James Cycles London

If you’re looking for a qualified mechanic to work on your bike, I can offer repairs or parts fitting, depending on what you need. Just contact me with details of the issue and to arrange a time for the work.

As I am a ‘mobile’ mechanic, If I am available, I'm happy to come out to meet you as a ‘call out’ and deal with a simple problem, be it a inner tube or cable change, or something else. Call out charges start at £20 for Zone 1, and £25 for Zone 2 or 3.

Additionally, If you're after an accredited mechanic to support your event, be it a race or a pop up 'Dr Bike', I am City and Guilds recognised with years of experience, including for Ride London.

Contact me to discuss.

Decided that now's the time to learn to ride a bike, or you've got your goal set on cycling to work. Or maybe you're an experienced rider looking for advice on specific cycling situations.

As a cycling instructor, I deliver cycle skills sessions in line with expectations set by Transport for London, London's boroughs and the Department for Transport.

I'm also a trainer for Pedal Me, London’s on demand bike taxi and logistics service. I've helped develop a rigorous and robust cargo cycle and trailer training programme to ensure it recruits the best, most considerate and skilled riders.

Find out more here.

It’s one thing paying someone else to fix your bike. It’s another to learn to do this yourself. I love teaching people the skills to be independent and it can often be the crucial knowledge that encourages people to ride further and throughout the year.

For 1-5 people, be it a family, group of friends, or work colleagues, you can book me to come to you to teach you the fundamentals of bike repair in a relaxed, unhurried session of 2-2.5h.

If you want me to train you to fix your bike, contact me.

Cargo bikes can make great filming platforms for capturing movement on a human scale. For cycling, running or walking, a cargo bike can go places other filming vehicles can’t. Particularly when the rider is skilled and understands what a camera operator needs.

When paired with a gimbal stabilised rig and operator, the cargo bike offers the ability to almost silently get in amongst the action, producing super smooth shots.

The Tern GSD is a cargo bike built from the ground up to carry a passenger, and when a rear facing seat is added, is the perfect vehicle for reverse shots which require some pace, but not at motor vehicle speeds. Fringe benefits include having a rapid response run about for moving crew or kit around your locations!

If you need a filming vehicle and rider to assist on your production, contact me. Rates from £200 per day plus deposit.

Cycling can be enjoyed by almost everyone, and I'm grateful to have worked for some amazing organisations delivering opportunities for individuals and groups who unthinking people may assume would not be able to cycle.

From people with physical and learning disabilities participating in 'All Ability' cycling sessions, to toddlers learning to ride a balance bike, up to older people staying active, I have supported everyone to ride. Not to mention I run a regular community cycling project focused on engaging community and faith groups who are underrepresented in cycling demographics.

If you, or your organisation needs an instructor to consult on, deliver or assist your all ability sessions, then contact me.

I have always loved bicycle maintenance. As a teenager it was something I did out of necessity, but it spurred my interest. Today I love working on old unique bikes such as Alex Moulton's creations.

I hate to see old bikes go unloved and unused, so getting them back to a roadworthy state is something I take great pleasure in, given the time.

See my gallery of recent servicing and restoration work

If you want to consider me restoring your bike, contact me.

I'm James, and I am a fully accredited Cycle Skills instructor and City and Guilds Level 2 Bike Mechanic and I am the co-author of the first professional cargo bike course to be assured by City & Guilds in collaboration with logistics specialists, Pedal Me.

I work widely across all manner of cycling projects in central / north London, running the gamut from training others to ride, bike maintenance, to developing cargo bike and trailer training.

I've been passionate about bicycles since riding around the terraced backstreets and nearby country lanes of Rugby, Warwickshire by myself from a very young age on clunky old 1970's bikes. An idealised childhood maybe, but it's given me a lifelong love of the freedom riding a bicycle can bring.

I have always cycled for work (save a short period working at home that left me at my most unfit), be it in Bristol, or for the past ten years in London, and I've seen a huge change in the city's cycling culture, and I'm enthusiastic in getting and keeping people cycling, through training and keeping bikes (especially old bikes) on the road.

Before becoming a full time cycling instructor and mechanic I spent 10 years working in a wide variety of roles across health and social care, from local authorities, to national regulators to older people's charities. 

"Life's too short to ride boring bikes".