Hello folks. Its a nice Friday afternoon in Hartfield in East Sussex so I thought it about time to cobble together a quick entry to introduce bikegoo in blog form.
Well, hello, we are bikegoo. We are an online bike shop (www.bikegoo.co.uk/) selling lots of bicycle pumps, inner tubes, bike tools, workstands and loads of other bike maintenance stuff. At the moment we're just trying to catch up with ourselves. We opened for business a few weeks ago and its been hectic to say the least. Anyone who's started their own business will probably know the feeling...
Anyway, here we are and we're presently trying to solidify our place in the UK cycle market as the number 1 online location for all your bike maintenance stuff. Not easy when there are so many other bike businesses out there.
Anyway, I think thats enough of the corporate marketing bumf. Thats not what I wanted this blog to be about. Hopefully this blog is purely going to be a place where we can provide a little insight into whats going on at bikegoo, whats going on in the wider cycle industry and us a place where we can communicate with customers and provide a few interesting tit bits of info too.
So first things first. I'm Dave. Hello. I'm the owner of bikegoo.
So what have we been up to so far... Well we've got a bit of promotional activity going on at the moment in conjunction with www.bikemagic.com/. If you've not heard of bikemagic before its a very good "everything to do with mountain bikes" page. We're running a competition with those guys thats open until the end of Feb. If you fancy entering to win some cracking prizes head over to www.bikemagic.com/Comp/Comp.asp?c=37. We've got a cracking BBB Profimount workstand as first prize, some Pedros mini pit kits AND some bottles of purple extreme lube. Not bad eh?! You'll have to sign up to bikemagic to enter but thats no bad thing!
Fisher Expo
As for other stuff we've been doing.... well I had the joy of attending the Fisher Outdoor Expo last month. Fisher Outdoor are the UK distributors of brands like Muc-Off, Tacx, Rock Shox, Sram, and loads more. It was a really good event at Edgbaston cricket ground. I'm not a big fan of cricket so unfortunately the impact of the cricket ground was a bit lost on me. Nevertheless Fisher did themselves proud. To pick out a couple of highlights... Muc-Off have got some cracking stuff in the pipeline... like their Nytralube range of grease and dry lube to accompany their caramel wax wet lube. We'll have them in stock as soon as Muc-Off let us get our hands on some! Tacx were also there with their range of superb workstands. Really well thought out with a number of of pro teams swearing by them. We've got the best of their range available now on our page.
COREbike
Then it was off to COREbike. Again a great trade event. Most interestingly from a bikegoo perspective were the new additions to the Ice Toolz range. It includes some really well thought out tools including an ingenius crown race remover. Most of their new additions have arrived at bikegoo HQ so you can see them on our page now.
Not only that but I had the pleasure of chatting to the 2 Pure guys (UK distributors of Crank Brothers and Ultimate Workstands amongst loads of other big brands). I'm pleased to say that we are going to be hooking up with those guys going forward and very shortly we'll be offering Crank Brothers pumps, multi tools and the amazing ultimate support stands on bikegoo. Watch this space...
Strathpuffer 24
Oh and I should just quickly mention the Strathpuffer 24. We've already gone on about this on the "News" section of our site but just a special thanks to out two Bikegoo riders who did us proud at the Strathpuffer 24 event in January. Cheers Mark. Cheers Hill. Brilliant result... Plans are already afoot for the next 24 hour event for the bikegoo team. This time, all being well...I'll be riding as part of the team... that will probably mean we'll finish dead last, but it will be good fun. We'll provide some more details about that closer the time...
Anyway, I've rambled on for long enough. We'll aim to keep you updated on everything bikegoo from here aswell as on our site at www.bikegoo.co.uk/. All the best.
Dave Williamson
