When it came to building or working on our scooters there was always one thing in the way and that was money. The high unemployment rates of the early 1980s found many school leavers ‘accepting’ a place on the Government’s Youth Training Scheme. Though its fixed wage of £28 a week was welcome, it was nowhere near enough to keep a scooter on the road. To do that required weeks of saving or extreme ingenuity.
On such a meagre income there was no chance our scooters would see the inside of a professional’s workshop; the only