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What was your local BMX shop back in the day?
fastlane:
Winchester Halfords, late 70's then coming into the 80's Pete Williams Southampton, Hot Wheels Bournemouth.
Then Winchester got it's own BMX shop at the bottom of Romsey Road, this was ran by Chris Moxen and was my second home.
I spent my later school years (Bunking off) working down stairs building bikes and drinking coffe with coffee mate, Steve wright would supply the sound track to all this... Happy Days and dam I even had a fringe... The shop later became Off Beat Sports in Southampton.
Cheers
ameobic dysentry:
Scotts Cycles, Hall Green Birmingham
simo27:
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--- Quote from: simo27 on January 14, 2011, 08:15 PM ---Armstrong's in Middlesbrough, he didnt get into BMX until a bit later so missed out a bit, another shop sadly long gone.
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I remember this well !!! it was a family run business and the owner Colin was an ex road racer. I remember a gold Raceinc frame in the window for ages !!! On a Saturday moring it was like a meeting place. You would get up to around 30 bikes of all types outside !!! It would be great to see a pic from back in the day, most of us would go to a place nicknamed the Arty afterwards, the name was taken from Art college which was near by. Those were the good old days lol, we did have Halfords selling their own brand and Raleigh and had Bobbys cycles (still going) which was a raleigh dealership.
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It was a pity Armstrongs closed, they had some quality stuff. My best pal at work used to build bikes there when he was a student bitd, funny small world! Bobby's is still doing ok by the looks of it, have been in recently, sell Mongoose stuff if I recall.
hunterdubber:
Aswell as KD racing , I mention earlier ,, and the Halfords in Blackburn precinct , which had the usual , full Burner range , BH, Halfords Turbos , Team Murrays
and later stocked Falcon's , not forgetting the Halfords and Trax Pro Race/protection gear :crazy2: :D ,, which I bought TWICE over :LolLolLolLol:
There was Warland cycles which Scary Leary had some shop decals made up and look cool and add an extra personal touch on his builds , they had Piranha's and Iron horse Dirt burners and again Raleigh's
Me and a mate also used to catch the bus over to Bolton BMX centre on Tonge moor road , which also had a small advert in BMX Action bike :)
These only had a limited stock at first , until they moved across the road to their bigger shop called MK cycles
They stocked most of the high end stuff 8) Black chrome GT's :smitten: , PK Ripper, Curtis and best of all they had a Black Hutch Pro Racer with the chrome decals
Just amazing to look around a shop like that when my ride at the time was probably my Ammaco :shocked: :)
meticulous:
one bus ride away from me too bolton bmx centre christian, its just that it took nearly 2hrs to get there.... still, all the way for 10p..... ;D
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