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Custom Bike Builds
Hand-built wheels
Upgrades and Modifications
Restorations

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Service and Repair

PRICE GUIDE

All jobs are bespoke to your bicycle and your budget.
All services and repairs come with a FREE inspection and advice.
We will let you know if the price exceeds our guidelines.
All prices exclude parts unless stated.

Custom Bike Builds

Are you finding that off-the-shelf bikes don’t meet your needs? Or they compromise on some components? Or the wheels aren’t quite right? Or maybe you have a retro bike to restore or modernise?

You need a Custom Build from Pickering’s Bikes

Raleigh Race 625 Carbon Wheelset
Dirty Tifosi Cavazzo Gravel Bike with Blue Halo Vapour rims and Schwalbe tan walls
Genesis CDF Reynolds 725 Touring Bullhorns
Basso Venta with Our Hand Built Carbon Wheelset and Ultegra R8000 groupset

This doesn’t mean spending the earth – custom means to your specification, with the parts you want, and to your budget. This can mean a new carbon road bike with lightweight, stiff carbon aero rims, or a gravel bike with specific gearing and tyres to combat the terrain you ride.
We have the knowledge and skills to make your ideas come to life.
We also have contacts that enable us to create paint finishes especially for you.

Hand-built Wheels

We build wheels to meet your needs – for Ebikes, road bikes, gravel and MTB – rim or disc brake.

Tell us where and how you ride, or tell us what type of wheel you are after, and we will help you choose the rims, spokes, nipples and hubs.

Our components for choice are:

  • Our custom direct from the factory carbon rims
  • DT Swiss rims and hubs
  • Novatec hubs
  • Mavic rims
  • Shimano hubs
  • Halo rims and hubs
  • Sapim spokes and nipples (brass preferred)

Restorations, Upgrades and Modifications

Does your bike need an upgrade: wheels, gearing, modern parts, etc. Or maybe you are finding the gears don’t meet your needs.
We are specialists in upgrades and modifications. Our custom wheel builds are a fantastic upgrade, and we have vast knowledge of gear ratios and component choices needed.

Titanium frame with 2 wheelsets and 1×10 Hydraulic Groupset

Raleigh Special Products 853 Restoration

Take a frame that is special to you and create a modern classic!

Raleigh Special Products Reynolds 853 as it came from eBay
Stripped to the metal ready for paint
Finished article hand built carbon wheels Vitus fork

We purchased a frame from eBay. It was being used as a’pub’ bike but as a Raleigh Special Products bike it has good  ‘provenance’. We stripped back the Hammerite with paint stripper and elbow grease. We found the fork had been modified to a point where it was unsafe (the crown had been filed down) so this was replaced with period carbon. We then added modern components and hand built wheels.
It looks great and rides wonderfully.

Velo Moira Cycling Club Themed Road Bike

We have close links with our local cycling club – Velo Moira. We took a GUESS SC1 Scandium Alloy frame from an old shop in Nottingham (Rock n Roll Bikes) and had a paint job in the club colours. Addition of period components and hand built wheels (of course) has created a great club social ride bike.

Storck C0.9 Rebuild as Hill Climb Bike

Another eBay find rebuild. This is a Storck C0.9 from the early 2000’s. This time we rebuilt it as a Hill Climb Bike – the lightweight carbon frame suits this build really well. In true hill climb style we fitted bullhorn bars. A Hand Built wheelset with alloy rims suits this purpose really well too. The Brooks saddle isn’t the lightest but it looks fantastic – this was second hand from eBay to meet the budget!