What a difference 20 years has made to the cycling industry – I remember in the mid 80’s the only bike brand I had heard of was Raleigh – to be exact the Raleigh Burner BMX. Nowadays if you walk into your local cycle shop you will be presented with bikes that cost more than the average car! My local cycle shop, Rutland Cycling, is one of the premium cycle shops with world famous brands like Kona, Orange, Wilier, Colnago, to name but a few. Though you can still buy Raleigh!.
You can find so many cycle shops variety’s readily available now according to what you wish the bike for – road, bmx, mountain, cyclocross, jump, dirt, track, commuter, electric and each and every region not surprisingly comes with a plethora of accessories and upgrades – you’ll be able to easily shell out well more than 1000 pounds at your local bike shop and only come out having a bike without having any peddles! A trip to a well stocked cycle shop currently amounts to a day out if cycling is your thing.
Modern supplies like carbon are readily noticed on even the budget bikes, full suspension, aspect suspension and also bikes without a seat (trials bikes) The inclusion of cycling into main sporting events like the Olympics along with the X Games as well because the green movement wanting us all out of our automobiles has been a huge boost towards the cycling sector alongside long running events like the Tour de France. For each and every form of bike these days there’s a celebrity sports face that sits alongside it on billboards and cycling magazines across the country.
You will also discover that a few of the bigger cycling shops offer you much more that just bikes as well as the accessories to go along. My regional cycling shop as an example delivers bike employ for the day – and not just the bottom end either you can readily take out a bike really worth 000’s for the days and test its abilities and yours! It is possible to have your bike serviced whilst you wait take your current bike in to be pimped using the most current forks; they even have standard night rides where the manufacturer turns up with their most recent collection for you to trash.
Suffice to say your local cycle shop is a lot more than I remember way back when Raleigh would have been the only brand of bike most people in the UK would have known – it’s huge business and no surprise the largest manufacturers of bikes today are based in China and the far East.
Rutland Cycling are the greatest UK’s top Cycle Shops and currently are Bike Biz’s best independent retailers.Perhaps it isworth checking them out?