Cycle Shops, Holidays
- Jump to information about cycle break providers around the area (West Midlands, Marches, Wales).
Also See
- On Cycling around Malvern page you can find local routes, guides and advice.
- Also see Elgar Connection and Organised bike rides.
- Cycle Action Malvern.
Cycle Hire, Repair, Shops
Malvern and immediate area
Back On Track Mountain Bikes Sales and repairs - friendly and helpful but mainly quality mountain bike stuff. 6 North Malvern Rd, Malvern, Worcs, WR14 4LT. Phone 01684 565777. Monday to Saturday 9:30am to 5:30pm, best to check if open on Thursdays.
Mycycles, 271 Worcester Road, Malvern Link, has closed down January 08.
Riding High Gallery isn't a bike shop in the usual sense - a museum of cycling ephemera, quality crafts, gifts and simple cafe worth a visit. 45 Worcester Road, Malvern, near Brays. Open 7 days a week (from 11am on Sundays), phone 01684 569069.
Peddlers. Touring bike stuff, including tandems, as well as the rest, and hire. 46-48 Barbourne Road, Worcester. Phone 01905 24238.
F Lewis Cycles. In centre of Worcester, at the back of a car park (entrance next to mountainshack shop). 21/24 New Street, Worcester, WR1 2DP. Phone 01905 26455. (Or has this moved to 50 The Arch, Farrier St, Worcester, WR1 3BH?)
Worcester Cycle Centre, specialists in mountain biking. 8 and 9 College Street, Worcester, WR1 2LU. Phone 01905 611123.
J.D. Cycles Mobile repairs around Worcester. 140 Columbia Drive, Lower Wick, Worcester, WR2 4HX. Phone 01905 424025.
Severn Wheels. Small shop providing sales (Falcon, Claud Butler), repairs, electric cycles (also model railways and car accessories). 46 Old Street, Upton upon Severn, Worcs, WR8 0HW. Phone 01684 591080.
Cycles Clements Sales, repairs, hire. A slight emphasis on racing and audax gear. Bank House, 6 Bank Crescent, Ledbury, Herefordshire, HR8 1AA (moved June 07). Phone 01531 632213.
P & R Powell Sales, repairs - an old-style shop. 67 The Homend, Ledbury, Herefordshire, HR8 1BP. Phone 01531 632139.
Saddlebound Cycles Basic but do bike hire (also fishing gear). And helpful, we're told. 3 The Southend, Ledbury (near the main crossroads). Phone 01531 633433.
Over the Severn
Tomkinson Cycles, East St, Tewkesbury. Phone 01684 292134.
Bikes 51, Pershore, closed.
Echelon 124 High Street Pershore Worcs WR10 IEA. Phone 01386 550606. Opening hours Monday, Friday 9:30 - 8:00pm Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday 9:30 - 5:30. Bit of a racing focus.
Vale Cycles Well stocked and seems helpful, and better than average range of women's cycle gear. Following the 2007 floods, they have opened at 53 Port Street (were at no. 23) , Evesham, Worcestershire, WR11 6AF (Port Street is the road over the river bridge just east of the centre). Phone 01386 41204.
About Bikes Blackminster Business Park, Evesham, WR11 7RE (north east of town). Phone 01386 832000.
Herefordshire
Revolutions (shop, cycle hire, repairs, discounts to cycle club members) 48 Broad Street, Ross-on-Wye, HR9 7DY. Phone 01989 562639. Has some suggested local cycle rides on its website.
PedalAway (recommended hire) Trereece Barn, Llangarron, Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, HR9 6NH. Phone/Fax 01989 770357, or their Forest of Dean base: Pedalabikeaway (hire and sales) Cannop Valley, Forest of Dean. Phone 01594 860065, email: info@pedalabikeaway.com
Coombes Cycles A traditional style bike shop, half day closing Wednesday. 94 Widemarsh Street, Hereford, HR4 9HG. Phone 01432 354373.
Climb On Bikes 24-25 Coningsby Street, Hereford, HR1 2DY. Phone 01432 261211.
Hereford Mountain Bikes aka Rough Track. Here because we found their web site, but it has disappeared. Spares, repairs etc. Unit 6, Aydon Industrial Park, Holmer Road, Hereford. Phone/Fax 01432 278874. Email: roughtrack@herefordmountainbikes.co.uk
Slim Willys Cycle Shack. 35 High St, Leominster, Herefordshire, HR6 8LZ. Phone 01568 614052.
Epic Cycles, Tithe Barn, Kyre Park, Tenbury Wells, Worcestershire, WR15 8RW. Phone 01885 410641.
Re-Cycle projects
Herefordshire Bike Library c/o The Probation Office, Shirehall Annexe, Hereford HR1 2HX. Phone 01432 272521. Free loan of bicycles to charities, voluntary and public sector organisations in Herefordshire. A variety of recycled bicycles to suite all agencies and all riders.
The Spokes project from Workmatch collects discarded or second hand bicycles from a variety of sources and strips them down, retaining the good parts and then rebuilds, services and checks bikes before selling them on as cheap "first" bicycles. In Hereford, Ross and Kidderminster.
A few further afield
Pearce Cycles Sales, hire and repair. Fishmore Road, Ludlow, Shropshire, SY8 3DP. Phone 01584 876016.
Pashley Cycles (manufacturers) are in Stratford upon Avon, but have a unique range of traditional cycles, work bikes, folding, special needs and more.
Mainly hire
Wheely Wonderful Cycling near Ludlow - see under holidays.
Midland Cycle Hire Free delivery of hire bikes to South Birmingham, Bromsgrove, Redditch, Solihull, Stourbridge and Kidderminster, and can cover rest of Worcestershire for a fee. Phone 01562 711144.
Applejack (bicycle hire and trip arrangement) no longer operates (was at Redmarley D'Abitot), although leaflets may still be around.
Tandem Club site has a page on where to hire tandems across Britain.
Online
Wiggle
is one of many online suppliers of bike accessories, clothing etc, but we
like their approach. Its generally easy to find if they've got what you want,
and quite a few good discounts too.
Cycling Holidays
from the Cotswolds to border country and mid-Wales
Bicycle Beano Cycling holidays in Wales and the Welsh Borders. One of the reasons for MT being in Malvern is the experience of going on Beanos based not far from Ledbury. Some snaps from various holidays, ancient and modern, on MT's Beano sub-site.
Drover Holidays, new 2007. Based in Hay on Wye, offering cycling and walking holidays in the Welsh Borders (and throughout Wales) as well as bike hire.
Wheely Wonderful Cycling. South Shropshire base. Self-led holidays, plus various maps and guides available (Shropshire, North Herefordshire, Radnorshire). Also bike hire. Petchfield Farm, Elton, Ludlow, SY8 2HJ. Phone 01568 770755, email: info@wheelywonderfulcycling.co.uk
Bewdley Bike Tours. Phone 01299 402776, email: bewdleybikes@btinternet.com
Cotswold Country Cycles Mainly self-guided tours, north Cotswolds (they are based at Chipping Campden), and do cycle hire. Phone 01386 438706, email: info@cotswoldcountrycycles.com
Compass Holidays Options include Cotswolds and Gloucestershire.
Country Lanes Have Cotswolds bicycle tours amongst their selection. There used to be cycle hire based at Moreton-in-Marsh railway station - might re-start sometime. Phone 01608 650065, email: bicycling@countrylanes.co.uk
Sherpa Walking Holidays do a Cotswolds Bike Ride too.
Saddle Skedaddle have Cotswolds Lanes amongst their wide variety of holidays.
Tandem Experience runs day rides, weekends and longer breaks with tandem hire in Shropshire (Ironbridge). Other UK locations too.
Two Wheel Treks self-guided tours into Herefordshire, which start in (and are listed under) Shropshire, are the same as Wheely Wonderful, above.
See Gloucestershire County Council's list.
Foreign connections
Check out the wonderful French cycle tours from our friends at GTN CycleTours.
Bents Bicycle & Walking Tours are based in Ludlow, Shropshire, but go to Bavaria, Austria and Alsace.
Miscellaneous Others
Bike Tours - one of the first cycle holiday operators, but now no regular tours?
CTC's Cycling Holidays.
Not quite sure why Family Ski Company is based in Malvern, as all its holidays (which can include mountain biking tuition - that's real mountains!) are abroad (France). But looks a good set up from the web site.