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Proposal · prepared for The Bike Cellar · 19 May 2026

A few specific fixes for thebikecellar.co.uk.

I rebuild small-business websites in my spare time when I can see they are leaving conversions on the table. Three things stood out on mobile when I looked at The Bike Cellar, with twenty years of trading under Craig and Angie, Ayesha now on the board, and the Trek Preferred Retailer badge sitting unspoken on the home page. Three findings below, then a working rebuild you can click through at /preview/.

Address · 11 Radford Park Road, Plymstock, Plymouth PL9 9DG Region · Plymouth, Devon Trading since · 1994 (Craig & Angie since 2005)
11 Radford Park Road · Plymstock · since 1994

Plymstock's family bike shop, the Bike Cellar bench, twenty years on. Open the live preview ↗

Three findings · from a 10-minute walk through the live site

What I saw on thebikecellar.co.uk, and what the rebuild does about it.

Looked at on mobile, on a 3G profile, on the kind of phone the Plym Valley path cyclist pulls out of a back pocket to check shop hours mid-ride. Each finding is something a passing rider checking your site on a Saturday morning will notice in the same ten seconds I did.

01

The homepage title tag is literally "The Bike Cellar | The Bike Cellar" and the meta description is the four-word string "The Bike Cellar Limited", so a Google search for Plymouth bike shops shows neither Plymstock, Trek, nor the twenty-year family-run story.

What I saw. View source on thebikecellar.co.uk and the <title> element is the shop name duplicated either side of a pipe. The meta description below it is the bare company name with "Limited" tacked on. Four words. Nothing about Plymstock, nothing about Trek Preferred Retailer, nothing about the twenty years on Radford Park Road, nothing about the workshop. A Google search result for "bike shop Plymouth" surfaces a snippet that is indistinguishable from a placeholder. The 145 reviews at 4.8 stars are invisible to the click decision.

What the rebuild does about it. The rebuild ships a real, written title and a meta description that names Plymstock, the Trek Preferred Retailer tier, the workshop, and the twenty-year tenure under Craig and Angie. The text is short enough to fit the Google snippet without truncation and specific enough that someone searching for a bike shop in the South Hams sees something worth clicking. Same treatment on the about and workshop pages.

Title · "The Bike Cellar | The Bike Cellar" → a real Plymstock + Trek + workshop title
02

The homepage carries zero structured data, so Google has no machine-readable signal of the address, the opening hours, the Trek Preferred status, the 4.8-star rating, or the husband-and-wife founding.

What I saw. A grep of the rendered home page HTML for application/ld+json returns nothing. No LocalBusiness, no BicycleStore (the schema.org subtype that exists for exactly this kind of shop), no openingHoursSpecification, no geo block, no aggregateRating despite a 4.8 out of 5 across 145 reviews on Birdeye, a 4.9 out of 5 on ThreeBestRated, and a Cyclescheme retailer record. The Open Graph card meta is also absent, so every share in WhatsApp, Facebook or a cycling-club Slack unfurls as a blank tile.

What the rebuild does about it. The rebuild ships proper BicycleStore + LocalBusiness JSON-LD with the full Radford Park Road address, geo coordinates, all seven opening-hours specifications (including the 17:00 Saturday close and the Sunday closure), telephone in E.164, email, aggregateRating wired to the real 4.8 from 145 reviews, foundingDate of 1994, founder Person blocks for Craig Sheffield and Angie Moore, and a FAQPage block for the Cyclescheme and e-bike firmware questions. Open Graph + Twitter Card meta point at a real photo of the showroom floor.

Schema · zero JSON-LD → BicycleStore + LocalBusiness + FAQPage + AggregateRating
03

The about page introduces Craig, Angie, Ayesha, Lee, Kitt and Isla by name and biography but carries no portrait of any of them, only four small 595-pixel shots of the showroom shelves.

What I saw. On the live /about-the-bike-cellar/ page, six members of the family and bench team are named and given a paragraph of biography each, including the line about Ayesha "literally growing up in the store" and Lee leaving twenty-five years as a headteacher to become a mechanic. Every paragraph reads like the kind of story a Plymstock walk-in would buy on. There is not one photograph of any of them on the page. The four images that are there are 595 pixels wide, of the shop floor, with no captions, no names, no context. The strongest part of the business is being told in text that nobody scrolls to read.

What the rebuild does about it. The rebuild leads the heritage block with the names, places the existing showroom photos as a captioned portfolio strip that does its proper job (showing the trade, not standing in for the people), and treats the two-era ownership history (1994 prior owners to 2005 Craig and Angie taking the shop on to 2021 Ayesha as director) as an honest three-step timeline rather than a single date in the footer. When you have a portrait of Craig at the bench or Angie front-of-house, drop it in here in fifteen minutes, the slot is ready.

About page · 6 named, 0 photographed → heritage band + timeline + family card grid
Pricing · fixed

One fixed price for the rebuild. One monthly figure for keeping it cared for.

£2,000
Fixed for the rebuild. One-off. The full build from research through DNS cutover, both pages and the underlying BicycleStore + LocalBusiness schema ship together.
£150
Per month for hosting and ongoing care. Vercel hosting, SSL, monthly content updates (new Trek 2026 stock, workshop price changes, schema upkeep), one analytics email a month.
£50
Optional. Embedded chatbot trained on your FAQs. The kind of Cyclescheme, e-bike battery and "do you fit it the same day" question your shop floor answers ten times a day, answered on the site instead.

No retainer. No contract. No in-person visits, fully remote from Switzerland.

  • One round of revisions before launch.
  • DNS cutover handled (you keep the domain in your name).
  • 30 days of post-launch tweaks at no extra cost.
  • Source code handed over on day 60 (you own everything).
Next step · one email

If the proposal lands.

If the proposal lands, reply with two or three 20-minute slots in the next ten days for a video call. I take on three South West builds this quarter, and first confirmed wins the slot. If I do not hear back by 29 May, the proposal site comes down.

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