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    SUPERSPRINT RESTORATIONS AND FABRICATIONS

    Jul 20, 2021 4 minutes
    Words: Stu Smith

    Scootering for Mark Hodgetts (aka ‘Hodge’), who is the owner and founder of Supersprint Restorations, started when he was a kid. “Around 1979, just after Quadrophenia had been released, I saw some scooters parked in the Village Inn car park in Wednesbury and they looked fantastic.” At the time Hodge was only about 13 or 14 years old and of course too young to ride his own scooter. So, with this in mind he decided to customise his Raleigh Chopper bicycle. “I customised it with lights, mirrors, a whip aerial and plywood flyscreen with my name on it!” he laughed.

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    As well as already having a ‘fledgling’ custom project under his belt, Hodge’s dad was a coachbuilder. “During my childhood I’d seen

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