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@coppiThat
SAD NEWS PEOPLE
i just found out that on saturday of last week the shop was cleared of all its bits and bobs which included unused 531 frame tubes, drop outs some frames , rims still in their wrapping paper, work stands, display cabinets and loads of other things. most of it would have been taken to the local scrap metal dealers. the clothing, the old rusty hetchings, barries old white track bike - what became of them hopefully not to the same place :-(
out of curiosity i just went to the shop and peered through the little letterbox size light holes that form part of the metal shutters and the shop is completely bare and painted white. where the old posters of merckx, zoetemelk and hinault forging their way up mountain passes or crossing finishing lines arms aloft is now a big fat nothing. it is so sad.
for quite some time i knew from the neighbour that since it closed all the stock had remained in the shop just as it was, but thought it better to not advertise the fact. i didnt think that its end would have been like that,,,, loaded on to the back of a lorry for the scrap metal dealer.
later i will take a picture of the front of the shop before they paint over the racing cyclists that have been there as far back as i can remember.
R.I.P. witcomb