Last Friday we said goodbye to Joel, who's been with me almost from the start of Rat Race Cycles. He's moving onto pastures new (sorry, we're already racking up the clichés and I've only written the title and first two sentences!). His other passion has always been for music and he's moved up North to…
It's not easy to start something new. Particularly something that doesn't come naturally to you. It takes discipline. Courage. Determination. Commitment. And, if you happen to co-own a bike shop, and the new thing you're starting is cycling regularly, it takes a good dollop of humble pie, too. Because who ever heard of a bike…
Some months ago, Pete did a talk on bike safety and maintenance at our local WI. Now, before you start picturing a load of silver haired ladies staring blankly at the nice young man showing them how to change a tyre, let me point out that the demographic of the Nunhead WI isn’t quite that…
One important thing we do at Rat Race Cycles is hand-build wheels. In fact, we're about to launch a specialised wheel building service - Owen Wheels - at this year's BESPOKED - The UK Handmade Bicycle Show. There’s no dark art to wheel building, but to consistently build strong, durable wheels requires knowledge, skill and…
If you’ve been in the Nunhead area over the Christmas break, you’ll have noticed that we’ve been making a few changes to the shop. Sure, we’ve reorganised things a bit, added in some more lights and had a tidy up and given the walls a lick of paint, but none of those is the big…
Think of a massive online retailer and chances are you think of a logo; a letter, a colour scheme, a design. Think of a small shop on your high street and you probably think of a face. The owner. The person who took a deep breath, stepped out and turned their passion – their dream…
So, I know we all get a bit of charity fatigue now and again, but if you haven’t reached an icy saturation point in the bucket of people doing good things, you really should check these guys out. This is not just people doing something good, this is people doing something extraordinary, for a fantastic cause: 29…
