This is on a 1962 Schwinn I just picked up

a bit of canadian content on a frame that made its way to New Zealand ( Peugeot UO10 )

Turin Bikes - Evanston, Illinois - former owner worked at shop when he bought the bike

I don't think I've ever seen serialized dealer stickers!

Central Supply, Bryan, Texas. This decal is on a 1971 Mercier purchased in August or September of that year.

I went into the search function to find this thread today, and by the time I finished scrolling through and looking at all the cool old stickers it had gotten bumped onto the first page.

This sticker is from the Stella I bought this weekend.



Does anyone happen to know if this shop was connected to the Stella Bicycle Shop that the founders of Trek owned before founding Trek? It would seem like a bold move putting that name on their sticker if they weren't. Vitesse still seems to be in business, but now in Normal, IL. Their web site mentions that they sold Stellas in Madison in 1976 (which is weird, given that Stella went out of business in 1975).

To the best of my knowledge this does link to the founding of TREK. One of the main players in Stella Madison was Bevel Hogg, who would join forces with Dick Burke to found Trek Bicycles in Waterloo.

Yes, it's confirmed. I sent an e-mail to the Vitesse shop in Normal, IL, and the owner (Chris Koos) replied today giving me some details. He says that Bevel Hogg and Tom French were the sole U.S. importers of Stella bikes under their wholesale company, Seaway, while their Vitesse, Inc. company had bike shops in three cities: Madison WI, Janesville WI and Normal, IL. After Seaway was sold to Dick Burke in 1976 (soon becoming Trek), the shops were sold to the local managers. Mr. Koos became a part owner of the Normal shop in 1978 and has since become sole owner, if I understand correctly. He says the Normal shop is the only one left.

Bevel Hogg and Tom French recruited me away from Yellow Jersey in Madison in 1981 to start up the Trek parts company in the original Trek manufacturing plant in Waterloo. Interesting times for certain.

Shop stickers from my town:

Broadway Cyclery. I bought my first real road bike here in 1975, an Italvega Nuovo Record. This sticker is on my Raleigh Pro track bike. I think Broadway closed in the early 1980's when the old downtown area decayed.



Pictures I've gleaned from local classifieds:

Green's Cyclery, a Schwinn dealer that closed in the 1980's



Scobee's Bike Shop, a small neighborhood shop that closed in the 1970's.



Cyclopath Bicycles. They were bought out by the Performance Bike Shop chain which of course has since closed. Cyclopath's owner then opened a new LBS down the street and is thriving




Steven's Bike Shop opened in the 1950's, changed owners in the late 1970's, moved out to the more affluent suburbs several years ago and is doing well.

From the PNW

Still intact on a 1995 bike

Just blundered into this thread, and was zooming down the pages looking for Arizona shops where I might have worked / purchased / hung out.

Try Me is a great C&V-style shop, with a good inventory of restored/fixed used & new bicycles + parts & accessories. And Leon is a great guy. Worth a visit if you're in the Phoenix area (just not on Sunday or Tuesday).

FB

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I tend not to put stickers on my elegant bikes, but the gaudy TT bike had this at the top of the seat tube.




Here's an old battered sew-up rim I killed in some feat of stupidity a long time ago.




No points for guessing my main LBS.

number at the bottom of the sticker a tracking number?
" I am not a number, I am a free man"

Here's another one.
Velo Sport, an iconic, now defunct shop in Berkeley, California. Early importer of Masi and Colnago; employer at one time of Albert Eisentraut; sponsor of Velo Club Berkeley which included George Mount and Mike Neel.




This is from a Gitane Tour de France, generously sent my way by [MENTION=79743]curbtender[/MENTION]. I've just put the finishing touches on it and am impatiently waiting for these interminable rains to end so I can ride it.
Brent

This was on an 87 Jamis Sand Jam cruiser. Lots of good times at this father- daughter shop. Great first organized group rides too.

closed sometime in the 90’s.

This is the now defunct bike shop that sold my Revolution E-Stay bike. Bike Beat. I haven't been able to find out much about them except that they were a premier shop in the '80-'90s.

I suppose this one qualifies? I grew up in a rural area, so the Sears Roebuck catalog was our link to keeping up with the Joneses in the big city. A lot of kids' bikes were ordered from the Christmas Wish Book to be shipped to the local Sears catalog store for pickup. If the catalog said it was "Sears Finest", you knew it was going to be top quality.


With such a price jump from the next lower model, it better be worth it!



1974 Sears Free Spirit 531

That one is! Love mine.

Fellow northern Michigan bloke?

On a Specialized I picked up today. Sadly I read this shop just closed last year after almost 30 years.
IMG_3755 by 2cam16, on Flickr

H. C. Strudwick built their own cycles, but this is a Holdsworth-built Grubb: