Exist? Was that in the corn exchange remember we were visiting Leeds and I got some adio bam v1s from there in red and black. Would have been early 2000s
There was one in the early - mid noughties that was upstairs from Out of Step, round the back of the Corn Exchange I think? OoS moved to near Morrisons, I think the skate shop went too?
Sorry to keep the R1/SOS convo going…
But I’m glad the only skate store that has remained throughout the past 14 years of me skating has been Exist. Ric’s a good egg and sorts out all the muckas. Tidy, mun.
Any other chain stores can keep their oar out of it, down in Ye Old Swansea.
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That must have been it.
Must have been Exist, it was upstairs, then I’m pretty sure then when they jazzed up the corn exchange around 2008 it moved up to the building where the cinema was, which was just a bit down from Morrisons. Probably only lasted another year
Was there also one next to OK Comics at that time as well or am I confusing it with a jazzy clothing shop/where Welcome is now?
I thought it moved earlier than 2008, but I could be wrong / getting things mixed up. Been a while since I left Leeds.
Exit (not skater owned, Leeds/Mcr/York) was in the Corn Exchange and then moved to The Light in around '07. It later sacked off skating to focus on FSAS and other such fashion prevalent at the time, it folded soon after.
Wisdom (originally Bradford, owned by Lecky and Dave Winn, underwritten by Joe Burlo of Faze 7 I believe) was round the back of the Corn Exchange, shop was split with Out Of Step records. That moved into the Merrion Centre in maybe '06 (?) and closed a year or two later. Speculation was this was due to the financial issues the Burlo’s were experiencing and saw Faze 7 (Distro behind Blueprint) fold in '08.
What was the skate shop in one of Leeds arcades called? ‘Air’ or something? Open at the same time as the one in the Corn Exchange. I’m sure there was an Exit in York too?
Thanks for clarifying my bad memory. Did not know Exit wasn’t skater owned (its still in MCR right?), I think I bought a board in there when it was in Corn Exchange and then a pair of Vans when it was in the light, but yeah you’re right I think it was predominantly a clothing shop at that point, though to be fair thats probably the only way they could have tried to survive post-financial crisis.
Don’t really remember Wisdom being in the Merrion Centre, probably never went in, or it had gone by that time
Air was in the Corn Exchange, I think there was a shop called Buffalo Skates on Briggate before that but I was pretty young then (and I sacked off skating for fishing for a large part of my teens). I remember getting some stuff from a shop in Wakey as a kid in the 80’s, down the bottom Kirkgate (?) I believe - Anon would likely know.
Always thought this shit was incredibly lame:
“Women’s oversized”… Interesting way to get rid of all those men’s sizes AND get some women on the site. Never mind the capitalisation…
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But adidas oversized is a thing:
By all means be miffed at your arbitrarily defined view of what constitutes immoral business practice but that’s just looking for issues where they don’t exist.
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Yeah that’s reaching pretty hard there
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Couldn’t of said it better myself, haha… I can legit call anyone with anything to do with Route One a Michael Fabricant!
*Couldn’t have.
There, justified my new found “cunt” status.
New?
Well, we seemed to get on up until yesterday. I think 24h still constitutes as “new.”
Don’t come at me with a dig and not expect one back, haha… especially leaving a sitter like that there, that’s not how pub talk works.
Those are completely different, those are Stella McCartney designs, for women.
The stuff on the Route One site is different.
The stuff on the Route One site is the regular men’s tuff, but with XS-M listed in the women’s category.
Route One doesn’t sell Stella McCartney stuff.
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Nope.
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