Ilyas is the hardest working man in the bike business. After training and working at Westminster Wheels in 2020 Ilyas secured a job at Balfes Bikes. He honed his skills in the workshop gaining invaluable knowledge building very high end bikes. By October 2022 our workshop was getting so busy we approached him with an offer he could not refuse. Come back to …
If all the bearings need stripping and replacing you may need a full overhaul. The bike is taken down to its bare frame, forks removed, hubs stripped. Bottom bracket removed. Everything cleaned, lubricated and lovingly reassembled. From £125
A full service where parts are stripped, cleaned and refitted. Our most popular repair. Wheels removed, straightened, hub adjusted. Transmission de-greased and re-assembled. Brakes serviced. From £95
An MOT for your bike where it needs adjustments with parts fitted or more in depth repair. If your bike requires a checkover but also needs some parts fitted this is for you. From £65/75
An MOT for your bike where it needs adjustments but no parts are needed. We recommend this for a bike that has been regularly maintained but needs checking over, brakes and gears adjusted, tyres inflated, all nuts and bolts tightened, lubricated From £50
Patrick trained with WW two years ago. He took his pick from multiple job offers after leaving us to work at Balfes Bikes for 18 months and then took time for travel. We’ve snapped him up on his return as a senior mechanic.
Tomasz Kruczkowski is our shop manager and maestro mechanic. Tomasz actually trained as a car mechanic but – thankfully for us – saw the light. He worked for 8 years in another social enterprise Bike Works, training other mechanics and refurbishing bikes. Tomasz also learnt all about cargo and e-bikes as head mechanic while working …
Barnaby Stutter aka The Old Man, is our project manager. You could find him fixing bikes, chatting to customers, guiding our apprentices, at one of our fundraising events or at his desk in the shop wrangling his laptop. Barnaby started working in the bike trade in the 80s. Learning the industry ropes at Brixton Cycles …
