Another Brick Lane Bikes Kona, Bianchi Dave Yeats- EXPENSIVE

[greencat]

I once had a rear wheel rebuilt by them more than a decade ago. They did a fine, speedy and remarkably competitively priced job. As I was cycling home to east Ham, however, I was disturbed by an odd feeling in the rear wheel. A mile or so later there was a bang and rapid deflation of the tyre. On taking the tyre off, I realised the source of the strange feeling - they had somehow left a tyre lever inside the tyre!

 

[ibbz]

I once had a rear wheel rebuilt by them more than a decade ago. They did a fine, speedy and remarkably competitively priced job. As I was cycling home to east Ham, however, I was disturbed by an odd feeling in the rear wheel. A mile or so later there was a bang and rapid deflation of the tyre. On taking the tyre off, I realised the source of the strange feeling - they had somehow left a tyre lever inside the tyre!

All that good work - nearly ending in disaster!
Their wheel building service is I think £50 labour charge

 

[mynchiboy]

Re: Re:

To be fair, they probs charge to prices they do so they can cover the cleaning costs at the shop.

As ibbz would agree, that picture was probably post cleaning :facepalm:

All things aside, I like BLB too. Decent staff as mentioned, some unusual bits to be found and one of the last long standing stores still remaining there in the area. I still wish I could have checked if that De Rosa was really sold though...

 

[greencat]

I once had a rear wheel rebuilt by them more than a decade ago. They did a fine, speedy and remarkably competitively priced job. As I was cycling home to east Ham, however, I was disturbed by an odd feeling in the rear wheel. A mile or so later there was a bang and rapid deflation of the tyre. On taking the tyre off, I realised the source of the strange feeling - they had somehow left a tyre lever inside the tyre!

All that good work - nearly ending in disaster!
Their wheel building service is I think £50 labour charge

I think it was about £15 back then inc replacement spokes. I'd had a nightmare wheel from On-one - about 3 weeks old, and riding along Shoreditch one day, plink, plink, plink - 4 spokes snapped. They had fixed in about two hours. While them losing a tyre lever in the wheel was memorable, it was the kind of mistake anyone could have made.

 

[ibbz]

Re: Re:

To be fair, they probs charge to prices they do so they can cover the cleaning costs at the shop.

As ibbz would agree, that picture was probably post cleaning :facepalm:

All things aside, I like BLB too. Decent staff as mentioned, some unusual bits to be found and one of the last long standing stores still remaining there in the area. I still wish I could have checked if that De Rosa was really sold though...

Totally agree with everything you’ve said.
My dad used to own a factory on princelet street off
Of brick lane - back in the 70ies - he sold it in I think 1982 - I remember how different the area used to be - the real East End - everything about it - undeveloped - lots of factories and industry - real old school generations long east end people with a Bengali community - it’s a different world and totally unrelated to what we have now
We do have the odd nook and cranny which still lingers

Much the same as the west end - especially around Carnaby Street and Covent Garden -

 

[Woz]

I once had a rear wheel rebuilt by them more than a decade ago. They did a fine, speedy and remarkably competitively priced job. As I was cycling home to east Ham, however, I was disturbed by an odd feeling in the rear wheel. A mile or so later there was a bang and rapid deflation of the tyre. On taking the tyre off, I realised the source of the strange feeling - they had somehow left a tyre lever inside the tyre!

Pure Gem.