hi there, im guessing you never studied buisiness studies at school? 1: you think you can compete with Tartybikes/Selectbikes/Trials uk? they wont take kindley if your undercutting there prices, specially Select as they are the sole importer of deng into the uk... so how you going to get any stock 2: setting up a shop, not such a good idea? i mean, tarty etc have it set with a warehouse, means running from the website they can advertise online and build a rep, where as if your setting up a shop and using that as your main focus, nobody outside of this forum/hampshire will know about it, so you are missing out on a lot of the trials riding market, i wouldnt want to drive down to hampshire just to pick up a set of cranks etc... 3: You wont be able to offer competative pricing i.e below tarty etc.... with the whole shop thing, it means you have to think about: Rent on the property, council tax, utililty bills, insurance, staff costs, internet/phone. Add that to the initial outlay of setting up shop. shelves, display cabinets, till systems, safe, worshop tools/benches... the list goes on. Still think you can offer competative prices? Still think it wont plummet leaving you bankrupt in about 4 months after the buzz dies down and everyone goes back to the old favourites? Think about it mate.. Ben