meet john's people

We're friendly, polite and helpful people and thirty years of experience has built us a peerless reputation for truthful advice and stocking the best bikes, the right tyres and the strongest luggage racks for our customers. Our ambition is to help more people cycle happily and comfortably so that they're  fitter and healthier and Bath is a cleaner, quieter place to live. By extension, the world will be a better place too but we're not kidding ourselves; we're playing our small part in the bigger picture. Indeed, we're humbled by our customers who are nurses and fire fighters and farmers - it certainly keeps us real when we get excited about titanium bolts. But then again we're quietly proud when our customers trust us to seriously, responsibly and professionally service their bikes.

Ian Weeks

We asked Ian a few questions...

Favourite book?  'Into Thin Air' by Jon Krakauer
What do you have for breakfast?  Bagel and Nutella
Favourite foods?  Anything Indian and Italian and any cheeses
Most unusual place ever visited? Stunning ice caves in Iceland
Best sound?  Anything by Metallica, Led Zeppelin or the Smiths

Sean White

We asked Sean a few questions...

Favourite book? 'General Knowledge' Stephen Bayley
Dream Party Guest?  Mark E Smith
Favourite smell?  Freshly ground coffee
If you were a bike what would you be?  Surly 'Long Haul Trucker'
Best sound?  Electric guitars

Jeremy Barker

We asked Jeremy a few questions...

Favourite book?  'Humble Pie' by Gordon Ramsay
Dream party guest?  Sophia Loren
Greatest extravagance?  Subaru Impreza
Proudest moment?  Meeting Lance Armstrong
Favourite foods?  The Full English

James Manning

We asked James a few questions...

Favourite word? Flange
Dream party guest? Billy Connolly
Now, or what other era? 1920s
Favourite smell? The air just before it rains after a dry spell
Favourite book? The Faraway Tree books by Enid Blyton
Most unusual place you've ever visited? a mafioso party in India at a disused holiday park
Best sound? the Warner Brothers intro jingle, ded de de da - you know the one

Warren Clegg

We asked Warren a few questions...

Best life lesson? Live everyday as if its your last
Favourite word? Survivorship
Dream party guest? Juan Pelota
Most unusual place you've ever visited? Havasu Indian reservation in Arizona
Achievement you're proud of? Raising over £1,000 to date for British Heart Foundation
Best sound? 3 lead guitars - E Street Band
Favourite food? Cottage pie

John Potter

We asked John a few questions... and got a few answers

If you were a bike what would you be?  Something handbuilt, English, steel, probably a Mercian touring bike; a King of Mercia with one of their fabulous paint jobs and a Carradice saddlebag.

Best life lesson?  Always take that chance if it's offered.

Where were you happiest?  Train spotting in the days of steam; Atlantic Coast Express and The Bournemouth Belle on Woking station with my dad, aged 10

Best drink?  Large gin and tonic, please.

Dream party guest?  Mrs Alison Potter

Greatest extravagance?  Fireworks

Achievement you're most proud of?  Developing the London to Brighton Bike Ride from 120 to 36,036 cyclists was quite good but possibly The Great British Bike Ride was more of an achievement. How did we all ride so far, drink so much and have so many parties between Land's End and John O'Groats?

Now, or what other era?  Now

Dream present?  Gauge 1 model of the Golden Arrow with live steam engine and Pullman carriages

Favourite sport to watch?  Tour de France

What superpower would you like to have?  Become invisible

Favourite smell?  Sweet peas or English roses

Best sound?  A steam locomotive pulling a train up a steep climb? But then the sound of a Regina Extra freewheel zinging through silk tubular tyres pumped up to the max used to be pretty good.  The opening of "Gimme Shelter" still sends a tingle.

Favourite book?  "William's Happy Days" by Richmal Crompton

What do you have for breakfast?  Toast and Marmite

Favourite food?  Have a thing for Heinz cream of mushroom soup but asparagus steamed and served just with melted butter is tops.

Most unusual place you've ever visited?  Last year travelled to the West of Ireland from Aberdeenshire by train. It all gets pretty remote after Ayr and eventually arrive at Stranraer which is one road of small houses around a bay containing a large, really horrible ferry port. It is all absolutely miles from anywhere  anybody has ever heard of. The taxi took us 16 miles into the utter unknown and dropped us at a tiny hotel converted from a lighthouse, tiny but perfectly formed; a jewel - wonderful.  However, the lighthouse still worked and there was a great lamp rushing round the turret all night.  If it was foggy, the fog horn would probably keep you awake.