Bicycle service in NC500

[schneewehe]

Hi, does anyone know if there is something like a self service tool and pump station on the NC500 west and north coast route (from Malaig to JoG)? Or even a bicycle workshop? Kind regards Andrea

[Norman H]

There’s a bike shop in Thurso.

[JohnR]

A quick search reveals a bike hire place in Ullapool https://www.ullapoolbikehire.co.uk/ and someone in Scourie https://m.facebook.com/groups/242593866 ... 995580215/.

[Ron]

Mallaig is not on the NC 500 and I can't say for self service places, but Google (and this forum) reveals a surprising number, Dingwall, Dornoch, Wick, Thurso and more.

[ferrit worrier]

As you enter Wick on the A99 you will come to a set of lights on the right is a garage opposite corner on the right is a Bike shop and following the road down to the town centre next door is a Cake shop. there used to be a door from the cake shop to the bike shop. I have made use of the cake shop at least twice, I think the last time I passed it it was closed, that would be about 2016/17 ish ( Driving, took Mrs FW on a trip up to JOG ) I've just checked on Google earth and it appears to be open (image date 2022 ).

Malc

[JerseyJoe]

Can vouch for the bike shop at Wick being open in 2023. We first visited it in 1983! When it sold everything (I think it was a haberdashery at one point) from old school yellow capes to women's hosiery

[eileithyia]

We spotted are bike repair station on a corner in Poolewe, tools and pump etc.

The bike shop in Thurso was the most unhelpful gentleman we have met.

[Saissac]

The last time I toured Scotland, (25 years ago) nearly all of the youth hostels I visited had a little 'workshop' in the bike shed, there were spare parts, spanners, tubes, odd tyres etc. Probably all gone now!

[Saissac]

As I remember the warden of pitlochry was a Hetchins owner!

https://www.hostellingscotland.org.uk/h ... pitlochry/