Demen Cycles(bike shop in UK)

Triathlon Forum
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Anyone out there familiar with Demen Cycles located in London? www.demencycles.com

They have some great deals listed on ebay but phone # listed on website and email response does not accept calls. Anyway, before I got too excited about an “almost to good to be real” deal I thought I’d check to see if anyone had any insite on the store front.

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I live on the edge of London and can honestly say I have never heard of them, have looked at the site and must say I am suspiciousabout the toll free number given, as far as I am aware all UK free numbers start with 0800…

They may be new but we also don’t tend to say TOLL FREE, hope this is of some help

NB

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Thanks, that’s exactly what I was looking for and unfortunately sort of what I was afraid of. Oh well, the look goes on.

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Um, a quick lookup on Samspade.org returns the following (very contradictory) information like why does a UK bike shop have their website registered to a US address:

Server Used: www.demencycles.com = 66.226.64.20 ]
Domain name: demencycles.com Registrant: otto moore (FTMRF) demencycles@yahoo.com
730 connelly rd rising sun MD 21911 United States Phone: (410)6585113 x Administrative Contact: otto moore (XKBYV) demencycles@yahoo.com
730 connelly rd rising sun MD 21911 United States Phone: (410)6585113 x Technical Contact: otto moore (FTMRF) demencycles@yahoo.com
730 connelly rd rising sun MD 21911 United States Phone: (410)6585113 x Billing Contact: otto moore (AW3S3) demencycles@yahoo.com
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I’m not in London at the moment or I would go and take a look for you, but …

Trebovir Road is a residential street in the middle of Earls Court - which is an area full of temporary accommodation. Most of the buildings are old Victorian terrace housing.

I can tell you for certain that the photo was not taken in Earls Court!

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Site is a scam - notice the use of proper English in the text at the bottom of the shops home page:

We are overstock in 2004 models and we have the best prices on web.

*** STOCK LIMIT ***

If you need any other bike model, please name it and we do our best to have it within 5 days!

Copyright © 2003.

Also, I took a moment to look at the websites HTML source code, the keywords in the meta tags (what gets you listed in a Google search) have nothing to do with a bike shop and seem to indicate that the site code was lifted from an home electronics site named Future-Electronics (One of out UK partrons should give them a ring on the tele):