Headshot Posted January 14, 2016 Share Anyone know whats happening. To Let signs in shop windows although Marco is still trading. Moving or shutting down? Hope the former. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raptor-22 Posted January 14, 2016 Share I am lead to believe the latter. I hope I'm wrong but if true its the 2nd shop in a month Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heppy Posted January 14, 2016 Share Was just in there. Moving to Paarden Eiland. Details apparently to be posted on the website. Which other shop closed down this month? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meezo Posted January 14, 2016 Share Was just in there. Moving to Paarden Eiland. Details apparently to be posted on the website. Which other shop closed down this month? This domain is temporarily unavailable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hairy Posted January 14, 2016 Share That sucks, they my point of call in town! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hairy Posted January 14, 2016 Share If however the shop has direct line of site to the cyclelane and the typical easy parking in p island, then action might be into something! Sure rentals are also far better and the area is showing good / positive development over the last few years. Best wishes to them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crashtestdummy Posted January 14, 2016 Share I heard one of their suppliers pulled a dirty on them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raptor-22 Posted January 14, 2016 Share Unfortunately BikePlus in Constantia shut their doors. I'm not sure what happened there but it sounds like an investor pulled and re-invested in another store. It was a really great little store. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milky4130 Posted January 14, 2016 Share Unfortunately BikePlus in Constantia shut their doors. I'm not sure what happened there but it sounds like an investor pulled and re-invested in another store. It was a really great little store. no freaking ways!! Do they still have the indoor training centre at least, the altitude training chamber? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hairy Posted January 15, 2016 Share I heard one of their suppliers pulled a dirty on themGiant maybe. ...seeing as they have a concept store down the road? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capricorn Posted January 15, 2016 Share Giant maybe. ...seeing as they have a concept store down the road?so is this the future? A future where brands take it upon themselves to market their brands via a 'premiere bricks n mortar experience', while the vast majority of sales are online? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomo Posted January 15, 2016 Share so is this the future? A future where brands take it upon themselves to market their brands via a 'premiere bricks n mortar experience', while the vast majority of sales are online? Looks like it.More and more brand specific/concept stores popping up, and from what I hear, terminating supply to existing LBS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banna Posted January 15, 2016 Share Looks like it.More and more brand specific/concept stores popping up, and from what I hear, terminating supply to existing LBS.That sucks ass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edge_Design Posted January 15, 2016 Share That sucks ass. For the more serious cyclists I think it's a great concept. If they stop supplying stores entirely then the concept of recommended retail prices falls away and they should be able to cut their selling prices (that's in theory - it might not happen but that's an issue of greed). Specialist stores also means they should have a full range of spares for their products and more extensive knowledge. Warranties could possibly be done directly from stock and not through a wholesaler which is much more efficient. They also carry stock of all models in all sizes due to a more limited range (rather than it sitting in a box in a warehouse waiting for an order, it can be on display). For the family that doesn't know what they want and would like to see a range of bikes in a price bracket to compare, it's not a great concept at all and makes life quite difficult. Overall I like the concept - keep the general stores for the small volume niche products, general spares and maintenance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donovan Le Cok Posted January 15, 2016 Share no freaking ways!! Do they still have the indoor training centre at least, the altitude training chamber? Milky, they were going to run the chamber for a few weeks. But everytime I have gone past it looks closed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shebeen Posted January 15, 2016 Share Unfortunately BikePlus in Constantia shut their doors. I'm not sure what happened there but it sounds like an investor pulled and re-invested in another store. It was a really great little store. was rather a bit fancy I thought, maybe run out of rich posers dropping silly money? ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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