a little bit of Dyna-tech trivia, for those interested,
this impressive looking building, was the Raleigh 5 star dealer in Swansea, I think I was there last big customer in 1993, as only a few years later, they was closed and gone, M&P Cycles had just opened a brand new mega store, outside of town, where you could buy things, like nuke proof hubs and marzoochy forks, off the shelf.
the dealer was a lovely old man, workshops on site, townhill campus just behind and all the kids wanted the latest Korean mass produced frames from Asia. so I ended up with 4 sweet deals. I wanted an m-trax 600 or 700, but what I came away with was, A stunning metallic purple M-trax 500, an Mtrax 500 in silver and plumb, A Dynatech TT lo pro frame n forks, still got. 2060 possibly 2070, i`ll have to check. and the worlds most stunning ogre xce, 2125, in my hands its only done about 50 miles in 32 years, I don't know how many miles Kerry done on her, but can`t be many.
just a sad little reminder, of how big Raleigh Shops were, compared to the nothing, we have today. the top 2 floors, were the dealers, the bottom grey windows, was legal and generally, the entrance was from the left. I can still remember in August 1993, picking up my first Dynatech, Feeling like a king, in my team t shirt and cycling up the mumbles.
in the picture from the air, bottom left hand of picture, you can see it was false front and the shop was the square, with a cut out, for the lift.
