About us
Through two decades
How it all began
Our story
MotoNostalgia founder, Marko Pettai, has been involved with motorcycles since his childhood. His first bike was a Delta moped, followed by a motocross bike CZ125, Jawa 638, etc. The Delta moped, which was rebuilt into a race bike, was also taken to the circuit track. Marko has kept some of these bikes as souvenirs.
He took his first ride on a sidecar Dnepr motorcycle, which belonged to his father, at the age of 12. In the following five years, the Dnepr was used a lot, as it was the main means of transportation in their summer home in Saaremaa, but of course that was only if it started. At that time, motorcycles were a very common means of transportation on the Estonian islands, because they were easy to navigate and you could get everywhere with them.
History
1996 – we began selling classic motorcycles to our Finnish customers, and everything took off from there.
2001 – we opened our East Highway store, located on Lootsi Street in Tallinn, and we stayed there until 2003.
2003 – we launched our first online shop for East Highway, targeted to the Finnish market.
2013 – we relaunched a modern online shop in five languages: Estonian, Finnish English, Russian and German quickly becoming a global network. See HERE where in the world we have despatched our spare parts.
2013 – Silver Sukles, a real genius of a mechanic joined us who doesn’t see technical issues as problems but as challenges. Fortunately, he likes challenges and we have plenty to serve him.
I am very grateful that somebody can and wants to keep a business like this alive..
Tanel Talve (Estonia, regular customer)
Festival
In 2016, the first MotoNostalgia festival took place at LaitseRallyPark in Estonia. It brought together a lot of people and a large amount of various interesting vintage vehicles. A separate website at festival.motonostalgia.com was also created for the festival as we continue to organise it in a new location. A few years later, the new MotoNostalgia brand grew out of it.