Bike Shops: St Pauls

Skippy2309

HELP

I kinda made a good/bad decision, swapped my bars out every things good apart from the brake cable...

Quick rundown, it was a flat bar fixed gear with BMX brakes to road calipers (came standard) the bar was shite way too thin and flexed like no tomorrow :evil: swapped out the whole front end for oversized drops (Felt Alu ones) and an oversized stem (S-works Carbon faced), it was an amazingly smooth transition, wrapping was easy to say the least everything looks perfect and feels amazing took it out for a fast run today. Even tho it was my first time on drops I was surprised that I barely came off them - the extra reach (from stem and bars) is just perfect was amazingly comfy more compact than expected but handles well.

I fitted a cross top brake lever - it works fine.... but i am not happy about the brake cable.... I need to get end caps and I will be needing a new cable with a pear shaped end as the round disc sticking out the end is ugly!!!!!

So are there any bike shops open close to St Pauls, as I am there tomorrow and dont like the idea of things not being right (bit of OCD :P )

Canny Jock

There is a big Evans just west of St.Pauls.

mroli

There is a bikehut there too: http://stpaulsbikehut.net84.net/findus.html

I've picked up bits and pieces from them and they're good.

You could always hop into a cab and go to Condor on Gray's Inn Road - but this is a) further away, b) will result in a cab fare and c) could result in serious damage being done to your wallet.

el_presidente

mroli wrote:

There is a bikehut there too: http://stpaulsbikehut.net84.net/findus.html

I've picked up bits and pieces from them and they're good.

You could always hop into a cab and go to Condor on Gray's Inn Road - but this is a) further away, b) will result in a cab fare and c) could result in serious damage being done to your wallet.

a cab! it must be 15 minutes walk from St Pauls to Condor

miggers

mroli wrote:

There is a bikehut there too: http://stpaulsbikehut.net84.net/findus.html

I've picked up bits and pieces from them and they're good.

You could always hop into a cab and go to Condor on Gray's Inn Road - but this is a) further away, b) will result in a cab fare and c) could result in serious damage being done to your wallet.

+1 for the Bike Hut.. keen guys and willing to help

Pete

holybinch

Else, you can walk for 15 mins and be in Liverpool St where you have both an Evans and a Cyclesurgery
Loads of possibilities in the area.

el_presidente

there's a big cycle surgery at Holborn too, 2 stops on the Central line

Skippy2309

managed to get all the bits from the Evans, even tho one thing was sold out they didnt have any packs but the guy asked how many i would need and went and found some chucking them in bag for free :D:D

the man was very helpful even answered some questions as well, would recommend them, they got some very very nice bikes in there as well, saw a red trek TT bike that I just wanted straight away, would rip them stupid TT bars off and put on some drops and it would be perfect :twisted: