From the other side of the fence

Scooter racing has been a spectacle for many scooterists with many legendary names, riders and teams having come and gone over the years. One man who’s seen all of them from the trackside is Paul Thomas.

Paul Green (PG): Paul, we met a good few years ago now – but what is your scooter history?

Paul Thomas (PT): Well I bought my first scooter in September ’79 from the local paper, a two-owner TV200 that I bought for £25 and pushed two miles home.

PG: Those were the days!

I then spent the next five months riding around a 20ft garden until I hit the road on my 17th birthday. In ’79-81 I was fully into the fledgling Mod and Quadrophenia. I was really into The Jam, and scooters