314374@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Oh, Portobello very definitely exists in a different and somewhat eccentric orbit compared to Edinburgh, even though it may be within the city district!</p> <p>(I mean this in the nicest possible way…) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19856#post-314363 Tue, 17 Sep 2019 10:12:46 +0000 Frenchy 314363@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>now based just outside the city in Portobello</em></p> <p>Hmmm. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19856#post-314362 Tue, 17 Sep 2019 10:03:29 +0000 steveo 314362@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Oh, that sound interesting. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19856#post-314359 Tue, 17 Sep 2019 09:50:40 +0000 Murun Buchstansangur 314359@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"Velow Bikeworks, a bike workshop with a difference, will bring its range of restored and custom-built steel-framed bicycles to the heart of Stockbridge this month.</p> <p>Established in Edinburgh in 2015 and now based just outside the city in Portobello, Velow Bikeworks restores and repurposes classic and vintage steel bicycles from the 1950s to 1990s that would otherwise be dumped in landfill.</p> <p>Now for the whole of September you can find Velow housed in Space at Seventeen, a private hire concept space at in Stockbridge that people can hire for pop-up residencies etc."</p> <p><a href="https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/best-in-edinburgh/check-out-amazing-reworked-upcycled-16927670" rel="nofollow">https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/best-in-edinburgh/check-out-amazing-reworked-upcycled-16927670</a> </p>