The latest news, snaps and stories from Mango Bikes.

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

Some animals hibernate as part of their winter routine, but it seems my blogging took a summer siesta.  I didn’t forget, it was a choc-a-block busy period (good problem) and I just hoped it would write itself (unlikely solution). In 2017 Mango hit a bump, like those potholes that send you head-over-handlebars. It was a […]

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I’ve got 3 parasitic little bundles of joy (kids) who are generally a lot of fun. Generally. Angus, the eldest and only boy, is 5 years old and my number 1 hero.  He enjoys lots of stuff but his 3 main aims in life involve building Lego, riding a bike and having fun.  What a […]

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