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EMPIRE GARAGE S7 WHERE DREAMS WERE MADE...

I think most of us can remember those early days when we’d just got into the scene. We’d got a taste for the music, a selection of ‘cool’ clothes and we were chomping at the bit to get our first scooter.

Greg Wood and his pals were no different. “On a Saturday morning we used to go to the two main scooter shops in Sheffield, which were Armando’s and the Empire Garage and basically make nuisances of ourselves! We’d just wander round looking at the scooters on display, never actually buy anything and just dream of the day when we’d have

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