The passing of a local legend

[Laverda Dave]

Sad to report the sudden passing of Mike Harrington a couple of weeks ago.
Mike was the owner of HGB and Daytona motorcycles in Ruislip Manor, Middlesex. Although in his mid 70’s he was still actively working 4 days a week in the shops and still riding his Goldwing. 
He was a legend in West London having started HGB Motorcycles in the mid 1960’s selling British bikes. He became a Honda only dealer in 1976 at HGB and took on a Kawasaki and Suzuki franchise at Daytona motorcycles across the road and later briefly added the new Triumph range to the shop.
His family requested a motorcycle escort from the church to the crematorium. The funeral took place on Monday with about 100 bikes taking part in the escort lead by two police bikes for the 10 mile journey through west London. We passed by both shops on the route. There were a lot of locals outside the shops to pay their respects.
Anyone who knew Mike would know what a legend he was both far and wide and to all his staff who frequently would start their career in the shop and never left.
RIP Mike.

[Seabeowner]

Bought my new 500 from him there in August 74, £750 I think. Just looked, St Anns Road then. It's a pedestrian precinct now! Then moved on to Daytona, Kawasaki, three years later. Think that was before he was there. RIP.

[flatfour]

I worked (as a contractor) for quite a few years with Mike, Brigid (his wife) and Clive (their General Manager) and always enjoyed my visits to the company, they were very good to me.