What would you call your own LBS.

PostieJohn
PostieJohn Posts: 1,105
edited February 2008 in The bottom bracket
Picture the scene:-

You've come into ooddles of cash and for bizarre tax reasons you need to lose a shed load of it. What better way than buy the shop next to Halfords and set up your very own LBS. All you need now is a name.

Personally I'm going for:-

Kurtains of Karpets.

So I can then be far superior than everybody coming in, when they ask about the name. (In a Jack Black, High Fidelity type stylee). And can totally belittle the old ladies who just want curtains or carpets.

Like I say you're not in it to make money. So, after reading the Rapha thread on Gear and Know how, no opening an Assos dealership, in Surrey.
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  • Random Vince
    Random Vince Posts: 11,374
    t' bike shop

    it'd be up in rural yorkshire or the lakes

    it'd be stocking random stuff such as on-one, brittish bike gear etc
    My signature was stolen by a moose

    that will be all

    trying to get GT James banned since tuesday
  • Nuggs
    Nuggs Posts: 1,804
    I had a bike shop once. I called it:

    BIKES BIKES BIKES

    Then a bloke opened one up next door. Called it

    BIKES BIKES BIKES BIKES

    My frontage was too narrow for more BIKES. I went out of business within a week.

    Be careful what you wish for :cry:
  • Bronzie
    Bronzie Posts: 4,927
    "Buy Cycles"* of course!

    * Brought to you by the same people who came up with Ronseal "does what it says on the tin" ad campaign.
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  • Babbsy
    Babbsy Posts: 197
    Evans Cycles
    <font><font>I know that you believe that you understand what you think I said but I am not sure you realise that what you heard is not what I meant.</font></font>
  • hisoka
    hisoka Posts: 541
    Bunny's Bicycle shop. In my home town and always seems helpful. Anyone else use them?
    "This area left purposefully blank"
    Sign hung on my head everyday till noon.

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  • vermooten
    vermooten Posts: 2,697
    I'd call mine

    YOU'RE FAT LAZY AND STUPID!

    which if nothing else shows how worthless having an MBA can be.
    You just have to ride like you never have to breathe again.

    Manchester Wheelers
  • Special K
    Special K Posts: 449
    vermooten wrote:
    I'd call mine

    YOU'RE FAT LAZY AND STUPID!

    which if nothing else shows how worthless having an MBA can be.

    :D:D:lol::lol:
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    Where the rain gets in.
    But they're ever so small
    That's why rain is thin. " Spike Milligan
  • hisoka
    hisoka Posts: 541
    note to self, read the title BETTER and the premise for a topic.


    DAMN MY STUPIDITY.

    sorry, mine was thinking what IS your local bike shop, not what WOULD you name it.


    And I would call my shop SADDLE SOAR
    "This area left purposefully blank"
    Sign hung on my head everyday till noon.

    FCN: 11 (apparently)
  • meagain
    meagain Posts: 2,331
    hisoka wrote:
    Bunny's Bicycle shop. In my home town and always seems helpful. Anyone else use them?

    Occasionally. They seem to have recovered quite well in recent years after almost fading away at one point, I think.

    "The Tax AND Weight Loss Shop"?
    d.j.
    "Cancel my subscription to the resurrection."
  • jellybellywmb
    jellybellywmb Posts: 1,379
    "FREE PORN FOR ALL"

    Would get them through the door at least!!
    "BEER" Proof that god loves us and wants us to be happy
  • cee
    cee Posts: 4,553
    jellybellywmb wrote:
    "FREE PORN FOR ALL"

    Would get them through the door at least!!

    thats like the anti drink driving video that was put on youtube, and managed to get 2.4 million views (plus another 65000 on another video site), just by calling it HOT GIRL SEX
    Whenever I see an adult on a bicycle, I believe in the future of the human race.

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  • grimpeur
    grimpeur Posts: 230
    The Suitcase of Courage
  • Brains
    Brains Posts: 1,732
    Wheely Good Shop
  • bigdaveskinnytyre
    bigdaveskinnytyre Posts: 218
    Big Dave's Skinny Tyres of course :)
    Nil Points
  • ricadus
    ricadus Posts: 2,379
    Nextdoor to Halfords?

    How about A Real Bike Shop

    Though in reality only powerful chains with a possible monopolizing agenda would pick a neighbouring property.
    Tour de France
  • jpembroke
    jpembroke Posts: 2,569
    Cycletherapy
    I'm only concerned with looking concerned
  • JonBurns
    JonBurns Posts: 212
    SKIDMARK
  • cbj
    cbj Posts: 44
    THE WHEEL DEAL
  • cbj
    cbj Posts: 44
    or from jpembroke's lead . . . .

    Cog-nitive Therapy
  • Bronzie
    Bronzie Posts: 4,927
    Lance Armstrong is a calling his new shop in Austin Mellow Johnny's (maillot jaune, geddit)
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  • DavidBelcher
    DavidBelcher Posts: 2,684
    Nuggs wrote:
    I had a bike shop once. I called it:

    BIKES BIKES BIKES

    Then a bloke opened one up next door. Called it

    BIKES BIKES BIKES BIKES

    My frontage was too narrow for more BIKES. I went out of business within a week.

    Be careful what you wish for :cry:

    Hmm....pinched from Harry Hill, methinks (the original gag was about a bed shop). What are the chances of that happening? :wink:

    David
    "It is not enough merely to win; others must lose." - Gore Vidal
  • DavidBelcher
    DavidBelcher Posts: 2,684
    grimpeur wrote:
    The Suitcase of Courage

    "Suitcase of Courage"? Sounds like essential luggage for a particularly booze-fuelled holiday to me! (thinks: how many cans of Directors could you actually fit in the average suitcase?)

    David
    "It is not enough merely to win; others must lose." - Gore Vidal
  • flattythehurdler
    flattythehurdler Posts: 2,314
    I already do own mine. It's called "Withington Cycles". It's in Withington. :)
    Dan
  • Nuggs
    Nuggs Posts: 1,804
    DavidBelcher wrote:
    Nuggs wrote:
    I had a bike shop once. I called it:

    BIKES BIKES BIKES

    Then a bloke opened one up next door. Called it

    BIKES BIKES BIKES BIKES

    My frontage was too narrow for more BIKES. I went out of business within a week.

    Be careful what you wish for :cry:

    Hmm....pinched from Harry Hill, methinks (the original gag was about a bed shop). What are the chances of that happening? :wink:

    David
    :lol: Good knowledge!
  • DavidBelcher
    DavidBelcher Posts: 2,684
    Nuggs wrote:
    DavidBelcher wrote:
    Nuggs wrote:
    I had a bike shop once. I called it:

    BIKES BIKES BIKES

    Then a bloke opened one up next door. Called it

    BIKES BIKES BIKES BIKES

    My frontage was too narrow for more BIKES. I went out of business within a week.

    Be careful what you wish for :cry:

    Hmm....pinched from Harry Hill, methinks (the original gag was about a bed shop). What are the chances of that happening? :wink:

    David
    :lol: Good knowledge!

    As the man himself would probably put it in a TV Burp context;

    But which is the better shop; BIKES BIKES BIKES or BIKES BIKES BIKES BIKES? There's only one way to settle it.....FIGHT!!!! :wink:

    David
    "It is not enough merely to win; others must lose." - Gore Vidal
  • synchronicity
    synchronicity Posts: 1,415
    I'd call it "www.Tenerife-Training.net | Pro Bike Hire".
    I'm currently looking for a suitable zone by the way...
    vertebr.ae | precision braking & shifting
  • feel
    feel Posts: 800
    DR FEEL'S GOOD BIKES :D
    We are born with the dead:
    See, they return, and bring us with them.
  • BigStu2
    BigStu2 Posts: 794
    A bike store next to Halfords.
    I'd call it "Alfords " You wouldn't need to advertise as their customers would allready be in the street 8)
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