Sportsbikeshop has opened in what was Evans Cycles in Preston.

It’s the Lincolnshire-based firm’s eighth store opening, and first in the North West.

The store offers a huge range of motorcycle clothing, helmets and accessories ready for customers to try on with staff on hand to offer help and advice.

Sportsbikeshop’s Try on or Buy service also gives customers the option to browse the full online catalogue before they visit. Anything that’s in stock can be shipped to store to try on or buy the next day, free of charge, seven days a week.

Managing Director, Chris ‘Bernie’ Winters, said: “Our Preston store has been a long time in the making and we’re really excited to finally be open.”

Sportsbikeshop began over 15 years ago online from a spare bedroom and is now the UK’s largest motorcycle clothing and accessory retailer.

The other Sportsbikeshop stores are in Bristol, Reading, Milton Keynes, Leeds, Harlow, Birmingham and Boston, where the main warehouse is also based.

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