Just Riding Along

We're hosting a monthly Dr Bike clinic during the summer, free for any one to bring their bike for a safety check. Run by Sheffield Cycle Boost and Recycle bikes they can help get your bike on the road for free.

Sheffield Cycle Boost

What does it do
"The bike doctor will give your bike a full safety check. We will fix any minor repairs on the spot for free and if we find anything more serious we'll give you a prescription to take to your local bike shop."

When
Saturday 9.30am-1pm
25th May
29th June
27th July
7th September

Just drop in no appointment needed, while-you-wait or collect later if its busy.
email: fix@sheffieldcycleboost.org if you need more details.

Busy workshop is looking to recruit a new staff member to provide support in warehouse, picking, packing, stock keeping and general upkeep of premises inside and out.

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Field Cycles at Bespoked Bristol

We are back and finally recovered and tidied up after Bespoked Bristol last weekend. As well as our own stand we built wheels for some frame builders and built wheels for the live build demonstration.

The show was packed, especially on Saturday with around 4000 visitors attending, and 2000 on the Sunday. Jon joined up with Klaus from Sapim for the live wheel build demonstration on Sunday morning, it was surprisingly nerve-wracking with people watching but it went well and we ended up with a pair of wheels for the live build bike (a lucky raffle winner won a bike to be built during the show).

Most of the time we were too busy to take photos but managed to grab a few at the end:

We built wheels for these frame builders:

DMO frameworks - titanium bike packer
Shimano Alfine 8-speed hub laced to NoTubes ZTR Crest 29er rim
Chris King ISO disk hubs laced to NoTubes ZTR Arch 29er rims

Field Cycles
American Classic disk 130 & 225 hubs laced to NoTubes Crest 29er rims
Hope Pro3 Mono hubs black laced to H Plus Son Archetype grey rims

Rusby Cycles
Hope Pro3 Mono hubs gunsmoke laced to H Plus Son Archetype black rims

Slate Cycles
Hope Pro3 Mono hubs laced to H Plus Son Archetype rims, all black

Enigma Workshop, photo Phil Taylor

Bespoked Bristol returns on 12th - 14th April 2013. Over 70 leading independent makers from the UK, Italy, France, USA, Germany and Japan will be coming to Brunel’s Old Station to showcase some of the most beautiful and desirable cycles on earth.

Probably the best exhibition we attend, actually the only exhibition we attend!
This will be our third year at Bespoked Bristol and should speak for itself so if you're interested in new and shiny parts, handmade and crafted frames and components and of course beautifully built wheels from ourselves then we'll see you there !

more from Bespoked Bristol themselves on their website >

our first bikes collected for Recycle Sheffield

We are now a collection point for Recycle Bikes, Sheffield. They collect and refurbish old bikes as well as doing lots of other things like youth training, repairs and rides. As they're on the other side of Sheffield in Heeley (which might as well be a million miles away when all you want to do is clear out the shed) we offered to collect bikes from this side of town. We're open 9am-5pm Mon-Fri and Saturday morning 9.30am - 1.30pm just drop it in.
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We've printed our 2012 brochure and put a few in the post to recent customers and with any orders going out. Due to the cost of postage we've not sent as many as we would have liked but if you don't receive one you can download our PDF here:

download brochure 2012 - 5.6mb PDF

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Last weekend saw my first attempt at the national Gravity Enduro series at Coed-Y-Brenin forest park in north Wales.

I arrived bright and early Saturday morning and I could already see that this was much more serious than the other more local Gravity Enduros. There were loads of people milling about fettling with their bikes, and all serious bikes too! What struck me first was the amount of this years models, which really illustrates how quickly gravity racing has taken off this year. It's gotta be said that my 2010 meta was looking rather old! ...[ continue reading >> ]