DR DEATH

Valentino Rossi started out on go-karts; Richard’s first scooter was a Lammy monkey bike that was used to thrash around on the quarry site near to where he lived. “I became interested in scooters in the 70s. As a kid I’d sit in my uncle’s shed trying to piece the parts together out of the 10 or so scooters he had in there in various stages of the build process. I didn’t know what half of the parts did or where they should go, I’d just piece them together like a jigsaw!” Richard laughed. “Later I spent years as a biker watching the likes of Rossi and Foggy battle it out on the track, but I was