Scoot NZ issue #32 Dec 2010 / Jan 2011

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Grahame McIver

Interview with Grahame McIver, by Jess Corbett alternative was a scooter. So I bought a lambretta – an LD150 lambretta. He found a scooter for me, and I bought it with money I had earned.

“I needed transport, and I did want to get a motorbike, but my father, who had ridden motorbikes in the second world war, said no. So the other

This was in 1966 in Christchurch. I was a 15 year old schoolboy, and you had to go to parties, and to work - I had after school jobs and holiday jobs. I rode that for a couple of years and then I ran into problems with the driveshaft. I took it somewhere to be repaired, and then I ran into some strife trying to get it back from him. It was a motorcycle shop in Christchurch, and by this stage my father had died, and I didn't have the wherewithall to to get this shark to release the lambretta.

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He claimed I owed him a lot more


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