Any UK MTB shops still in the same premises?

[TreaderSteve]

Just that really - any that stocked decent kit and bikes back in the day that are still open and in the same premises?

 

[novocaine]

Leisure lakes still located at leisure lakes.
Winstanleys moved up the road to get warehouse space for online.
Believe wooly hat shop is still in the same location as is merlin cycles.


Oh and halfords head office is still in the same spot.

 

[TreaderSteve]

Great, I believe I may have (correct that, parents may have) got my first Orange from L.L.

 

[Repacker]

Edinburgh Bicycle - the original Edinburgh one - still in same location as when I got my Kona Hahanna there in 1991. Shop had been there 12 years by then.

 

[FluffyChicken]

In Hull...
The two main ones that people might know, at least in the Vintage cycles circles.

Ken Ellerker is still in the same place it always has been.
https://www.kenellerkercycles.co.uk/about.php
Unfortunately Cliff Pratt moved a few year back (across the road) from the place it was in for way longer than MTBs have been around. They had been there for, well, forever really.
Cliff has quite a history in the cycling

There was prevailing view that British was best. This was particularly true with respect to gearing; the British cyclist had no need of the crude chain shifting devises of the French. Cliff Pratt, later the founder of the CTC York Rally and Hull cycle dealer, describes how in November 1929 he was one of the very first British cyclists to fit a variable gear (a French Standard Cyclo) and just how unusual this was with most club riders on fixed. The contrasting national attitudes to gears are extremely well documented in Frank Berto’s ‘The Dancing Chain’.

Jobes are still in the same place.

Rob Winstanleys are no longer but another own under a different name is there now.

And a few others I didn't really go too.

Two have shut from BiTD,
One a few will know in the MTB circles.
Freetown Sports, but that had moved shops anyway.

Kingston Cycles closed a couple of years back, after 50 years.

 

[2manyoranges]

Wildside - Tonbridge Wells.

Rayments in Brighton. Now this is quite a shop in the history of mountain biking in the UK. Started by Maggie and Bill Rayment. Bill imported some of the first mountain bikes into the country, and stocked Marin and Specialized. They then sold up to three friends, who ran the shop and made a stack from the first mountain bike boom - they even imported and sold pre-Cannery Bontrager frames when they were being made in KB's garage. Brighton was huge on the MTB scene in the 80s - home of Mint Sauce of course. I tore around the South Downs for 20 years during the 80s and 90s, and still didn't cover all of the bridleways on offer. I also marshalled the South Downs Randonee for a number of years - 100 miles of off road and 10,000 feet of climbing. I get down there as much as I can now - good thrash around Stanmer Woods last weekend with the Grom.

Bill and Maggie moved to Lewes and opened Lewes Cycles, but regret that shop and Bill himself no longer with us. The original shop has been in the same premises since Bill set it up.

https://www.raymentcycles.com

 

[TreaderSteve]

Fantastic stuff. I'll never be able to visit them all in person but worth a call for my particular hunt. Howes shut down here in Cambridge after 173 years at the end of 2013. Was a shame to see them go.

 

[KermitGKona88]

Madgetts cycles in Diss.

 

[TreaderSteve]

Madgetts cycles in Diss.

Yep, was back there on Saturday I think for the third time...spent another £162 there with Mick...!

 

[KermitGKona88]

Yep, was back there on Saturday I think for the third time...spent another £162 there with Mick...!

Sounds about right, like a treasure island...