The ultimate bike shop
- Thread starter Oldhippy
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Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
Or maybe...
Invent a table that is also a bike stand. And no one thinks you're weird for bringing the bike into the warm and dry instead of leaving the poor thing suffering outside...
Invent a table that is also a bike stand. And no one thinks you're weird for bringing the bike into the warm and dry instead of leaving the poor thing suffering outside...
Yes. Ideally the shop should be on a national cycle route. No need for it to be in a city centre but being close to one would boost the number of customers. Being on a route would make you a logical meeting point/stop off point for a large number of riders. Being outside the city would enable a cost effective large space. Barn conversion type affair perhaps with nice views.
When one of us can afford to set up an awesome but probably unprofitable business for pure enjoyment.
biggs682
Touch it up and ride it
- Location
- Northamptonshire
Must sell second hand tested and approved bikes .
Archie_tect
De Skieven Architek... aka Penfold + Horace
- Location
- Northumberland
If it sells lots of cake, I'm in.
SkipdiverJohn
Deplorable Brexiteer
- Location
- London
That's called a hobby not a business, and in order to be able to indulge in it you need to be successful at some activity which is commercially viable otherwise you won't have either the cash or spare time!
Chap sur le velo
Über Member
- Location
- @acknee
...it only sells upmarket clothing?
Smokin Joe
Legendary Member
- Location
- Bare headed cyclist, Smoker
"Charging only what people can afford".
That's your profit gone west. Or to quote an old cliche, "How to make a million pounds running a bike shop - start off with two million"
That's your profit gone west. Or to quote an old cliche, "How to make a million pounds running a bike shop - start off with two million"
FishFright
More wheels than sense
Some lovely ideas there but it would be such a shame to spoil things with customers
CanucksTraveller
Macho Business Donkey Wrestler
- Location
- Hertfordshire
There was one of these fabled bike shop / cafe / hangout spot / lounge hybrids near me, but it folded 2 years ago. It was in a well off town too... although it's a lovely idea, something about that model seems to never quite work out. I think the cafe side of these ventures never do very well, non-cyclists keep away because well, it's a bike shop, and cyclists alone can't keep a cafe busy all day long. That one only ever seemed busier around mid day.
