Scootering

OWNER DETAILS

Name: Gary Goble (aka Horse)

Job: Health and safety rigger (for major film productions)

Scooter club and town: Oxford Roadrunners SC: Oxford, VOC-UK, VCB

Me and a mate (Paddy Cullen) were in our local pub, The Ampleforth Arms in August ’84. Mark Sargeant, Jacqui Lewis, Brian Spicer and his girlfriend at the time, Sarah, turned up on scooters. We all got chatting, result of that was three months later (November ’84) I bought my first Vespa from Faulkners in

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