Now that our 2022 hire bike fleet has arrived, we're selling off last years bikes at a hefty discount. Our hire bikes are Trek Marlin 5 models, all the really attractive bright green shown, and are of course se...
At Deers Leap we've talked a lot about ebikes and how great they are, and we like to back up our talk with action. So your intrepid author took an ebike on a day out recently to cross Scotland in a day
The p...
Opening times
We're now open again with reduced hours due to a temporary staff shortage (he fell off his bike):
SHOP 10-5 - closed on Mondays and Tuesdays, open Weds Thurs Fri Sat Sun
CAFE - closed Mondays...
For those of us to whom coffee is central to cycling. it's good to have our prejudices reinforced so at Deers Leap we've done a bit of digging to see whether coffee is good for cycling. There has been plenty of...
Deers Leap have completed all of our work on Covid related matters, and we are Good To Go according to Visit England. We have measures in place to ensure the safety of clients and staff, and these will vary acc...
With the bike shortage, we thought we'd use our initiative and buy some bike frames from Trek, then source the parts to make our own bikes. These bikes are Trek Marlins and XCalibers; we were able to make a gre...
It's official - there are hardly any bikes anywhere at the moment. Most shops are struggling to get any bikes of any description and we're getting up to 20 enquiries a day for bikes we don't have. Here are some...
The new Fix Your Bike voucher scheme was introduced today, with 50,000 vouchers being issued. Naturally the website crashed straight away, but they'll be rolling out more soon and of course we are a registered ...
As social distancing made it more difficult to go riding with Rob, my co-rider in part one, I decided to continue in a slightly different way by starting at the end point from last time (my house in...
Rob is an old climbing partner, known for his stock phrase, ‘What’s the worst that could happen?’ – just before it happens, usually. Retreating from a 19 pitch route in the Alps when he’d belayed me from a tuft...