Our workshop in the new Bury St. Edmunds shop is now open for bike repair / building.
Service Desk
Service Centre
Workshop
Please bring us your bikes for our loving attention!
March 11, 2010
New Bury Shop is Open for Business!
Our new cycle shop in Bury St. Edmunds is now open for business. We still have plenty of bikes to build to fill up the showroom, but we’re getting there quickly.
Please come in for a browse, some advice, or even just to say hello.
February 28, 2010
New Bury Shop Pictures
Stovey and I were checking out what we need to do over the next couple of weeks in the new Bury shop. Lots of work to be done, but look at all the space!
New Shop
February 18, 2010
We’re expanding! New Bury St. Edmunds Shop
Revel Outdoors is about to open a new cycle and tri shop in Bury St. Edmunds. The shop will open mid-March, 2010.
Revel Outdoors Bury St. Edmunds Shop
The new shop will have over 4,000 sq ft of showroom space, spread over two floors. We will be stocking it with bikes from Cannondale, Giant, Orbea, Ridgeback and Orange, catering for all cyclists from kids to mountain bikers to triathletes.
The shop will expand the Revel Outdoors reputation for high quality service with a professional workshop and friendly, knowledgable staff.
We hope to see you there soon!
January 11, 2010
25% off everything – 1 week only
It’s our January sale, and we’ve got 25% off everything in the shop, or on the website, excluding 2010 bikes which are 10% off.
November 5, 2009
Friends don’t let friends buy bicycle shaped objects
Tonight at 20:00 on BBC1, Watchdog will be investigating flat-packed bikes from the likes of ASDA and Argos. It should make entertaining viewing. “Friends don’t let friends buy bicycle shaped objects” is a quote from John Stevenson’s article: Watchdog gets its teeth into bicycle shaped objects – again. “Bicycle Shaped Objects” or BSOs is an industry term for something that looks like a bicycle, but really isn’t.
Update - Here’s the show.
In the past I’ve contributed to the Bicycle Shaped Object Blog Hall of Shame, to highlight some of the problems with these cheap “bikes.” These BSOs are simply not good value for money. You’re so much better off buying a good quality 2nd hand bike than wasting any money (no matter how great the deal) on new junk. Why? Because they simply don’t work. There are other good reasons not to buy these bikes:
- They fall apart, and end up filling our landfills with cheap plastic, rubber and broken components (at least the metal can be recycled).
- They decrease the perceived value of 2nd hand bikes (“I can get a new bike for that!”) meaning these bikes too end up in the same landfills
- They de-value the true cost of a good quality, workable bike. People who are not bike experts struggle to justify spending £250 on a good quality bike when they can see a BSO for half the price that “looks” the same. Then they buy it and end up spending a fortune keeping it on the road (or they just throw it away).
- They put people off cycling. The riding experience is so unpleasant, because of constant breakdowns, weight, dragging components and a poor riding position.
- They encourage the idea that bikes are disposable, worthless items that don’t need to be looked after or protected from theft. Bike theft is simply not taken seriously enough.
I once had an email from a wholesale supplier of BSOs who wanted me to sell his products. Here’s part of what he said to me: “I do make my living in the volume cheap end area of the market… …do the job,take the money and wait for the next K___head that doesn’t know how to assemble them!”
Don’t be a K___head!