The latest news, snaps and stories from Mango Bikes.

Bike Builder(s) Required You know those TV ads for The Royal Navy?  “If you can fix a bike, you can fix a car. And if you can fix a car you can fix a lorry. And if you can fix a lorry you can fix some giant, terrifying helicopter?” It loses something in translation.   [...] Continue Reading

Here is the bare-naked truth. Mango Bikes is growing quickly.   A little bit quicker than I’d like, but so quickly in fact that some people have started trash talking and taking things too far. Yes, our service has suffered because of the demand increases. But we’ve recruited more staff and are assembling and shipping [...] Continue Reading

Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers provide a pretty good introduction to this update.............. "I'm learning to fly but I ain't got wings Coming down is the hardest thing"   ORDERS ARE SAFE, PAYMENTS SECURE AND BIKES WILL BE BUILT. ALL BIKE ORDERS FROM APRIL ARE ALMOST COMPLETE PLEASE BEAR WITH US; OUR SYSTEMS AND SERVICE [...] Continue Reading

I was wondering how to start this blog piece then an email I get most days from a guy called Matthew Thompson dropped into my inbox. And it perfectly summed up what I need to explain right now. "Leaks. Leaks only show up when it rains. It's messy.  But at least now you know where [...] Continue Reading

Mango Bikes – Free Bike Servicing It’s a crazy, unprecedented and strange time for us all.  For society, for business and for individuals. Most importantly, it means making significant changes to our routines and habits, but as a business, we need to help where we can as well. We’re a wee bit biased, but bicycles [...] Continue Reading

Here's Why It IS All About The Colours (For Mango Bikes Customers anyway) If you can't explain what you're doing to a 5 year old (in one or two sentences and under 30 seconds) then it's all a bit confusing and you're probably bullshitting a little bit.  Or a big bit. So, either figure out [...] Continue Reading

Happy to be small, possibly stupid and definitely different One of the beautiful things about small brands is the passion within them.  As they grow and become more successful this sometimes fades and is diluted as the team expands, “departments” are formed, spreadsheets become everyday life and, other than sales, no one really knows what [...] Continue Reading

Here's why we (happily) don't do next day dispatch on bikes..... We get lots of advice from the "EXPERTS" on what we "NEED" to be doing to make Mango Bikes a slick eCommerce machine.   And, of course, how their "small" fee will be paid back in somewhere between 7 nanoseconds to next Thursday. From the [...] Continue Reading

Clothing designers people watch from neck to ankle, plane spotters never look down and I am generally found walking into lamposts/letterboxes/5 year olds in the quest to check out every bike I see. And so, last weekend, Edinburgh was on the bike spotting list.  We've dispatched quite a few bikes to the EH postcodes over [...] Continue Reading

  The process of designing a bike (at Mango Bikes anyway) goes pretty much like this…………….     The reasons or motivations to go through this………….. intricate…………… process are endless but at Mango Bikes, we’ve got some rules we (at least try to) stick to (most of the time) when deciding on new bike additions. It’s what [...] Continue Reading