Evans Cycles
- Thread starter Spike
- Start date
How you supposed to 'get on yer bike' after Brexit now ?
Martyn Miles
pfm Member
I would check with Norman Tebbit.
foxwelljsly
Me too, I ate one sour too.
When you price match online retailers in your stores for years, this is inevitable. I've bought two top flight bikes from Evans over the years, but their workshop and after sales services were so diabolical, they were key in encouraging me to learn bike maintenance.
TheDecameron
Unicorns fart glitter.
A local business in Edinburgh told me they were about to go bust imminently. Can you picture Mike Ashley on a bike? It would disappear up his wazoo.
James Evans
Bedroom Bodger
Brilliant, that narrows down my buying decision then
Rack Kit
pfm Member
Mike Ashley to buy 'Broke Britain' - half of the country to close.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-46037258
The chancellor was bullshitting yesterday about how well the economy is doing.
mikemusic
pfm Member
Evans in Woking were an improvement over the previous owner, but that wasn't saying much. They were my bike shop for a few years.
Not that great in the shop looking back
Took my bike there for a big service and was so teed off I vowed never to go there again.
As above I started doing a lot of my own maintenance from then on.
I now use the wonderful Banjo Bikes in Sunningdale,(also Newbury) and recommend them to everyone
Not that great in the shop looking back
Took my bike there for a big service and was so teed off I vowed never to go there again.
As above I started doing a lot of my own maintenance from then on.
I now use the wonderful Banjo Bikes in Sunningdale,(also Newbury) and recommend them to everyone
andrew d
pfm Member
Evans has been looking for a cash injection / buyer for a while.
I quite like Evans, there's one near me and I like to click and collect basics from there. They must do a lot of Cycle to Work scheme sales. Servicing though like any chain depends on who is in the workshop. I always use an indie LBS. Hope that they don't just start selling the junk that Ashley normally stocks.
Sports Direct were selling Zipp Wheels recently!
http://www.cyclist.co.uk/news/5506/...letter&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter
I quite like Evans, there's one near me and I like to click and collect basics from there. They must do a lot of Cycle to Work scheme sales. Servicing though like any chain depends on who is in the workshop. I always use an indie LBS. Hope that they don't just start selling the junk that Ashley normally stocks.
Sports Direct were selling Zipp Wheels recently!
http://www.cyclist.co.uk/news/5506/...letter&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter
ghostbusters
pfm Member
I remember buying my first expensive bike at the Cut branch. A Raleigh Corsa with Look pedals and a 12-17 block . That was 30 years ago. Now I look at bike prices and all I see is a year's mortgage payments.
You must have a small mortgage ;-)
ghostbusters
pfm Member
Now a Carrera costs as much as a Carrera 
Rack Kit
pfm Member
It's all BS really. It's impossible to get rid of the overall debt, all they can do is manage it and decides who gets what & who's going to pay for it. At least we all know the last part.
sq225917
Bit of this, bit of that
You must have cheap taste in bikes.
Ibbots
pfm Member
I like the Manchester CC branch, it's convenient and I often pop in for bits and pieces and bought a GT Grade for commuting last year with quite a large discount in return for a bit of a junker that was clogging up the shed. Staff friendly and helpful, often do the price match themselves (perhaps not helping the financial state of the company). Much rather go in there than Harry Hill's. Shame if it goes or is turned into some shiteware discount operation
Haha. Quite the opposite I'm afraid. But no matter how bad things are after Brexit I'll never ride a Planet X. I'd rather walk