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Huddersfield Scooter Club
was formed back in September 1984,
following a amicable split from the Delirium Scooter
Club which was formed by scooterists from both Huddersfield and Batley . After about 18 months the Huddersfield contingent decided there
was enough support within Huddersfield to merit a club
in their own right and
the club started with eight
members which included "Stan" "Hammy" "Batesy" "John A." "Kato" "Shutz" "Routy" and the first number 1 was a young lad called
"Dukesy" , who many of you know as he is still prominent
on the scene today.
The club's numbers waivered, new members came and went and numbers were made up by friends and some "in between clubs" Bradford riders and of course the remainder of the Delirium.
The club attended most national rallies and many other more local
events aswell.
In October 1985 "Dukesy" left the club
and Paul "Routy" Routledge took over as number 1, it was around
this time that I ("Snelly") joined the club,along with some other reprebates including "Wilky" "Philys" "Mick" "Beever" and "Jez" . I was actually given Dukesy's patches. (One of our club rules is that
our patches are the property of the club and if anyone
leaves they must be returned, which we think makes us
even prouder to wear our colours because they are not
generally available like a lot of other patches).
By
1988 the club had about fifteen members including "Hubbard" "Braif" "Nick" "Scotty" "Russfish" and "Kenny" and we were
attending nearly every national rally with full club turnout to
rallies including...Scarbrough, Morecambe, Great Yarmouth,
Girvan and Dunbar. In fact if you didn't attend a rally
you were guaranteed a right bollocking and a serious
amount of piss taking at the next meeting. The club once organised it's own rally to the Lake District, when the prospect of a south coast rally was too much to bear.
In 1990 Routy left the club and I
took over as number 1, but by 1994, like many others the
club was dying on it's feet and at one point we were
down to just 5 rally going members, they were...Myself,
"Wilky", "Pants", "Woody" and "Sid", but we soldiered on and
slowly but surely the membership started to increase
again.
I stepped down as number 1 in 1999, although I
am still a member of the club. Jason Taylor took over as
number one and he introduced a few changes to the club,
things like... an annual membership fee, rather than subs
and all the money goes back to the members either in
subsidising b&b's or T.Shirts or whatever, we also
now have a club newsletter every couple of months,
legshield banners, our very own-very large club flag and
of course this web site, we also had our first shin dig
at the end of November 2000 which was a huge success.
During the last 23 years the club has had many
ups and downs, but I think if you asked any member, past
or present, they would all say that they have had a
right good laugh while being in the club.
Some
personal memories that spring to mind and they are quite
funny aswell include..... Woody grass-tracking across a
roundabout on the way to Great Yarmouth (no one had told
him he was meant to go around it!!!!). Wilky being
threatened with expulsion from the RAC for abusing their
relay & recovery service. Myself overtaking 4 other
scooters (showing off) only to slam into the back of a
car on the way to Morecambe. The back up van to Girvan
containing a full 3-piece suite (!!!!), 40 gallons of
erm rather dodgy diesel and various hitch hikers picked
up along the way. Having a bit of a row with another
local club at Morecambe which was starting to get nasty
when some local lads started to take the piss out of us,
where upon all arguments were forgotten as we grouped
together to give the locals a kicking, those were the
days.
Written by
Snelly, Huddersfield Scooter Clubs longest serving
member ( ammended by JA April 2007 )
If any member (old or present) would like to add to this history of the club, the please e-mail us at the new address on the contacts page.
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