Solent City Scooter Club

                      
 

Pete Thomas

By Dave Tooley

Pete Thomas was the tall guy with the deep baritone voice who was the mastermind behind our flame red Solent City Scooter Club banners we all proudly displayed across the front of our bikes.  Everybody who was a Club member had one.  They were laboriously individually hand made by only Pete himself, and must have taken ages to produce.

Pete Thomas with club Banner

I seemed to have the idea he was an Art student, but Colin Thompson seemed to think differently, so I stand corrected.

Pete was another of those members who would turn out, rain or shine, for the regular Sunday runs on his Li 150cc Scooter.  I remember him reluctantly agreeing to take me as pillion to Stoney Cross out in the New Forest one Sunday when my bike had decided to throw a wobbly.  We had a quick practice run down the road, and he quickly realised my pathetic wimpy 8 stone frame wasn’t going to affect his bikes performance in the slightest.  His bike never seemed to want to start on the kick-start lever, and we always had to bump start it before we went anywhere.

He was another one of those club members who just one day disappeared and was never seen again. 
I think there must be an alternative universe somewhere full of old and disappeared Scooter Club members, though I think the demon ‘CAR’ had a lot to do with it. 

If it hadn’t been for my transformation across to Scooter Racing I would probably have gone the same way after I acquired my car license, though I really missed the social side of the club when it all suddenly ended.

 

 

 

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