What's your go-to online bike store?
Posted: 22 Jul 2020, 4:54am
- Votes can be changed in future if you want to.
- Multiple choices are allowed.
I worked out I have spent more than £5,600 on bike stuff in the last ten years - yet I only have one bike right now.
I must have enough spare bits lying around to make 3 or 4 complete bikes. I've got 5 bike frames lying about, endless stems like 8 or more, the same with cassettes... and so on.
The bike shops listed in the poll are all the ones I ended up buying stuff from, not from thinking to go there but because they were selling whatever it is I was after, at the cheapest price.
There would be more options but the poll can only contain 10 entries.
Honourable mentions:
- Wiggle, of course - but it's owned by Chain Reaction (or vice versa) and prices are always identical between the two, whenever I compare them.
- Rose Bikes. German bike store established in 1907. It's not on the poll simply because it's outside of the UK and this is why Jenson USA and BikeWagon aren't in the poll. I have bought spokes from Rose Bikes and even with something like a £8+ postage charge, it still works out cheaper than UK prices for the same spokes. I've had cranksets from here too, that are again cheaper than I can find in the UK, even with Rose charging £8+ postage. Also at this store's website, the detail they go into is, in my opinion, unrivaled. For example if they are selling a cassette with 6 different ratio choices, they will list every single sprocket combination for every single one. You just don't get that anywhere else, that I have seen. These guys aren't messing around!
-Decathlon. The poll is more about where people go to buy parts and Decathlon is more about complete bikes. There is very little here you'll find cheaper if buying parts, but the bikes are another story and this store sells some good ones at surprisingly low prices.
Rutland. I didn't find myself ending up on this store's website often so it's not included. Same with Winstanley's Bikes.
- Multiple choices are allowed.
I worked out I have spent more than £5,600 on bike stuff in the last ten years - yet I only have one bike right now.
I must have enough spare bits lying around to make 3 or 4 complete bikes. I've got 5 bike frames lying about, endless stems like 8 or more, the same with cassettes... and so on.
The bike shops listed in the poll are all the ones I ended up buying stuff from, not from thinking to go there but because they were selling whatever it is I was after, at the cheapest price.
There would be more options but the poll can only contain 10 entries.
Honourable mentions:
- Wiggle, of course - but it's owned by Chain Reaction (or vice versa) and prices are always identical between the two, whenever I compare them.
- Rose Bikes. German bike store established in 1907. It's not on the poll simply because it's outside of the UK and this is why Jenson USA and BikeWagon aren't in the poll. I have bought spokes from Rose Bikes and even with something like a £8+ postage charge, it still works out cheaper than UK prices for the same spokes. I've had cranksets from here too, that are again cheaper than I can find in the UK, even with Rose charging £8+ postage. Also at this store's website, the detail they go into is, in my opinion, unrivaled. For example if they are selling a cassette with 6 different ratio choices, they will list every single sprocket combination for every single one. You just don't get that anywhere else, that I have seen. These guys aren't messing around!
-Decathlon. The poll is more about where people go to buy parts and Decathlon is more about complete bikes. There is very little here you'll find cheaper if buying parts, but the bikes are another story and this store sells some good ones at surprisingly low prices.
Rutland. I didn't find myself ending up on this store's website often so it's not included. Same with Winstanley's Bikes.
