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Popup vintage bicycle shop

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  • Started 5 years ago by Murun Buchstansangur
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  1. Murun Buchstansangur
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    "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.

    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.

    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."

    https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/best-in-edinburgh/check-out-amazing-reworked-upcycled-16927670

    Posted 5 years ago #

  2. steveo
    Member

    Oh, that sound interesting.

    Posted 5 years ago #

  3. Frenchy
    Member

    now based just outside the city in Portobello

    Hmmm.

    Posted 5 years ago #

  4. davecykl
    Member

    Oh, Portobello very definitely exists in a different and somewhat eccentric orbit compared to Edinburgh, even though it may be within the city district!

    (I mean this in the nicest possible way…)

    Posted 5 years ago #

  5. Frenchy
    Member

    That's also (perhaps arguably) true of Morningside, the New Town, Wester Hailes etc., though, and they're all quite definitively "in" Edinburgh.

    Posted 5 years ago #

  6. crowriver
    Member

    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.

    https://stories.endurasport.com/walter-hamilton

    Posted 5 years ago #

  7. Murun Buchstansangur
    Member

    @crowriver

    Yes, a well-kent name from Strava.

    Posted 5 years ago #

  8. mcairney
    Member

    Their main location sounds like where Earthy Portobello used to be?
    I've been eyeing up old-school steel recently so might have to take a gander....

    Posted 5 years ago #

  9. urchaidh
    Member

    @mcairney It is, same building.

    Posted 5 years ago #

  10. gembo
    Member

    Walter seems fine. Many stories on his website. He mostly sources original fittings. Not sure of the costs?

    Posted 5 years ago #

  11. dessert rat
    Member

    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.

    Posted 5 years ago #

  12. gembo
    Member

    Unlikely to be two Walters?

    I met him in office once, he is keen, which is nice, talks slow, but underneath mad keen

    That endura endurance article tho is way TLDR like some sort of endurance test

    Posted 5 years ago #

  13. LivM
    Member

    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.

    Posted 5 years ago #

  14. MalkyB
    Member

    I'm looking forward to visiting the pop up.
    Any indication of prices?

    Posted 5 years ago #

  15. gembo
    Member

    I suspect prices steep

    Posted 5 years ago #

  16. the canuck
    Member

    must remember to check tomorrow!

    Posted 5 years ago #

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