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The Rusty Bicycle, Oxford
Oxford
OX4 1RB
Served areas
The Rusty Bicycle
The cats out the bag... We're opening on Saturday. ❤️ https://t.co/ZTayOK2xRo
7:55 PM Jun 29th 2020 from LaterMedia
Reviews of The Rusty Bicycle (Average Rating: 6½ of 10) see review guidelines
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Steve C left this review about The Rusty Bicycle
The Rusty Bicycle was very busy with an older student crowd on a recent Thursday evening visit. The central bar on the rear wall faces seating along the front of the pub and is bookended by seating either side. The bar counter supports six hand pumps, however three were unused which left cask options of Arkell’s 3B and Hoperation IPA alongside Yellow Hammer’s Carnival Cider. Craft keg is available from taps made from old bike parts along the back bar. I counted ten. This place was more up my street than most of the other pubs in the area that were full of Freshmen.
On 27th December 2022
- rating: 6
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Graham Coombs left this review about The Rusty Bicycle
A sold-looking between-the-wars pub in the back streets which has been transformed internally into a "community pub" with a shabby chic feel. There are lots of benches and grey paint and it appeared to be very popular with young families and various trendy professionals and academics. A bank of handpumps had just Arkells 3B and a cider on, with Hoperation IPA and another clip reversed. On the back wall were 10 keg taps, fitted with bits of bicycle as handles but difficult to identify what was actually being served by them. I didn't mind the place and it was heartening to see numbers of children going to the pub for lunch as a matter of normality.
On 2nd June 2022
- rating: 7
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Tris C left this review about The Rusty Bicycle
Dating from at least the 19th century and probably rebuilt in the 1930s, as mentioned this was The Eagle until 2009.
In the late '90s I used to live in the same street as this pub a few doors down, but don't remember ever going in, so there must have been something problematic with the place. It's clearly all changed now and as stated below, this is a bit of a boho hipster pub which would look more at home in perhaps parts of Islington but certainly Shoreditch or Hoxton, looking somewhat out of place in a rather Islamic community.
The interior is a bit stark with bare boards and basic modern furniture including plywood and tubular steel chairs which look - literally - old school as well as modern utilitarian benches; the walls are painted hues of the obligatory grey/blue and a blues soundtrack played at a decent volume over the gramophone.
A friendly barman presided over four pumps - clips reversed - thereafter Arkell's Wiltshire Gold and Hoperation at £2.00 a half and very nice too.
This pub is worth visiting if in this rather banal Oxford backwater but isn't worth a special trip. It would though make for a decent double with the Fir Tree around the corner.
On 30th August 2017
- rating: 5
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Pub Details
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- Accommodation : No last updated 30 August 2017 by Tris C
- Bar Billiards : No last updated 07 November 2014 by Quinno _
- Beer Garden : Yes last updated 07 November 2014 by Quinno _
- CAMRA Discount : No last updated 07 November 2014 by Quinno _
- Car Park : No last updated 07 November 2014 by Quinno _
- Darts : No last updated 30 August 2017 by Tris C
- Dog Friendly : Yes last updated 30 August 2017 by Tris C
- Hot Food : Yes last updated 07 November 2014 by Quinno _
- Karaoke : No last updated 07 November 2014 by Quinno _
- Live TV Sports : No last updated 30 August 2017 by Tris C
- Micropub : No last updated 30 August 2017 by Tris C
- Pinball : No last updated 07 November 2014 by Quinno _
- Pool Table : No last updated 07 November 2014 by Quinno _
- Real Ale : Yes - Arkell's. - last updated 30 August 2017 by Tris C
- Real Cider : Yes last updated 07 November 2014 by Quinno _
- WiFi : Yes last updated 30 August 2017 by Tris C
