The Maine Cycle Story
Dad
Jerry
Jim 
JohnThis whole motorcycle thing started in 1970 when Bruce Myrick’s sons started racing motorX.
The boys, Jerry, John, and Jimmy seemed to have a natural motor cross riding talent, but keeping 3 boys in motorcycle parts proved to be very expensive, especially on a truck driver’s pay!
When a local Honda dealer went out of business, Schott Motorcycle bought the franchise and Bruce bought his inventory of left over motorcycle parts and so…
Maine Cycle was born.
Bruce worked out of his garage for a couple of years, buying used motorcycle parts when he had a chance. Can’t you just picture Dad out in the garage using what he needed from the salvage motorcycle for the boy’s bikes and selling the rest of the salvage bike to the other dads and neighborhood kids.
In 1972 he moved to Main St. in Lewiston and took on the Indian franchise, soon after he also took on Hodaka.
Well there goes the little part time job.
Both Indian and Hodaka went out of business but Bruce decided to develop the motorcycle salvage business buying and selling used motorcycle parts. He moved to a disheveled building on Oxford Street in Lewiston, Maine. Maine Cycle Salvage was building quite a reputation locally, much to the annoyance of the big guys.
Bruce Myrick’s reputation as being an honest guy to deal with, was his biggest asset.
Bruce started buying used motorcycles wherever he could get a good deal: insurance companies and auctions, and from return customers that trusted his honest judgment. Maine Cycle Salvage was now a real business.
He started buying aftermarket motorcycle parts to go along with the used bike inventory which had accumulated over the years. John Myrick tried opening an aftermarket motorcycle parts store (Cycle Mart) but it didn’t do very well. Bruce decided the salvage motorcycles / salvage motorcycle parts and the aftermarket parts and newer motorcycles should be separated. He bought the old Kawasaki Country building on Washington St. in Auburn, Maine, for the new Maine Cycle inc. The Used Parts Warehouse relocated to the old box factory also in Auburn.
Jim, the youngest of the three sons, opened a ski shop in the front of the motorcycle shop for the winter season. Jim now manages the motorcycle service department and is active building up Team Maine Cycle’s motocross race team. Skier’s Edge is now one of the leading ski shops in Androscoggin county.
Maine Cycle has evolved into a full service motorcycle shop, and has one of the largest undercover salvage yards in New England. The Warehouse is 5 floors of used motorcycles and parts.
If you want it, Maine Cycle probably has it.
Maine Cycle is now three generations of motorcycle and motocross riders…Bruce, (73), Jim, and Casey (17) Yep…Grampie still rides!
If you go on to any of the New England motocross scoreboards you will find Casey Myrick’s name on or near the top! Like his dad he is a natural motorcross rider!
The Myrick family “knows their motorcycle stuff”… they’ve been at it almost 40 years now!
See what a “Dad” can do!