MAILBOX

Classic Scooterist ahead

o it’s farewell to ? A magazine for the gentler folks of the small wheel fraternity. With advice from solid old chaps with comb-overs called Tom, Reg, Ron or Len – men with broken glasses and crooked teeth, nylon brown shirts and grey deep crotch ankle grazers. Men who always had a pencil and owned those now-coveted rusterations, with more badges than a cub’s jumper. Practical, national service men who kept their nuts in tobacco tins in sheds full of ‘that will be useful one day’. Pre-internet men who knew every quick fix for parts unobtainable before Google. Men with real tools in ancient canvas tool rolls. Men who knew how to use them because they’d have to catch the bus to