This is the best place to go to if you're looking for high quality hiking gear. You can trust…read moreeverything you by from this shop - just ask for a bit of advice. The shop staff are highly knowledgeable and helpful but you'll be lost for awhile first in the treasure trove of hiking and climbing gear. Absolutely fantastic and worth every minute you spend in this shop.

A great place to buy your quality/premuim outdoor kit. If they don't have your required piece of…read morekit, they will happily find an alternative or order an item in for you. A very pleasant shopping experience, with some great advice (rather than sales talk). You don't need to be an adrenaline junky to shop there.

The Oxford Cycle Workshop is more than just a bike shop, it's the hub of a community. Regular fun…read morecycling events for you what ever your bike. They will sell you bikes (new and refurbished) or parts, and do a very good job of servicing your bike for you, but this is a place where passion is more important than business. As well as acting as a gathering point for Oxford cyclists, and a distributor of information on safe cycling, they provide a membership scheme. For an annual fee of £9 (£6 for the unwaged), you get free workshop access and support, a dividend card which allows you to collect point on all items in stock which build towards discounts, discounted Introduction to Cycle Maintenance Courses, one-on-one training, access to further courses such as wheel building, and a monthly e-mail newsletter. The staff are both knowledgeable and friendly, and their website is full of information. If you're a cyclist in Oxford for any length of time, you should be a member here. Email us at: mail@oxfordcycleworkshop.org.uk Twitter with them at: http://www.twitter.com/cycleoxford Check their Flickr at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/oxfordcycleworkshop Facebook: http://www.tinyurl.com/ocwfacebook Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/kettlegun Video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-yZ2N_L1SA

Friendly with a personal touch. Hard working staff who care about bikes and not just about making…read moremoney with mass production. Really helpful, and have 'new' stock all the time so do go back if they don't have what you're after first time. V helpful for bike maintenance as well as purchasing. Would definitely recommend getting a good quality 'recycled bike' from here rather than a new shiny one that matches all the others from one of the Cowley Rd shops...

Appalling bike shop. I placed my bike in the shop at 09:30 for the fitting of two new tyres with…read morethe promise that it would be done by 15:00. This job had been agreed two days before. I arrived at the shop at 15:40 and the job had not been done. The owner then told me that he was doing me a favour as I knew a friend of his - I have absolutely no idea what he meant by this statement. I left the shop with my bike and the old tyres. I have wasted my time and petrol driving to the shop twice. Bad service from a shop that is both dishonest and incapable of time management when doing basic jobs. It goes to show that giving an independent shop a chance is a waste of time.

Behind Bars is one of the worst services I've had the misfortune to pay for in almost 20 years of…read morecycling. I took an old style, internally geared Pashley here for an inner tube replacement after I got a puncture. Throughout, I found their service to be ill-informed, shoddy and occasionally hostile. Firstly, they tried to sell me a tyre that I didn't need simply on the basis of some cosmetic cracks. As the site of the late, great, Sheldon Brown will tell you, tyres do not have to be replaced for this reason and will go for several thousand kilometres before needing replacement. The tyres in my case were among the toughest on the market, Schwalbe Marathon Pluses with less than a thousand km on them. Then they replaced the inner tube. All seemed fine at first, until the wheel in question started working itself loose. I took it back to Behind Bars. Rather than apologise and immediately pledge to rectify the issue, instead they chose to insult my bike, saying Pashleys are a "nightmare" to work with. Frankly, that's not my problem. They either they take my money and deliver the service or they don't. Either way, and as I'm paying over the odds for a puncture repair on an internally-geared bike, they could at least be polite. Their 'solution' to the problem? Violently twisting the skirt-guards on the rear wheel until the scraping stopped. Inside, I was screaming that this wouldn't be a permanent fix, as the issue was clearly the wheel, not the skirt-guards, but I foolishly opted to trust their 'experience' instead. Lo and behold, 30 miles from Abingdon a couple of days later, the wheel smeared into the frame, making it unrideable. Never again. Pedal Power (Abingdon's other bike shop) has its faults, but at least they're nice to work with. Go there for your bike needs, and avoid Behind Bars.

Ironically, this ugly warehouse-style building by the side of an urban road contains everything you…read moreneed to enjoy the great outdoors. It's recently been taken over and the new manager is really friendly and has introduced some new ranges, so it's well worth a visit. As the name suggests, the focus is on outdoors clothing and equipment, so expect fleeces, walking trousers, raincoats and walking boots. There's also a good range of camping equipment, ranging from tents to caravan gear, camping stove and dubious looking mountain food. Think Millets, but bigger. If you're not used to outdoor shops, it's great fun looking at the gadgets like 'sporks' (half spoon, half fork) and 'platypuses' (water bladders in backpacks with a giant straw). If you are used to outdoor shops, you'll be bound to find something here. I must confess to being a bit of an outdoors snob, but there are some really good bargains here, especially with waterproofs, and you can't go wrong with generic camping bits and bobs. There's even a new and improved rock climbing section with all the basics. It's probably the best place for rock shoes and harnesses in the area and the manager can give some very useful advice. There are sections for fishing, running, cycling and even skiing, and whilst this is in no way a specialist shop for any of them, it's big enough to have a reasonable range of basic items to satisfy the enthusiast's immediate needs. Go and buy lots of fun gadgets and look forward to your holidays, when living in a tent suddenly seems like such a fun idea.

A great place if you like the outdoors as the name implies. They have a great range of products and…read morealso offer a price match policy and they honour it. They offer a discount if you purchase one of there discount cards and it can amount to considerable saving for just £4.00 per year.

This business already has plenty of bad reviews, but here is another one. I've read the reviews…read moreonline and a lot of students told me not to buy from here, but I was in a rush and needed a bike. Please don't make the same mistake as me! They will sell you terrible bikes for an exorbitant price, while promising that they would buy it back after a year. This is not true; when you bring it after a year of gentle use, they will say it is in terrible condition and that you didn't take good care of it, even though it is a perfectly good bike. They are just trying to take advantage of people who come here for a short period of time and can't figure out where else to buy a good bike. Please be careful!

Horrible place for repairs After changing the jockey wheel,…read morethe back wheel wasn't properly installed in its axis again and it was wobbly. They told me that I would need to change the whole back wheel because they didn't know what was wrong with it. Everything was good before their jockey wheel change. I paid 90 pounds for the new back wheel and 20 pounds for the labour and this back wheel came from another old bike. the back wheel now puncture every new inner tube that I install without use the bike. It a horrible place for repairs.

Worst ever should never ever travel in that thing. I regret taking a ride in that bike. Booked in…read morefor a service to find my bike loaded with expensive new components installed without my consent. Condescending staff clearly used to an overpaying clientele. Try the other bike shops nearby you will get better value and fewer sneers.

Booked in for a service to find my bike loaded with expensive new components installed without my…read moreconsent. Condescending staff clearly used to an overpaying clientele. Try the other bike shops nearby you will get better value and fewer sneers.

Everything Qyp user says below with the old fashioned atmosphere of the quintessential neighborhood…read morebike shop. Friendly, knowledgable, reasonable prices-always there to help if you're having a problem....Good range of products. Pretty much a "go to" kind of shop for all your biking needs.

This is more like it! Much more traditional than Halfords and with really friendly staff who are…read morehappy to help whether you're a biking demon or a complete bumbly. It's most useful for repairs and they're quite happy to do the most menial tasks. They sell a range of bikes, including the popular Dawes ones, andtandems!! It's really got to be done. They know about the Cyclescheme discount and are fairly up to date with the local cycling scene. Prices are very reasonable and service is fast.

Very quick repair for a bike puncture, friendly staff, very good value. Would highly recommend.read more

Excellent service - fast, polite, and affordable. They managed to do a job in 15 minutes that took…read moreanother bike shop a week, and for cheaper! Good selection of bikes and accessories, too. Highly recommended.

Absolutely fantastic. I needed a part, the rear roller wheels, for my Brompton. They didn't have…read moreit in stock but had a slightly more expensive one, the rear rollers plus the roller for the fender. They offered to and did send me the more expensive part at no extra cost. It arrived in one day. Their prices are very good, they don't charge for shipping, and they ship unbelievably quickly. I haven't been there in person, but if they are as friendly and responsive in shop as they are by email it'd be worth the hour and a half train ride from where I am now.

From the owner: Creating a better place …read more... Brilliant Bikes is a friendly cycle shop based in Sunningdale We service, repair and upgrade all types of bikes as well as selling new bikes made by Brompton, Intense, Orbea, Commencal and Frog. If you need your bike servicing, we won't keep you hanging around or on a long waiting list / booking system - we want you and your bike back on the road ASAP. We specialise in spare parts and accessories for Brompton folding bicycles and try and keep all Brompton parts in stock.

This shop contains a wide variety of bikes, bike related components and clothing. It is nice to…read morebrowse around, however if it busy, which it quite often is, you may have a wait to speak to someone. That said the staff are always helpful and knowledgeable.

The staff here are so rude. Every time I've been in (young mother with my toddler) either to buy…read moresomething or for a repair, they really could not care less about certain of their customers. I got told off today for not calling ahead about getting a puncture repaired. Who ever wants to get told off in an interaction with a business?! This after I carried my bike AND child into the shop and got no help. Then when I went back at the time they asked, it wasn't ready, and the second time - again, of their choice - it still wasn't ready! Waste of time and energy, am going to go to Reg Taylor's from now on (where they are lovely).