Taking it all Online

Over the past few years we've spent a lot of time developing our online presence - and the returns show in the thousands of hits we get every month.

Everyday we get phone calls from all over the country from visitors browsing our shop catalogue online and often making purchases or seeking advice. It was inevitable then that we'd take things to the next level and launch an online shop where visitors can browse and purchase all from the comfort of their own desks. You only realise just how much stock you have in a bike store when you undertake such a task! It's been weeks of uploading editing and checking, but finally a fully finctional version of our webshop is up and running smoothly. Even though there's still more stuff to add...

What's motivated such a move? Well getting to your local bikeshop is not always convenient for the buyer. We have many customers who require something urgently but can't get out to us or their local shop - so logically we'd want to make it easy for them. That's why shopping on the web is so huge overseas - and it's getting stronger here too.

Sure we want to sell more stuff but we're not trying to put any local bikes shops out of business. We're adding a convenient aspect to cycle sales in SA. Maybe you can't get what we have at your local shop. Maybe you need it for this weekends ride and getting to a physical shop is not possible. Visit out webshop, select your goodies and enter your card details on our secure server (or print your order form and do a bank transfer) and we'll ship it out to you as soon as humanly possible.

There are of course restraints to getting stuff out overnight so if orders are in and paid for by 2pm we'll get it out that same day so long as the stuff's in stock. Some stuff will ship for FREE via tracked parcel post, but anything overnight will cost extra in most cases.

I'm pretty excited about this new aspect of BikeHut and we hope that it will serve the cycling community in SA well in the years to come. So buy local not from overseas vendors!