More About Jake's Bikes

Who we are and what we're all about

Jake's Bikes is a bicycle workshop based in Bristol, UK. We service and repair bicycles, buy and sell used bikes (with strict anti-theft precautions), build a few bespoke bicycles to order, and offer tuition and training in cycle maintenance. The emphasis is on repairs and servicing rather than retail - this is specifically a workshop and not a high street bike shop.

The focus of our work is sustainability: helping as many people as possible to lead a greener and healthier lifestyle by encouraging and enabling them to cycle, or cycle more. We believe in making it easy, fun, reliable, affordable and normal to cycle every day.

We are entirely independent and do not receive any external funding, grants or loans. To keep things simple we're not a registered charity or company, but we run the business as a not-for-profit organisation: it pays our wages (just about!) but does not exist to make money and does not have shareholders or external investors. To learn a little more about the background to Jake's bikes please see this article published in Boneshaker Magazine in May 2010.