We just built this Surly Karate Monkey for a customer, and it looks sick! Big 29 x 2.35 tyres make this balloon bike good for rolling along, either communting or off roading. Check out the Surly Bikes + frames on our website.

Check this out – exotic bike designs [Youtube]

The 3rd annual I Bike MCR festival begins tomorrow, Friday 27th of March (proudly sponsored by Bicycle Doctor, of course).
The opening party, at Islington Mill in Salford, promises to be huge. It will feature Rollapaluza roller racing, bike dancing, bands, DJs and loads more! The action kicks of at 8pm and runs through til the wee small hours.
For more details, and a full timetable of all the other events on during the month-long festival click the link below.

they clip on (and off) your bars, look great and tell the time, what more could you need?

We’ve just received a brand new 6 speed Brompton demo bike. Drop into the shop to go for a spin and marvel at the broad ratios available with the new BWR hub.

We’ve (finally) received some Haro race BMXs here at Bike Doc… they’ve been a long time coming but have definitely been worth the wait. Pro Race & Pro Race XL in stock now! Get down and try ‘em out for yourself.

Click here for full story [Manchester Evening News]

Click here for the Ben Goldacre’s Guardian take on recent Bike accident risk scare articles

blimey, it has hasn’t it?

well tonight we’re having a party, pop in if you’re around. phone the shop for the details and we’ll see you there.

news is that everything’s going up in price, eek. to be expected these days I guess.

we’re building a few more Surly Long Haul Truckers for people too – they’re kind of replacing the Dawes Galay in a way until they get here in April. then we’ll just sell ‘em in tandem, as it were.

new Bontrager clothing will be with us in the next couple of months – look out for that – cool in a racy kind of way, though there’s some bagginess going on for the mountain biker and commuter amongst us. I daresay there’s stuff for people who just ride bikes too ;o)

While the city flaps around under a fine coating of slushy greyness the lucky commuters coming in from the Oldham area got to play in some snow for a while. It was great fun. Knobblies were the right call as the semi slicks on the Big Dummy had me slippin’ and sliddin’ all over the place – luckily it looked like a lot of people had stayed at home and some schools were closed. 

 

Maybe it’ll keep on snowing and we’ll have just as much fun on the way home!