This was my first rally on my own scooter , a brand new vespa px 125 , never forget your first rally do you , dexys no1 in the charts ' cone in eilien ' every pub packed to the rafters , love it
At 2:03 minutes this video shows a group parked up in Station Road opposite the Central Hotel, where as a youth, I worked behind the bar during this very rally. Never worked so hard in my life. Standing room only, the place filled to the brim with wall-to-wall scooter riders. Must have been ten deep at the bar. I think everyone who worked at that place was working, whether it was their shift or not, just to keep up with demand. Plastic pint glasses, of course (I remember the manager, Alan doing a mercy dash to the cash & carry to buy a truckload of them the day before the event). I was bloody knackered at the end of the weekend!
I remember this. I was just a kid, (15) and it was like the biggest thing to happen in Colwyn Bay since Dinosaur World opened in Eirias Park. Sad really how this dominated the conversation of a thousand Colwyn Bay schoolkids for a whole year after it happened, lol. Remember when The Warriors was shown TV and after that everywhere you went there were Warrior signs spray painted all over the place... Now I'm wibbling, aren't I?
Came down from Carlisle for this on an old Vespa Rally Electronic 200 I had back then. Happy days indeed.
I remember leaving Liverpool for this rally, one of my all time best times what an era
Thanks for sharing, golding days
This was my first rally on my own scooter , a brand new vespa px 125 , never forget your first rally do you , dexys no1 in the charts ' cone in eilien ' every pub packed to the rafters , love it
excellent....well put together sir...but f me am i old.
At 2:03 minutes this video shows a group parked up in Station Road opposite the Central Hotel, where as a youth, I worked behind the bar during this very rally. Never worked so hard in my life. Standing room only, the place filled to the brim with wall-to-wall scooter riders. Must have been ten deep at the bar. I think everyone who worked at that place was working, whether it was their shift or not, just to keep up with demand. Plastic pint glasses, of course (I remember the manager, Alan doing a mercy dash to the cash & carry to buy a truckload of them the day before the event). I was bloody knackered at the end of the weekend!
I remember this.
I was just a kid, (15) and it was like the biggest thing to happen in Colwyn Bay since Dinosaur World opened in Eirias Park.
Sad really how this dominated the conversation of a thousand Colwyn Bay schoolkids for a whole year after it happened, lol. Remember when The Warriors was shown TV and after that everywhere you went there were Warrior signs spray painted all over the place...
Now I'm wibbling, aren't I?
Fukin great video.. I wasn't born yet.. (1985) but God I love my Town. The Bay X
A quality view of Colwyn Bay in the early 80s, keep up the good work boss.
went to the 1981 colwyn bay rally ,with chester scooter club ,met up with some of the cloud 9 birkenhead lads ,had a great time
Brilliant 👌🏼 👍🏼 ✨ ✨
brilliant
Good rally, lots of good memories from that one
The Outlaws (main HQ in Colwyn Bay) that weekend, hid.
@drtricky No it was the puple hearts i was at the gig, it went up big time.
Aha! theres my dad with the red scoot! x
No.
@martypom406 Yes it's March of the Mods but it's crap! This footage deserves better tunes!
I've got a lot of time for mods, Dave john beer mark Spitz Chris Jones, would let me ride with them even though I was on a trail bike.
Looking back in them early 80s i am a bit embarrased i was a punk but i`d have been more embarrased if i was a mod
Remember it well got arrested for carrying a baseball bat
lammy started first haha