| 1977 |
-
Opened original repair shop in West Crosscauseway, Edinburgh, trading
under the name, Recycles. |
| 1978 |
- Introduced cycle hire service.
|
| 1979 |
- Opened
new premises in Alvanley Terrace, Bruntsfield, Edinburgh.
- Started retailing new, quality bicycles.
|
| 1982 |
- Introduced
evening classes in bicycle maintenance for customers.
- A major shopfit introduced cyclists to the previously unknown
experience of shopping in a well-lit carpeted environment.
|
| 1983 |
- Launched regular customer newsletter. |
| 1984 |
- Launched
a range of innovative accessories - a fairing, a city pannier
and a wheelbuilding video - under the name, Street Science.
|
| 1985 |
- Now firmly
established as a retailer of quality bicycles and accessories,
and no longer a second-hand store, the shop is renamed Edinburgh
Bicycle Co-op.
- Introduced the Edinburgh Bicycles - our own range designed to
offer good quality bikes at the best prices in the UK.
- Introduced Specialized mountain bikes.
|
| 1986 |
- Produced the first glossy Edinburgh Bicycle Catalogue written
and designed instore.
- Introduced Cannondale road and mountain bicycles.
|
| 1987 |
- Introduced mail order service.
|
| 1988 |
- Completion of Marketing Initiative project providing EBC with
a strategic marketing plan.
|
| 1989 |
- Doubled
floorspace with a major shop expansion and refurbishment.
- Introduced own-brand mountain bike - the Edinburgh Contour.
|
| 1990 |
-
Expanded bicycle repair and servicing facilities.
- Scottish Marketing Awards Winners - small business
category. |
| 1991 |
- Winners
of Chartered Institute of Marketing Award.
|
| 1992 |
-
Launched Edinburgh Connection city bikes. |
| 1993 |
- Expanded
retail premises by 80%, now offering one of the finest shopping
environments of any cycle shop in the UK.
- Expanded workshop facilities so we could now offer a six day
week repair service.
- Voted top cycle shop in UK in Cycling Plus magazine readers'
poll.
|
| 1994 |
- Our 84-page A4 catalogue is now the largest mail order cycling
catalogue in the UK.
|
| 1995 |
- Newsletter circulation reaches 10,000 customers in Scotland -
the widest circulated cycling publication in Scotland. |
| 1996 |
- Launched website. The Edinburgh Bicycle catalogue is now internationally
available online.
|
| 1997 |
- The Edinburgh
Bicycle website won 1st prize in the Business Expansion category
of Scottish Enterprise's Winners on the Web Award.
- Shop now open 7 days a week.
|
| 1998 |
-
Winners of Lothian Business Excellence Award for Retail & Tourism
(sponsored by the Edinburgh Evening News and Edinburgh City Council.)
- Shop completes its biggest ever expansion, doubling in size, making
it probably the UK's biggest single-outlet bicycle shop.
- Catalogue now up to 132 page full colour, and it's still free.
- Introduced Germany's leading cycle clothing brand - Protective
- to the UK. Another Edinburgh Bicycle exclusive.
|
| 1999 |
- Major expansion
of our cycle clothing range. Clothing now occupies its own self-contained
department with its own door.
- Coined slogan 'The Revolution Will Not Be Motorised'.
|
| 2000 |
- Continuing
development of the Edinburgh Bicycle range with the introduction
of:
the Edinburgh
Cadence - a women's-specific ATB - i.e. a sub-£200,
diamond-framed mountain bike with a shorter top tube, designed
to neither stretch you nor your budget.
- Edinburgh Courier - an urban bike that recognises the truism
that many MTBs rarely get beyond the city limits. Features an
MTB frame and wheels, 26 x 1.5" slick tyres, and simpler,
single-chainring 8-speed gearing.
- Edinburgh Continental road bike voted 'Budget Bike of the Year'
by the editors of Cycling Plus magazine.
|
| 2001 |
-
Excellent reviews for Edinburgh Cadence 300 in What Mountain Bike
magazine, 'The cheapest proper women's mountain bike we've ever
seen'.
- And for the Edinburgh
Country in Cycling Plus, 'The benchmark for affordable tourers'. |
| 2002 |
-
Opened our first branch outside Edinburgh when we took over the
shop previously called Cycling World in Aberdeen.
- Produced e-bike
manual - a CD-ROM bike manual which we give away with every
new bike. This won Cycling Plus magazine's Innovation of the Year
Award.
- Edinburgh
Courier wins Cycling Plus magazine's Budget Bike of the Year
award. |
| 2003 |
- Opened our
first branch outside Scotland at the shop previously called Hardisty
in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
- Launched Revolution
range of even better quality bicycles, bags and clothing.
- Opened new warehouse on the outskirts of Edinburgh to better
serve and improve stock coverage in each of our 4 branches (Edinburgh,
Aberdeen, Newcastle and online).
|
| 2004 |
-
More laudatory reviews
for our own brand products - Revolution Blade Sunglasses, Revolution
Stow rucsac and Revolution Air Trackpump all recommended best buys.
Revolution
Continental voted Best Budget Road Bike by Cycling Plus magazine. |
| 2005 |
-
Continual development of own brand bikes - everyone a Revolution
be it a mountain
bike, a road
bike, a hybrid
bike or an urban
bike.
- Introduced free delivery service. Now you can get a bicycle dispatched
from Edinburgh Bicycle to any UK mainland address for no extra charge.
Similarly, clothing and accessory orders for more than £20
can now go carriage free to ANY UK address. Conditions
apply |
| 2006 |
-
Opened our fourth 'bricks and mortar' branch: this time in the leafy
suburb of Chapel Allerton in Leeds. |
|
email
us
Telephone Orders: 0845 257 0808 (charged at local rate
from anywhere in the UK) or 0131 331 5010 (if your telephone service
provider charges less for calling 'normal' numbers).
If calling
from outside the UK, dial 44131 331 5010
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Aberdeen
Branch
Edinburgh
Bicycle Co-operative,
458-464 George Street,
Aberdeen,
AB25 3XH
Scotland
UK
Phone:
01224 632994
Aberdeen
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Edinburgh
Branch
Edinburgh
Bicycle Co-operative,
8 Alvanley Terrace,
Whitehouse Loan,
Bruntsfield,
Edinburgh,
EH9 1DU
Scotland
UK
Phone:
0131 228 3565
Edinburgh
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Leeds
Branch
Edinburgh
Bicycle Co-operative,
140 Woodland Lane,
Chapel Allerton,
Leeds,
LS7 4QG
England
UK
Phone:
0113 268 7463
Leeds
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Newcastle
Branch
Edinburgh
Bicycle Co-operative,
5-7 Union Road,
Byker,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
NE6 1EH
England
UK
Phone:
0191 265 8619
Newcastle
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