Goldtop motorcycle outfitters opens new experience store and ride-out destination in Bishop’s Stortford
A rising relatives-run business – consistently explained as the “ideal-kept top secret in motorcycling” – is embracing the café racer scene of the 1960s with its array of premium apparel and add-ons.
Motorbike outfitters Goldtop is a expert in leather-based jackets, boots, gloves and gauntlets for gentlemen and girls.
The unique Goldtop brand was founded in 1951, prior to father and son Kevin (KC) and Joe Cullen revived it in 2012 and started trading online.
Now the duo have expanded by opening their initially bricks-and-mortar retail outlet, in Bishop’s Stortford, which it would like to become the ideal experience-out desired destination for enthusiasts of basic British bike models these types of as Triumph, BSA, Vincent, Norton and Ariel.
“We are hoping to make an knowledge retail outlet,” claimed Joe. “We wished a retail outlet the place people today felt at ease to arrive, loosen up and have a coffee with no tough market.
“We are self-confident in the excellent of our goods. The firm’s motto is ‘Known and proposed everywhere’. That is the unique motto from the 50s that’s the ethos driving every thing we do.”
The Goldtop retail outlet is on a functioning farm and stables in Gipsy Lane. As properly as all its latest goods on display screen in the showroom – with basic posters, advertisements and photos adorning the walls – buyers can get pleasure from a coffee and cake at outdoor and indoor seating.
It is open Fridays to Sundays from ten.30am and by appointment only Mondays to Thursdays. There is parking in the garden for up to one hundred bikes, building it equally an excellent satisfy-up point for bikers and a go-to desired destination for top rated-excellent goods.
“We’ve discovered our niche building luxury manner-model apparel with the excellent and efficiency features that are required legally for motorbike apparel, as properly as surpassing all those considerably to reach the maximum protection score,” claimed Joe.
“Security, convenience and model are the a few things we normally place at the forefront of what we do.
“We cater for the basic motorbike or the contemporary motorbike and for people today who respect heritage apparel models.”
KC, 59, was a period of time apparel vendor and, being a biker himself, spotted a hole in the current market prior to determining to relaunch the Goldtop brand. Joe, 30, who had worked with him at functions, came on board having formerly gained a initially-course masters in aerospace engineering at Manchester University.
KC and wife Samantha moved from London to Stansted a couple of several years back immediately after the corporation, which has been a massive strike online, outgrew their house.
The pandemic impressed them to glimpse for a actual physical room the place they could grow the brand and give basic motorcycle enthusiasts somewhere to share their enthusiasm.
“Our growth so considerably has arrive heavily from term-of-mouth referrals and we have been informed on various events that we’re the ideal-kept top secret in motorcycling. We are really satisfied rising organically,” claimed Joe.
“It can be tough to discover a corporation you can trust and count on, but that’s anything we want to become.
“I am just happy to be equipped to work with my father and get pleasure from what we do.”
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