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Cycle Fix London
A service-led bicycle workshop and retailer in Kennington, built around expert repairs, same-day service and dependable customer care.
Visit Cycle FixBuilt from the shop floor up
We build retail businesses—and the technology behind them.
Brightside Ventures brings together hands-on retail, specialist e-commerce and purpose-built technology. Every product is shaped by the real businesses using it.
London workshop
UK e-commerce
Retail technology
Hardware R&D
One connected group
Cycle Fix London
Workshop, service and physical retail
Retail platformVelo Pulse
Cycle Parts Shop
Specialist parts and UK fulfilment
Bookings · stock · service
Orders · fulfilment · customers
OperateWe run the businesses ourselves.
LearnReal workflows reveal what matters.
BuildTechnology turns learning into leverage.
Why Brightside
Better retail technology starts with understanding retail.
Brightside is an operating company, not a theory. Our businesses deal with the same stock, service, fulfilment and customer challenges faced by independent retailers every day.
Cycle Fix London gives us the workshop and store perspective. Cycle Parts Shop gives us a national e-commerce and fulfilment perspective. Velo Pulse brings those lessons into one retail operations platform.
The result is a practical loop: run the business, spot the friction, build the fix, and prove it in the real world.
Read our approachThe Brightside group
Operating businesses. Products in development.
Two customer-facing retailers, one operations platform and one early-stage hardware project—each grounded in a useful problem worth solving.
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Cycle Parts Shop
A specialist online cycle-parts store combining deep product knowledge, custom-cut spokes and UK-wide fulfilment.
Visit Cycle Parts ShopIn development03
Velo Pulse
Retail operations software for cycle shops—connecting checkout, workshop, stock, purchasing, customer communication and online sales.
Explore the platformEarly R&D04
Tracking Device
Our ambition is to build the world’s best tracking device. The product name, specification and launch plan are still being developed.
View the projectThe Brightside loop
Built where the work happens.
We use our own operating businesses as the proving ground for better systems, clearer processes and more useful technology.
Do the work
Serve customers, manage stock, fulfil orders and run workshops day to day.
Find the friction
See where existing processes waste time, lose context or create avoidable risk.
Shape the fix
Turn real operational needs into focused tools and repeatable workflows.
Use it live
Test changes in real environments before offering them to other retailers.
Product spotlight
Velo Pulse keeps the whole store in view.
A retail operations platform being shaped alongside Cycle Fix and Cycle Parts Shop, with the cycle trade as its first focus.
- Sell and serve from checkout through to completed workshop jobs.
- Know your stock across stores, suppliers and online channels.
- Keep the conversation together across customer messages and job history.
OverviewCheckoutWorkshopStockCustomers
18Open jobs
7Orders ready
4Stock actions
ActivityOwnerStatus
Workshop serviceAlexIn progress
Click & collectFront deskReady
Supplier deliveryStockroomReceived
Illustrative interface—not live customer data.
Work with Brightside
Building something useful starts with the right conversation.
We welcome conversations with retailers, suppliers, technology partners and people interested in piloting Velo Pulse.