MAN & MACHINE

Name: Doug Edwards Job: Carpenter and owner of Stamford Scooter Centre. How and when did you first become interested in scooters: At age of about 10 or 11. What was your first scooter: Obscure oddity, never did find out what it was before an ex-wife smashed it up! What is your favourite scooter model: GP Lambretta. What is your favourite style of custom scooter: Cut down or full frame race style. First rally or event: Skegness 1983. What is the funniest experience with a scooter: Pushing a Lambretta five miles home in the dark only to find ouut the following day that I hadn’t turned the petrol on! What’s the furthest you’ve ever ridden on a scooter: Rhyl, North Wales. What do you like about rallies/ events: People, scooters and the laughs. What do you dislike about rallies/ events: Toilets. Your favourite custom/featured scooter o of all time: Clockwork Orange.

Name of scooter & reason: Purple PX Scooter model: Vespa PX200e. Inspiration for project: Still looking for it. Is the scooter reliable: So far. What was the hardest part of the project t: Getting the DVLA to release the logbook. It took 12 weeks and arrived the day before Cleethorpes! Do you have any advice or tech tips for anyone starting a project: Work out your budget, then double it and then do the same for the time to build it! In hindsight, is there anything you would have done differently: Bought a Lambretta.