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14/10/09: Busy day
Been a busy few days recently, and it's been an especially long one in front of the computer today. We've had a whole load of 2010 Orbeas, Saracens, Scotts, Bianchis and Ridgeback bikes through the door and it's been my job to try and get photos of all of them and get them onto the website. All of the Kids Bikes are all updaterd, and I'm now trying to get the last of the Mountain Bikes up now.
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26/09/09: 2010
Just a quick one - the 2010 Scott bikes are here......
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24/09/09: Updates!
I've been working hard to update the road bike pages with all of the new 2010 bikes that we're expecting, and to give you a sneak preview to see what they'll actually look like. I promise I'll put up proper pictures as soon as I can take them! I haven't yet had a chance to put up which Orbeas we'll be ordering as we haven't ordered any yet....
We do have a few 2010 Orbeas in stock already though, the Onix TTG and also a solitary 2010 Enol, which looks a lot better than last years. More updates when I get them. |
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23/09/09: It's been a while...
Well it's certainly been a bit of time since I last updated this and we've seen a fair few changes too! The biggest thing (that I'm sure you're aware of!) is that we have now moved from the old two shops across the crossroads from each other into one big shop just down the road. I hope to get some pictures up soon of our brand spanking new shop - maybe not that new now actually considering we moved in five months ago!
Talking of the new shop, none other than the Voice of Cycling came to open the shop for us - Hugh Porter himself. Somewhere we even have a picture of him riding an electric bike up and down the pavement.... We hadn't quite made the place ours then, having finished moving at about midnight on the Friday night beforehand. We've now moved in, got everything more or less where we want it and sorted everything out. A few other things worth updating though: Darren has now left us and started his police training and I'm sure you will join us in wishing him all the best in his new career. We've had a delivery of the first few 2010 bike trickling in - mainly an all new Orbea carbon Onix TTG. This comes equipped with Tiagra, a carbon fork, frame and post for the amazing price of just £1279! The other bike price related updates are mainly that our 2009 Bike Sale is now on! A few of the highlights are enclosed below... |
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15/09/08: D2D Training
Some of you may have seen me hobbling around the shop today - all due to Dusk til Dawn training. Now that it's only three weeks away I've been doing a bit of night riding, trying to get a feel for speed, reaction times and so on in an attempt to be one of the three people on the podium at the end of the race. Last night didn't exactly go to plan though - I was riding round Tunstall when I managed to hit a small jump. If it was daylight I would have seen what it actually was - a lump rather than a jump. And I did hit it, in a big way. The front wheel sank into the front of the jump, catapaulting me straight into a tree. Lesson learned though - do be careful when you're being incredibly stupid in the middle of the night in a dark forest!
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11/04/06:
Oh boy! Well, what happened to me this weekend? After my success in my recent time trial I had high hopes for a decent result in the first road race of the year, dear oh dear.
I travelled down on Sunday to the village of Steeple near Maldon in Essex to ride in the 3/4/J 70K road race and I think the hint of sunshine may have gone to my head. I started ok and felt pretty good for the first few miles and gradually worked my way up to the front of the bunch which is roughly when things started to go wrong. After the grand total of 10 minutes near the front I found myself sitting on the front driving the bunch along, then after another 10 minutes I found myself off the front attacking on a glorious solo breakaway which lasted all of 2 minutes until I looked behind and saw the bunch happily riding along behind me. |
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02/04/06:
Well it's happened again and nearly another month has just flown by. This time it's gone from busy to extra busy! It's happy days on the shop front though we've had a great start to the year and have just enjoyed our busiest week since the shop opened back in 1922 and it's not even summer yet!
A big thank you to all of our customers for your support, it's fantastic to think that in these changing times of the internet, eBay, mail order and supermarkets so many people still value the service and personal touch that only the independent retailer can offer. I never forget that the only reason that I can do the job I love is down to the customers who walk through the door, so a big thank you and I'll do my best to make sure we keep meeting your expectations and we'll keep working to bring you more new & exciting stuff! |
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06/03/06:
Oh my! Where on earth did those few weeks go! It's been rather busy round here. There's a real buzz on the road bikes at the moment with loads of you getting keen for the year. We've had more new bikes flying out than ever before, with many of the Bianchis already sold out! It's not normally like this until April. Don't fear though, we have more stock on the way and are expecting to be re-stocked by the 24th, just in time for the start of British Summer Time and the light evenings.
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19/02/06:
So another week flies by and it's sure been a busy one!
Things are going crazy in both shops at the moment as we are having the best start to the year we've ever had. I'd like to think it's due to our wonderful service and all our fantastic new products, but if I'm honest I know that most of it is down to a real resurgence in cycling at the moment and the exceptionally dry January we've just enjoyed. |
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11/02/06:
And that's me qualified. I've had a very enjoyable day today, I was at Gainsborough Sports Centre doing the one day 'Appointed Persons and First Aid in Sports' course. I have to say this was probably the best and most informative course I've been on to date with an excellent Tutor with a great sense of humour! He managed to keep the day lighthearted, enjoyable, informative and above all memorable. A big thanks to Barry, PK Training and Suffolk Sport. Just getting things ready for Foxhall tomorrow now so that's all for tonight.
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