When did u 1st notice scooters?

[retrogirl]

;D My first experience was when I was 3 yrs old, me mar was crossin me over the road infront of 4 scoots from the Combine SC Wallasey! I remember her pullin my arm cus I was just starring at them lol funny thing is I met most of the members years later!! ;D ;D ;D ;D

[skrappey]

I was returning from cub camp at small dole in Sussex, we were on a red double decker and saw a scooter gang coming towards us up the road. Looked ever so cool. I must have been about 9 or 10, so 64/65

[sue]

not until quadrophenia. went every night with my mates and knew most of the script knew a few of cloud 9 back then but found them all a bit scary couldnt wait to get a scooter of my own ;D

[jinxed]

Visiting Rome when I was 6 or 7

[Spence]

When I was about four or five, so must've been 76 or 77 I saw a lad go past me up Kings Drive on a metalflake GP (although I didn't know that then obviously), with loads of chrome, a whippy aerial and a foxtail, and he had a metalflake open face helmet done in the stars and stripes, with a GP peak so he had his head tipped back to see.

I thought he looked the utter b*ll*cks. I'll never forget that sight, I wonder who he was.

[Robjack]

Mine's a similar story to Spence. The image is still burned on my memory. Mid 70's, a blue Rally (possibly) with every adornment imaginable inclucing 15ft dual whip aerials with foxtails bent over almost touching the floor behind. The rider had a parka on, huge platform soled shoes and the greatest pair of Birmingham bags you've ever seen. They were flapping behind him, seemingly almost covering his sidepanels. Fantastic. I did find out who he was though, his younger brother was in our loose knit gang of scooterboys years later. (Hello Stokey!)
The image was so strong that this 8yr old (ish) boy tried to make one from boxes, bits of wood and casters from an old armchair. It was crap, but the seed was sown.

[reverandfunk]

I honestly can't remember lol

[Big Al]

Mid '80s when I was about 7 years old - 2 lads in our semi-rural worcestershire village had PX's with seriously big aerials and racks on the back, regularly shattering the peace as they did laps round the housing estate where a mate of mine lived. Once blew an impressively loud childish raspberry at one of them, resulting in him pulling a major skid in the road and then chasing me (screaming and sh*tting myself) along the pavement until I escaped into someones back garden! Made quite an impression...

[Feed Your Head]

about 78/79. there were lads from the high school near the middle school i was at (me being about 9/10 yrs old) who would go up and down the road. no idea what ones they were riding, only that there were mirrors, lamps, and one had 4 f**ck off aerials with tails and flags on them. They used to congregate in town when i would walk home from school and just sit on their parked scooters, smoking and talking about....clothes.

[mickey movistar]

didnt get into scooters till late on i was 16 if thats late lol

most of me mates in school had them
they were all mods but i was a punk ahahah (remember the days)
and before the comments start yeah im still a bit of a one lol

loved the scooters though
pestered me old fella to boorrow me the money for a 50 secial

had one since (not a 50 special wish i did) and never looked back lol
26 yrs wow

[mark]

1969/70 ish as a young skin . mainly GP 200s bubble screens sidewinder seat/backrests near vertical florida bars and sh*t brown British Leyland paint jobs . God I would love one now.

[llew]

jazzmasta said:

Mid '80s when I was about 7 years.

You young bugger ;D I was also about seven..seeing the local mods wizzing around the village....about 76

[bryno]

Like many it was around Quad for me, then spent a year doodling GS's with hundreds of mirrors on my school books and dreaming of the day I could get my first scooter..

Which I did at 15, a Vespa 90 with a holed piston ;D

[retrogirl]

In our house me sister was a copper and me brother was a biker!!! it worked out to be quite a good combo! I Knew all the bikers and when ever I was pulled over I knew the coppers too!!!