Never Mind The Bike Shops

04/07/2026

We are extending our hours a little! Our Hillcourt Street branch just near Oxford Road in the City Centre is now open Friday 10-5 for all your cycling needs! So Monday-Saturday inclusive 10-5 :-)

08/06/2026

A very busy summer in our bike shops, thanks to all you, for your continued support, helping this Manchester owned, Manchester Tax paying bike business keep growing.

11/04/2026

OG 1st Generation Shimano Dura Ace loveliness! Don't want to give this one back ;-)

06/04/2026

Get help to buy your own e-bike! Free ££££££s!

We’re delighted to have been chosen to pilot this new TfGM / Bee Network scheme.

Could the timing of this be any better? A full charge on a Bosch 800Wh battery bike cost about 25p and will give youover 100km of real-world Eco-Mode riding range. Ideal for getting to work, the shops, a meeting and just having fun at the weekend! If you qualify you get a voucher of between £300 and £1000.

We’ve have a diverse range of e-bikes, starting from around £600 through to the Cube Ebike range that are Bosch-powered bikes that make hills, distance and daily riding properly workable and like most German kit, they are extremely reliable.

How does it work ?
* Apply online
* Get approved
* Receive a voucher
* Come and see us and talk through how you plan to use your bike or bob in for a chat now before you apply! 07940 859672

Funding is limited — when it’s gone, it’s gone. Click the link to apply now :

https://beeactive.tfgm.com/ebike-subsidy-scheme/

29/01/2026

Right, this one’s just rolled out of the workshop and we’re quietly very pleased with it…
A Surly Ogre, built properly, from the frame up.
No shortcuts. No catalogue nonsense. Just a bike specced to work.
We’ve finished this one with Shimano CUES – 10-speed hydraulic, tough as nails, clean shifting, zero drama. Exactly the sort of drivetrain you fit when the plan involves miles, weather, luggage and not worrying about it.
Rolling on Fulcrum wheels because reliability matters and rebuilding wheels at the side of the road is not a personality trait anyone should aspire to.
It’s the kind of bike you build when you actually ride bikes.
Commuting. Touring. Long days. Short cuts. Loaded or not.
Over Ogre things.
If you’ve been half-thinking “I want one bike that just does everything”…
yeah. This is that conversation.
Custom builds are very much our thing.
Come and talk to us.

27/01/2026

Big bikes leaving the building today… and we’re genuinely buzzing about both of them.
A Cube Reaction e-bike — Europe’s fastest-selling e-bike for a reason — heading out to its new owner. Properly specced, properly set up, and built to just work in the real world. These things are absolute graft machines.
Alongside it, a Cube Fold Comfort — Cube’s one-size folding bike and an absolute belter. Belt drive, clean, quiet, low maintenance and way cleverer than most folders we see. A genuinely marvellous and very solid bit of kit.
Why are they so solid? Well Like ALL Cube E-bikes you have the best Japenese engineered parts (Shimano) with the most reliable E-Bike battery-controller-motor system (Bosch) You can see them, sit on them, test them, talk them through properly and buy them from people who actually ride and service this stuff every day.
If either of these bikes makes sense for you — commuting, mixed riding, storage-friendly living without the overhead of a wobbly crap chinese embaressment — come and see us. No hype. Just good bikes, done right.

15/01/2026

They say every day’s a school day… and today definitely proved that one true.

We opened up a delivery from Bosch eBike Systems, fully expecting to see a shiny new Kiox 400C display upgrade we’d ordered for a customer’s Cube e-bike.

Instead, staring back at us, was this little beauty.

Not a screen. Not a gadget you’ve already seen ten times on Instagram.
This is the BCM3100 Connect Module — a properly clever bit of kit Bosch have been quietly keeping under their hat.

It slots neatly into your e-bike’s cable run and does one very important thing:
lets you track your bike’s location at all times through the Flow app.

Which, let’s be honest, brings a huge amount of peace of mind when you consider that your e-bike is probably:
a) the most expensive thing you own on two wheels, and
b) the most fun thing you own full stop.

If you’re thinking about making your Bosch e-bike more secure — or you’re at the “new e-bike but slightly nervous about leaving it locked up” stage — come and have a chat with us.

We’re a Bosch registered service centre and the Cube Bikes dealer for the city.
Between us, we can make sure your e-bike is set up properly, looked after properly… and a lot harder to lose.

Every day’s a school day. Even for us.

22/11/2025

You know you always hear everyone queuing up to say someone who has just passed was a lovely person. Well, I only met Mani twice — the first time with my former, brilliant yet difficult, two-time business partner James Masters in Kro Bar in Heaton Chapel.

Mani came straight over and went, “Do you want a beer, lads?” Even though it was midday on a Tuesday, I just had to say yes. The release of the Stone Roses’ debut album was perfectly timed to soundtrack me pretending to revise for my GCSEs, and I had it on constant rotation through that pivotal summer of ’89.

We had a really funny, pretty long-winded chat and I gave him a flyer — he said, “The name is fu***ng brilliant, mate.”

He was jaw-droppingly sound and genuine. I commented to James about that when we got back to our meeting, and James goes, “Well, you would be generous if you’d just made 15 million from doing a few concerts.”

Whether James knew that for sure, I don’t know. But what I do know is it couldn’t have happened to a nicer, more deserving bloke, and he spread his good fortune like he spread his musical genius and encouragement - everywhere.

I hope James and him are having a beer and a laugh at our expense somewhere right now. I’ll be raising a glass to the pair of them at the Hacienda at the Warehouse Project this Saturday night. RIP - you pair of rascals ❤

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17/11/2025

🚴‍♂️ 40,000 Miles. One Bike. One Battery. Zero Drama.

This jolly gentleman is Mark Acton, beaming, picking up his just serviced 2019 Cube Reaction Hybrid from our Reddish shop - he rides 8,000 miles a year ! That’s a 45-mile daily commute in all weathers, for five straight years…
Still on the original Bosch battery. Still smooth. Still reliable.

That’s what you get when you combine:
🇩🇪 Bosch motor power
🇯🇵 Shimano brakes & gears
🇩🇪 Cube’s bombproof German frame

And standing next to him is it's grandson, the 2026 Cube Reaction Hybrid — perfect for commuters, mountain bikers, XC riders and the wheely boys. With or without mudguards, stand and integrated lights. Loads in stock in all sizes today, with models starting around £2k.

Sure, you can buy a cheaper chain-store e-bike…
But you’ll pay for it in parts, breakdowns, replacements and tears!

Buy Cube. Buy quality. Ride it for years. From
Never Mind The Bike Shops - quality support year in year out🚲💛

13/10/2025

We have started taking delivery of 2026 Cube Road Bikes - Including in this stunning colour - the C:62 Agree Pro 1.5kg 55mm deep carbon wheelset, full Shimano Ultegra Di2 £3399. In stock now and more to come!