Looking for a place to go for a festive tipple?

Then have a ganders at this site and get some pointers

‘where the fuck should I go for drinks’.

Christmas opening times

We will be closing on the 22nd December at 18.30.

Christmas 2011

And we will re open on the 29th December at 10.30.

May you have a very, very, very merry christmas

Lots of love, Rob, Cassius and Georgie

Generation Y

Thoughts for the Future

Freedom fighter, travel writer;
Beach bum, doley scum;
Work the land, stable hand;
Radio star, pop up bar?!;
Cake baker, artist (faker);

Cat care, creative lair;
Cave dweller, wine cellar;
Inspire youth, super sleuth;
Child care, seduce an heir;

Anything, but an office job, please.

Bicycle parts for Sale

bike

parts

for Sale

Check out the eBay shop

Turbo Trainer- For Sale

...and they're off.....

No sooner had man created a machine capable of moving him from A to B, he had devised something to keep the machine stationary.

Turbo trainers are a good way of getting some undisturbed miles in, especially if you want to get some speed up and get the heart racing. They are also pretty good if you live in the city and it takes you a while to get out somewhere decent to ride, as it means you can still get an hour in, come the evening.

They are also good for ponces who are scared of the wind and rain and prefer to ride inside with the central heating on and Strictly Come Dancing on the wide screen.

Joking aside, turbo trainers are a great way to keep fit, and keep your other half sweet (no more disappearing out of the house for hours at end).

The route to a fitter, better you

We have these cyclops Fluid rollers for sale for £45.00, you can collect from the shop Wed-Sat- (would make a superb Christmas present).

Derek Hill oil painting- For Sale

Many years ago Rob was asked to document (photograph) Derek Hills’ studio up in Sunderland, this ‘documentation’ was meant to take a few weeks. 2 years later Rob finished the project and Mr Hill bestowed Rob with one of his paintings. Rob has had the oil painting forming a background to 2 decades of his life and has decided it’s time to move on and has put it up For Sale. There is no space to do it justice in the shop and well sometimes it’s time to move on isn’t it?

You can view some of Dereks more recent work at Saatchi online and you can see the painting itself by clicking here (when you see it in the flesh it gives you strange little tingles – I wish I could afford it).

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Stories that warm the heart

Nothing brings me more joy than a person with with a good story (and a dog). Some people have loads of stories and they deliver them in a way that makes you hang onto very word. I used to work with a bloke who had a lot of tales, I reckon about 70% of his tales were as long as the Mersey tunnel- I didn’t mind that they were fabricated, because they were entertaining and we worked the Tuesday night shift in a backstreet boozer and their was nothing to do other than tell tales.

We had a bloke in here earlier this week selling a bike who had a good tale – he had come in to see if we would be interested in buying his father in laws’ bike.

The bike was pretty old, it looked like it was from the late 40′s/early 50′s.

J Clarkes of Newcastle

His father in law had gone on a tour of Britain, with a view to staying in every Youth Hostel scattered across this great land. This would have been in the early 50′s and the roads would have barely had any cars and it must have been silent, but for the sound of the birds in the trees, it must have been great. But please don’t allow yourself to carried away with nostalgia, as something truly terrible happened, something happened that we wouldn’t  imagine when we dream of the past. His bike got nicked. Yes, stolen. The 1950′s wasn’t all peaceful roads and busty blonde bombshells on the big screen, they had bicycle thieves then to.

Determined to remain undeterred by this hiccup, he marched himself down to a local bike shop (in Newcastle) and bought himself a new bike, a J Clarkes. The tour continued and he carried on lovingly riding this bike for another 63 years, and that was his tale.

Do you happen to be looking for a DE Vere 504 Ilford Ilfospeed Multigrade Head Enlarger

Well stop your search right there.

bigger the better

We have one for sale and it’s on eBay with 4 days left, (further technical details can be found on eBay).

Do you happen to be looking for a Mamiya C220 Medium Format Camera?

Well stop yourself in your tracks my friends, slow it right down, because we have exactly what you are looking for.

makes good snapshots when in the right hands

It’s in very good condition and you can have a punt and find out more by clicking here.

Have you been incessantly searching for a vintage light box that was an X ray box in a former life at Guys hospital?  Thought your requirements were too specific? Felt like you were never going to find what you were looking for? Felt like their was nowhere left to turn? It’s time to leave all that behind you, the anguish is over. We have one and you can buy it here.

35mm slide film, also available

I suspect you might be wondering why a bike shop happens to be selling a load of camera gear; well the truth of the matter is that Rob used to be a photographer, he used to take snaps for a living…

Anybody that has visited Sargent and Co will know that the space is all consuming, there isn’t an inch spare in the whole shop, bicycles and bicycle related memorabilia fill every line of vision – Some might call Rob’s fascination with bicycles “obsessive”, “fanatical”, “eccentric”, the funny thing is, Rob displayed all of these qualities when he was a photographer, and he  immersed himself in all things ‘camera’, and thus he has plenty of photography paraphernalia he wants to sell.

He is one of lifes’ collectors, some people just are (did you know that people who collect teddy bears are called arctophiles?!)

One of Robs' pictures- bella

Let’s go ride

I went to Whitby last weekend. Whitby is great and just 15 miles from the North York Moors National Park, which is a beautiful spot to go riding, you have hills, the coast, fantastic views, decent pubs and food stops. I am going to stop myself there because the average Yorkshire man already thinks s/he is spawned from the land superior, and I don’t want blow their trumpets too much. But yeah the Moors and the Dales, never disappoint.

Whitby Bay (birthplace of Dracula!)

Enjoy Britain.

Picture courtesy of Andrew Roberts.