Scooterotica

Kit had a shop over the other side of b'ham (where they all sound like they're speaking Welsh) many years ago.

I think he's still around too.

Muttley McLadd wrote:Kit had a shop over the other side of b'ham (where they all sound like they're speaking Welsh) many years ago.

I think he's still around too.

kits still going ive had alot of stuff of him this year his shop is scooter 2000

carlos fandango wrote:If youf talking early to mid 80s ....scooterama and moto continental were the main brum ones , also perrys in west brom
Around 86 Dez and Simon farrell set up shop inside an old bike shop ( the name escapes me atm) on the stratford road just down the road from today's Gran Sport

That was Jasons shop Russ, I remember when he bought everything from scooterama when they closed down in the late 80's, the shops name was R&G's which was just up from Onslows, Simon worked in Onslows for a while before him and Dez first opened classically Italian in Small heath though.
Simon left around 1989 and Jason started working with Dez and moved over to Ladywood, a few years later Dez opened Gran sport and Jason carried on with classically Italian back over on the Stratford road, Dez then left brum and Gary bought gran sport, then a few years later Jason closed the shop on the stratford road and now works at gran sport for Gary, Dez has come back and now has a small place near Shrawley.
Many others have come and gone over that time too in the brum area lol

eden wrote:

carlos fandango wrote:If youf talking early to mid 80s ....scooterama and moto continental were the main brum ones , also perrys in west brom
Around 86 Dez and Simon farrell set up shop inside an old bike shop ( the name escapes me atm) on the stratford road just down the road from today's Gran Sport

That was Jasons shop Russ, I remember when he bought everything from scooterama when they closed down in the late 80's, the shops name was R&G's which was just up from Onslows, Simon worked in Onslows for a while before him and Dez first opened classically Italian in Small heath though.
Simon left around 1989 and Jason started working with Dez and moved over to Ladywood, a few years later Dez opened Gran sport and Jason carried on with classically Italian back over on the Stratford road, Dez then left brum and Gary bought gran sport, then a few years later Jason closed the shop on the stratford road and now works at gran sport for Gary, Dez has come back and now has a small place near Shrawley.
Many others have come and gone over that time too in the brum area lol

Sounds like an episode of Crossroads

^ lol
I meant, dez and simon had a part of vale onslows .
R G spares was a few doors up ........I got my first scoot from RG spares

dapper wrote:
Sounds like an episode of Crossroads

much worse believe me

It got much more silly a few years ago, within about a ten mile radius there was gran sport, classically Italian, scoot 2000, new generation, ws9, stu owen, some bloke working out of a farm yard, a shop in Brownhills aimed at the plastic mods, and numerous others working and selling from their garages and a few more "shops" on the other side of brum. More scooter traders than you could shake a stick at .

eden wrote: It got much more silly a few years ago, within about a ten mile radius there was gran sport, classically Italian, scoot 2000, new generation, ws9, stu owen, some bloke working out of a farm yard, a shop in Brownhills aimed at the plastic mods, and numerous others working and selling from their garages and a few more "shops" on the other side of brum. More scooter traders than you could shake a stick at .

One of the plastic mods..?

Muttley McLadd wrote:

eden wrote: It got much more silly a few years ago, within about a ten mile radius there was gran sport, classically Italian, scoot 2000, new generation, ws9, stu owen, some bloke working out of a farm yard, a shop in Brownhills aimed at the plastic mods, and numerous others working and selling from their garages and a few more "shops" on the other side of brum. More scooter traders than you could shake a stick at .

One of the plastic mods..?

The "Face of '68" I believe. Benny went out for a spanner then and was never seen again. Mind you, I'm sure I've seen him wandering around this area!!

hes actually my old mans cousin, so that makes him my second cousin, i think,


no really he is lol

Yes now you mention it , i can see family resemblance

And the same dress sense