Robin Hood Harley-Davidson of Nottingham has moved to newly-built premises overlooking a busy inner ring road junction on the eastern side of the city.
“We had outgrown our old place and had a massive search for a prime location,” said general manager Ian Jennings. “Once we’d bought the land, four years were spent in planning and building. The council requested that we make it a city landmark. We now have more parking space, 20 times as much passing traffic and we’re not in a residential area.”
The new building includes a spacious workshop, visible from the showrooms through a glass wall. Staff level is 17. Open seven days a week Robin Hood typically stocks 20 new machines and up to 40 second-hand machines. All are Harley-Davidson.
Owned by Derbyshire based Huntson Holdings plc, Robin Hood was the first UK H-D dealer to score 100% in the company’s mystery shopper programme. The shop stages social events and sponsors the 250-strong HOG Sherwood Chapter which raises substantial sums for charities.
Robin Hood’s former site in Beeston, a suburb to the west of the city, is expected to become a new Pidcock Motorcycles dealership early in 2016.