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Happy anniversary

Recently I was waiting in an airport and noticed someone wearing a 35th anniversary T-shirt from a scooter club. With time to spare it got me thinking firstly how many clubs have ever been formed and secondly how many are still around today. If you think about it clubs have come in waves since the early days of scooter ownership and the explosion of them in the early 1980s.

The majority that formed in the 1950s are long gone or if not are in the main only reminisced by surviving members. Many

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