Cycle Republic closing...?
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Just had an email on this from them, weird, Halfords offshoot, seemed to be doing OK too, esp in this environment... All physical stores to close.
ETA, link:
https://www.cyclerepublic.com/covid-19
"On the 24th of April 2020, our doors will close for the final time, for any outstanding queries relating to Cycle Republic stores visit this page."
ETA, link:
https://www.cyclerepublic.com/covid-19
"On the 24th of April 2020, our doors will close for the final time, for any outstanding queries relating to Cycle Republic stores visit this page."
Edited by Macron on Tuesday 2nd June 17:04
simonpieman said:
The physical stores closed on 15 March. Online closing on 8 June. Sad really. The Birmingham store was good- staff really friendly and knowledgeable. Because of lock down, I never had a chance to pop in and wish the staff well.
Same experience with the Fenchurch Street branch. I went in fairly regularly and they were helpful and competent, more so than at the Evans nearby. I guess they never really got traction with their target market of “proper” cyclists because of their association with Halfords.Meeten-5dulx said:
Being sold to a group that do scooters I think.
Funny how the Halfords store is given bad press, but Cycle Republic is part of the same company, but branded different.
Cycle Republic was a separate chain of stores though with a very different operating model to Halfords. They ran their own training and their own recruitment. Our local one was staffed by knowledgable, friendly, enthusiastic bike folks. It's a real loss. Basically Halfords have stuffed it up.Funny how the Halfords store is given bad press, but Cycle Republic is part of the same company, but branded different.
I bought my Brompton from the Southampton branch of Cycle Republic last year, and found the staff to be knowledgeable and helpful.
It's a shame that they're closing, and surprising given the recent underlying movement towards cycling to work instead of using disease-riddled public transport.
It's a shame that they're closing, and surprising given the recent underlying movement towards cycling to work instead of using disease-riddled public transport.
I bought my Scott E mountain bike from the store in Southampton last year , really helpful bunch of people as i had travelled over from th IoW but the deal I got with dicount and interest free credit : I run a shop and I could not understand how they could do the deal - now I know why they simply were not making enough cash out of every sale.
My one and only experience of their online operation was bad enough that I never considered using it again. If it wasn't for a new customer discount I would have walked away, and the order (click and collect) went to the wrong address
The physical stores were actually decent, and almost bought a bike from one of them..
The physical stores were actually decent, and almost bought a bike from one of them..
JPJPJP said:
The Spruce Goose said:
mea culpa
Sports Direct does have a cycle brand (in addition to Evans Cycles) Muddy FoxUsual MO.
They / he buy a Brand 'we' all recognise wistfully from yesteryear that was a decent product line - slap that brand badge on any chinese / cambodian tat and crap hoping 'we' want to believe in the re-emergence.
See Karrimor, Reebok, Slazenger, Dunlop, Lonsdale etc.
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