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A T5 revived!

Baz Matthews is from Baddesley Ensor, an old ex-miners’ village in North Warwickshire. Baz, like so many (myself included), is a product of the tail-end of the Mod Revival years and owes his scootering passion to those 1980s beginnings.

Baz got his first scooter – a PK50S – back in 1984 and along with his mates, also Vespa riders, enjoyed the Nuneaton Mod scene to the maximum.

As soon as he turned 17, the lure of increased speed and power kicked in and he purchased a Vespa P200E, which for some reason had been mistakenly recorded as a 125cc on the registration document – what are the chances of that, eh?

CHANGING OF THE GUARD

As the decade moved on and the Mod label was dropped by many in favour of the Scooterboy/Scooterist tags, Baz followed and began to have a strong leaning to the lowrider-style scooters which were mostly painted matt black with the tanks in the wrong place, etc., etc. That was until he decided he

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