i am looking for specific unicycle shops as there is a extreme lack of them in england. i know bike shops can fix up my uni but i would much preffer it if a actual unicyclist hu new what they were doing was fixin it.
i know of unicycle.uk.com thats where i gt most of my spares and uni's from but its getting anoying with the postage and packing costs.
so if anyone living in the south of England knows of any good unicycle shops please let me know.
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No, sorry, I don't know of any unicycling shops in the South.
Come to think of it, I haven't heard of any elsewhere in the world, either. Other posters seem to refer to their local b*ke shop when talking about repairs to wheels, etc.
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Your best bet is a local bike shop with a real bike mechanic (not just a teenager with 1 days training in assembleing bikes out of boxes. Most things you might ask a bike shop to do on a uni are fairly standard bike things, like replacing bearing or trueing wheels, if one shop aren't interested leave them and see what another say. In Reading we had a good realtionship with two bike shops, one fitted the brake to a coker for me and the other did a bearing change on a pashley muni, in each case I supplied the parts ( bearing from UDC) and their mechanic had the tools and did the work.
Wher abouts ARE you in the south of England, some might be able to recomend a bike shop.
Pick what you believe is the best bike shop around, and stick with them, talk with their mechs so they know what's different, like the importance of a splined hub on a muni (Particularly if you broke the tapred hub ;))
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Not to solve your specific problem, which is to find a local place to avoid shipping costs, but Bedford does repair work and upgrades, and 'so do I' (http://www.livewireunicycles.com).
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It is an undoubted fact that all good things come to an end. Unicycle production has been moving to the far east for a number of years. This has been a good thing for unicyclists who have just started unicycling and need a cheap unicycle. However the influx of imported unicycles has made the production of unicycles in the UK uneconomic. Maybe someone else can carry on where I am leaving off. More details on this will be available on this site soon.
Thanks to all who have been my customers over the years."
the best bike shops are the new bike shops that havnt beed around for awhile. I say this becasue they are not as stuck up about everything so they are more open to things. They also give you really good service because thay are new
