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[petefenelon]

For any motorsport fans in/visiting London...

I spent a fruitless quarter of an hour shambling along Carnaby Street yesterday (and a less Carnaby Street kind of guy then me has yet to be born - I believe that if you can't go there in a gore-tex jacket, walking boots and old jeans it's not worth going there) looking for the Alex Reade shop.

It ain't there any more.

It's moved - it's now nearby on Foubert's Place, which is one of the little streets running between Carnaby St and Regent St, a couple of hundred yards from where it used to be. Seems to be a bigger shop now, although there is rather more motorbike stuff in there than in the old one.

[Coogar]

Fouberts Place ?
Home of Autosport during the Ian Phillips years.......!

[petefenelon]

They've moved again. Now on Regent St - much bigger shop. I only noticed this after heading for Foubert's Place when I was in London last week and finding their shop empty!

http://www.alexreade...ndon_Store.html

[zac510]

I walked down Fouberts the other week and thought Alex Reade had closed! There were no signs pointing to the new store..
Cheers

[Fiorentina 1]

That is such a better location! On Regent St right next to the McDonalds (A.K.A public bathrooms in London) will bring them a lot more foot traffic. I remeber how much of a cluster F*** it was for me, a yank with limited talent, to find their first store. Then the following year going back and noticing that it wasn't there, and luckly by pure accident finding their new (now old) location. I'm looking forward to seeing their new shop.

[David Birchall]

I went into "something" Reades on Regent Street but I must have been in the wrong place-all they sold were sports jackets and blazers!!

[2F-001]

That would be Austin Reed - traditional Gents' outfitters with little or no knowledge of nomex.