Contact Details for Downland Cycles Canterbury:
Telephone: 01227 479643
Website address: Downland Cycles Website
Bikes and Frames stocked at Downland Cycles:
Argon18
Argon 18 produce carbon and aluminium road racing bike frames. Popular models include the new Gallium S3, Platinum HDS, Helium PPT and Krypton FC.
Brompton
Brompton folding bikes are popoular folding bikes made in Britain. Brompton folders make ideal commuting bikes, as they are compact when folded and are reliable for daily cycling to work.
Cove
Cove make some very extreme mountain bike frames. Cove bikes are serious machines.
Dahon
Dahon are the worlds largest folding bicycle manufacturer.
De Rosa
De Rosa are an Italian master road bike builder. De Rosa bikes are avaiable in the UK from the De Rosa dealers listed below.
Felt
Felt make cool BMX frames and components.
Gary Fisher
Gary Fisher make mountain bikes with a good reputation. Gary Fisher has been developing MTBs since the early days of mountain biking.
GT
GT bikes have always been at the forefront of the BMX scene. Nowadays GT also produce fine road and mountain bikes.
ICE
ICE recumbents, (Inspired Cycle Engineering) make recumbent trikes in Cornwall.
Ideal
Complete range of bikes from this UK manufacturer.
Isaac
Isaac Carbon are specialists in carbon road bike frames and carbon components for road, track and triathlon bikes. Isaac bikes make some very high end bikes.
KHS
Huge range of cycles, mainly MTB but they also cater for road, track and trialthlon.
Lemond
Lemond bikes are Greg's Lemond's road and mountain bikes. Lemond road bikes are lightweight and fast and Lemond mountain bikes are perfect for a trail.
Look
Look cycles produce high quality carbon fibre bicycles for road and track racing. Look cycles have been making track bikes for quite some time and consequenly Look bikes have a lot of experience of making carbon fibre bike frames. Look have developed carbon fibre bike frames from track bikes to road bikes.
Omega
Custom made titanium and carbon road frames.
Optima
Great range of professional recumbents, ideal for touring and more. Most are fitted with rear suspension.
Orange
Orange mountain bikes are serious mountain bikes from the UK.
Orbea
Orbea offer beautifully designed bicycles to suit all riders.
Orbit
Bicycles tandems and bike trailers hand-crafted in Sheffield. Orbit produce tandems for adult/child combinations and full suspension off-road tandems.
Pace
Pace mountain bikes are high performance mountain bikes from the UK.
Pashley
A unique range of bicycles designed for style and function.
Sabbath
Titanium road bikes made by a small british company formed in 2006
Scott
Hi tech on-road and off-road bicycles.
Seven
Wide range of professional cycles.
Strong
Custom frame design and fabrication.
Surly
Road bikes and mountain bikes.
Tifosi
Tifosi offer custom built road bike frames from a choice of columbus tubing. Tifosi is a British bike manufacturer with a great range of road bikes.
Trek
Trek are a huge manufacturer of mountain bikes and road bikes.
Viner
Viner are an italian bike manufacturer. Viner make mountain bikes and road bikes but Viner are better known for their road bikes. Viner also make triathlon and cyclo cross bikes too.
Zinn
Zinn make custom bikes for a wide range of applications: collapsible touring bikes, road bikes, hardtail and full suspension mountain bikes, tandems, cyclocross and more. Plenty of titanium bikes!
Bike Parts and Cycling Accessories stocked at Downland Cycles:
Altura
Good value Altura touring pannier bags.
Avid
Avid disc brakes and vee brakes for mountain bikes.
Bontrager
Bontranger road wheels and components used widely by competition cyclists. Bontranger wheels are high end wheels using teh latest materials and technology.
Campagnolo
Campagnolo are an Italian manufacturer of bicycle gears, brakes and wheels. Campagnolo groupsets are reliable and range from Campagnolo's Mirage and Xenon budget groupsets to the campagnolo record groupset.
Cane Creek
Cane Creek manufacture high performance cabon fibre wheels, shocks, headsets, seatposts, brakes and accessiories. Cane Creek components for road bikes and mountain bikes.
Chris King
Chris King make precision engineered headsets, hubs bottom brackets and wheels
Columbus
Columbus tubing and tubesets are available in carbon, aluminium (eg columbus starship, airplane & zonal) and steel (columbus spirit, life, zona).
Continental
Continental Tyres are german tyre manufacturer that makes bike tyres for road bikes and mountain bikes. Continental Grand Prix and Ultrasport are good choices for road bikes, or for a cyclo-cross tyre, the continental cross country and cross attack.
Deda
Deda are a manufacturer of racing handlebars, stems and seatposts. Deda make aero bars and integrated handlebars for triathlon and time trialing.
Dia-Compe
Brake manufacturers from the BMX days.
Easton
Easton manufacture high spec lightweight forks, stems, handlebars and seatposts for road bikes.
Fizik
Fizik saddles are designed by Giro, made by San Marco.
FSA
FSA (Full Speed Ahead) make top notch components for road bikes, mtbs and bmx. FSA bike components include Carbon crank sets and deep section carbon wheels.
Hope
Hope mountain bike hardware made in Lancashire, famous for the Hope hubs.
Hutchinson
Hutchinson Tyres.
ITM
ITM (Italmanubri) produce fine quality finishing kit - handlebars, stems and seatposts.
Mavic
Mavic wheels and rims for road bikes and mountain bikes. The road bike favourite is the Mavic Ksyrium road wheel, which is a great all purpose wheel for competition cycling. Mavic have been making great wheels for years, making Mavic a market leader.
Met
Met cycle helmets.
Minoura
Home trainers, tools, bottle cages and workstands from Japan.
Race Face
Race Face mountain bike components are built to last. The Race Face LP Crank is no exception. Race Face make a wide range of mtb components, including bottom brackets, headests, handle bars, stems and seatposts.
Reynolds
Reynolds tubing has been the most popular choice in tubesets of frame builders for probably thousands of years. Most famous for their steel tubes, (such as 531, 631 and 853), Reynolds also make aluminium, carbon and titanium tubes, not to mention handlebars, stems and seatposts.
Ritchey
Ritchey make great quality cycle components.
Royce
British engineered Royce bicycle components include bottom bracket axles, hubs and tools.
Shimano
Massive range of gears and brakes. It's getting difficult to find an alternative!
Speedplay
Hi tech speedplay lightweight road pedals.
Sram
Sram make gears, brakes and groupsets and Sram offer a good alternative to the main two component brands. The Sram Force groupset is the entry level, but Sram Red groupsets are at the top end and are lighter and cheaper than other top end groupsets. Sram is definately worth a look!
Sturmey Archer
The classic sturmey archer three speed hub gear manufacturer now makes 8 speed hub gears and cranks.
Syntace
Syntace make road and mountain bike handlebars, stems and also a trail frame.
Tektro
Very nice lightweight Tektro brake levers and brake calipers. Tektro brakes are available in alloy or carbon fibre.
Time
Time bicycle components specialise in lightweight road bike components.
Topeak
Innovative cycle tools.
Vittoria
Vittoria tyres are Italian road racing tyres.
Zipp
Zipp are renowned for their composite wheelsets, which are both lightweight and aerodynamic. Zipp also produce cranks, handlebars and stems.