Russell’s Bicycle Shed

Making Active Travel Easier

Well here is to 2024

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It’s been a weird year, what started with us closing our Sheffield Station shop after serving the users there for 12 years and we end it with a new venture, a new beginning in the Sheffield City Centre Cycle Hub.

After 2 years of false starts and what seemed like someone somewhere just not wanting the hub to open it finally opened in November. This Hub is added to our hub at Meadowhall Railway Station and access to both is a small charge of £5 per month with no commitment of any period length.

2024 has been hard work, while waiting for the City Centre to open we saw a change of staff and we have been joined by Elliot who has been a star these last few months.

We grew our ebike conversion business partnering with Swytch and did some amazing Brompton Refurbs.

Our relationship with the railway industry grew with Northern Railways and shrunk with EMR but we can see a future there everything just needs to settle down with the new government and a dedicated plan for the future.

Our delivery service grew a little and we now transport everything from desk equipment and confidential files, to beer, cider and bananas in fact lots of bananas. In the last year alone we’ve done 2500km of deliveries and this has prevented 350kg of CO2 emissions being produced. We can only hope for more being done.

We want 2025 to be an awesome year and we can only do that by providing services you want to support so if you believe in better infrastructure for bicycles, more deliveries on ecargo bike and more reliable cost effective maintenance services for you and your bicycle then we want to hear from you because we want to support you to start, and keep riding.

So here is to 2024 and we are signing off, enjoy your Christmas, fingers crossed for a new bike, and we'll see you in the new year.