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The golden era of scootering…

These days most of us tend to look back on ‘what has been’, rather than looking forwards to ‘what will be’, gripped by the nostalgia of the so-called ‘golden era of scootering’, but what (or when) was that era?

If you go back to the days of Lambretta and Vespa production in the 1950s, that was certainly the golden era – but of scooter sales. We can all look fondly at an old shop picture, with hundreds of machines lined up outside and a

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