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    THE JESTER

    Oct 22, 2018 4 minutes
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    Before going any further, it’s worth saying that ‘Jep’ doesn’t claim to be in the league of professional artists whose work decorates the show-winning scooters we know and love. “I just wanted to see if I could do it” he explained. But we’re getting ahead of ourselves. The story of Jep and The Jester is firmly rooted in the late 1970s.

    Missed opportunity

    By the 1970s, most of the country had lost interest in scooters but in the working class communities where Jep grew up the fire never died. “I’d see lads out on their scooters, thought they looked fantastic and wanted to be part of it,” he said. After a short

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