new website

[motoscot]

motoscot now has a web site with my details of what I do and where I am situated www.motoscot.co.uk

I would like to thank all my customers for their support over the last two years

AND A VERY MERRY XMAS TO ALL YOU TOSSERS OUT THERE

Steve . motoscot onyack

 

[elevensies]

nice one

 

[Schtum]

"I began my motorcycle career in an apprenticeship with a Honda & Villiers dealer in Edinburgh back in 1975."

Well the Honda dealer back then would be Graham Chatham but Villiers in '75......

 

[Marks adventure]

Great Site Steve and easy to navigate around.

Have a great 2010

 

[Gazzabart]

Nice One

Hi ya Steve
you have done a great job on your new web site
would like to wish you all the best in 2010
you really deserve it
have a good new years eve
Gaz

 

[motoscot]

which dealer

"I began my motorcycle career in an apprenticeship with a Honda & Villiers dealer in Edinburgh back in 1975."

Well the Honda dealer back then would be Graham Chatham but Villiers in '75......

I started briefly at Chathams but served my time at Edgar Bros in Leith Walk who were Honda and Villiers


Steve

 

[Schtum]

I started briefly at Chathams but served my time at Edgar Bros in Leith Walk who were Honda and Villiers

Right - I'd forgotten about them. Kind of unforgiveable since I didn't buy a MkIII Commando from them in early '77 and bought one from Better Bikes instead.

ISTR the Edgar Bros. workshop where I went to look at the Commando was in Queen Charlotte St or Water St. Is that right?

If you were around the Edinburgh bike scene at that time we might know some people in common - the late Iain McLean perhaps or "Uncle" George Gunn.

 

[motoscot]

Right - I'd forgotten about them. Kind of unforgiveable since I didn't buy a MkIII Commando from them in early '77 and bought one from Better Bikes instead.

ISTR the Edgar Bros. workshop where I went to look at the Commando was in Queen Charlotte St or Water St. Is that right?

If you were around the Edinburgh bike scene at that time we might know some people in common - the late Iain McLean perhaps or "Uncle" George Gunn.

If its the same Iain McLean who sponsored Graham on his Aprilia , did not know he died ?? not suire about Goerge Gunn ?
Yes I spent 6 years in the workshop in Charlotte street . I lived in Leith and knew a lot of bikers and of course all the dealers like Reid,Allen & Patterson
West Pier etc good days Steve

 

[Fanum]

It's very....er, PURPLE, isn't it

(a bit loud IMO, but otherwise looking good )

 

[Schtum]

If its the same Iain McLean who sponsored Graham on his Aprilia , did not know he died ?? not suire about Goerge Gunn ?
Yes I spent 6 years in the workshop in Charlotte street . I lived in Leith and knew a lot of bikers and of course all the dealers like Reid,Allen & Patterson
West Pier etc good days Steve

Aye good old Eddy Koski.... I bought my new Ducati 250 single from West Pier in '75.

I don't know if Iain did any sponsorship. When I knew him he was working for Better Bikes and his R80 G/S was the first one I ever rode in 1980. Before that I think he was known as "Captain" and rode an old black AJS single. I lost touch with him when he moved to England and opened a bike shop somewhere. It was only when I bumped into Paddy Heron, who was a mechanic for Carrick Motors when they were in Prestonfield Ave, at the Scottish Motorcycle Show a few years back that he told me Iain had just died and that there was a wake for him here in the Queensferry Arms that afternoon. Cancer of the scrotum I believe - too many oily rags shoved in the pocket of his overalls....

George Gunn also worked for Carrick at the same time as Paddy Heron and then went to Better Bikes. He's still doing a bit of BMW fettling from his house here in SQ, I believe.

 

[motoscot]

Edinburgh

Not the same Iain , did not know him
and for Kawasaki preferred to deal with John Wilson of Uphall even though I knew Robin and Chris from the Pleasance

maybe give you a buzz next time I am coming up and go for a beer

All the best

Steve