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NK1 Vespa Racer A racing pedigree developed from a special relationship…

Way back when

When Steve was growing up he regularly went on family camping weekends to the seaside and sometimes the traffic would be swallowed up by a sea of young people on scooters. “I was slightly scared and very curious. When we were in Dorset in 1982, driving down some beautiful country lanes, three scooters passed us – all chrome and mirrors. However, it was the menacing message on one of the scooter’s flyscreens, ‘Millions like us’ and the girls on the back that really did it for me.

It was an invisible, glamorous army of young people and that’s what Iwanted in the next few years, a scooter

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