Planetary 14 bikes logo

2nd April 2023 – Exciting news regarding e-bikes… https://planetary14bikes.co.uk/electric-bike/

Planetary 14 Bikes is an independent bicycle service and repair business based in Berwick upon Tweed.

We cover North Northumberland and the Eastern Scottish Borders.

The owner, Norman Gauld, has 31 years of continuous experience within the cycle trade. Having worked in various shops (including a national giant), you may be confident that he has a comprehensive knowledge about bicycles.

If you just need a simple repair or a full blown rebuild, then he can help.

Operating from a van, he will come to you at your home or place of work to make an assessment of the condition of your bike. He’ll inform you as to what remedial work is required and, if the cost is acceptable, take it away to do that necessary work.


We aim to make life easier for you.

This is the planetary 14 bikes service van which we use to pick up and drop off your bike.
The P14B service van.

Are you short of time? Is it a hassle cramming a bike into your small car? Rather not get your nice upholstery spoiled by dirt and oil?

For your convenience, P14B operates a pick up and drop off service.

We’ll come to you and make an assessment of your bike to find out what work needs to be done. We’ll provide you with an estimate of the cost there and then and, if that is acceptable to you, we’ll take the bike away to do that work.

Once completed, we’ll contact you to arrange its return.

Occasionally, some repairs and adjustments can be made immediately at your home but that depends on the complexity of the job and whether or not we have the appropriate parts and tools in the van.

Call or text us on 07546 937700 to arrange a pick up at your convenience

We can’t always answer straight away. We’re either driving or up to the eyes in technical bike stuff. If that’s the case, please leave a voicemail or send a text message and we’ll get back to you as soon as we can…

Just so you know, we don’t have any space to which the public has access. Google insists we have a shop but we don’t. We operate from a van and our workshop.

Click on https://planetary14bikes.co.uk/service-repair/ for more information.


This is the city and guilds logo denoting that Iam a level 2 qualifies bicycle technician.

I hold a high level Cycle Technician qualification from the global leader in skills development and accreditation. This, combined with over 30 years experience in the cycle trade, is your assurance of quality work.

The Cytech logo denotes that I hold a qualification with this training body as well.

Facebook logo.

We’re on Facebook. Search ‘Planetary 14 Bikes’.


Electric Bikes

If you’re not sure of the laws pertaining to the use of e-bikes, please click on the link below. Ignoring, or being unaware of these laws, could see you getting points on your motor vehicle driving licence.

https://www.gov.uk/electric-bike-rules

All e-bikes supplied by us comply with these regulations.

Finding hills a bit of a struggle?

Want to explore further afield for the same effort?

P14B is also the authorised supplier and service agent for Wisper Electric Bikes and also Volt Electric Bikes.

We cover North Northumberland and the Eastern Scottish Borders.

Prices currently start from a very reasonable £1,499.00.

We have a couple of demonstrator e-bikes that we will bring for you to try at home.

Seriously, have a go on one. You’ll be amazed.


If you would like a longer demo ride on an e-bike ;

go electric logo .  They hire electric bike in north Northumberland.
A picture of a go electric hire bike overlooking the cheviot hills.
Excellent for easily getting you to the middle of nowhere…

Electric assisted mountain bikes for hire.

Our friends Tristan and Martin over at GoElectric have proper mountain e-bikes to hire so you can go and explore the hills and trails of Northumberland.

Two go electric hire bike on a trail in the cheviot hills.
Take a friend and go into them there hills….

Being the Splendid Chaps they are, they will deliver the e-bikes to you, explain how they work, and then pick them up when you have completed your ride – Easy Peasy.

They have bases both in Wooler and Seahouses.

Click on https://www.goelectrichire.co.uk/ to go to their web page for lots more information and to make a booking…


Bikes fitted with hub gears.

picture of a german built Rohloff hub gear.
Rohloff Speedhub 500/14

For those people who don’t get on with derailleur gears, or simply want something better that is easier to clean, more reliable in operation and needs much less maintenance, we at P14B assemble bikes fitted with an internal gear hub system called the Rohloff Speedhub. It is superb German engineering.

A dawes bike fitted with a rohloff hub gear and butterfly  handlebars. It's one that I built.
20″ Dawes Discovery 201 fitted with a Rohloff Speedhub 500/14

Other companies assemble bikes fitted with them too but, because of the way we do it, ours generally have a price tag literally hundreds of pounds less than theirs…

Our Rohloff bikes start at around £2,000.

These Rohloff equipped bikes used to be priced on a par with high end derailleur bikes but, as time has gone on and the price of those such bikes have increased dramatically, (some now in excess of £15,000 – eeek!), ours are now priced on a level with much lesser specc’ed derailleur bikes. Consequently, our Rohloff builds are now very good value for money.

We have many years experience in servicing Speedhubs so oil changes, cable replacement, sprocket changes, rim replacement – not a problem. All done with genuine parts to Rohloff specification.

A Rohloff Speedhub is a planetary gear system with 14 speeds for use in bikes.

Click https://planetary14bikes.co.uk/rohloff-bikes/ to go to the relevant page.


Sturmey Archer.

We’re looking into making a bike fitted with Sturmey Archer hub gears. more of that as it happens.


Board games, made in Northumberland.

We also design and assemble easy to learn and fun to play board games.

picure of a Northman board game.

Our sister business is on a mission… to facilitate a way of getting people (young and old alike) to put their phones down, sit around a table, then talk to each other and share a pizza.

Pizza is optional – having fun is unavoidable…

https://planetary14bikes.co.uk/board-games/


Fridge magnets and key rings.

We make fridge magnets and key rings for you to sell in your business as souvenir.

They are also ideal give-away items to promote your business or event.

We can use images we altready have on file or, if you want something specific to you, feel free to supply us with some of your own.

Don’t have any suitable images or logos? We can design something for you.

Contact us for more details and prices.