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    Dominator

    Jul 23, 2018 5 minutes
    Words: Stu Owen

    There’s been countless different paint schemes to adorn scooters over the years. Some are so iconic and well done that their legacy lives on. Certain periods in time not only produced classic designs but they still remain the most popular today. The explosion of custom scooters that were built after the post-1979 Mod revival into the early 1980s can definitely stake a claim to that accolade. Many were done by individuals who had their own vision of what they wanted to create but some were produced by dealers along with a specific theme. In Yorkshire, the most popular of course was the ‘S Type’ produced by AF Rayspeed but they didn’t have it all their own way.

    York’s finest

    There were many big scooter clubs based in ‘the north’ and

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