Cairney Cycles

01/06/2026

A good customer of CC is selling two cracking carbon fibre bikes. I’ve serviced both in the past braw bikes with links to marketplace details in comments

04/05/2026

Oh my, I’m booked out for a few weeks. I’m off at the end of May. I appreciate the business, it’s a one man band at Cairney Cycles so every customer helps. If you want to book a bike repair please use bikebook:

https://bikebook.co.uk/mechanic/cairney-cycles

27/04/2026

Happy Monday everyone, some great news and a wee competition for all my followers. I’ve been shortlisted in the top 8 local bike shops in the country. If you could cast a vote for me, asthe voting ends this week, each vote cast has a chance of winning some excellent prizes from Madison 🔧🤘🚲

Local Bike Shop Week Awards – voting is now open

We’ve been blown away by the response to the first-ever Local Bike Shop Week Awards, with independent bike shops from across the UK sharing inspiring examples of expertise, community impact and passion for cycling.

Following judging, 8 outstanding shops have been shortlisted. https://bit.ly/LBSW-Awards-Finalists

Voting is now open to the public, with the winning shop to be announced just before Local Bike Shop Week (3–9 May).

Everyone who votes will be entered into a prize draw to win one of 10 cycling prizes including a £200 voucher, kindly supplied by Madison.

A brilliant opportunity to celebrate the vital role independent bike shops play in keeping people riding and communities connected.

11/02/2026

🚨 Limited time offer: Connected Bosch bike supplied and fitted for only £140 🚨

The connect sytstem is an additional safety module for all Smart System bikes enabling:
- Motion sensor alarm functionality
- Bike and battery lock functionality, use phone as key.
- Stolen bike reporting and last know GPS location.
- Enables advanced mapping with Flow+ subscription.
- When purchased comes with a free years subscription (£39.99 per year after).
- Retrofit compatible with system 2 bikes.🚨

Comment below "Connect my Bosch bike" if you'd like to find out more and I'll drop you a message.

Did you know that Cairney Cycles is a registered Bosch ebike specialist, you can find me in the FlowApp. Having just completed this years training with Bosch eBike Systems, I'll be running this great promotion unill the end of March.

04/02/2026

When you get the lastest mag and it distracts you from fixing bikes, making you believe you can send it and spend hours trying to rear tyre jam bar throw 😂🙏🔧

Shout out to keeping bmx, print and action photography alive in this boring digital era. There’s something so cool about physical print. This truly is the biggest bmx magazine ever made 🤌🤯🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

04/02/2026

Mechanic sounds and sights, the absolute fear sets in when you need the drill on a bike. Even after tooling for all these years, it just requires patience and procedure.

This is a helicoil which is a small steel coil which is used repair the damaged thread. First we drill out the hole, tap new threads in the hole, screw the helicoil in and torque test for safety.

Now it’s repaired I can properly bleed the brakes and get new pads in 🔧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

03/02/2026

Mechanic sounds and sights, this week we’re not forking around! I come across this issue fairly regularly where the suspension is almost acting in reverse, this happens when the pressure gets transferred into the negative chamber. A quick lower leg removal and rebuild and the issue is sorted, if it persists we’ll look at a full fork service.

As for last weeks Shimano battery issue I’m awaiting the specialist tool to repair the bike so keen an eye of for part two!

I’m fully booked for the coming weeks so get booked in for spring servicing w/c 16th February, link in bio.

29/01/2026

Sad news, another great bike shop closing down. Sean’s an excellent bike tech who’s helped CC out many times over the years. Wishing you the best going forwards 🔧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

JG Cycles is now permanently closed.

Thank you to all for a wonderful seven years.

Anyone with a bike still in my possession please get in touch via [email protected] to he reunited.

26/01/2026

Mechanic sights and sounds, this week I wanted to show some behind the scenes hassle us mechanics need to deal with. As you can see diagnostics can take a long time that’s often unbillable to the customer, but often customers want quick and fast solutions. In this case I’ve followed diagnostics procedures, fault finding steps and literally tested the system outside of the bike. I’m going to phone up my expert tech help at Shimano to understand what we can do for the customer shy of replacing components with no obvious faults.

Any thoughts from fellow techs? Customers? Shimano?

22/01/2026

Mechanic sounds and sights, fakie hop 180 then a dropper cable change. It’s not meant to be clean it’s meant to be challenging in restrictive environments like a workshop. For droppers I’d recommend getting a bike floor stand and working on it by a table.

Bookings available w/c 2nd February. Link in bio 🔧

What trick should I land next? What repairs do you want to see? Drop in the comments? 👀