Tom Hargreaves
Keighley & District Scooter Club
Got into scooters in 76 77, an older mate of mine had one and started taking me around on it (maybe to the pub and back,16 thats disgusting). Then after bugging my dad for months finally got one around jan feb 78 for my 18th, and my birthday int while oct,who cared.Probably my first rally,an overnight stop rally, would have been Scarbrough easter 79. Slept under park benches and woke up to an inch of snow. Good fun.

Cry for Dawn
Vespa px
The scooter was painted by Dave Dickinson at Kustom Airbrushing 01262 490022 ,www.ddickinsonairbrushing.com great artist ,great guy.I gave him a book of pictures from Dawns creator, told him which ones i wanted and said i did not want the bike 1 colour and left him to it. He actually started it and on reading the book more, noticed that the artist used acrylics in his work. So he rubbed it back down and started again in the same medium.Top man , dedicated to his art.

The idea for the bike came from a set of comics by a New York artist,Joseph Micheal Linsner ,www.Linsner.com.(i asked him if it was ok,copywrite an all that).Dawn is the Goddess of birth and rebirth,lover of Cernunnos,Death, the horned god.Death showed Dawn heaven and hell,and what she saw made her cry.Then it gets complicated,you'll have to read the comics:-).

The engine is a Malossied T5 with a SIP wide wheel on , still have not got round to putting the original 200 block back in ,maybe one day. The forks are twisted and extended 2inch, stand is twisted and extended.The backrest and mirror stems were done by Gary Simpson Scooter Fabrications.The rose represents hell, the chains, heaven.
"for order to work there must be laws. If those laws are not binding in heaven,chaos will flourish.
Heaven is discipline. Hell is anarchy, and anarchy has thorns.Law and order anchors you,it
grounds you. If you break those chains your life is cast adrift"
Ahura Mazda (God) from DAWN no2
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Chrome was done by Trever Harrison and Karl Russell,with Trever doing the powder coating. Adi Clark did the engraving, said the skulls on the switch covers drove him mad.The seat was done by a guy called Marty at Smartrrrs in York.