Is your first LBS Still going? Where was/ Is it?

[perry]

Frank was my pusher when he had the bike shed Brixham . Sadly closed as he couldn't compete with mail order when that got very popular . Frank was a character , looked like a slim Rab c Nesbit too shop wasn't much bigger than a single garage in a courtyard opposite a chip shop in Brixham . Absolute center of the scene back in the day , back before mobile phones and upto the minute statue changes on myface you were guaranteed to catch up with someone else hanging around in franks . I could easily turn up in the morning to fondle anodised shiny parts and chat about philosophy for the entire day .

" urgh that tastes like shit "

" so you know what shit tastes like ? "

" ahh "



You knew you were at the top of the scenes heirachy when you got to sit on the spare stool when everyone else had to lean awkwardly against the tyres under the display

Often I would get sent to the chip shop or watch the shop while Frank went to the bank , I seemed to change a lot of inner tubes too .

Only rule was no swearing at real customers

Whenever I go into a shop now I rate it's worth on the likely hood of the staff letting me hang around all day

 

[Serotonin]

Mine is long gone- Mikes Bikes in Totterdown, Funny enough bumped into the owner, Mike after many years in the vets one day. Hes out of the bike selling game now.

 

[Karmann]

Mine was in Biddulph Stoke on Trent, the shop was called Rock and Road, this was in 1991, I bought an Orange Clockwork LX from Dave who owned the shop, then 6 months later upgraded to a Prestige XT with Pace RC30 forks, I really did love that bike and rode the he'll out of it, the shop was taken over several years later and has now shut it's doors last year I think, those were great times hanging in the shop and going for club rides on a saturday morning. I miss those times, oh well.

 

[theShocker]

Mountain High in Rickmansworth......all still there I believe.

It closed down about 10 years ago minimum as the rent was getting crazy, they also sold their shop in Pangbourne and moved to live in Mammoth CA.

Jan and Tina initially ran a condo cleaning company for all the holiday homes at Lake Tahoe for a while and now he does photography and she does wedding arrangments.

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