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Oldest bike shop in Dublin..still going

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    #32
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users Posts: 35,054 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    Funny that, just the other day (before reading this thread) I was thinking about Mountjoy Motorcycles and what a loss it was. When I got my first heap of a bike I was in there most Saturdays buying some bit or other - they ALWAYS had it.

    © 1982 Sinclair Research Ltd



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    #33
    Max Headroom
    Registered Users Posts: 7,101 ✭✭✭Max Headroom


    Hotblack Desiato wrote: »
    Funny that, just the other day (before reading this thread) I was thinking about Mountjoy Motorcycles and what a loss it was. When I got my first heap of a bike I was in there most Saturdays buying some bit or other - they ALWAYS had it.


    City spares first then MJ.....remember drooling over the top boxes on the wall...so many colours...:)


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    #34
    Max Headroom
    Registered Users Posts: 7,101 ✭✭✭Max Headroom


    Dont forget McHugh Himself on Talbot st.....think they were the Lewis Leathers importers...

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    1976 Wing...........


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    #35
    SeosamhOBored
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    Cienciano wrote: »
    Yeah that's it.

    Wonderful picture of the old DMG Motorcycles. M&A used to be diagonally across the junction but moved over after DMG closed.


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    #36
    Cienciano
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    SeosamhOBored wrote: »
    Wonderful picture of the old DMG Motorcycles. M&A used to be diagonally across the junction but moved over after DMG closed.

    Many people got their first bike in there


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    #37
    SeosamhOBored
    Registered Users Posts: 2 ✭SeosamhOBored


    Max Headroom wrote: »
    Dont forget McHugh Himself on Talbot st.....think they were the Lewis Leathers importers...




    1976 Wing...........

    What a wonderful picture! Where's Andy Deane now? And Gerard McHgh


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    #38
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users Posts: 35,054 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    K.Flyer wrote: »
    I think that was it, M&A was in the corner unit beside the lane and the other was where M&A is now and I remember one of them had the workshop down the lane.

    IIRC when I was around that way in the late 90s M&A had both shops knocked together.

    © 1982 Sinclair Research Ltd



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    #39
    flashinthepan
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    Cienciano wrote: »
    Many people got their first bike in there
    Got my Suzuki GSX250E in M&A in 1987 ( north strand road :-) )


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    #40
    Max Headroom
    Registered Users Posts: 7,101 ✭✭✭Max Headroom


    What was the one on the Crumlin Rd..Gerry Stephens brother owned it i think.....


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    #41
    The Tetrarch
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    I remember City Spares in Francis Street.
    One day I went there looking for a part for my Honda CD175. It was a bit informal "go out there and see if you can find it" :).
    Gem Motorcycles in Ranelagh was where I bought my new Honda CX500.
    I drove straight to Mountjoy Motorcycles for something and when I parked a lad said "You are keeping that bike in great nick, how long do you have it" .... Answer: "Fifteen minutes".


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    #42
    Breezin
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    The Tetrarch wrote: »
    I remember City Spares in Francis Street.
    One day I went there looking for a part for my Honda CD175. It was a bit informal "go out there and see if you can find it" :).
    Gem Motorcycles in Ranelagh was where I bought my new Honda CX500.
    I drove straight to Mountjoy Motorcycles for something and when I parked a lad said "You are keeping that bike in great nick, how long do you have it" .... Answer: "Fifteen minutes".
    Mountjoy Motorcycles on a Saturday morning was like a religious service for bikers. Queuing up past the new bikes and drooling over them.
    I didn't know who the City Spares guys were, but they were maybe a little gruff. It was hilarious one day when the queue of smelly bikers was ordered to let through a little nun looking for a part for her scooter. The big scary breaker yard bloke broke out the charm for her.


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    #43
    Esel
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    Max Headroom wrote: »
    What was the one on the Crumlin Rd..Gerry Stephens brother owned it i think.....
    M&B?

    Not your ornery onager



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    #44
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users Posts: 35,054 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    When was that? I lived close by and don't remember a bike shop on the Crumlin Road in the 80s or later

    © 1982 Sinclair Research Ltd



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    #45
    Max Headroom
    Registered Users Posts: 7,101 ✭✭✭Max Headroom


    Opposite the Iveagh grounds..in the 80's


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    #46
    UrbanFret
    Registered Users Posts: 2,055 ✭✭✭UrbanFret


    Anyone remember the name of the bike shop in Dundalk back in the 80s.


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    #47
    Nodster
    Registered Users Posts: 950 ✭✭✭Nodster


    Was the name Elliott's M/cycles - think they imported Moto Guzzi


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    #48
    vektarman
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    The Tetrarch wrote: »
    I remember City Spares in Francis Street.
    One day I went there looking for a part for my Honda CD175. It was a bit informal "go out there and see if you can find it" :).
    .

    Same here. I was simply told "take a look around and help yourself". A great place for spare parts back in the day.

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    Mav11
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    SeosamhOBored wrote: »
    What a wonderful picture! Where's Andy Deane now? And Gerard McHgh

    AFAIK Andy moved to Cork shortly after that and worked with Ross’s motorcycles as a mechanic. I knew him well in the late 70’s. Blast from the past.


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    #50
    Max Headroom
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    vektarman wrote: »
    Same here. I was simply told "take a look around and help yourself". A great place for spare parts back in the day.

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    Wonder how far into the ground did the oil go.............:P


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    #51
    dubal2008
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    And nobody has thought of LME up in Windy Arbour, Dundrum, Liam helped me out so many times as a young lad. Even loaning me bikes when mine was off the road...He had a great Seca 750 at the time


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    #52
    Zebbedee
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    dubal2008 wrote: »
    And nobody has thought of LME up in Windy Arbour, Dundrum, Liam helped me out so many times as a young lad. Even loaning me bikes when mine was off the road...He had a great Seca 750 at the time

    Liam is still there.


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    #53
    Pythagorean
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    I am old enough to remember City Spares in Handkerchief Alley, the bikes they had in for breaking would be restored as classics today. M and B motorcycles, Prices Place, Ranelagh, run by the late Eamonn Waldron, was a regular stop for me in the 70s, later morphed into the Kawasaki Centre, I think.
    Another long gone bike shop was Hanans on Stephens Green, near the Green cinema. I used to go in there in the 60s and admire the gleaming BSA bantams, and Tiger cubs. Another place I recall was Aidan O'Keefe on Parkgate St.


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    #54
    UrbanFret
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    Nodster wrote: »
    Was the name Elliott's M/cycles - think they imported Moto Guzzi


    I went with a mate to collect a brand new RG125 back in the day. was it elliotts? the names not really ringing a bell but you could well be right.Thanks


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    #55
    Max Headroom
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    Am i wrong or was there another bike shop nearly opposite Jack Nolans in the Coombe...??


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    #56
    vektarman
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    Max Headroom wrote: »
    Am i wrong or was there another bike shop nearly opposite Jack Nolans in the Coombe...??

    I don't remember one. Plenty of bikes parked across the road from Jack Nolans back in the day though as we were always told to park on the path opposite Jack Nolans.


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    #57
    Max Headroom
    Registered Users Posts: 7,101 ✭✭✭Max Headroom


    vektarman wrote: »
    I don't remember one. Plenty of bikes parked across the road from Jack Nolans back in the day though as we were always told to park on the path opposite Jack Nolans.

    :D..yeah i remember that...the number 50 bus was responsible for a few broken mirrors...


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    #58
    rock22
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    Does anyone remember a motorcycle shop in Pearse St. Near railway bridge on the TCD(North) side of the street? Talking about late 60's early 70's although it might have survived after that.


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    #59
    WestWicklow1
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    Pythagorean wrote: »
    I am old enough to remember City Spares in Handkerchief Alley, the bikes they had in for breaking would be restored as classics today. M and B motorcycles, Prices Place, Ranelagh, run by the late Eamonn Waldron, was a regular stop for me in the 70s, later morphed into the Kawasaki Centre, I think.

    I bought all my Triumph parts from Eamonn and Gerry in Ranelagh. Lately I bought a new RE Himalayan from Gerry's son in Bikeworld!!

    Pythagorean wrote: »
    Another long gone bike shop was Hanans on Stephens Green, near the Green cinema. I used to go in there in the 60s and admire the gleaming BSA bantams, and Tiger cubs.

    I was about to post and ask what the name of that place on the Green was :)

    I bought a new Honda SS125 there in the late 60s on the never, never and it never got fully paid :)

    Edit: Was it Hanans or Hanas or Hannas?


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    #60
    Max Headroom
    Registered Users Posts: 7,101 ✭✭✭Max Headroom


    rock22 wrote: »
    Does anyone remember a motorcycle shop in Pearse St. Near railway bridge on the TCD(North) side of the street? Talking about late 60's early 70's although it might have survived after that.


    Vague memories on that...remember walking past it..but it could as easily have been Mc'Hugh's in Talbot St... ...on in Blackrock that i just cant remember much about...anyone,,.??


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    #61
    KT10
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    Just to add to the list of shops no longer around, the Italian Shop run by John Elliot. An old school mechanic who helped me out more times than I dare try to count. I was not long after starting out on bikes, and he dealt with all of my stupid questions or poor attempts at self-maintenance with a quick quip, usually spoken around a cigar he's just lit off a butane torch.

    A true gentleman who sadly passed away a few years ago.


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