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What was your local BMX shop back in the day?

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Spen69:
Halesowen Cycles in the outskirts of Birmingham was the place where my shattered rear Tuff 2 was hung behind the counter for years as I was the first idiot round our way to bust one and Dave who ran the place couldn't believe the mess I'd made of it miss-judging the hieght of a set of concrete steps. The shop is still there now but has moved a few doors up the road and still sells BMX.

Also we had 2 wheels in Stourbridge which was the bigger shop full of dreams like TA's and Curtis. I still remember the day my brother saw his Tange-framed mk1 Cromo Burner in there next to my Mongoose Cali and the Supergoose your parents could never afford like it was yesterday. He still has the Chromo today and the story of how we ended up with those two bikes is still my happiest ever christmas day memory. I can only hope to make my kids as happy as our parents did in 1983 one day. It was 2-wheels and Halesowen Cycles that made it all possible and we went down there everytime we had enough money saved for something - GT Pro bars for £25 took months to save up for!

Fond memories those 2 shops indeed....

poolysheriff:
Johnson bmx in Stockton  :4_17_5:

Peter J:
J.E James Cycles and Veron Bakers (I think thats what they were called) in Dronfiled  :daumenhoch:

Dannywhac:

--- Quote from: Swivel on January 14, 2011, 12:07 PM ---We never really had a shop as such, there was a guy in a massive van used to drive about (mobile shop) and show us on his warez lol. Used to be ram packed with decent stuff and his son had the best bike around by us, TA loaded with everything lucky git. That guy used to drive all around hertfordshire and essex so probably took a good few quid. Bit I remember the most was all the mushroom grips in all those colours, superb  :smitten:

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We had a similar deal - bloke in his late 50's called Percy Bolton sold bmx components from his garage - loads of stuff ranging from Iron Horse all the way up to Skyway. Was like an alladin's cave - used to go there just to browse......

We also had Cliff Pratt's in Hull, only downside was they were a Raleigh dealership ;)

southern andy:
Hot wheels and Strongs cycles, both were in Bournemouth and used to take their shops to the race meetings which was handy.

Local shop in Southampton which we only used for an emergency were Peter Williams. This was actually a motor bike shop but he did a few decent BMX parts.

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