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Get ready for Snow - Sledge SALE

Get ready for more snow and Save £100 on this fantastic Madison Hammerhead sledge.

Normal RRP £199 - our speacial Christmas offer just £99

  • Being only 9 inches (23cm) off the ground gives a greater feeling of speed and the chassis becomes an extension of your body
  • A four-ski design means the sled has the least resistance and ultimate stability
  • The built in steering means it is more like a go-kart than an ordinary sled, and is truly steerable
  • Weighing under 10 lbs also means it is no effort to drag it back to the top of the hill after your run
  • Suitable for both kids and kids at heart!

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The Bicycle Hub in the Park and Bicycles by Design

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We are expanding and introducing new exciting additions to services and products that we offer our customers.

The Bicycle Hub in the Park, as it suggests will be located in Telford Town Park at the new Visitor Centre.  This is an exciting addition as not only is the Visitor Centre a great looking building but it a passive building too, minimising the use of energy which compliments the greater use of bicycles as a sustainable future.

It is located on National Cycle route 55 (literally just 2 meters from our door!), a 5 minute walk from the town centre, right next to all the family attractions in the park, a 4 minute walk from Dark Lane car park, a 10 minute walk or 5 minute ride from the train station, so very accessible to all.  There will also be a very nice Café next door too.

The aim of The Hub in the Park is to service customers spending up to £1000 on bikes, with emphasis on commuting, leisure and family cycling with bikes from Ridgeback, Genesis, Saracen, Pashley and Airnimal together with accessories and clothing.  We will also be running training and events from there too - more details of these to follow.

Servicing of bikes will also be a key part of the Park operation, with same day turn around worked through a forward booking system and a secure commuter bike park being added in the near future.

 

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Our current Jackfield premises will house Bicycles by Design catering for customers looking for more specialist products and will also include the soon to be re-launched Swallow bespoke hand built steel frames made by Pete Bird and Rob Wade. Landescape made-to measure aluminium frames will continue, including carbon fibre options for both bikes and tandems. 

We will also be including Frame building courses, for clients who would like to build their own frames. Other brands will be Van Nicholas, Genesis, Ridgeback, Saracen, Tout Terrain, Airnimal, Birdy, Pashley together with Co-Motion and Helios tandems.  Most can be test ridden via our Ride-before-you-buy service.

The Tandem Experience and some general bike hire will still be based at Jackfield as will be the current 'drop off - collect later' servicing.

 

Would you be interesting in working for us on a part time basis? We require people with a diverse range of skills and with hours to suit you.  Roles include: Sales advisors, mechanics, marshalling events, marketing, social media and other work. Full details here.

 
End of Year Clearance SALE - CONTINUES!

End of Year Clearance

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Due to the opening of the Bicycle Hub in the Park in February* and the refurbishment of the Jackfield shop in January for Bicycles by Design*, we are having a clearance SALE.

That means bargains for you, more space for us to work, less items to count in our stock take and less items to move to park - now that is a win-win situation!

Lots of bargains to be had with some clothing items with 60% and 75% reductions.

25% off selected bikes and 10% on others.

30% off selected tools and 25% off a very nice pair of Chris King hubs

Also as an early Christmas present to our customers, as the weather will only get wetter and colder, a 15% reduction on most Winter clothing.  Other selective shoes and clothing 30% reduction.

Spend more than £120 off clothing (at the reduced prices) and get 10% off of a pair of Seal Skinz winter or windproof gloves**.

As puntures are more prevelent in the winter, we are also offering for December a 20% discount off of Slime tubes and sealent.

*more news of our expansion programme in our Christmas email.

** while stocks last

Download the updated clearance price list here.

 
Cambrian Midnight Century Ride 2012

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An event with a difference,  we leave at the stroke of Midnight under peloton conditions until we have cleared the cheering evening crowds past the famous Ironbridge and meander our way through very quiet roads to arrive a Barmouth for breakfast. 

The 100 miles has two marshal/food stops en-route with the penultimate one in Wales overlooking the fantastic Dovey Valley. The costs includes refreshments and breakfast for all riders as well as contributing a portion to the Severn Hospice. 

You are encouraged to raise more funds for the Severn Hospice yourselves.  See review of the 2011 event here - http://severnhospice.org.uk/events/cambrian-century-midnight-ride-barmouth/

There are limited places on a coach for you and your bike for the return journey (so book eariy).  Regular trains do run from Barmouth to Telford (via Machynlleth) or make a day of it on the lovely beach at Barmouth and have your family or friends meet you there!

Booking forms here

 
The Guardian - Great British Weekends

We were delighted to introduce Guardian writer Rhiannon Batten and her fiancée to the joys of tandeming and the Shropshire countryside via the Tandem Experience recently.  Full details: The Guardian Travel Section

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A tweed date for your diary

The Ironbridge Gorge Tweed Ride 2012

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Ironbridge is to have it's very own 'Tweed Ride'  in the Ironbridge Gorge next year at the World Heritage Festival in September 2012 to celebrate the fantastic history of cycling, the Gorge's link with manufacturing steel, and the link of the modern Olympics to it's origins in Much Wenlock where William Penny Brooks developed the Olympian Games.

What's it all about? 

Having fun and turning the clock back to the romantic age when bicycles ruled the road, things were slower, sedate and a tad more stylish.  So there's time to plan your costume (tweed would be great, Victorian or Edwardian, or maybe go modern and go flapper for the woman (ladies) and suitable sporting attire for the chaps (gentlemen) or ultra modern 1940's or 50s!, but the watch words are - NO LYCRA).

For your mount you'll need your very oldest bike or old style of bike, so if you don't have one, start foraging in sheds, garages, charity shops and you could even try the internet.  Restore it yourself or bring it to us. If you haven't got a bicycle suitable we can help you by supplying you with a British made bicycle from Pashley.

For some inspiration and ideas take a look:  here at other rides around the world.  Here for chaps and here for ladies and here for lots of photographs, we hope taken on film!

And of course it will be family friendly

More updates to follow.

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