Cycling Store
Over the last decade, cycling has become increasingly popular, finding fans all over the world. Mainly due to it’s healthy and relaxing nature, people start up on cycling as a way to spend some time in fresh air, work some muscle and burn some calories. And as with other sports, both casual cyclists and (especially) pros can improve their performance, comfort and protection through several cycling equipment items and of course, by purchasing a better bike. That’s where cycling stores come in, both online or offline ones. Since it’s a lot more comfortable to order a piece of equipment online, pay online and get it shipped directly to your house, we’ll focus on some of the most popular online stores out there.
The United Kingdom may very well boast with having two of the most complex and professional online cycling stores out there, namely Wiggle (www.wiggle.co.uk) and Cyclestore (www.cyclestore.co.uk). Let’s start with Wiggle, a Portsmouth based cycling store that has gone through great efforts to provide almost every type of cycling apparel, brand and model available.
You can truly find anything you look for on Wiggle, starting from backpacks, bags, bar grips, BMX bars, Mountain Bike bars, Road cycling bars, BMX/road/mountain bikes of all sorts (and hybrids), anti pollution masks, brake blocks, brake discs, tires, chain sets, suspension forks and the list could go on and on forever. It’s truly amazing how fast and easy it is to look up gear in Wiggle’s online cycling store and you can find both new and old models of the same brand at some rather affordable prices.
The store includes cycling brands such as Gill, Endura, GT, Shimano, Giant, Kona, Topeak, Gore, Pearl Izumi, Giro or DHB (but not limited to these brands of course). It’s so easy and fun to build up your own cycling gear or even build up a bike from scratch from different parts, that you’ll spend hours inside the cycling store just for this. Wiggle offers the possibility of having their mechanics build you a bike from the parts that you choose and ship it to you directly, so you can make all sorts of great hybrid bikes for yourself or build that ultimate performance bike you were looking for.
The other UK based store, Cyclestore, may not be as huge as Wiggle but it definitely offers a nice array of brands, parts and gear. Their bicycle section is impressive, since they offer virtually any kind of bike you could think of, from road bikes (Kona, Giant or other brands), mountain Bikes (Raleigh, Kona, Diamondback), comfort bikes, kids bikes, BMX bikes, folding bikes, stationary fitness bikes and even jump and trial bikes. If you’re not satisfied with their selection, you can choose to build your own bike out of components that the cycling store offers.
Although most of their products come from brands like Kona, Giant, Diamondback or Raleigh, other important names like Oakley, Altura, Diadora, Epic or Cat Eye also have their fair share of products. Now that we covered the UK main stores, let’s see what the United States have to offer.
It would be unfair to say that Performance Bike is just an online store, since the company owns 59 retail stores all over the U.S., namely in Arizona, California, Colorado, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Washington. Their online store however, found at www.performancebike.com, gives you the chance to order their vast line of bikes and cycling equipment quick and easy, having the products delivered to your home.
Their selection of bikes includes brands like Scattante, GT, Tirreno, Moongoose or Schwinn and you’ll find a huge amount of models, ranging from prices around $350 to the ultimate road eaters, found at roughly around $3,300 (the 2006 Scattante CFR LE Road Bike models is such an example).
Besides the actual bikes, you can order all sorts of cycling gear, ranging from helmets, footwear, eyewear, tires, pumps, saddles and so forth. The cycling store even offers nutritional supplements for those that want to take cycling one step further.
This said, we’ll let you sort out what you need from these 3 great cycling stores and of course, what you can afford. Whatever cycling equipment, clothing or bike you’re looking for, if it’s not amongst the catalogues of one of the above-mentioned stores, it’s very likely that you’ll have a hard time finding it somewhere else (maybe directly at one of that particular item’s brand store).
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