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13/12/2025

1978 Scarborough castle coasters and Darlington Weatherbeaters scooter clubs
In Trafalga square, Scarborough.

01/09/2025

The Sentinel at mersea island this weekend. Original murals painted by John Spurgeon, inspired by Zodiac Mindwarp & The Love Reaction. However its been revamped twice since them. Engraving by ledgend Don Blocksidge. An 80s custom thats still winning trophies

28/07/2025

Some pretty cool pin badges courtesy of Pete L***y added to the archive. From around 84/85. To me these show the change over from mods to scooter boys in the 80s

26/03/2025

OSA x
Great Yarmouth (The Barking Smack) scooter print is now available to purchase.
The print is based on many photos from the 80s! Printed on 300GSM Card stock.
Available in A3,A4,A5
PM to enquire

19/02/2025

I recently saw Paul Simpson post this (second photo) in the OBSC page on Facebook and instantly recognised the scooter as handsome devil. I asked if he wouldn’t mind answering a few questions for me.

I asked: Any chance you could tell me a little bit about the scooter?
Is it still all the original paint and whats been done to it? Are you the original owner and all that stuff!

To which he replied:
I first acquired the scoot in late 1982. It was a few months old and cost me £200! From that point Handsome Devil developed in stages over 4 years. The panels and frame were cut down first and then sprayed and murals added.
Stage 2 was the tank being moulded between the frame and headstock and then sprayed to match the rest of the scooter.
I’ve dabbled with various engine set ups but she’s currently running with a Pinasco 213cc Nikocil Barrel, 30mm Amal carb, SIP performance exhaust, gas flow crank and competition clutch.
To this day the paint is still original as is the engraving but I recently had the chrome redone and twisted forks added due to deterioration over time. I’ve now owned the scooter for over 40 years and still ride her regularly.
Hope this is enough detail for you and glad to see the younger generation getting involved in the scene, it never leaves you 👍

14/02/2025

The Lambretta dodgem;
The Original Taffspeed, Ian T Frankland at the wheel.
Old Fiat 500 front running chassis, Lambretta 225 grafted in at the back.
Up/down gear shift linked to std gear selector.

09/02/2025

David Toons MK1 T5 Armandos special from the 80s, supposedly the only one with Silver leaf lettering.

04/02/2025

The Armando’s Twin Carb Special!
Back in the 80s the Pinasco 225 Twin Carb cylinder kit was all the rage! Armandos where using it in there dealer specials.
They may look trick but apparently they only managed a ‘not out of the park’ 14/15bhp.
Obviously they made a crazy induction noise which usually was drowned out by the baffless pitone exhausts paired with the kit!

They where very hard to set up and didn’t produce a huge power increase so once the newer kits came out the twin carb craze died.

02/02/2025

Scooter Rider Vinyl Stickers!

10cm tall sticker based off a old 80s print. Printed on clear vinyl so the background is transparent.

Now on the website!

01/02/2025

As I keep looking on facebook more and more Redcar 85 photos pop up.

Allegedly a box van full of junk was broken in to for firewood, next thing rally goers knew the place was up in flames.
The same weekend of riots and fights with Middlesbrough casuals.

31/01/2025

The Beedspeed 210
'extra' special.
Built by Jon Ashford-Smith endorsed by Alan Beedham his self. The scooter was owned by Marcus Berriman from Oswestry/ Shropshire area.
It was then stolen at Morecambe or Redcar rally in 85 and it was found near Durham with the paint stripped in a shed.
The picture with him on it was at a LOGB do in Shropshire likely 85.
it was an SX Reg PUJ 4H.
Jon built another Beedspeed special that was a green cutdown lambretta but Im still searching for more photos and information on that.
Marcus is sadly no longer with us. From what I've read, he went on to be the president Hells Angels member of the London chapter. Though being a HA' he still had a lot of time for lambrettas.
The last photo is of marcus sat on Chris
Allan's Arthur Francis, 10 years ago.

30/01/2025

I have one 2XL ‘Scooter Rider’ T-shirt left over from the test batch if anyone is interested?
Get yourself ahead of the queue before I put in a big order of them in a couple months

Great quality heavy cotten white t-shirt with a great quality print
£20 uk posted

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