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Wanted: Basic Bike

  • 12-05-2010 8:40am
    #1
    stanley1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,526 ✭✭✭


    Looking for a bike to get me in and out of city centre, any recommendations for shops, makes etc. , can spend about 300/350.

    TIA


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  • #2
    SubLuminal
    Closed Accounts Posts: 438 ✭✭SubLuminal


    Full disclosure, I volunteer at this place so naturally its my bike shop of choice but..

    www.Rothar.ie - 171 Phibsborough road is a not-for-profit community bike shop, staffed by volunteers and run with the aim of recycling abandoned bicycles that were formerley collected by the council and dumped in a landfill.
    We take them in, fix them up so as they're working perfectly (not just clean and cables, we really do fix things, bottom brackets, headsets, true wheels, etc etc, we make sure they're mechanically perfect, even if they're not 'box-fresh') and sell them at a low cost (The shop has to pay rent after all.)

    The key aim is to promote cycling (cause we love it) and use cycling as a vehicle to drive social inclusion -

    Anyway, mountain bikes start at €95, and you get to pick out your frame, what kind of bars you want, etc etc.. thats with a month's guarentee too, and as we've always got loaaads of bikes in the shop, you're assured of getting one that is actually the right size for you.

    So thats my 2 cents, obviously there are lots of other bike shops but for the money and in my opinion, Rothar is the best little bike shop in dublin!

    (free tea and coffee too, so drop by for a browse sometime! :) )


  • #3
    stanley1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,526 ✭✭✭stanley1


    ok, looks good, will try to get to you on saturday.

    Regards


  • #4
    SubLuminal
    Closed Accounts Posts: 438 ✭✭SubLuminal


    Officially saturdays are the 'open days' where we reccomend people come down to the shop, but they get very busy - we're open 10 till 6 every day except thursday when we're open until 8, you can actually pop along anytime to see what we have in.

    Best,

    SL.


  • #5
    Peetrik
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,674 ✭✭✭Peetrik


    +1 on recommending Rothar.

    Dropped in and made use of their offer to rent workspace and tools by the hour. Very friendly and helpful staff who really know their stuff.
    Well worth paying 5 euro to use tools it would have cost me a fortune to buy for a 1 time use or had to pay a mechanic 50 euro to do.

    Plus I got to learn a thing or two

    Cant recommend them enough


  • #6
    Doroteo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 28 ✭Doroteo


    Looks like a great place to volunteer


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