At the close of the last instalment, I had brought Gareth up to the era from which Scootering magazine emerged. If you haven’t got a copy, back issues are available but to refresh, here’s where we left things…
“To fast forward and avoid duplicating the chain of events detailed in my book Scooter Boys by the end of 1982, the scooter became the main focus of our movement. The scene seemed to develop in a completely new direction as it became heavily influenced by the ongoing northern scooter scene in England, and to carry this momentum further forward (don’t forget that the internet was still a good 20 years away), the fanzine became king. It was only a matter of time before one of these went national … “
Basically, these were budget mini magazines in either A4 or A5 size put together by local Mods/scooterists using ‘pre-PC’ graphics (images drawn by hand and/or photocopied black and white photos), with all the written work typed out on old-school typewriters. The pages were assembled and photocopied as many times as necessary to produce the
