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The bobber that came CRAWLING

Mark Cordingly (Jonah), full time scooterist and part time King Kurt plastic saxophone player has owned chops, standards and even the fabled YPVS 350 Yambretta. Mark cut his teeth on a Vespa Primavera he bought back in 1985 for fifty quid, paying the guy off at £2 a week. He freely admits to doing the usual teenage antics while learning how to handle a scoot: driving round the park, crashing. Driving around the pond, crashing. Driving round the garden, crashing. Parents not being happy, as well as lending it to a friend who got arrested and having to go down to the police station to get his pride and joy back. His first National Rally was Great Yarmouth 1986 (and those of a certain age of this parish are more than aware

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