Cheeky Transport

SUPERLONG Weekend

So we are closing this Thursday Fri and Sat to celebrate Australia Day.

Anyone going touring?

Good one Adam

So I wiped our hard drive this morning, but thanks to nick, had a backup. Except, I have lost a weeks worth of job cards and notes. Not emails. They are fine

So if you have made contact with us since last Monday, maybe give us a buzz, to check that we are doing what you want us to do.

And we are booked out for services till tuesday feb 14. Ouch

Busy Busy, Booked out till Feb 13

Hello everyone.

Things are getting pretty crazy here in the workshop, and we are running out of storage area too so I thought I’d give you a headsup.

As of today, our next available date for doing services is

MONDAY FEB 13 .Yep, we need another mechanic eh

Thanks

We’re done for 2011. We’ll be back open on January 10 2012 at 10am. Thank you so much for your support and patronage through this year. All we want is for you to be happy riding your bike.

Alex came by with his banjo this evening. Merry Christmas, Happy New Year.

It’s holiday time!!!!

We are now booked up prexmas as far as repairs go. Gotta build up all those xmas presents! So, sorry, we can’t do any more services until we return from our break.

Our last trading day is Friday December 23 6:30pm.

CLOSED Saturday December 24 for 2 weeks and we will

reopen

MONDAY JANUARY 9 at 10am

Cheeky Xmas party

Hello everyone.

This year we are highjacking /attending the awesome Cargobike picnic being organised by Bike Sydney and the Watershed.  From the BikeSydney website there is heaps of cool stuff happening.

BIKESydney, The Watershed and City of Sydney have teamed up to roll out Sydney’s first Cargo Bike Picnic on Sun  Dec 4. A family friendly ride from Centennial Park will deliver you to Sydney Park. Or just rock on down to the park and join us for a day loaded with fun!Try out cargo bikes + trailersTalk to Sydney cargo bike usersFree bike maps + ride guidesMusic by Dj Ollo, games + prizes11am-3pm, CARES Centre, Sydney ParkBYO picnic, rugs and rug ratsMeet at 11 am at Centennial Park,  (Robertson Rd entrance)Finish at Sydney Park for the picnicA back-street, bike-lane ride- individual riders must be 12 years and overCargo bike carriage available for blankets + food

New Books and Magazines – Brompton, BQ and Rouleur

We’ve got a few new neat pieces of reading material in.

The Brompton Bicycle by David Henshaw - Updated 2nd edition. The fascinating story behind our favourite folding bikes. The second edition contains an extra 32 pages, with a whole new chapter on where Brompton may be heading in the future plus new coverage of early folding bikes in the U.S., more detail on military use of folding bikes and, of course, the low-down on new products and company developments. $40

Bicycle Quarterly Vol 10. No.1 - High-wheeler racing in New Zealand today, Test of the Calfee “Adventure” – a carbon fiber bicycle for the real world., Braking: We test how it’s done best, and compare a few interesting brakes (Sram Force, Eebrake, Velo-Orange Gran Cru), A daytrip across the Yorkshire Dales immerses you into the landscape, culture and history of this beautiful region, Jan Heine’s ultimate custom bicycle. How he designed it, and how it was built. $15

Rouleur Issue 26 - with a comprehensive interview with UCI President Pat Mcquaid, Trek Leopard, Pro Racing in China, a visit to Hutchinson and the Vuelta $25

Nic and Emma’s Truckers in Morocco

We built up a handsome pair of Surly Long Haul Truckers for Nic and Emma earlier in the year, and they sent us some photos from on the road in Morocco. Follow their ongoing adventures at http://nicoandemma.com/.

Lee’s Gorgeous Fuji Touring Townie Dad-Bike

Lee came to us with a nice old 27″ roadster with some great, comfortable bars and shifters, but a flogged out drive-train and a bent down-tube. The brief was to recapture the spirit of the old bike, and give Lee a solid, comfy commuter that was also a  ’Dad-bike’ for daycare drop-offs and playgroup runs.

The 2011 Fuji Touring worked out great. We transferred the whole bar, stem and controls, including the gorgeous old Dia Compe Brake-levers and classic Suntour Power-Ratchet shifters straight across from the old bike, and added a Brooks Flyer, some VO Aluminium guards and Bobike Mini and built one of my most favourite of our recent new bikes.

Bicycle Maintenance Courses are back

We’ll be calling all of you who have registered interest in the various courses we run. Next Tuesday 11th of October we will have the basic maintenance course: wheel removal, flat repair and basic safety check. This course is $60 per person prepaid.

The 18th of October we’ll run the brakes course, the following will be gears. If there is enough interest I’d be happy to run wheel truing and/or bearing adjustment but it seems gears and brakes are the most popular so we might just cycle through those for the people that are interested.

If you would like to organise a group of friends or a one-on-one course tailored to your specific requirements we can organise this also.