'Ticking over like a perfectly tuned freewheel'.
The Cycle Service now open by LaidBackBikes, on Flickr
Nice and bright premises.
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New bike shop to open
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Posted 11 years ago #
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I like the prices up on the wall. Has always annoyed me that most shops it's not easy to know how much something might cost.
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Highly recommended - great service and overhaul of cabling, cassette and chain today on my partner's Dolce today. Solved a very difficult cable issue on the rear calliper (cable stop too close so it pushed to one side) which now works correctly for the first time ever!
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My bike has been increasingly feeling, and this week also starting to sound, like it needs a post-winter service so I'll bring it along in a couple of weeks, possibly sooner depending on how the noises develop!
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The Cycle Service have event signed to run a couple of workshops as part of the Festival of Cycling, which is great, wish all the bike shops would...
Posted 11 years ago # -
(Not open Sundays)
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(Not open Sundays)
Sheesh. Saw that just in time. Mr SRD was on his way out the door with a chainless bike. Would have been a long grey walk.
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Chdot, thanks for making that clear! Our opening hours are 8am-7pm Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm Saturday and closed on Sunday.
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Had to drop a small person at the Commie Pool this week, so Cycle Service was located conveniently on my route to work, and took the opportunity to drop the tandem off for a much needed service.
New shop is very nice and roomy - even for the tandem. Service excellent and thorough. Fixed the things needing fixed and alerted me to some future issues.
Loved the computer generated invoice that not only itemised all the work in a legible font, but very transparently connected each bit of work/part replaced with its cost.
Happy customer!
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I picked up my wheel a day earlier than promised on Tuesday. Would have been two days earlier but I had no bungee and no time on Monday when it was ready.
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I saw their red bike at the entrance to hermits croft the other day and was surprised at how nice a bike it was! Usually people use total sh*t heaps!
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"Loved the computer generated invoice that not only itemised all the work in a legible font, but very transparently connected each bit of work/part replaced with its cost."
Yes, I loved this level of detail too when I picked up our tandem on Tuesday - first one in the shop!
My new regular service shop.
I'm not the "Kenny" on here, I'm "kenny" in case anyone confuses us. Slightly surprising the software allows usernames varying only in case.
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"Slightly surprising the software allows usernames varying only in case."
I think it checks when people first register - but not when they change names...
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I was really pleased with the friendliness, quality and speed of the service that my bike received today at The Cycle Service. As has been mentioned before, the shop is bright, spacious and very well laid out, and the computer billing system is satisfyingly transparent. Thanks again!
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They did some very nifty hacksaw work on my Dolan track frame on Saturday, undercharged me for the labour time and didn't once laugh at the n00bscum error that landed the bike there in the first place.
Chris did mention they could use some more love on Google Reviews, so if you happy customers could bolster their online presence by cut'n'pasting your comments into one, that'd be deserved, I hereby declare.
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Are Google reviews the new (insert whatever people previously used to find a good bike shop)?
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I have a lot of friends who use things like Tripadviser for restaurants/hotels etc.
I have never been as keen as I always think that there are only 'certain' people who leave reviews in the first place.
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.... and a lot of TripAdviser reviews are along the lines of "There was a SPIDER in my ROOM and the hotel did NOTHING about it!!! Worst holiday EVER!!!!!"
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Presume with google reviews people often to see them whether they're looking for them or not. Eg if you google and up pops the address, opening hours, and a crap review/paucity of reviews, you absorb that info, even if you weren't consciously looking for a review?
Whereas with the yellow pages, if you were just looking for an address or phone number, that's all you found,
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For Goggles Reviews I think you are forced to have a Goggles Plus sign-on. I'd happily leave feedback for some places but refuse pointblank to set up another social network to do it. I don't think I'm alone on this given the success or otherwise of aforementioned.
Posted 11 years ago # -
We have 2 spaces left on each of our Very Beginner's Bike Maintenance classes. Tuesday 17th and Thursday 19th June - £5. If you know anyone that's interested get them to give us a call on 0131 662 9243 or email info@thecycleservice.co.uk Thanks : )
Posted 11 years ago # -
I can't recommend The Cycle Service highly enough after they sorted out my headset for free this morning.
After playing round with the stem stack height this morning I noticed the front fork wobbled when braking. Was passing by the Cycle Service so I nipped in on the off chance they could help. Not only could they help, but they did it for free, with some good chat thrown in as well.
(the stem shim needed realigning, another spacer added and headset tightened up.)
Lessons learnt -> 1) don't play around with your bike before rushing off to work. 2) Use the Cycle Service for future bike repairs.
Posted 11 years ago # -
We wished Cycle Service happy first birthday on another thread.
Interested to see this new electric bike shop at Tollcross.
http://electronwheels.co.uk/I've only looked through the window so far. They sell the A2B range - big hitters in promo which will help. In London and German market.
In Edinburgh electric bike use is still low. Viewed by many 'fit' cyclists as cheating of course. With pedelecs you still have to use some energy though.
I prefer non electric bikes myself but know that for some electric is the only way they could cycle hilly routes. I'd still rather share road space with bikes than more cars - even if these cars were electric. For load carrying bikes electric makes sense.They have a model called the Obree.
http://www.wearea2b.com/uk/e-bike-news/the-obree-nominated-for-german-design-award-2015-excellent-product-designKim tells me they also sell electric scooters (ie no pedals / like a Vespa). The electric scooter idea was a favourite project of Tom Farmer. He supported the congestion charge scheme and hoped people would buy electric scooters from his company to lower their commute cost.
Posted 10 years ago # -
I prefer non electric bikes myself but know that for some electric is the only way they could cycle hilly routes.
Especially when the signed cycle routes identified by the powers that be tend to go straight up some of Edinburgh's more challenging slopes (Dublin Street, The Mound).
I've seen a few electric bikers (all ladies, IIRC, which possibly says more about male stubbornness/social anxiety than anything else) serenely cruising up Dublin Street on their morning commute. Seems like a good idea.
Posted 10 years ago # -
I saw an electric bike in The Range yesterday on my way to the spades, but didn't pass closely enough to note the type or price.
Posted 10 years ago # -
Thanks to @cycleservice for rescuing me from myself yesterday. In the process of replacing my cracked SKS mudguards with Tortec ones, I broke off the head of the nut attaching the rear guard to the frame near the BB. Hannah was able to drill out the remaining part of the nut from the frame, retap, allowing me to continue my incompetent mechanicals in time for Monday's commute.
Posted 9 years ago #
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