Ok, while we are on cycle shops,any one remember Sharmans,corner of casanue St Rochester (is that the correct spelling)?and King st,oposit Troy town school,now that was a real old style bike shop,Thay sold new, second hand ,plus three wheeler kid bikes,had frames, wheels and a myriad of spares hanging from the ceiling when you entered you were hit by a lovly smell of new rubber and oil ,the window in King st was allways full of strange spaners,bike bells and a assortment of nuts & bolts,got my first bike from that shop about 1957 ,during the war mum used to send me to collect our recharged acumilater,6d a charge ,no electricity in our house,it would run the wireless for about a week,
When de railer gears became de rigor ,chambers sent a lot of there problems to the chap who owned chat mans.