ENFIELD — It’s time for Dick Drummond to ride off into the sunset.
After 17 years in Enfield, Drummond Cycles is set to close in April.
While Drummond had searched for someone to take over the shop, which sells bikes and accessories, and offers servicing and customization. But he could not find a taker.
“It’s a lot of work, it’s six days a week. It’s a labor of love, and it was time for me to step aside, whether someone was going to take it over or not,” Drummond, who recently turned 60, said in an interview at his shop last week.
“When nobody really wanted to take it over, I just figured I would close it down and move on to the next thing,” he added.
Drummond, who moved to Enfield in 2001, started building bike frames in 2003, and what began as a hobby kept him busier and busier; he eventually partnered with a manufacturer that allowed him to work out of his house.
“I just was originally going to do a few bikes through Scott, the manufacturer, and the rep contacted me the year later and said, ‘Do you realize that you just sold 50 bikes last year? This is not a hobby’,” Drummond said.
“Then my wife said, ‘You really need to get out of the house because there are too many people coming to the house for your little hobby business,’ so that prompted me to get the space over here,” he added.
Drummond said that the industry he has been entrenched in for more than two decades is going through a “very large” transition.
“A lot more stuff is online-based,” he said. “The business model that I built here would require me to have a lot more online presence, a lot more social media, and that’s not my thing.”
While the online world and social media might not be his thing, Drummond and his shop have received a ton of praise, with more than 100 comments on Facebook and Instagram on a video announcing his retirement. The major theme was gratitude for the service Drummond had provided for the Upper Valley cycling community.
“I’m leaving a big void here; it’s kind of with a heavy heart to move away from it, but it was time,” Drummond said.
There are plans for a closeout sale on April 11 and 12, but in the meantime, customers are encouraged to come into the shop, as plenty of merchandise remains.
“We’re kind of progressively discounting stuff,” Drummond said, emphasizing that he was not sure what would be left by the time of the final sale.
Since the announcement of the store’s closure, they have already sold about 10 bikes.
“We’re still ordering new bikes for people, so, if they want to get in under the wire — those things wouldn’t be discounted — but everything basically in the store other than the 2026 models, which we just have a few of, is discounted now,” Drummond said.
As for his own plans, Drummond said he has built three houses over the last three years, something he did as a full-time occupation for 27 years before opening the shop.
So he plans to keep working .
“I’m just segueing into something where I can be creative again,” he said.
Drummond Cycles is located at 24 Caleb Dyer Lane in Enfield and is open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. More information on the shop is available on its website at https://drummondcycles.com/.
