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Just sad because I always lived arround there, and I remember when it was still a real bike shop, and you could see things happening at the back of the shop, I had never seen anything like that... Saying that I lived in UK for only 4 years... But some people (from the forum) I spoke to were local for their whole life and used to go and get their bmx fixed there when they were kids... It is sad for Depford if you prefer to put it this way. Is there still anybody building frames in "London London" now?
The whole process was kind of predictible, which makes is even worst I feel...
Before when I saw a Witcomb bike on the road there was something special about it, because I knew were it was coming from, it won't feel the same now.
Also, not far from witcomb a new bike shop openned, don't remember their name (on creek road), I was there to check how it was the other day... Loosing what Witcomb was, to have instead a taiwanese made (mainly I guess) bikes and accessories dealer definitely make me feel sad... (They have the smallest workshop I've ever seen, but to be fair I have to say that the guy I talked to was nice, although he could not help)...
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