The heart of the CUSTOM SCOOTER...

Scunthorpe, a large industrial town in North Lincolnshire, is famous for having the largest steelworks in the UK and a somewhat struggling football team. That’s not all though; at the centre of it all is a thriving scooter scene, one that is driven by a polite rivalry which over time has created something of an institution. Reading this, many of you will associate your own town’s and city’s scooter scene as maybe being quite similar. To a certain extent that is true, but Scunthorpe, it seems, has bred custom scooters like nowhere else in the country. To understand the reasons why this phenomenon has evolved here, there are plenty of clues that give us the answer…

Reputations

By the mid-1970s scooter ownership in the UK had gone firmly underground and only survived in small pockets across the country. It has been well documented over the years that the north of England was where it had thrived the most, even if it can’t be fully explained why. Regardless of the reasons, this was the way it stayed until a certain film