letsavagoo 963 Posted December 27, 2012 Report Share Posted December 27, 2012 Dennis Rogers Morgan was called 'The Wandering Blob' Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beefsteak 305 Posted December 27, 2012 Report Share Posted December 27, 2012 I'm hoping to catch up with Paul (Dennis' lad) in the new year . I've got to cadge a ride in the Wandering Blob again! There was/is a Motorbike shop in Hucknall (On the left if you were leaving via Annersley road) called DC motorcycles. I bought my last 'bike' there. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
.... 23 Posted December 28, 2012 Report Share Posted December 28, 2012 There was/is a Motorbike shop in Hucknall (On the left if you were leaving via Annersley road) called DC motorcycles. I bought my last 'bike' there. At one time called 'Frank Sissons' many a moon ago I think. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
radfordred 6,284 Posted December 28, 2012 Report Share Posted December 28, 2012 not seen this one mentioned now demolished two wheel centre ilkeston road radford Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beefsteak 305 Posted December 28, 2012 Report Share Posted December 28, 2012 I bought a Honda CM125 from there in 1986. Nearly bloody killed me twice that one ! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Paulus 541 Posted December 28, 2012 Report Share Posted December 28, 2012 I bought a Honda CM125 from there in 1986. Nearly bloody killed me twice that one ! There you go, a sewing machine shop............................ Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted December 28, 2012 Report Share Posted December 28, 2012 Re the premises on Ilkeston Road, Did it later become a dealer in second hand American cars? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Paulus 541 Posted December 28, 2012 Report Share Posted December 28, 2012 Yankee motors, with 2 wheels? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,464 Posted December 28, 2012 Report Share Posted December 28, 2012 Re the premises on Ilkeston Road, Did it later become a dealer in second hand American cars? The outfit called Anglo American Autos? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
roger peatman 337 Posted December 28, 2012 Report Share Posted December 28, 2012 That would have been Anglo American. who operated from the petrol station a bit further down. Two wheel centre were official Honda dealers at one time. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beefsteak 305 Posted December 28, 2012 Report Share Posted December 28, 2012 About 4 doors up from The pub on the corner of the Faraday road junction Quote Link to post Share on other sites
taxi ray 170 Posted December 28, 2012 Report Share Posted December 28, 2012 Re the premises on Ilkeston Road, Did it later become a dealer in second hand American cars? The place that sold American cars was a little further down the road, I think it was Anglo american cars, they now provide filming vehicles for tv and films. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted December 28, 2012 Report Share Posted December 28, 2012 Thanks Ray Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Scriv 168 Posted December 28, 2012 Report Share Posted December 28, 2012 I bought a Honda CM125 from there in 1986. Nearly bloody killed me twice that one ! Too much power? :tongue: Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beefsteak 305 Posted December 29, 2012 Report Share Posted December 29, 2012 Not enough!! Mind you the first one I was doing 60mph when a , cough, cough, very nice lady in a land rover decided to pull straight across the front of me . If I'd been going faster I reckon she'd have killed me ! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
xxl1960 0 Posted April 3, 2013 Report Share Posted April 3, 2013 Hmmm.. Right here goes, As I came from Gedling and owned bikes from the mid 70s onwards, There were a number of shops I remember... Dawsons in Netherfield, Rex Robbo on Carlton Hill ( for my Puch Grand Prix ), a few doors up from that for a time was 'Crosslands' who later moved down to the shops facing Carlton precinct, Lowater St motors of course, many hours spent searching the yard for that ilusive spare part. the owner Dennis Rogers used to have a three wheel Morgan car, going down into town was TMS and Clarkes the Honda dealer. Roy Wharton had a shop on Radford Road ( I knew his son John ) and he specialised in Scooters, not really motorbikes. further up Radford Road was Joselyns ( Suzuki Dealer ) with went on to be Granby Motors. There was a little seconhand bike shop on the small street near the main Post office on Huntingdon St... I remember them having a 'Malaguti Monte' 50cc moped in there... I could'nt afford it at the time. The big Yamaha/Honda place at Daybrook Square was always a good place to browse, as was Colin Gregory's ( Suzuki )at Thackerays Lane, and later upstairs at the big garage at daybrook ( now Kwik Fit). Ahhhh... those were the days.... I rembember Bunneys on Wilford Lane and E Kingston just around the corner The Monte would have been mine!(think it was MAU 175P) I part exchanged it for a Yamaha YDS7 250cc that turned out to be a larger pile of poo than the Monte. The shop was called HandY motorcycles and it was on Rick Street (the HandY was the initials of the owners and looked like handy) The YDS7 lasted 48 hours before giving up the ghost and they refused to fix it! I was a spotty 17 year old and they told me to feck off! My older brother drove a tipper truck for Watts Demolition and had a reputation for being a nutter, he took me down to the shop and offered to reverse his truck through the shop window the guy in the shop called his bluff but bottled in when the truck was an inch away from taking the shop down! Oddly I did go back and got a really nice Suzuki 250cc Hustler with a racing tank, seat and clipons for £175:00 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
nnsc 131 Posted April 3, 2013 Report Share Posted April 3, 2013 The Monte would have been mine!(think it was MAU 175P) I part exchanged it for a Yamaha YDS7 250cc that turned out to be a larger pile of poo than the Monte. The shop was called HandY motorcycles and it was on Rick Street (the HandY was the initials of the owners and looked like handy) The YDS7 lasted 48 hours before giving up the ghost and they refused to fix it! I was a spotty 17 year old and they told me to feck off! My older brother drove a tipper truck for Watts Demolition and had a reputation for being a nutter, he took me down to the shop and offered to reverse his truck through the shop window the guy in the shop called his bluff but bottled in when the truck was an inch away from taking the shop down! Oddly I did go back and got a really nice Suzuki 250cc Hustler with a racing tank, seat and clipons for £175:00 Great story that - a mate of mine had a YDS7 for about 2 years, thrashed it all over and never had any problems at all. Don't think anybody's mentioned Wheelcraft on Radford Road Hyson Green yet, I bought a 250G5 and RD200 from them. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ernie F 3 Posted February 13, 2016 Report Share Posted February 13, 2016 Anyone else remember Bob's Spares? They were on the corner of Northumberland Street and Alfred Street Central. Full of all sorts of reclaimed bits ad the occassional full bike. Yes i do, as the old saying goes Bob was my uncle. His name was Leslie Robert Goodman, he and his son (my cousin) Brian Robert Goodman ran the shop and i also worked for them in the sixties. The shop was an old Co op that still had the old smoke room for smoking meats and fish there was an upstairs where all the engines and gearboxes were kept and then below ground where the frames, wheels,mud guards and tanks were kept. The two workshops were on the ground floor with the entrance on Northumberland street. The shop where the bikes for sale were kept had its entrance on Alfred Street The workshop was well equipped with reboring machines crankshaft grinder camshaft grinder and valve grinder as well as a hydraulic press for fitting big ends.. We used to do engine work for all the other shops around Nottingham.They gave up with motor bikes and did engine reconditioning full time and then move from Alfred Street to a unit in Colwick. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
swe62 334 Posted February 13, 2016 Report Share Posted February 13, 2016 anyone remember Knowles a bit further down from Gaggs?Also Dennis Rogers Morgan is still racing and on the road it belongs to George Gould the cobbler from Stapleford I think he bought it from Dennis direct. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,793 Posted February 14, 2016 Report Share Posted February 14, 2016 #46. I remember that shop very well, I lived two hundred yards away ! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Chulla 4,946 Posted February 14, 2016 Report Share Posted February 14, 2016 #46. I remember Bob's Spares. I once went there for someone and bought a bronze cylinder head for a 500cc Excelsior Manxman. Cost was five pounds, in late 1950s. The chap (Stu Slater, lived on Minver Crescent) and his mate raced a Manxman combo. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ernie F 3 Posted February 20, 2016 Report Share Posted February 20, 2016 Anyone remember Rayner and Wilson at the bottom of Woodborough rd, bought my Dresda Triton from them, god I wish that I still had it. It had a fibre glass tank on it when I bought it with Triton written on it but the BIN MEN knocked it off its side stand and onto a telegraph pole so that put payed to that tank. Bought an alloy tank from Briely Smith (not certain of the spelling) think they were down the Meadows. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,793 Posted February 20, 2016 Report Share Posted February 20, 2016 My brother bought a 250cc two stroke bike from ther '67, was, I think ? Ariel, very, very fast ! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
banjo48 928 Posted February 20, 2016 Report Share Posted February 20, 2016 My brother was always down at Raynor and Wilson shop, I remember Stan Raynor too, but can't remember whether he was just a mate of my brothers or how else I would know him, apart from the bike shop. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
fogrider 179 Posted July 2, 2016 Report Share Posted July 2, 2016 I remember a very small motorbike on the left, not far up Woodborough Rd. That must have been Rayner and Wilsons. I used to walk home past it, there was a Velocette Venom Thruxton in the window, Brand new and a big ticket price. I was told it was the last one ever available for sale anywhere. Late 1968 I think. I ended up buying an ex race DBD34 Goldie from a guy in Radford. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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