From oily old emporiums to pristine studios, bike shops and cycling in general have changed a lot over the years. cycling
Somewhere around about half of my adolescent years were spent in the backroom of a local bike shop. Perched on rickety old three-legged milking stool and armed with hammers and ancient iron instruments, I learnt just about all there was to know about repairing bikes of old from that stool.
One of the ‘almost local to home’ bike shops for me was Stan Jones Cycles in Shrewsbury. This place was crammed full with mixed display cabinets, dusty boxes and gems of old hidden in every nook and cranny. Ironically Stan was not the man when it came to riding the bikes he sold, and neither was his son and successor Tom. Mike was the first of the Joneses to grip the bars in anger.
Mike saw logic in embracing the evolution potential: “Bike shops have always been a meeting place, so it always made sense that to attract the right type of customer having a studio feel, and maybe a coffee area would help drive business.“ With his family fully grown, Mike decided that it was time to get out of the bike shop game, and headed off to France where he and his wife ran a cycling-based accommodation centre for several years, while Stan’s became a Trek Concept store.
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