Yesterday’s MEN reported that Manchester’s biggest bike shop will be opening on Wilmslow Road in March. Here’s what it says about the Edinburgh Bicycle Co-operative, which is Scotland’s longest established workers’ co-operative:

Its shops open seven days a week, selling a large number of cycle brands as well as its own Edinburgh Bicycles, and providing cycle repair workshops. Several also run cycle maintenance day classes.

Its showroom stock ranges from £200 commuter bikes to competition-ready £2,000 road bikes.

Its arrival in Manchester is part of a resurgence of interest in cycling on the part of the city’s workers, students and residents

They’ve got a prime position too: the former car garage opposite Whitworth Park, between Rusholme and the university. I can see the company doing very well in Manchester.