RIP Surosa

[shouldbeinbed]

Oh bugger. Mandy and Nige - both rather good cyclists in their times !

I think that was the problem, from day 1 and their opening marketing blurb was we're a serious bike shop for serious cyclists like us, and a small bio of their impressive achievements. Not really a demographic we have in enough volume Oldham. The move up to Greenacres I suspect killed off what bit of passing local traffic they would have attracted too.

@400bhp hits the nail on the head. Too costly, also a limited range of stock & no chance of competing with a Wiggle or SJS online.

 

[Pennine-Paul]

It used to be my local bike shop when i lived in Oldham,got my track frame off them,
had my wheels built there too,they had lots of bikes but precious little in the way of
spares and it was expensive compared to evans for example.

 

[Pumpkin the robot]

I had an aluminium Surosa framed winter bike, I think it was just a rebadged Ribble. I hated it! I never used them, but a few people I ride with did. They will be sad to see them go as the service was very good, even though they were expensive.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

I think @GrumpyGregry has a bike from there too?

Indeed I did. All the components are now on my Genesis frame and I sold the f+f last year. Very helpful people to deal with and the bike was stunning vfm. Did LonJOG on it, and it was the bike that got me into long bike rides.

 

[snorri]

I think the originators of some threads on here are sponsored by Google.