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February Fun 16/03/17

I'm a little late with the February post due to being on my holidays up in the Highlands. Unfortunately I didn't get any biking done as I'd hoped to, but the weather was beautiful and the hounds enjoyed visiting the beaches and woods.

February was pretty busy for us still though the more inclement weather saw things slow down a little.

Andy hid away from the rain and wind in his workshop working on some beautiful paint jobs including this fantastic Flying Scot. The customer wanted it painted the colour of Andy's beard and we think we got pretty close! This type of paint is called...

January Happenings 31/01/17

It's been a busy time for us during January, the warm weather keeping lots of folks on their bikes. We saw the usual uptick in people getting back on their bikes after the Christmas indulgences but also lots of new people looking for a bargain from our second hand bikes. The workshop remains relatively busy so do please phone ahead if you need your bicycle for a particular day.

Andy has been busy painting and welding bikes and below is a little tease of something he is working on.

For my own efforts I've cycled 182.7 miles commuting back and forth from work a little down on last year at...

New Year opening hours 30/12/16

We are closed from the 31st December to the 3rd of January. Open again on the 4th of Jan at our usual hours.

Steve's Road Frame Part 2 21/12/16

So it’s been a long time since I last blogged – I’ve been too busy making things and fixing bikes to do it! Sorry about that, must try harder in 2017...

I did indeed finish Steve's road frame, the build went well and I learned a lot from doing it. Unfortunately I deleted all of the "in progress" photos but here is a photo of the completed frame pre paint.

And some photos of the complete bike.

So why does it have a black front rim and a wite rear rim? On his second ride on the bike a pedestrian stepped out in front of Steve and in the resulting crash the front rim was written...

Bespoked 2016 28/04/16

The 6^th Bespoked Hand Built Bicycle Show was on last weekend. Andy made the long drive down to see some of the most beautiful bikes the UK has to offer.

Most people arrived by bicycle – the parking spaces outside had a huge variety of interesting machines.

But enough of Bespoked 2016 Reader's Wives! We're here for the real bike porn! Once inside even the poshest of normal bikes looks distinctly ordinary in comparison.

The level of attention to detail in this build by Meteor was amazing. The fully polished chrome frame makes my fingers hurt just thinking about the number of hours...