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From: The Older Gentleman on 6 May 2010 11:34 Hog <sm911SPAM(a)CHIPShotmail.co.uk> wrote: > There was an amazing Emporium in Glasgow for bike stuff. Set back from Gt > Western Road. Old factory unit over 3 floors. forgotten the name now, but > they had everything. You could walk in with a busted brake/clutch/throttle > cable and they would make you up a replacement there and then. London had Hamrax Motors in Ladbroke Grove - that was probably the archetypal such shop. -- BMW K1100LT Ducati 750SS Triumph Street Triple Honda CB400F Suzuki TS250 Suzuki GN250 chateaudotmurrayatidnetdotcom Nothing damages a machine more than an ignoramus with a manual, a can-do attitude and a set of cheap tools
From: malc on 6 May 2010 14:06 The Older Gentleman wrote: > Hog <sm911SPAM(a)CHIPShotmail.co.uk> wrote: > > >> There was an amazing Emporium in Glasgow for bike stuff. Set back >> from Gt Western Road. Old factory unit over 3 floors. forgotten the >> name now, but they had everything. You could walk in with a busted >> brake/clutch/throttle cable and they would make you up a replacement >> there and then. > > London had Hamrax Motors in Ladbroke Grove - that was probably the > archetypal such shop. Karparts (yes I know) in Stroud is a bit like that. Loads of drawers with bits and bobs in, gaskets hanging from nails on the wall and so on. I took my father in law there becaue he needed an exhaust for his Moggie Minor. "You can get anything in here" I said. Sure enough as we were standing in the queue, the bloke behind overheard what we wanted and he had a stainless exhaust in his shed that he wanted to sell. -- Malc Rusted and ropy. Dog-eared old copy. Vintage and classic, or just plain Jurassic: all words to describe me.
From: Lozzo on 6 May 2010 16:22 The Older Gentleman wrote: > There's a really good such emporium in Tunbridge Wells. Sells motor > bulbs loose, in that the staff open a big drawer, and select one bulb > from a big box of them, instead of you selecting from a rack of those > horrible blister packs. Ummm, that's how we sell bulbs, and our shop has only existed for 13 months. -- Lozzo Versys 650 Tourer, CBR600F-W racebike in the making, TS250C, RD400F (somewhere)
From: malc on 6 May 2010 17:08 Lozzo wrote: > The Older Gentleman wrote: > >> There's a really good such emporium in Tunbridge Wells. Sells motor >> bulbs loose, in that the staff open a big drawer, and select one bulb >> from a big box of them, instead of you selecting from a rack of those >> horrible blister packs. > > Ummm, that's how we sell bulbs, and our shop has only existed for 13 > months. One of those shops that has always been there, even though you never saw it before? -- Malc Rusted and ropy. Dog-eared old copy. Vintage and classic, or just plain Jurassic: all words to describe me.
From: Lozzo on 6 May 2010 17:22
malc wrote: > Lozzo wrote: > > The Older Gentleman wrote: > > > > > There's a really good such emporium in Tunbridge Wells. Sells > > > motor bulbs loose, in that the staff open a big drawer, and > > > select one bulb from a big box of them, instead of you selecting > > > from a rack of those horrible blister packs. > > > > Ummm, that's how we sell bulbs, and our shop has only existed for 13 > > months. > > One of those shops that has always been there, even though you never > saw it before? No, it was a brand new Kawasaki dealership as from Easter weekend last year. We buy bulbs in boxes of 10 and sell them out of the box as single items, as they should be sold. -- Lozzo Versys 650 Tourer, CBR600F-W racebike in the making, TS250C, RD400F (somewhere) |