The Hillington area, west of Glasgow, used to be a heavy industrial hub that produced Rolls-Royce aircraft engines for warplanes, including the famous Merlin, during the Second World War. Now, it’s a retail and light industry base for much of the west of Scotland’s motorcycle trade, centred on the impressive West Coast Harley-Davidson, West Coast Triumph and Ducati Glasgow dealerships.
And now Hillington boasts another major bike store, this time the kit and accessories giant Sportsbikeshop. The firm has opened its ninth clothing superstore on Earl Haig Road in Hillington, joining a list of stores in Bristol, Reading, Milton Keynes, Leeds, Harlow, Birmingham, Preston and Boston – where the firm’s main warehouse is also based.
The new shop will carry a wide range of stock on its shelves, but anything that’s in stock nationwide can also be shipped to the Glasgow store to try on or buy the next day, free of charge, seven days a week.
Sportsbikeshop managing director Chris Winters said: “Our Glasgow store has always been part of the plan; it just took us a few years to get there. Finding the right spot was key, and if the positive response we’ve received so far is anything to go by, it should be our most popular store yet. As well as a large core stock holding in-store, we also offer our ‘Try on or Buy’ reservation system. With this, we’re pretty sure we’ve found the best way to link the full choice of the UK’s biggest biking website to a local store.”