The poison arrow

“It was decided to go the whole shebang and remove the engine. I was impressed, no one had dared take the engine out of the frame before… not round our neck of the woods.”

best mate had just bought his first scooter, an old N-reg Jet 200, you know… the usual 200cc registered as a 125, no MOT, insurance etc. None of that was necessary to us; what was important was getting it on the road. They were strange machines those Jets, a bit like the leftover’s from the Innocenti factory cobbled together in Spain to make a few extra