Does anyone who has bought bikes in Cycle Republic?

solepiano
solepiano Posts: 4
edited February 2017 in Road buying advice
My friend recommended me to buy bikes in Cycle Republic since it serves professional bikes. But I am not familiar with Cycle Republic. Does anyone who has bought bikes in Cycle Republic? How about the quality of bikes and services there? :):)

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  • mrb123
    mrb123 Posts: 4,815
    Not sure I understand the question...
  • drwae
    drwae Posts: 223
    No don't buy a bike there, it's another name for Halfords. Even Evans Cycles would be better and I'm saying that about a company that measured me and sold me a £1.6k bike in the wrong size
  • fat daddy
    fat daddy Posts: 2,605
    Its fine ... its a shop, they have customer service, if anything goes wrong, its easy to get it rectified.

    I bought a bike from there, I would buy one again from there.

    Yes its owned by Halfords and stocks the same gear more or less, Pinarello, Boadman, KTM ... they have a large service centre and much like a LBS can easily replace cables, re-tape bars etc .... can they rethread a crank ? ... possibly not, but then should you strip a thread and decide to get it repaired just because you bought a bie from Cycle Rebulblic doesn't mean you cant take it somewhere else.

    Seriously, its a high street shop .. if there is a bike there you like at a good price, buy it, you stand as much chance of a bad sale through them as you do from any other shop .... its employee dependant
  • the_hundredth_idiot
    the_hundredth_idiot Posts: 813
    Cycle Republic is Halford's chain specialist cycle shops. I think its been around a few years, but there seems to have been a recent push to reinvigorate it and open some new shops. They get a bit of flak because of the link to Halfords, which doesn't have a great reputation for cycling: they sell some nice bikes (Boardman) but their staff are a bit hit and quite a lot of miss in terms of quality.

    But a Cycle Republic opened near my London office (Lime Street) and they have been absolutely fantastic. I was in there yesterday and the staff could not be more helpful. They all come across very positive and enthusiastic - lots of knowledge and a real willingness to help. There are quite a few bike shops near my office - a couple of Evans, a Cycle Surgery, an independent (Swift?) are the ones that initially come to mind. I will go to the Lime Street Cycle Republic as a first choice when I want to buy stuff, and very nearly bought a new bike from them last year (in the end I bought from a different shop because I wanted a particular bike which Cycle Republic don't sell).

    I have no connection/financial involvement/etc with Cycle Republic.
    Never be tempted to race against a Barclays Cycle Hire bike. If you do, there are only two outcomes. Of these, by far the better is that you now have the scalp of a Boris Bike.

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