Right place, right time

Mark Percy got into scooters when he was around 12 years old. “It was in the early 80s; there were Mods and scooters at a rally in my home town of Whitley Bay. I can remember seeing them with my mates, we saw the gear they were wearing and they looked fantastic. Also Quadrophenia had just been released and the scene was in its heyday.”

Influences

Having been into the scene for a while, it took Mark a few years to get his first scooter. “I wasn’t particularly mechanically minded, but my dad was; he’d