The business started as a home-based online business in 2005, catering & specializing to the cruiser fraternity. Feeling the need to see our customers face to face without opening a storefront, we started travelling to rallies and swap meets from as far north as Townsville QLD, to as south as Mildura VIC and as far west as Lightning Ridge. We were invited to our first rally in May 2006. We packed what goods we had in the back of our Ford Falcon sedan including one 3 x 3 meter Gazebo. Looking back, we were an extremely small outfit and vendor, as with the stock we had, we couldn’t even fill that small space with stock, but we had a lot of fun and it was a real learning curve for us. Our next step was to expand our inventory. With that, we had to buy a trailer to pack our stock, as it was never going to fit in the back of the Ford, so we bought a 7 x 5 foot shuttle bus trailer and another 3 x 3m Gazebo and then we were really rocking (or rather we thought we were). Within 18 months we had moved from transporting our stock with a Ford sedan and one 3 x 3 Gazebo to a 7 x 5 foot trailer with a selling space of 3 x 6 m, then we moved on to a 13 foot caravan and started working out of a setup area of 6 x 6m and having to put stock outside our Gazebos as room was getting tight. In 2008 we had the Ulysses AGM in Townsville to travel to, and space in the old caravan was getting real tight and with the weight of our goods it would have been really hard hauling all that gear up there, so we decided to buy a Pantech Truck (now we were working out a 9m x 9m space with stock on the outside also). Much to our delight, we had more room to buy more inventory and that’s exactly what we did. The business was growing very rapidly, but that was because we could feel what the biker's needs were, as we were not just a vendor with no interest in motorcycles, but we were passionate bikers ourselves that had become biker retailers. It was around late 2007 that we started producing our own brand vests, which took off really well and now we produce three different styles.

The thought of opening a store front was always in the back of our minds, but we were having a ball travelling to rallies and not being tied down to one location (having stores before in the catering business, we were very reluctant for another store front), but we grew to the point of carrying a lot of inventory and with the winter months having long breaks between rallies, it just made good sense to open a store front. So on January 10th 2009 CC-LEATHER-RIDER store front was opened at 235 Pacific Hwy Doyalson North at the Caltex Service Station (Now the Ampol Service Station). We opened with a Show & Shine, a free sausage sizzle and specials that attracted what we think was a very reasonable crowd for openers. We now conduct an annual Anniversary Show & Shine in January every year, which is always a huge success with a huge numbers of bikers and patrons attending with food, drinks & bands playing, along with three “Open Days” we have during the year. The catering at our shows is conducted by various clubs raising money for their clubs. My 3rd year Show & Shine (2012) was catered for by my club, the Vietnam Veterans MC Sydney Chapter. I supplied all the food and drinks at my expense and 100% proceeds went to the Royal Children’s Hospital – Randwick Cystic Fibrosis unit. Proudly we handed over a cheque to the value of $2,088.00. These days we do not trade at any shows or rallies as the shop has taken priority for one and secondly there are such few shows now.