WALTON STREET CYCLES WORKSHOP
Area: OXFORD
OXFORD'S BICYCLE SPECIALISTS
THE CORNER WALTON STREET
OXFORD,
OXFORDSHIRE,
OX2 6EA
Phone: 01865 311610
Fax: 01865 558689
Email Us
Website: http://www.spoke.co.uk/
Brief History 1975 Shop opens, selling sports bikes and utility bikes. The shop starts to acquire its position as a leading repair centre. 1980 Increasing sales of touring cycles and lightweight accessories. mid 80s Walton Street Cycles gets into mountain bikes from the very start. Rapidly becomes one of the biggest dealers in the UK. Other shops still think they are a fad that will pass. The shop gets a larger workshop to deal with demand. mid 90s
After the crazy days of innovation by the manufacturers start to die down, Walton Street decides to concentrate on only a few leading manufacturers of quality ATBs. The speed of development by some of the big names had left their quality control fall by the wayside. Well known brands of aluminium American ATBs are dropped as their frames fall to pieces.
2,000s
Bikes get more sensible and are now trying to appeal to what people actually want them for. Value for money just gets better and better.
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