Old Motorcycle shops around Manchester

[Sogra]

Hi trying to remember some names of Motorcycle shops from the past. Predominately around Manchester/ Greater Manchester

Time line around 60,s 70, 80,s

Couple I can think of were

BJ West on Deansgate
Derek Johnson on Deansgate
Reg Dearden in Chorlton.

[monthou]

Unity equipe - Manchester Rd, Rochdale.

[Dog Star]

monthou said:

Unity equipe - Manchester Rd, Rochdale.

Very first place I ever took my AR50 for an MOT in 1984.

My dad was a vet and used to look after their Alsatian.

PEMS trials and mx bikes on Drake St in Rochdale. Steve, who I’m still very good friends with to this day, did every single MOT for about 20 years thereafter. I even did him a website.

[GSA_fattie]

on yer bike deansgate mid- late 80s

just parts and accessories though they did get my dt175 cylinder bored out

[Dog Star]

GSA_fattie said:

on yer bike deansgate mid- late 80s

just parts and accessories though they did get my dt175 cylinder bored out

Ah yes - chap called Ross. Beard. Bought my first set of Givi luggage off him.

[GSA_fattie]

weren't hunts on barlow moor road before they went to kingsway in the 80s

[Wacky Racer]

Thread started by me on Bluemoon:-

https://forums.bluemoon-mcfc.co.uk/threads/old-man...

[Sogra]

There was two I was trying to remember. One on Portwood in Stockport. It would have been in the right as you were heading for Mersey Square. Bought a moped from here a Puch SDP in black and gold with mag wheels.

And the other was Pip Highams in I think Walkden but can’t quite place where it was. Had an engine from a Z1r rebuilt and heavily modified. I think the owner used to run drag bikes

[Dog Star]

Warwick’s Motorcycles, Heywood. Bought my first bike (aforementioned green AR50 from there).

Rochdale Yamaha Centre, Oldham Road. Bought my RD125LC from there - my 17th birthday. Paid for at £12/week from my “Saturday boy” job at Tesco in Rochdale.

AC Quip in Bury. Used to hang out there on school lunchtimes.

[GSA_fattie]

Wacky Racer said:

Thread started by me on Bluemoon:-

https://forums.bluemoon-mcfc.co.uk/threads/old-man...

just read that

Knott Mill at the end of deansgate couldn't remember but that's who i got my dt175 off and traded my xl 125s

[Turn7]

Sogra said:

There was two I was trying to remember. One on Portwood in Stockport. It would have been in the right as you were heading for Mersey Square. Bought a moped from here a Puch SDP in black and gold with mag wheels.

And the other was Pip Highams in I think Walkden but can’t quite place where it was. Had an engine from a Z1r rebuilt and heavily modified. I think the owner used to run drag bikes

Pips place was The Village Bike shop.......and Pip was a drag racer, a good one too.


https://britishdragracinghof.co.uk/pip-higham/

[Wacky Racer]

GSA_fattie said:

Knott Mill at the end of deansgate couldn't remember but that's who i got my dt175 off and traded my xl 125s

Derek Johnson or BJ West?

[tdm34]

Queens Park Motors in Salford, Worked there for a while on the spanners in 1986

[Sogra]

Turn7 said:

Pips place was The Village Bike shop.......and Pip was a drag racer, a good one too.


https://britishdragracinghof.co.uk/pip-higham/

Thanks. That had been driving me mad. As soon as I read the name of the shop loads of memories came flooding back.

[Sogra]

tdm34 said:

Queens Park Motors in Salford, Worked there for a while on the spanners in 1986

Bought my first 250 from here in 1979. Suzuki 250 X7 for I think £795.

Had the workshop round the back with a massive slope down to it.

[clive_candy]

tdm34 said:

Queens Park Motors in Salford, Worked there for a while on the spanners in 1986

Sold a GS500 to them back in the early 1990s. Spotted it a few years later in another bike shop in Rochdale - or somewhere up that way - and in the meantime someone had fitted a fairing and done several thousand fewer miles than when I sold it.

[Llandudno]

There was one at White City in Old Trafford. Presumably went when the junction was remodelled with the roundabout. Bought my MBX80 there.

[Wacky Racer]

tdm34 said:

Queens Park Motors in Salford, Worked there for a while on the spanners in 1986

That's where my 1969 TR6 came from.