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Demonstration & Hire Bikes • Alpine Bikes

Hire Bikes

If you're looking to visit the local area but don't have your bike with you, Alpine Bikes will be able to help you on your way! Our Glasgow Outdoor Experience, Inverness Outdoor Experience and Innerleithen stores carry a fleet of hire bikes perfect to get you out and about.

The Outdoor Experience stores make use of Gary Fisher Wahoos and Marlins which are pretty handy on and off road. This means you can explore all the local parks and not tire yourself out on the roads between them. Innerleithen offers the slightly more burly Iron Horse Sachem hardtail mountain bikes as the shop is placed perfectly for you to sample Glentress and the nearby Traquair Cross Country loop.

Prices:

£20 per day
£8 per half day

When you come to collect your bike, please have one piece of photographic ID with you and a credit/debit card for security.

Details for our Glasgow Outdoor Experience, Inverness Outdoor Experience and Innerleithen stores can be found in the shop locator.

Alpine Bikes Demonstration Bikes

At Alpine Bikes, we offer you the chance to test a bike before you finally decide where you’re going to spend your money. You can demo a bike for a day on any trail you like – this will give you a complete picture as to how the bike behaves and if it’s the right one for you.

Our Fleet

Intense 6.6 - Medium, Large
Intense 5.5 - Medium, Large
Trek Session 10 - Medium
Trek Fuel EX8 - 17.5”
IronHorse 6point4 - 17”
IronHorse Sunday Expert - 17”
IronHorse Azure Expert - 19”
Ironhorse MKIII Comp - 17”
IronHorse Sachem - 2x15”, 2x17”, 2x19”
IronHorse Yakuza Kumicho - 4x17”, 2x19”
Santa Cruz Juliana - Small
Santa Cruz Heckler - Medium, Large
Santa Cruz Nomad - Medium, Large
Trek Fuel EX9 2007 - Medium
Santa Cruz Superlight - Large
Gary Fisher Superfly – Medium

Demo Pricing

Down Hill / Freeride - £50 Trail / Cross Country - £30 Hardtail - £20

Demos are charged per day Charge for demo is returned if the customer decides to buy a bike off the back of a test

To Demo One of Our Bikes

Contact your nearest branch of Alpine Bikes to arrange your demo. Not all of the demo bikes are stored in the one location, so allow for a few days for the bike to be delivered to your local store. Once delivered, the bike is built, inspected and then set up for rider weight, etc.

When you come to collect the bike, please bring with you two forms of ID; 1 photographic (for example – drivers’ licence, passport) and 1 credit or debit card. You will also be asked to fill out a disclaimer form. If you have any questions about the demo, feel free to ask any member of Alpine Bikes staff.

All we ask is that you bring back the bike by the time agreed and in the same condition that it left the store in. If there are any issues with the bike whilst out on the trails, please remember to discuss it with a member of staff.