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Another shop bites the dust. Reid Cycles
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Another shop bites the dust. Reid Cycles
Postby 4 1 3 0 » Mon Aug 21, 2017 11:06 am
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Re: Another shop bites the dust. Reid Cycles
Postby AUbicycles » Wed Aug 23, 2017 4:14 pm
I have not heard details except they are active online selling in the UK so (speculating) it is possible that they are focussing on the areas giving them the best returns.
Their newsletter regularity has ramped up (which means it is becoming a flood and getting close to unsubscribe) though I have not spotted much online promotion recently.
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Re: Another shop bites the dust.
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Re: Another shop bites the dust. Reid Cycles
Postby HyperHorse » Fri Dec 15, 2017 10:27 pm
Standard except for Serfas Drifters Road tyres..
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Re: Another shop bites the dust. Reid Cycles
Postby HyperHorse » Fri Dec 15, 2017 11:05 pm
am50em wrote:I have a Reid Urban 3 with mostly Deore components. Frame is well made, solid but not light. No complaints.
So they've changed. How long has this lunacy gone on for??!?!? I mean how can they expect to stay in business selling bicycles that actually work longer than 1 year?!?!!?

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Re: Another shop bites the dust. Reid Cycles
Postby Jmuzz » Fri Feb 02, 2018 3:16 pm
HyperHorse wrote:Don't Reid make somewhat crappy bikes? Some bike shops refuse to service them due to their inferior build quality and sub par components.
If you call full current generation Shimano 105 crappy. Which I have seen a bike salesperson do while justifying their brand name Sora and ownbrand equipped bike in the same price bracket.
Can call the frames crappy, possibly. That's the cheap part.
Cheap models so cheap they have crappy groupset are as crappy as any bike with that crappy groupset.
But for the $ they punch well above their weight in groupset and usually wheels which all come from the exact same manufacturers as the big brands.
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Re: Another shop bites the dust. Reid Cycles
Postby andrewjcw » Fri Feb 02, 2018 3:45 pm
HyperHorse wrote:Don't Reid make somewhat crappy bikes? Some bike shops refuse to service them due to their inferior build quality and sub par components.
Shops don't service them/get upset because they can't compete with online retailers. If they are asked to service/repair their own bikes with the same spec they'd be more than happy to.
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Re: Another shop bites the dust. Reid Cycles
Postby Thoglette » Fri Feb 02, 2018 4:16 pm
HyperHorse wrote:Some bike shops refuse to service them due to their inferior build quality and sub par components.
Yes, there's a shop in Perth's suburbs with a reputation for being rude to customers with anything less than a top line gruppo on a full carbon frame.
And they've been doing it for decades but are positioned in an area with enough dentists and well heeled Freds (to borrow from BSNYC) that it doesn't matter.
The quality of the cheapest Reids I've seen is better than the stuff I rode as a kid. And it's definitely better than some of the BSOs from the big chains.
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Re: Another shop bites the dust. Reid Cycles
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Re: Another shop bites the dust. Reid Cycles
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Re: Another shop bites the dust. Reid Cycles
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Re: Another shop bites the dust. Reid Cycles
Postby owly » Sat Feb 03, 2018 8:30 pm
Thoglette wrote:HyperHorse wrote:Some bike shops refuse to service them due to their inferior build quality and sub par components.
Yes, there's a shop in Perth's suburbs with a reputation for being rude to customers with anything less than a top line gruppo on a full carbon frame.
And they've been doing it for decades but are positioned in an area with enough dentists and well heeled Freds (to borrow from BSNYC) that it doesn't matter.
The quality of the cheapest Reids I've seen is better than the stuff I rode as a kid. And it's definitely better than some of the BSOs from the big chains.
That shop wouldn't happen to be near the top of a hill -if you were coming from the west- would it?

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Re: Another shop bites the dust. Reid Cycles
Postby Thoglette » Mon Feb 19, 2018 11:42 pm
Yellow Jersey in the USoA appears to have picked up some of the Reid range of vintage bikes. See here
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Re: Another shop bites the dust. Reid Cycles
Postby mikesbytes » Tue Feb 20, 2018 8:15 am
They are in Sydney's hipsta heartland but of course the first rule of being a hipsta is to deny you are a hipsta
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Re: Another shop bites the dust. Reid Cycles
Postby ace70 » Tue Feb 20, 2018 8:50 am
Owner wanting to spend more time with family and a new direction for him, work wise.
It is very hard balancing work/ home time with small operations.
One of the mechanics is now at glow worm in marrickville.
Very sad, they were definitely one of the good ones...
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Re: Another shop bites the dust. Reid Cycles
Postby P!N20 » Tue Feb 20, 2018 12:31 pm
mikesbytes wrote:They are in Sydney's hipsta heartland but of course the first rule of being a hipsta is to deny you are a hipsta
I thought it was use urban parlance as often as possible?
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Re: Another shop bites the dust. Reid Cycles
Postby MichaelB » Thu Feb 22, 2018 9:06 am
Slightly smaller premises, and have 10% discount to celebrate new store
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Re: Another shop bites the dust. Reid Cycles
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Re: Another shop bites the dust. Reid Cycles
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