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I heard rumours through ERC of a new bike business opening near alpine bikes in Stockbridge. I think it's one of the guys from the Tri Shop that's involved (don't quote me on this)
Ronde Bike link just seen tweeted for Hamilton Place.
Seems to be a combined cafe / apparel shop / bookshop / general trendy place to hang out with a bike theme.
The brands stocked suggest a higher-end road cycling theme.
They stole my idea! (at least, if I'd had the finance that was my idea - more city centre though...)
"They stole my idea!"
Plenty room for more cafe/bike shops in Edinburgh.
Was this http://www.mud-dock.co.uk the first in the UK?
Quite a few in London now.
Whatever happened to 'Evans in Tollcross'?
What I'd really like would be an Edinburgh branch of WorkCycles. Fat chance though :-(
Hopefully what they'll do is get unglazed crockery, handle them in the workshop for a bit then get them glazed to preserve all the oily fingerprints before using them in the café section.
Looks like a nice place to take a piss.
Is that bi(cycle)tchiness?
ah, a posing place.
Must be more evidence of a growing 'cycle culture' -
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Want proof this culture is developing? The MD of \/auxhall Motors cycles to work; a Channel 4 newsreader bikes to interviews with presidents and premlers; and more and more people are discovering cycling is a fun family activity thanks to holidays at Oasis and Center Parts.
Couple all that to the tendrll-llke spread of cycle infrastructure - new bits are opening every day - and market expansion will surely follow.
But. in an age of consolidation. only the most wide-awake of lBDs and the savviest of suppliers will profit from the new opportunities.
Opportunities such as? Well, the grey market is expanding fast. The number of consumers ln the 50+ age bracket is increasing by 50 000 a month. But, there‘s a threat too, a demographic time-bomb. There is a rapidly declining number of freespending 20-29 year olds. ln fact. their numbers will drop through the floor in the next few years. This will have a massive impact on those suppliers, lBDs and bike mags who are overly youth obsessed. By 2001 there will be one million fewer 20-29 year olds than there were in 1996!
Smart bike retailers and switched on cycle suppliers will adapt their businesses to meet the challenges of the future. ln a mature marketplace with too many brands, too many products and too many shops - this applies to the bike trade as well as mainstream retailing - only the fittest will survive.
The best. however, will thrive.
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Carlton Reid in 1st issue of BicycleBusiness - July/Aug 1999
21-29? I think hes talking about me.....
Carlton Reid? What ever happened to him? ;-)
WHere is it in relation to Alpine? What is a cycle fitting studio and a 29er bicycle (I feel I should know). Always good to diversify Simon O'Brien (Our Damien form Brookside)_ had a great cafe/bikeshop in Liverpool around 1995. SO the gallery/cafe angle might be the way to go in that Stockbridge location. Obviously plenty other cafes down that way but if I had a choice of cafes I'd go to one in a bike shop.
There is some reasoning that putting your shop next to a successful shop can work. For instance when BHS expanded in Ayr in 1984 they sited their shop next to Marks and Spencer (influenced I like to think by my Higher Geography dissertation)
Not sure that works for bike shops. If I am heading for The Bike Chain and the beer shop next door is suddenly a cycle shop I do not go in. If the beer shop was ever open I would go in for beer when visiting the bike chain. Same I think would also apply to trips to Mr Freewheelin at Slateford....
There are parts of Edinburgh with no shop, in my naivete I would have thought out this way Juniper Green, Currie, Balerno. Lots of folk, lots of cyclists?????Shops on main drag largely beauticians???
29ers or two-niners are mountain bikes that are built to use 700c or ISO 622 mm wheels.
"Carlton Reid? What ever happened to him? ;-)"
You'll find him here -
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carltonreid: So, who's riding on the M74 extension on Sunday? Me and my boy will be. White Elephant ride: http://bit.ly/k9k03m
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Original Tweet: http://twitter.com/carltonreid/status/70787961976913921
It's open now.
Had friends popped in this weekend and said it's really nice. More of a cafe that happens to have bikes than a bike shop with a cafe. Relaxed and friendly, with some lovely bike pr0n to look at (mmmm, Colnago). Going to have to have a gander - they're apparently doing some sort of ticketed end of Tour event next Sunday.
It is open, though web site still says "coming soon" - they are still working on finishing touches.
Hope it finds its niche. Very 'London gallery' (with café) sort of shop. Definitely not 'mainstream' - nothing wrong with that, just more difficult to attract enough 'target' customers.
Looks interesting. Er, is there anywhere to park your bike?
"is there anywhere to park your bike?"
Yes/no -
Hmm. :-(
Shall we open a book on how long it will take for the "no cycles here" notices to go up?
I might try a reconnaisance mission this week sometime to check out opening times and so on.
Arriving on a BSO and leaving it parked against the window might not be apprieciated.
Yepo, I'll be the railings owners will have something to say.
In the shop's defence I would imagine they've got to apply for permission to put cycle racks on the pavement, since they won't own that, and I'll bet the council says it's too narrow (despite the fact it clearly isn't).
I always thought if I owned something like this I'd have a space set aside for people to leave their bikes inside, possibly even hooks on the walls. Turn the everyday bikes of people into an actual bit of interest in the store itself...
I asked them the "where to park your bike question" on Saturday, mainly from the perspective of what to do if a group of roadies rocked up.
They've got some space in the basement, but they're also planning on getting some D-locks for the shop so you don't have to carry one with you.
I'd have thought there'd be no harm in asking the council to stick some stands near by (are there any in the Stockbridge/Hamilton Place area?)
Or a group of anyone with bikes really, which they would probably be wanting as a cycle cafe.
That grim little gravelly square just round the corner in front of the Saunders Street flats might be a good place for bike racks (I don't know if there are some there already) but probably no substitute for having your bike under your eye..
Having spare bike locks in a good idea though.
Well there are railings opposite and an LCC - but everyone knows cyclists are lazy...
I guess they decided that a railing along the front of the window (a la EBC and TBC) would obstruct the window display too much?
Wow that is a lot of railings!
What's an LCC?
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