HaveBike is the pick-up and drop-off servicing company looking after your bicycle

After a bad experience trying to get his bicycle serviced, Nick Brown decided to create a company that makes looking after bikes much easier, writes Sean Russell

HaveBike understands how important an item a bicycle is to its owner (HaveBike)

People often don’t realise a bike needs looking after in the same way you look after cars,” says Nick Brown, CEO and founder of HaveBike. “A bike should be serviced and at the end of the day, you need to keep yourself safe and we all know a bike rides so much nicer when it’s freshly serviced and it doesn’t squeak and creak.”

In 2009, after the financial crash, Brown was told to take a sabbatical from the law firm where he then worked as a finance lawyer. Choosing not to sit on his laurels Brown dived into his childhood passion, bicycles, in particular mountain bikes and the maintenance of them.

“I was always the kid taking his bike apart in his mum’s kitchen, filling up the sink with all the parts to clean,” he said. “I just took the sabbatical as an opportunity to do things I enjoyed. So, I did my bike mechanics qualification, I went out to the Alps, I went out to Italy, did a bit of cycling, and got a feel for the scene.”