Scootering

The past is the past, not the future

It’s often been discussed how long the scooter scene has left, and I’ve mentioned it before in this column. We have to admit that scooterists are an ageing group, with the majority of us having started out in the 1970s and 80s. With that reality comes a natural progression that means very slowly, each year our numbers become slightly smaller. The challenge is how to reverse that trend, and I think the simple answer is that we can’t. It doesn’t mean that the scene is over, far from

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