Every item in Tony Mooney's antique shop has its own unique story.
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One item the Cowra antique dealer came across only recently, an 80 year-old Malvern Star bicycle, isn't for sale but it has a story Mr Mooney believes is worth telling.
Mr Mooney acquired the bike from Gwen Downes, wife of the late Harry Downes, a former local champion cyclist who used it as a mode of transport as well as for racing.
It's racing days were during a time when Cowra held bicycle races that attracted 100 riders to a meeting and more than 700 spectators would look on.
"When he left school at 14 he went to work at Tallarook (about 15km from Cowra on the Grenfell Road), and he'd sometimes ride the bike home of a weekend," Mr Mooney said of the bike's original owner.
"He was obviously a mad keen bike racer and sometime in the 1930s he and Alf Flynn, (another champion Cowra cyclist) decided to ride to Sydney and visit Malvern Star.
"It's quite a story and was quite a challenge I'd think," Mr Mooney said of the trip, something Harry's wife Gwen confirmed.
"Alf Flynn was his friend," Gwen said.
"He just got involved with the bikes, was training the best he could and then Doolan Murray took them over."
"Herbert "Doolan" Murray was a champion sportsman in his own right, as a boxer and a rugby league player with the Erambie All Blacks.
"He was a very good man Doolan, he was a real gentlemen and took on their training."
Flynn and Downes were among a host of Cowra champions who took on all comers from throughout the state on a track at the Cowra Showground.
Of the trip to Sydney "they went in January, on gravel roads, and the hills, they've cut down the Sydney road now, it was different then," Gwen said.
"They rode to Lithgow the first day and into Sydney the next day to Malvern Star where they presented them with jackets.
"They then came home the next day."
Of Cowra's bicycle racing scene Gwen said: "They came from everywhere, the bike riders, those days bike racing was a big thing with 700 spectators."
When Harry Downes finished his racing days the bike found another life after his eldest son John found work in a bank at Yass.
Harry repainted the bike and sent it by train to John who used it to ride to work.
When it was no longer needed it once again found its way back to the Downes' shed before a recent clean up unearthed it once again.
If ever Cowra builds a museum to showcase its history Mr Mooney intends to donate the bike.