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A century ago the bicycle was not more like Barcelona. It was not usual to find it from our streets, was a new invention, a small revolution. And today is also a companion, a utensil that is just a way of moving.
 Evidence of this evolution is that Castells bikes over a hundred years - and still are - has been serving the bicycle and its fans and the service of Barcelona. Castells now unveils its third home. We are now Girona Street 39 and until a year ago we were eight years Arnau de Vilanova Street, opposite the Arc de Triomphe since 1928. A few years earlier, in 1926, Rec Comtal the street in a place where oil was sold, then sharing business with Mrs. Ripoll, Josep Castells, and Valeri began with the bike home.
It is fair to say that but the principle can also Castells were motorcycles, was the twenties. Until the Civil War much of the business was based, in addition to the bicycle in the import of motorcycles Norton. The war was hard for everyone, including castles, and then the motorcycle that it was second hand. As it enters the sixties the bike gradually lost prominence - Castles in no scooters - and her little sister, the bicycle became the big star. 
In addition to the sale of machines, Castells has been characterized by its taller, high level. There is nothing that can not be repaired, and if you find a solution. The spare parts of all types that make up the DNA of the house; nuts, pins, cables, a crank, for more strange ... you think you will find a Castle, or know how to get there.
The daughter of Josep Castells, Maria Dolors Tosquella Castells, although today they walk by the shop occasionally and will find some hanging by their recorded modern local current.
Tradition and modernity. Commitment and continuity. I always beside the bike, at your service.
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