Welcome to the workshop
rideride is a dedicated cycle workshop, offering maintenance tuition and cycle repairs through a variety of formats. Check out our Facebook page for more up-to-date info on what's happening! Tim, Mike, Tom, Chris & Sash
Is your Bike in need of some attention?
Book a cycle repair at our workshop in Southampton.
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Promote cycling at your workplace?
Get a Bike Dr in or put on maintenance classes.
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Learn how to fix your own bike
Book yourself onto one of our cycle maintenance courses.
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Cycle Repair
Need a bike serviced or repaired? Then you've come to the right place - it's what we do day in day out!
Use this form to book your bike in.
Cycle Repair Booking Form
What now?
Once your bike is booked in and we've received it, we'll check it over and provide you with a couple of quotes to choose from, where applicable. We'll never do work on your bike that you haven't pre approved.
When will it be ready?
It depends on the nature of the repair or service, we'll give you a rough time scale with the quote. Some can be done while you wait, others may need a week or so, depending on parts.
What will it cost?
£30ph upto 2hrs, £20ph thereafter - here are a few examples to give you an idea.
Why use us?
Because we enjoy fixing bikes and we're good at it! or... We're experienced, qualified and insured, and can carry out many repairs while you wait. Every bike receives a full safety check. We improve repair times by keeping a good stock of parts. Our services are tailored to your bike and your budget. We will always agree a price with you before doing any work and provide a written summary of work completed.
Business Services
rideride hold a number of contracts and are
key
to a number of bike related projects in Southampton.
Here are just a few of our clients:
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Hampshire Constabulary We were approached by Southampton Central Police Station to formulate a service plan for their fleet of marked and non marked Police bikes. Soon after commencing work we were invited to maintain the fleet at Portswood and Shirley Stations as well. |
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The University of Southampton rideride attend the University fortnightly to provide a Bike Dr service to staff and students. This is a free service paid for the by University to promote cycling and as you can imagine it is well used. rideride also head up the Uni Cycle project at the University. With staff and student volunteers the high number of abandoned bikes on campus are diverted from landfills and made road worthy, ready to be sold to staff and students. |
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Sustrans In a series of Monday evenings from Aug '10 to June '11 rideride delivered maintenance courses at St Deny's community centre on behalf of Sustrans. The courses were part of StreetTread, a Sustrans Active Travel Project. |
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Southampton City Council The employees at SCC enjoy a monthly bike service whilst at work as part of their Active Travel Plan. rideride are in the Civic Centre bike shed early in the morning to receive employee's bikes as they arrive. The bikes are serviced, parts replaced where necessary and made ready to cycle home at the end of the day. |
Please get in touch to discuss how we can serve your organisation
Maintenance Courses
Learn bike maintenance with a cup of tea and a hobnob
rideride 'Up' series is a collection of 8 courses for beginners to expert hobbyists, they are £30 each and run weekdays, 7-9pm. We've taught over 600 people, come join the fun.
Essential courses
- Tune Up - Maintenance check your bike, fix a puncture (with ease), tighten your brakes and set up your gears. Currently subsidised to £5 by MyJourney
Mechanic courses
- Geared Up - All about the drivetrain; derailleur installation, gear indexing, cable replacement and chain sizing.
- Straighten Up - Keep those wheels spinning for years to come; learn hub servicing and the art of wheel truing.
- Build Up - A few handy things to know when building a bike; frame alignment, reaming and facing demo, headset servicing, bottom bracket types and removal, chain line.
Specialist courses
- Brake It Up - Hydraulic brake overview, bleeding and set up using workshop brakes or your own.
- Lace Up - Spoke sizing, lacing and tensioning on a workshop wheel, book a Lace Up prep session at £15 to build a custom wheel.
- Shock Up - Suspension technologies and set up, strip & rebuild of workshop suspension forks.
- Geek It Up - Internal geared hub overview and servicing on workshop hubs, or your own hub by prior arrangement.
See here for course dates
We also teach these people how to fix bikes, call us to see how we can work with your group.
