Tony..i've asked this somewhere else on here before but can't be arsed to find it ; are you the same Tony England that built some pretty radical custom scooters such as the raked vespa T5 and a chopper early 90's

Yes Ben thats me.
The T5 was called 'Nevermind' after the Nirvana album and was stretched by 8 inches, lowered with lambretta front forks and an Austin Mini rear tyre fitted to the rear on a special wheel rim.
The Chopper was a vespa P200 called 'Diamond geezer' with a tuned engine and motorcross front forks using a lambretta front wheel and disk brake.

Do you remember the 'scoots' then????

Pics of scoots please!

Yes i remember the T5 anyway , it got stolen at the Hol in holland rally iirc .. ?
I'm still into scooters and Glynn Dove put a pic of his 'pseudo satisfaction' and your vespa chop on facebook on a group called 'scooter rallies in 1990s britain'

hope you don't mind if i put these up..

Google thinks this is the T5...



my first bike was a Vespa T5... needless to say it was nowhere near as cool as "Nevermind" (although it did have a seat with ticinque on the side like that one)

Yes that's it

Yes guys thats two of them. The T5 was certainly different and took a lot of working out to get it right but ended up ok. That photo is an early one, coz it ended up with pink flames on the front guard after i hit a gate post with it and had to reshape and repair it. I'd run out of blue paint and thought pink woulf look cool,lol.
The diamond geezer P200 photo is also an early one. I didnt like the handling with the Lambretta forks and so changed them for a pair of long motocross forks from a YZ125. It looked the nuts and rode so much better. Both those bikes were featured in SCOOTERING magazine and diamond geezer was on one of Paddy Smiths rally patches, which was cool.

Thanks for interest guys, nice to see the scoots again after so long.

BTW, The T5 is up for sale and pretty much looks as it does in that large photo if anyones interested? I can put you in touch with the guy who owns it.

Cheers, Tony .

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