jim haseltine":3ixe01ls said:My somewhat faulty memory suggests that Pete Longbottom's father was quite a useful cyclocross rider in his youth and was a handy veteran time trailer. His daughter (Pete's sister, who's name escapes me for the moment) married Jeff Williams who rode as a pro for Raleigh for a couple of seasons. Ian White's shop was in Haxby, he sold up after a few years to concentrate on a sports media company I think. If I remember correctly the clothing was produced by Dave Byworth.
Close. It's a row of three units. The first was (and still is) the Chemists, the second was a furniture shop which never seemed to open but had become an estate agents (which it still is) by the time that Ian opened his shop in the third which used to be a grocer's and is now a Chinese restaurant with an eclectic mix of a Cantonese menu with Italian desserts (weird, but true). Sometime after he sold up the bike shop moved to a unit on the old forge site on Usher Lane and more recently to the old general store at the junction of York Road and Eastfield Avenue.mattr":3asn6pdy said:Yeah, Ian White Cycles in Haxby, next door to the Chemists
Wasn't the shop eventually owned by the same chap who had the shop on Burton stone lane (John?)? I can vaguely remember speaking to his dad (?) In there last time I was in haxby, probably 15 years ago.jim haseltine":11tmkngs said:Close. It's a row of three units. The first was (and still is) the Chemists, the second was a furniture shop which never seemed to open but had become an estate agents (which it still is) by the time that Ian opened his shop in the third which used to be a grocer's and is now a Chinese restaurant with an eclectic mix of a Cantonese menu with Italian desserts (weird, but true). Sometime after he sold up the bike shop moved to a unit on the old forge site on Usher Lane and more recently to the old general store at the junction of York Road and Eastfield Avenue.mattr":11tmkngs said:Yeah, Ian White Cycles in Haxby, next door to the Chemists