wow bike shops from our youth gr8 thread, for me it started in Elizabeth st Melb, Stanco, was it melb suzuki a labyrinth type store inside. Yamaha was it clipstone or just yamaha city? I know it was clipstone in ringwood. also Modak ( brought my 1st open face centurion helmet $25 ) Peter Stevens of course ( still have Doug in spares after all these years and he is yr typical old skool bike shop guy, helpful & knowledgable ) funny to grow up buying parts off some one and over 30 odd years later still be talking to them in the same place, very rare today, but apparentley things are better now and to move around in a job is better for you. oops went off on a tangent. oh yeah motobitz, bike barn, i rember racing in on a friday nite to get a knobby for the w/end for my SL125. Later I discovered Coburg Kawasaki another nice bloke old skool Jack who is still going in the biz I was devastated when it closed but it became a Turkish restaurant and it was the best, i would always torture my friends & family about the history when we dined there ( it was the best turkish food around ) I was later devasted when the turkish restaurant closed but that's another thread lol. After discovering bike shops in the burbs i met Bill & John Crawford 2 Gr8 blokes who didn't mind u hanging around their shop in Glenroy, I had to pedal 10k or so but it was all good and eventually bill offered me a job but i thought the high salary would change me ($70) so I declined and opened the door for Shaun Gallagher to step in. On that side i remember Speedie yamaha, component yamaha, Quinceys. Over the east we had Preston Honda which morphed into town & country which dwindled to an ebay auction. Regent motorcycles / wreckers, GP motorcycles who then took over Vic Wreckers, Uncle don who took over GP motorcycles shop but was still uncle don. What was the name of the Yammy dealer in high st reservior near broadway?? Once i got my learners I discovered a whole lot more in my travells but most have gone.
