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Never tire of looking at your old photo's Geoff, check out the A5/Aldershot site there's some lovely old 1970s pics in a guy called Timmy's photo's, Stockport Mod Sqaud included

tat wrote:Never tire of looking at your old photo's Geoff, check out the A5/Aldershot site there's some lovely old 1970s pics in a guy called Timmy's photo's, Stockport Mod Sqaud included

hi dave..... cheers for the A5 link...... on the southend 1978 pics theres a pic of my gp on the campsite.... its by itself..... green mudguard and chrome panels and parka on the legshields

the dorset modrapheniacs rode back to stockport with us on the sunday and stayed with frank the mouth ( one of the stockport lot ) i took them round manchester city centre on the monday, the army and navy shop made some money that day, we all bought these army cloth hats with flaps on the back, we looked like japanese soldiers they filled up with petrol near where i live in the days when the petrol attendant had to fill your tank up..... one of the dorset lads didnt have an air scoop on his lammy and the bloke put about a gallon in the air scoop hole before he realised what he was doing ..... there was petrol everywhere, the lad was going mental . then they rode up to preston to stay with the wildcats and we went down later in the evening for a party and got back to stockport about 3 in the morning and preston is only 35 miles from here ,,,, i think we left about midnight ..... great days

cheers geoff

Hi boys, thank you for sharing those pics. I love them. I agreed with Shocky's statement totally. It wasn't about how much money you had to make the super scooter of all times. Times have changed and nobody dares to have such a scoot as a daily rider on other countries (here in Spain people, like me still use them daily) cause of theft issues mainly.

Looking at the pictures a question comes to mind. Where "wideys" so uncool then? I don't think I have spotted a single one...

Jaime

Supereibar wrote:Hi boys, thank you for sharing those pics. I love them. I agreed with Shocky's statement totally. It wasn't about how much money you had to make the super scooter of all times. Times have changed and nobody dares to have such a scoot as a daily rider on other countries (here in Spain people, like me still use them daily) cause of theft issues mainly.

Looking at the pictures a question comes to mind. Where "wideys" so uncool then? I don't think I have spotted a single one...

Jaime

to quote a well known york scooterist regarding series ones and twos in the seventies "gp's were what every one wanted (head sets and panels fitted to sx ect)and that and older li series were as he put it "grandad scoots"

i will add though that this was only in reference to lammys i dont know about what was "hot" vespa wise back then but he does in fact ride and have a preference for the wide style li's now too

RICSPEED wrote:but he does in fact ride and have a preference for the wide style li's now too

Times change, people change, peoples' minds get wider and wiser with time. I include myself on that. I started with Series III' now I will not ride anything that is not a widey.

Not wanting to sound like an old fart at 41, but my first rally was the IOW in 83. it was a magical time to an impressionable teenager and like these photos show it was a different time for the scooter scene back then to. I have learnt that part of the british scooter scenes success is a direct result of it being able to evolve and encompass new things like the skinheads, psychobillys and what have you. The scene we have today is so much different but that is the price of progress, whilst its great to see old pictures and get all misty eyed for the old days without the evolution process i think that the scooter scene as we know it would have died out long ago rather like the punk rock scene. Lets be honest would there be many people interested in riding all the way up north to find only 20 or so scooters present, yes there would be hard core scooterists around but it would be a very insular scene. But having said that the supply of scooters would be cheap and plentiful

Top photos them fella , let's have some more, !!. The yellow vespa rally (two photos ) with the murals on front and panels was a lad called dave horseman from York, they were done by hand , not airbrushed, by the westmorland twins (from York ), was the dogsbollocks at the time and still holds up today imho. When you saw it up close the detail was tops . He later had them re-done with different pics after , ( if memory serves me right ) some of the york scooter club had there scoots sabotarged at gt yarmouth, They had paint thinners , or something like , thrown all over them. Love the old roadsweeper mudflaps aswell, anyone know if there's any around still Again , keep the pics coming, top notch !!.

NBT 432 T yellow GP stood next to a volvo ,that ended up been one of my scooters ,all chromed and brass plated got it very early eighties

Supereibar wrote:Hi boys, thank you for sharing those pics. I love them. I agreed with Shocky's statement totally. It wasn't about how much money you had to make the super scooter of all times. Times have changed and nobody dares to have such a scoot as a daily rider on other countries (here in Spain people, like me still use them daily) cause of theft issues mainly.

Looking at the pictures a question comes to mind. Where "wideys" so uncool then? I don't think I have spotted a single one...

Jaime

I thought you were talking about the trousers at first, and then I realized...

dirtyhandslopez wrote:

Supereibar wrote:Hi boys, thank you for sharing those pics. I love them. I agreed with Shocky's statement totally. It wasn't about how much money you had to make the super scooter of all times. Times have changed and nobody dares to have such a scoot as a daily rider on other countries (here in Spain people, like me still use them daily) cause of theft issues mainly.

Looking at the pictures a question comes to mind. Where "wideys" so uncool then? I don't think I have spotted a single one...

Jaime

I thought you were talking about the trousers at first, and then I realized...

Hi dude, how is Richmond? I lived in Lexington, Kentucky 6 years and 2 years in Louisville before that. Everyone in the University of Kentucky knew that Richmond Virginia was a very happening place, is it still so? Many scoots in the area?

Regards,

Jaime