LBS with bike fitting service that you'd recommend?

[Fletch456]

Hi,

Have started looking at bikes for a purchase sometime in the new year and wondered if there LBS's with a good fitting service (and ideally the bike I would buy but which bike is yet to be decided) that you could recommend. Being in Basingstoke the south coast is in easy reach, central London isn't ideal but doable, East I'd go as far as Chertsey-ish (down to Sussex and up to somewhere north of Heathrow), North I'd go up to the north side of Oxford and west as far as Swindon.

So far I've been to a shop in Poole, heard Corridori in Epsom is quite good for a bike fit, a shop in Tadley is near but they haven't been fitting for that long and I feel the service varies tremendously with who deals with you each time I go in. 23c in Milton Keynes got a good recommendation but it's farther than I want to go.

Thanks

 

[StuAff]

Hi,

Have started looking at bikes for a purchase sometime in the new year and wondered if there LBS's with a good fitting service (and ideally the bike I would buy but which bike is yet to be decided) that you could recommend. Being in Basingstoke the south coast is in easy reach, central London isn't ideal but doable, East I'd go as far as Chertsey-ish (down to Sussex and up to somewhere north of Heathrow), North I'd go up to the north side of Oxford and west as far as Swindon.

So far I've been to a shop in Poole, heard Corridori in Epsom is quite good for a bike fit, a shop in Tadley is near but they haven't been fitting for that long and I feel the service varies tremendously with who deals with you each time I go in. 23c in Milton Keynes got a good recommendation but it's farther than I want to go.

Thanks

Velocity Bikes in Pompey (Cosham actually), my LBS of choice. £65 for a full fit. Viner- what I'd buy (again) if it were me- plus Trek, Sabbath and Orbea in the road line. Excellent service from lovely people.

 

[Yellow Fang]

I believe AW Cycles in Caversham, Reading offer a bike fitting service. My information may be out of date, but a colleague told me that they charged £35, which they discounted if you bought a bike from them.

 

[redjedi]

Sigma Sports are my favourite LBS. Their new store has 2/3 Specialized BG fitting stations.
They also have a good range of mid-range to high end bikes and equipment.

I've had the Specialized BG fitting done and it was very good.

They also run the Specialized Concept store which has just opened in Kingston, again fitting available here, and it will probably be discounted/free if you buy the bike from them.

http://www.sigmasport.co.uk/