One thing that made other club members jealous was when one of us was lucky enough to come across a ‘barn find’. That’s the modern-day description, of course; back in the late 1980s most of these semi-abandoned scooters were found locked in sheds or stored around the back of houses underneath a tarpaulin. Whatever we may call them, even by that date they were becoming harder to find because most of them had been discovered. When one did appear, everyone would want to see it, a relic frozen in time from the glory days of scootering. If I ever walked past someone’s house and the garage door was open, I couldn’t help but peer into the gloom in
