P & R Motors - Suzuki dealers in Takanini. Ralph Emson and his son Steve from memory.
Bought my first Katana off them.
P & R Motors - Suzuki dealers in Takanini. Ralph Emson and his son Steve from memory.
Bought my first Katana off them.
And the shop on ponsonby road that had the CZ's and stuff. Think it was Auckland Motorcycles. Used to go in there as a youngun.
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There were two shops on Ponsonby Rd - Auckland Motorcycles and the shop that sold eastern bloc stuff like Jawa and Ural
I bought my second and third bikes off Whites in Broadway -where 277 is now- off a salesman named Dave? Farquhar I think he went to work for Mollers -the Yamaha importer.
Brians Yamaha in Beach Rd was formerly a Whites Branch and Greenlane Motorcycles was formerly Len Perry's.
Bob Haldanes was know as "The Hole in The Wall" by Mollers Yamaha because the little shop in Manukau Rd outsold Mollers retail dealership (latterly Graeme Crosby and now Red Baron) in tyres and new bikes.
Haldane had a mechanic working for him for a while that moved onto the Honda MotoGP team and is now in a fairly high position.Can't remember his name,he used to come on Auckland Uni Bike Club rides.
Ray Pratt who owns AMPS used to have a workshop in the basement of a factory in Stoddard Rd,I brought and emergency chain link for my RD 350 one saturday -this was when NZ was shut on the weekend
Tis a pity the market changed.
Otherwise we could all still be dealing with a monopoly of Miserable shits.
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The mega dredge!
If it wasn't for a concise set of rules, we might have to resort to common sense!
i am pretty sure that was after, it would be around 1990 that i remember them in Elliot street,
i do remember Papakura Motorcycles being Yamaha, on Tironui Road, that was later on tho,
What a good read, I spent too much rebuilding a SL 125 at Kingsland Honda in the early 80's....and Lloyd is still there!!!!
Bought my first big bike a 500/4 from Mt Eden Motorcycle Wreckers ( now a bike shop) and parts from round the corner at Russells.
I used to look in the window of Auckland Motorcycles at the brand new Ducati Mille 1000 and the Blue Darmah for 6K.....I went to Aussie a few months later and bought a Darmah for $ 2700.00 and still have it.
I've head stories about a shop in Onehunga called ...Hemplemens....or something like that...
DeMyer's Laws - an argument that consists primarily of rambling quotes isn't worth bothering with.
not Auckland but does anybody remember Motorcycle Engineering in Dunedin, they used to be Bland Brothers and went on to become Uptown Motorcycles
Cool eh?
I remember wagging school, being picked up by my boyfriend outside of Pakuranga College and going on his parts run into town on a fairly regular basis. Whites in Newmarket, Colemans K Road, can not remember where we went for Honda bits. He worked at what started out as a garage repairing bikes down the back of Fram Filters in Howick and went on to become Howick Suzuki, cnr Moore St and Union Rd. That partnership spawned a Honda dealer at Mt Wellington, on the Panmure Highway opposite what was Masport (Mason & Porter, dear God I am old )
Boyfriend and I went on to become Suzuki and then Suzuki/Kawasaki dealers in Warkworth.
I need a lie down now
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