Went to drop in to Europa Cycles to get the BB out of my Paino (I threw out a lot of my tools in the move as they were rusted up) and almost got a heart attack when I saw that the shop was completely empty. Turns out they’ve moved just down the road!
Thank fuck for that!
These guys have been around since 1973 and whilst I’ve not seen John Abeni in many years now the shop is being run by his son Alan. I have so many great memories related to Europa as I visited Europa a LOT as a kid, both the huge store on Anzac Parade in Kingsford as well as their CBD store (where I used to drool over Colnago frames). I also did my year 10 work experience at the Europa (bike hire) shop in Randwick.