Church Street, Woodbridge

Every bike in here is on show until somebody rides it out.

Thirty-one bikes on the floor at Church Street and a workshop bench behind them. Both are on this page.

Five miles from the door to the Rendlesham gravel.

Test rides go out Tuesday to Saturday. Leave a card behind the counter, take anything off the floor, and bring it back muddy. We would rather you found out on the sand than in the shop.

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On the floor this week

Thirty-one bikes in the shop. Six of them are hung here with their wall labels, the way we hang everything. The rest are through the back and you are welcome to go and look.

Six on the wall

Olive drab steel gravel bike with bronze fittings and tan-wall tyres, mud still on the down tube

£2,650

Gravel · Reynolds 853 steel · 2026

Built for the Sandlings. The mud on the down tube came free with the test ride.

TBS.2026.04 In the shop

Raw brushed titanium road bike with deep-section black carbon wheels

£4,980

Road · Raw titanium · 2026

Unpainted, so every scratch it earns stays on the record.

TBS.2026.11 One left, 54cm

Oxblood step-through town bike with chrome mudguards, front rack and a honey leather saddle

£1,290

Town · Lugged steel step-through · 2026

Takes the Thoroughfare, the towpath and a week of shopping without complaint.

TBS.2026.02 Three in the shop

Chalk blue lugged steel all-road bike with polished silver lugs and cork bar tape

from £3,400

All-road · Lugged steel · Built to order

We draw it round you. Nine weeks from the first measurement to the first ride.

TBS.2026.HB Built to order

Matte black alloy hardtail with acid green decals and muddy knobbly tyres

£2,150

Trail · Alloy hardtail · 2026

Sized for the forest black route and the ride home along the verge.

TBS.2026.07 Two in the shop

Petrol teal electric longtail cargo bike with an oak deck, bench pad and front basket

£4,250

Electric · Longtail cargo · 2026

Two children to Farlingaye and back on one charge, Bredfield hill included.

TBS.2026.09 One left

The Bench

One bench, two mechanics and a diary anyone can read. Pick the work, pick the day, and we will tell you the hour it goes back on the floor. Parts get quoted before we fit them, never after.

What needs doing

Not sure which one? Bring it in and we will put it on the stand for nothing.

Which day

Closed Sunday and Monday

What time it comes in

Struck-through means taken

Pick a day first.

Who to call

Your name

Phone

The bike

Anything we should know

The workshop at dusk: a wheel in the truing stand, spanners hung in order on the pegboard

Who does the work

Ross has been building wheels since he was seventeen and still laces every one on the same stand his old boss left him. Nell came here from a frame builder in Bristol and takes anything with a bottom bracket that sounds wrong.

Between them they see about forty bikes a week. They will also tell you when something is not worth fixing, which is the part most shops leave out.

Ross in a canvas apron beside the hanging wheels — **Ross Aldridge**
Wheels, frames, opinions

Grease-marked hands setting a rear derailleur with a hex key — **Nell Cathcart**
Gears, hydraulics, wiring

The Deben at low water, boats leaning on the mud, reeds and a wide grey Suffolk sky

The Mud Index

Ross rides these three on a Thursday and writes down what he finds. Accurate until it rains, which around here buys you about a day.

Deben Wall to Kyson Point

6 miles · Saltmarsh path and shingle · Flat, and it lies to you about the wind

Thursday reading Claggy

Rendlesham Forest loop

14 miles · Sand and forest gravel · Drains almost as fast as it fills

Thursday reading Fast

Sutton Hoo to Shottisham

11 miles · Lanes and one byway · The byway is where it goes wrong

Thursday reading Puddled

Baked Fast Puddled Claggy Underwater

Church Street, behind the Tide Mill

Two minutes from the station and about ninety seconds from the quay. There is a rack outside and a kettle inside. If the shutter is down and the light is on, knock, because that means Ross is building a wheel and lost track.

The Bike Shed
14 Church Street
Woodbridge, Suffolk IP12 1DH 01394 496 012 bench@thebikeshed.example

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The dark green shopfront on a Georgian terrace, two bikes leaning on the pavement