Evans Cycles Reviews

Name: Evans Cycles
Address: Evans Cycles, Camino Park, James Watt Way, Crawley, Sussex
Rating: 1.92

1.9 Rating 497 Reviews

22 %

of reviewers recommend Evans Cycles

About Evans Cycles:

Evans Cycles are one of the UKs largest specialist cycle retailers and we stock variety of bikes, cycling equipment and cycle clothing. The range includes mountain biking, BMX, road cycling, commuting, folding bikes and kids bikes.

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01293 574900

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Evans Cycles, Camino Park, James Watt Way, Crawley
Sussex
RH10 9TZ

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Anonymous // 01/01/2019

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“poor customer service,over phone,do not respond to emails,if you pay over £100 to have your bike repeared,they find another fault and say its your fault and you will have to pay for it,even though you gave them your bike in full working order apart from one fault,if you have an E-bike dont get Evans to repair it,they dont own up to there mistakes,Chester manager simon has made Evans go down hill,not happy with there service or complaints office and wouldnt advise anyone to use them,used them in the past but since the lockdown and the reopen of the Chester store they seem to not care about the customer anymore,i have been in retail for over 13 years and have never treated or spoke to a customer like they have,wont be taking my bike there anymore”

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Posted 4 years ago

“not happy with Evans manager simon he took over £100 for a repair i needed,after the repair there was a fault and the bike would not change gear so took it back to the Chester store, i was told it was my fault,the manager Simon said i will have to pay for the repair, as i have used them in the past when ive had a fault on my e-bike, but for some reason they have gone down hill, they dont reply to emails,answer calls,give rubbish customer service over the phone,not willing to admit there faults but would rather put the fault on the customer, they seem to charge you for a repair then damage your bike for more money and put the blame on you,there custom reations team also states it is my fault and i have to fnd more money to repair the monitor on my E-bike.I would not recommend anyone use Evans unless they want to be ripped off”

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Posted 4 years ago

“I am providing an update to my earlier post from 3 weeks ago."It all started....." Customer services set another deadline for 27th August for a replacement axle which they has initially approved my warranty claim for. The claim then became "a gesture of goodwill " and the "user error" has now moved on to "wear and tear". The dispute resolution that they referred to no longer applies- they have withdrawn from this. Their terms and conditions apparently no longer apply. They will not honour the warranty and customer services are being disingenuous in every communication. I have now been without the use of my £3500 bike for around 4 months and they are still telling me to go and buy the part elsewhere despite having this part available on other bikes in their stock. They are a disgraceful company to deal with and paying no regard to the rights of consumers set out in legislation. This company should be avoided at all costs in my view. The only apparent honourable customer services person with any moral fibre gave their view in the reviews below and resigned. Nobody should have to work in an environment where the ethos of the company creates such antipathy towards its staff as a result of their unethical and immoral trading practices.”

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Posted 4 years ago

“What went right!, so day of pick up the bike wasent made so had to wait 45 minutes for the bike to be built, riding the new Specialized 2 weeks later the arm of the pedal falls off sending me flying off the bike and badly injuring myself spoke to them they took the bike back and said they wanted to repair it 3 weeks later no update so contacted there head office to be told they want to give me a refund 2 months later still haven’t heard anything back and I am still paying for the bike through there finance I have send loads of emails to there health and safety department and not hearing anything back. Extremely disappointed I though Evans cycles would make me feel safe on the road when I explained I hurt myself the best they could do is say they will give me a refund and £50 voucher I store shocking”

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Posted 4 years ago

“Terrible service”

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Posted 4 years ago

“Dear Evans, I've had an extremely poor experience with Evans recently, peaking with the delivery of my last order. I ordered the Elite Fly bottles from Evans rather than your competition (who would have delivered not for £5.99 but for free, and FAR faster than you) because, according to the photo descriptions on your site, you were offering the white bottles with black and silver details and black and silver lids. Those bottles match my bike. What you shipped to me was white bottles with silver and big, bright red details and white lids. Those bottles do not match my bike. See attached screenshot of your product page and photo of what you shipped to me. Making this worse is the fact that you have recently started charging £5.99 to collect Web orders from your stores. When ordering from your site I would usually collect from your Maidstone store for free, but as you're now charging the same price to collect as you are to ship, there's no advantage to me to click and collect. Note than none - none - of your competition charges this much, or takes a week to ship their products. They also tend to ship products that are accurate to their descriptions. Making it worse again is that I used a Gift Card, given to me for my birthday, to purchase these items. Not only did your website fail to accept my gift card for 2 weeks because you were updating your system (you've already got the £50, so wheres the hurry in allowing me to redeem the products, eh?), but out of the £50 gifted to me I must subtract £5.99 for the shipping. You also charged £5.99 to ship the gift card to the person who gifted it to me. Thats £11.98 you have taken for "shipping" this order, and that is quite frankly disgusting. And 3 of the 5 items I ordered are not as described! I honestly feel as if Evans have made changes recently in order to distance themselves from their competition (Wiggle etc.), but you've gone in the wrong direction - making yourselves more expensive and making the customer experience worse. There is now absolutely no advantage to me, or anyone else with the internet or a copy of the Yellow Pages, to use Evans over anyone else, and I fail to see how the decision makers at Evans could justify making these changes unless their goal is drive the company into the ground and bury it under a mound of horrendous reviews. Further to that, your prices aren't remotely competitive before you pile on the bad customer experience and exorbitant shipping. And now you've taken away your Price Match service, ensuring that if someone is buying from you they will be paying more than they need to! I assume you're hoping to prey on newcomers to cycling who don't know any better than to go to the website of their local bike shop without shopping around, or ignorant family members of established cyclists who might want to purchase their loved one a gift card. You surely can't be hoping to attract to your website customers who've been cycling for more than 3 months as they have no reason to shop with you over anyone else. As to the bottles, I would return them but as they're £5.99 each it would cost me more money, time, and effort than it would be worth, even if you were to refund the cost of postage both ways. I will simply have to accept this as a mistake on your part and a lesson on mine. I have spent a significant amount of money with Evans over the past few years on a bike, clothing, accessories, backpacks, bottles, tools, workshop consumables, and spart parts - I won't be spending any more without some serious changes being made to your pricing, services, and a general respect for the fact that your customers have a choice as to where they shop (unless of course they're in possession of an Evans gift card - in that case they're well and truly stuck with you). Regards, An ex-Evans Cycles Customer”

Evans Cycles 1 star review on 28th August 2020

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Posted 4 years ago

“Paid up installments to the sum of £700+ on a £1500 bike and never recieved the bike. There is no phone number to contact them and they just give you the run around when they finally reply to email. Still waiting on my refund. Absolutely hurrendous customer service.”

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Posted 4 years ago

“I feel sorry for all those having major concern with this unethical business. They are a bunch of liars. I hope that this gives you an idea of what kind of individuals are you dealing with. To whom I may concern, Find below my resignation email. I believe that as business you must realise of the importance of: 1- Customers; are the ones who pay the lifestyles of their employees and in some cases even employees families. 2- Store employees; are the face of the company, the only asset, since without us stores would not open, bikes would not get build or repair and customers would not get served by knowledgeable, motivated assets. Overall a business will not run. Basic moral ethics have to do with distinguishing the difference between “good and bad” or “right and wrong. Very clearly the company for the past 15 weeks has not been able to distinguish the above. Furthermore , two emails I sent explaining how challenging is to work in Hendon under cero internal support, not action was taken. It’s shameful to read customer comments in Evans Cycles social media platforms as well as facing them on a daily basis. It is extremely challenging when the vast majority of customers treat you you like it is your fault that their bikes are not delivered yet, that their home delivery orders cannot be tracked in store, that their V12 finance refund has not been done or RTW (others) have not been cancelled or refunded, that they cannot get hold of anyone at head office and customer contact centre. It has come to a point that they just vomit their frustration with the company on you. As you can imagine and understand, all this has a limit. Their greetings tend to be “ where is my bike” “give me a number or email that I can contact “ “webpage says...” I cannot longer be suffering of anxiety, distress and disrespect at a workplace and a company that is soul destroying. At the time being I need time to recover my mental health and family. At the present time, I’m not mentally fit to be part of this unethical business. After, several weeks of daily harassment from customers and company, today Friday July 31st 2020, my journey with Evans Cycles has come to an end. Yours sincerely,”

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Posted 4 years ago

“Evans of Cambridge sold me a bike on 6th July promising a free first service. Only they failed to mention their intention to close the store on 14th August. When I emailed to ask about the service, they told me to take it to Milton Keynes, a 100 mile round trip (200 if I have to leave it). This is just walking away from what they promised. Of course I will have to pay a local store to do what they promised when they sold the bike.”

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Posted 4 years ago

“Big thanks to Dan at Evans' Mortimer Street, branch in London's West End today (Sunday). Had two broken spokes and was sorted out in thirty minutes for the long ride home. He also went to the trouble of truing the wheel to perfection and was really obliging throughout. A reminder that Evans has some good people and that personal service is still there.”

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Posted 4 years ago

“I I visited the Crawley warehouse store and received outstanding customer service. Not only were the staff genuinely interested in my bike and requirements, but they provided the small part I needed without charging me as it was described as a “workshop spare part”. A complete contrast with my local bike shop who were totally disinterested.”

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Posted 4 years ago

“Evans, sell me a bike. "Lost it in transit" after 2 months of waiting and 5 weeks after holding my money. Receive a refund on the same day I notice the bike I paid for goes live back on sale on the website. Refunding me and then reselling the item on the market the same day because they said they don't have the item?!? Evans told me to take my money and go away, come back in the Autumn when they have more stock. Talked to like sh**! How can you actually treat customers so badly.. They wouldnt dare speak to me on the phone or in person like that. Just hide behind emails and no attempt to get me a bike solution of any description, which was possible. Something doesnt sit right here Evans. Big enough to not care about individual customers. More than 30 years my family have used Evans. Not any more. Disgusted!”

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Posted 4 years ago

“The mechanics have broken 2 of my bikes. On one they threaded a screw hole on the frame and rather than fix it put in a small screw thats was only just screwed in, If you need a bike fixed don’t use them.”

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Posted 4 years ago

“Do not buy a a bike from Evans the worst company I have ever dealt with”

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Posted 4 years ago

“I brought my new bike to the shop for a check up, and they broke my bike. They blamed my bike to be "low-end" (which is, according to the sales person, of great quality and should last longer than other brands) and therefore is prone to break down. I left it for repair and they told me it will return in 14 days. Today is the 14th day and when I called, they told me they are still waiting for the manufacturer to reply and do not know when it will be back. Very unprofessional technicians and very un-constructive customer service. They are not trying to solve the problems and just repeat the words such as "it is completely out of my hand", or "this is the policy". They do not give any useful advice or information to try to soothe the customer. Very very bad service. Do not recommend. Will not buy from them again.”

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Posted 4 years ago

“Poor service. Bought my mountain bike at Evans Cycles in January and took it it in for it's first service. Bike was running perfectly beforehand yet when I went to collect it was told it they had found a common manufacturers fault and that they would make a claim for and replace the part. They had to order the part which they said would be max 2 weeks. I was able to take the bike back until the part arrived but on the very next ride the bike suddenly wouldn't go into the 2 high gears. This fault only occurred after the service by them which was the "fault" they said they had discovered. The bike should have been fixed at the beginning of March but they never got the part in nor did they ever contact me. Covid restrictions then came in at the end of March so the bike was left with this new fault throughout the lockdown period. I tried contacting them when they reopened but no one answered the phone. I had to drive 30mins to the local store only to find out that they have had the part in all this time. I then had to come back on the Saturday for them to replace the part which they said would be a 2 hour job so I said I would come back the following day to collect. However, I was told not to come in until they rang me in case there had been any issues. I waited a week with no emails or phone calls from them so I had to drive in once again to speak to them. They then discovered the mechanic had put that part on someone else's bike and I was told they would fix the issue but to come back next day again. Because I then complained about the situation they took a wheel off one of their other bikes and replaced it. I took the bike out for a ride a couple of days later and discovered it now has a creaking noise on or near the head stem. Again they are not answering their phone nor replying my emails”

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Posted 4 years ago

“It all started one day on my usual 20 mile cycle home from work when I looked up at the Glen and thought that I was getting too old for this four mile, steep climb every day. There had to be an easier way. Having researched the market I then hired an ebike from a great we company to test it out. The test was successful so I opted to buy an expensive e-bike from Evans. That where things started to go downhill, if you pardon the pun. I bought an ebike from Evans less than a year ago at a cost of around £3500. The purchase did not go particularly smoothly with the bike not being delivered on time and going missing somewhere. Despite that, I had communication from Evans asking me to go to the shop to collect it. I phoned the store to confirm the appointment but was advised that the bike was not actually there. Customer services investigated and found the bike. It turned up some days late and I picked it up. So far, pretty mediocre service and these things sometimes happen. At the first service, I asked the store to check out a noise that sounded like a biscuit tin full of spanners being dragged behind the bike when I reached a certain speed. I was told that this was "normal chatter". Having ridden other bikes of the same year and type as mine, I did not experience that noise with any other bike. I just lived with that. Then the front Maxle became faulty whilst the bike was under warranty - that's the axle that holds the wheel on. I contacted the shop who asked for photos and then for me to send the part to them. I asked how long it would take to have the new part returned and was advised that it would be around three days once my old damaged part had been received. I sent it off and was advised that the warranty claim had been approved. At that point, I was asked if I would like a cheaper, non-quick release replacement like the guy in the bike shop used but I said that I'd prefer the original type as a direct replacement. When I did not hear within the specified time for the replacement, I chased it up to be "reminded " that this was a gesture of goodwill in a communication that had a hint of attitude. It has now been over two months without the axle of my bike and Evans are predicting that it will be the end of this month before the part is in stock. So within the first year, I will have been without the replacement axle for my bike for around 3 months. I then contacted customer services who blamed the fault on user error despite numerous public posts and advice from another bike shop that this happpens all the time with these. When the length of delay became clear, I asked for my axle to be returned to use meantime only to the told that it had been destroyed. I asked for one to be harvested from a bike in their stock. There was no response to that. Customer services offered to solve the problem by telling me that there were none of these parts in stock and advising me that I should source and buy one myself and that they would then refund me. Having already been given different and conflicting information I was not confident that this would be done, particularly given the attitude of the customer services person that I was dealing with. I have reached the end of the road with customer services apparently which culminated in the member of staff stating that I had over-tightened the part that led to the damage. That is quite a bold and unfounded claim to make since this was the first front wheel puncture that I had had. The wheel was put on and the axle tightened by whoever built the bike. Who do you suppose that was? My options are apparently to buy the part myself and receive a refund or wait for almost another month and get the part and a voucher when it is in stock. A voucher? To spend in Evans and receive this level of service? One can hardly contain the excitement. So the next option may well be court action but even when asking for the relevant company details, customer services didn't know what information I was asking for. It was part of the email that I sent. I pointed this out. The customer services person then emailed to say that the system was on hold, could I send my questions again and they would be responded to in three working days - simply to give me details of the company with a view to raising an action. I am underwhelmed by the attitude and service provided by this company but don't let my experience influence you. You can make your own decisions as to whether you wish to deal with this company. A one star rating is a star too many for my experience.”

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Posted 4 years ago

“Hendon store never answers the phone (call attempts now 50+) and no email, so cannot arrange to pick up my bike, which is essentially being held hostage by them now. If Evans Cycles cannot provide the required services relating to selling so many bikes, they should probably not continue selling. Not good enough.”

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Posted 4 years ago

“Literally go anywhere else for your bike if you can. Evans are an absolute disgrace of a company! They will get everything wrong and not help you fix it. Their phone lines are closed indefinitely and they take 2 weeks to respond to emails. And they will pass you around to various customer representatives. I ordered my bike on 8 May. No signs that it will arrive anytime soon as it has now gone out of stock.”

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Posted 4 years ago

“These guys should be ashamed of themselves. They handled Covid about as well as Boris Johnson. Little of no comms, delayed response and 3 month for delivery. Shambles.”

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Posted 4 years ago

Evans Cycles is rated 1.9 based on 497 reviews