mechanic

Graham Beard

Graham grew up in Bournemouth and has been riding bikes for as long as he can remember and racing them since 1996 (he still has his raceplates and result sheets from his first year of racing the Matchams series - they are in the shop so if you were at those events just ask him and he can dig them out for you). He did most of a mechanical engineering degree at UWE in Bristol before realising that bikes were a much more fun way of making a living. He started working for Cyclexperience in the Brockenhurst hire centre as a vacation job back in the year 2000 before graduating to the Shop in Brockenhurst and going full time in the bike industry around 2004. He left Cyclexperience in 2005 to go and live and work in Lancaster for The Edge Cycleworks and had an ace couple of years riding in the lake district as well as trips to Scotland, Wales and Spain. Having Qualified as a Cyctech Level 2 mechanic in 2006 he left The Edge early in 2007 to do some global travel before returning home to Dorset later that year. As soon as he was back down south he approached Ross at Cyclexperience about opening a hire centre and retail store in the Purbecks and a few months later the Wareham shop was opened and he's been there ever since.

Q&A

How would you describe yourself? Tall, bearded, slightly tubby, bike industry lifer.

Other hobbies or interests? RC cars & boats.

What are you looking forward to? Riding my bike more and getting some fitness back.

sales

Simon Jempson

Simon is a Dorset local who has also been riding and racing mountain bikes for longer than he cares to remember. He raced against Graham at those Matchams races back in the 90s and more recently has been riding Singlespeed bikes and has raced at the European and World Singlespeed Championships. He has a degree in Business Studies and after working in Finance and Corporate Sales made the switch to the Cycle industry in 2010 after spending a year living, working and riding in Vancouver. Having met Graham, and Paul at Cyclexperience, he joined the team in 2012 focusing on bicycle, part and accessory sales.

Skills

• In depth product knowledge

• Sales advice

• Bike Fitting

Current Bikes

• Jones Ti singlespeed

• Jones Steel geared

• Kona Honzo Ti

• Genesis Equlibrium Ti

mechanic

Paul Axon

Paul is Wareham born & bred, he first took up cycling in the 1980's when mountain biking was born deserting his Raleigh Chopper for something more enjoyable! During the early 90's Paul was a team member of locally based bicycle component manufacturer Royce UK's mountain bike team competing in races all over the UK. More recently he has been concentrating on the road bike scene and has amassed numerous Alpine & Pyrenean Etape du Tours, The Marmotte, The Mallorca 312Km, the Fred Whitton challenge, Velothon Wales, Ride London, numerous other 100 mile sportives and his most recent challenge in April 2017 to add to his palmares is the Famous iconic monument the Paris - Roubaix which is a 172 km Sportive including all 29 cobbled sections (60km of them!) which are tackled by the Pros the following day. Paul still currently competes in the local mountain bike race series and has also completed the End to End MTB race in the Isle of Man finishing in the top 50 from 1200 starters
Having spent over 30 years in the Nuclear and MOD industry, Paul started working for Cyclexperience part time in 2008, Paul has now fulfilled his desire to play with bikes every day, hardly a day passes without riding his bike somewhere!!
Paul is also an active member of the local cycling club The Purbeck Peloton so if you need any advice or information about anything local or bike related feel free to pop in for a chat!

Skills

• HNC Mechanical & Production Engineering

• Mechanic extrordinaire

• Local trails and routes knowledge

• Decades of knowledge of riding, racing and repairing bikes

Current Bikes

• Trek Procaliber 9.7

• Kinesis Gran Fondo V2 Disc

• Giant TCR SLR

• Giant Defy Disc