Re: [CR]Oldest Bike Shop NYC

(Example: Component Manufacturers:Ideale)

Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 15:25:59 -0400
From: "Joe Szokoli" <joe.szokoli@gmail.com>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR]Oldest Bike Shop NYC
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> ............I suspect you
> would have to go outside of Manhattan and look in Queens or
> Brooklyn. My guess would be Bellitte's in Jamaica, Queens.

I have seen some shops in Queens that look like they have not sold a bike in 30 years.
> I don't know what the place is like these days but, in my
> youth, this was one of the places to go for everything from
> balloon tire bikes to track bikes to race on the flat oval at
> Flushing Meadow.

Its not flat it's banked. See: http://www.bikecult.com/works/kissenatrack.html

And speaking of shops, how I miss Al Toefield's shop on the LIE up from the track. http://www.usbhof.com/inductees/1992.cfm

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Joe Szokoli
New York City