Second Draft

Well, I have managed to get a cold. Serves me right for running out of petrol in the middle of Dartmoor! I was travelling so far away from my usual haunts as I had planned to meet the owners of bike hire firm who have opened a new cycle hire centre, and needed their website altering. Cycle hire is really taking off, and receiving a great deal of focus in the media. The National Lottery awarding Sustrans a huge amount of funds recently being an example. There is a lot of development in Cornwall too, with new trails and equipment available for casual riders and those looking for more adventure. Check back soon as I will keep you posted as to the developments on this site, letting you know what design is selected and when their new site will be online.

Cycle hire in Cornwall is very popular, in fact, most of the websites we had put together before we started up Pickle Design properly were for cycle hire centres! Where we are based on the North coast is particularly well populated by bikes. Wadebridge is in a great place for cycling, right in the middle of the main stretch of the Camel Trail, and that means there are a lot of hire centres here. Trail Bike Hire is located in Padstow, at the beginning of the trail though. Quite a simple design, but hopefully effective for that reason. We did a photo shoot for Jim and Chris at Trail Bike Hire last autumn, just before it got really cold wintry, still a few leaves on the trees. Only one shot has been used on the site though, the homepage, the rest will hopefully be added at a later date. They do feature in the leaflet heavily though. A friend of Marie’s did the shoot on one of Jim’s bikes, and produced some great results.

They've been a long time coming, but finally we have our own office in Wadebridge, and a fine one it is too! Jim O'Gorman, owner of Trail Bike Hire in Padstow, let us know there was an office available on Trenant Industrial Estate, and we jumped at the chance to see it. Within a very short space of time we had agreed with the owners on a lease and they kindly re-decorated for us. Meheniot and Prior, the owners, arranged for an excellent job to be done for us, and now we are in a shiny new studio. We still offer the same range of services but have taken on new designers to expand what we can provide, they are taking us in very interesting directions.