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Temple Cycles open new store, workshop and events space
Bristol’s most beautiful bicycle brand now has a shop which will also be a showroom, bike assembly workshop and events space.
The Temple Cycles team hope that their new shop on Whiteladies Road will become a place where people can dwell “to ask questions, understand the materials and design decisions behind each model, and feel more connected to the product they’re investing in”.
Temple Cycles was founded by Matt Mears when he was still a student at the University of Bristol.
Their new retail space on Blackboy Hill replaces their previous home at the Brookgate Trading Estate in Ashton Vale, with the brand also having a shop on Brick Lane in east London.
The unit at 167 Whiteladies Road was for many years Kitchens cookshop; with Temple Cycles having previous shops in Bristol on St Nicholas Street in the Old City and in Wapping Wharf.
Temple Cycles on Whiteladies Road is open from Tuesday to Saturday – photo: Aphra Evans
Mears said: “Everything starts here in Bristol; the design, the builds, the conversations around the workbench.
“Opening this space is about reconnecting our customers with those parts of the story…
“A bike isn’t an impulse purchase. It’s something you should live with for years.
“Being able to sit down, talk it through, understand how it’s made; that really matters.”
Matt Mears founded Temple Cycles in 2014 when he was still a student at the University of Bristol – photo: Aphra Evans
Mears added: “Bristol is where we learned how to do this.
“It’s where our bikes are built, and where many of our earliest customers came from.
“Having a central space here feels important; not just commercially, but socially.”
Main photo: Martin Booth
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