OWNER DETAILS
Name: Paul Hunter Scooter club & town: Lost Boys. Newcastle. Square & Compasses SC First scooter: Lambretta SX150 for £25. Favourite scooter model: There isn’t a geared scooter I don’t like. Favourite style of custom scooter: Any that can be ridden and admired. Rather than a chequebook scooter that only sees the light of day at big shows. First rally or event: Ambleside 1979. How did you get there: On my SX, loaded up like Ged Clampett’s car. Any stories: After Ambleside I came home on the back of a mate. Being unable to ride after crashing into a drystone wall three up, pissed in a field. Favourite rally: Favourite rally has to be The Border Bash run by Berwick Bulldogs. Funniest experience with a scooter: Seeing mate Jack Dey emerge from his tent at The Dutch Lions Rally, covered in stinking mud and slime, and nettled to death, having drunkenly fallen into a canal after leaving us in the bar. Furthest you’ve ever ridden on a scooter: Almost to Belgium, from Ijmuiden. After getting lost on the way to Heerjansdam. What do you like about rallies: Meeting mates, the craic, the buzz, and the smell. What do you dislike about rallies: Being kept awake during the night by gobshites. Favourite custom/featured scooter of all time: I’d have to go for Gath Lewis’s Dyrospeed Devastator, Geordie Pride. Seeing it in the 80s, knowing where it lay unloved for 30 years, and now seeing it back on the road. If you had to recommend one scooter part or item of riding kit what would it be: Good protective kit. Wearing jeans and a polo when you meet the Tarmac hurts. I learned that the hard way.
Name of scooter: Cursum Perficio. I like to personalise my scooters. I had a few ideas prior to rebuild. Then I lost my mam in September, so I decided to dedicate it in some way to my family and those I love. Cursum Perficio is my family motto. It can be translated in a few ways. I finish my journey, my course (hunt) I finish what I start. Scooter model: eibar Lambretta Li 125. Time to build & by who: Eight months. Peter Bowery Blyth. Engine kit: Alloy 185. Crank: MEC-EUR. Carb: Dellorto 28mm. Exhaust: Sterling. Clutch: Uprated springs. Gearbox: Standard. Paintwork & murals: Pinstriping by hand, by Peter Von Brush (AK Graphics). Engraving: Exhaust body etched, and end an engraved by hand, with hammer and chisel, by myself. Overall cost: £2200. Anyone you want to thank: Colin Vernon, Durham Groundhogs. Peter Von Brush of AK Graphics North Shields. Pete Bowery. Cath and Gary Lewis, and those dear to me that Cursum Perficio is dedicated to...