OWNER DETAILS

Name: Steven Smyth Job: Ticket inspector. Scooter club & town: Animals Fae Naboombu. Paisley. How and when did you first become interested in scooters: Had my first scooter at 16, all my mates them. What was your first scooter: Vespa 50 Special. What is your favourite scooter model: Vespa Mk1 T5 & Rally 200. Lambrettas GPs, Series 1 and 2, anything really apart from Modenas. What is your favourite style of custom scooter: Race paint, full blown custom, Rusty, wellengineered, chops and cutdowns. Anything without a mud flap and a target helmet attached. First rally or event: Girvan national scooter rally. How did you get there: 50 Special (110 Polini kit) with my mates. Any stories: On a 50 special riding up to my mate Ronnie’s house, my scarf blew out of my jacket and slipped in through one of the door vents into the flywheel, bent the con rod and nearly strangled me! Favourite and worst rally/event: Every rally is my favourite with good company and some money in your pouch; met some great friends over the years. Good times that I wouldn’t change. Funniest experience with a scooter: Again I have so many stories… Falling asleep riding a T5 with my friend Martin on the back, or filling up same scoot with fuel thinking he was on the back but didn’t know when he put his leg over tae get on I pulled away too quick and he landed on his rear! Then going up Sutton bank on the way to Scarborough on a PX with extended forks with a 180 kit fully loaded with my good friend Ronnie on back. It jumped out of second gear half way up. I went to talk to him when we got to top but he had fallen off with the rucksack on his back. What’s the furthest you’ve ever ridden on a scooter: Germany Vespa World Days. What do you like about rallies/events: Getting away from day-to-day life. Still lucky enough to be running about with mates that I grew up with. Also making new friends and memories. You can’t buy that. What do you dislike about rallies/events: Cold, wet, waterlogged £5 tents. Running low on beer money, and riding home in the rain. What’s your favourite Scootering feature: I love seeing old custom scoots getting found and brought back to life. Your favourite custom/featured scooter of all time: Always loved Southern Comfort, Hellraiser, and Armandos race paint. If you had to recommend one scooter part or item of riding kit what would it be: Arai helmets, nothing better than a nice helmet. What’s the most useless part you’ve ever bought for one of your scooters: Cheap brake levers from eBay from our friends who make nice curries!