Ride Thru

Once upon a time there was a bike café. It served excellent beer, Mediterranean-based menus and had a top-level bike workshop and premium bike shop.

This place was called Mud Dock and was definitely the place to go for a lunchtime perv on bikes from school, and later a fun place to drink and eat. I like to think that Bristol led the way in the bike shop/workshop/café scene and that Mud Dock was the model that others would follow. This may not be strictly true in any way, but this is my blog so I can say what I like.

The point is that the trend is taking off like a skydiver heading to the edge of space with similar concepts appearing right left and centre. London’s Look Mum No Hands has recently become famous with the help of the ITV Cycle Show that was based there, and there are others, including the more elite Rapha Club across London.

Other places have also cottoned on to the fact that cyclists also like food, in various ways, and the trend seems to have come all the way back to Bristol again with the opening of Roll for the Soul in the city.

I will be heading back at the earliest opportunity to check it out.

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