Bike Shed Wales News Feed

Ridgeback Cerium now in stock

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000

New Ridgeback Cerium now in stock.

The Ridgeback Cerium is the bike that needs no modifications to take out in the cold weather.
Kitted out with disc brakes, mudguards, and 28c Continental Contact tyres, the bike is sure-footed and a picture of reliability. Call in to view today!

New Shop Open

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0000

New Shop Open on Cathedral Road Cardiff

Visit The Bike Shed's new shop at 211-217 Cathedral Road Cardiff (just down from our existing shop) specialising in ladies and children's bikes.

Featuring all our classic brands showing the largest collection in Wales together with Trek trikes and JD Bug Scooters

Cycle Tuition now available at The Bike Shed

Sun, 25 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0100

The Bike Shed has become the first and only bike shop in Cardiff to have staff trained to National Standard Instruction (NSI) level -- a Department of Transport qualification.

Martin, one of our directors, says: "Understandably, if somebody hasn't ridden a bike for some years, there will be a degree of trepidation.

Over the years, we have informally given new and returning cyclists tips on how to ride competently and safely. But with the current boom in leisure and commuter cycling in Cardiff we decided to take the initiative and provide proper training to a recognised national standard. I think we are the first city retailer to take this step.

Modern bikes, once mastered, make people better and safer cyclists, and we can also help them enjoy their leisure or commuter cycling by helping to plan their routes to work or guiding them around the city's growing number of cycle trails."

For further information please contact us.

Tour of Britain Races Into Wales

Thu, 01 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0100

The fourth stage of the Tour of Britain will begin in the heart of Mid-Wales and will finish 184km later, just short of Cardiff, in Caerphilly.

The Tour represents a great chance to see some of the top teams on local hills - Garmin Cervelo, Team Raleigh, Rapha Condor and Endura are amongst the teams competing.

Trek Project One comes to Cardiff

Thu, 04 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0100

Trek Project One comes to Cardiff

The Bike Shed are now Cardiff's first and only Trek Project One dealer.

If you haven't heard about Trek Project One, it's quite simple: visit this page on the Trek web site (or click on the image above), scroll to the bottom of the page, select one of the bikes, then you can customise it to your heart's (although almost certainly not wallet's) content.

There's a huge range of customisation available, from simple things like groupset swaps, to custom paint schemes, back to things like custom coloured tyres, wheels, bar tape, hoods, different graphic styles, and even have your name on your bike!

When you've decided on your design, it's sent to Trek to be custom built and painted, and you select a dealer -- us! -- to have it sent to for you to collect it.

We've spent ages playing with it, and even if you're never going to buy one, it's great fun playing around and finding out how much your dream bike would cost, and also fun creating truly terrible-looking bikes with the free reign given over custom paint jobs, graphics and components.