I couldn't belive you didn't know Russell was into Scooter back in the day. Below is some history you may find interesting.
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Motorcycles have always played a huge part in Russell's life. His first few custom builds were based around, of all things, Lambretta scooters! In the early 80's he was a major figure in the thriving English scooter-scene, although he describes himself as one of the "scooter-scum". Wearing a leather jacket and a Motorhead T-shirt, he did whatever he could to piss off the mainstream scooterists.
In 1983, after a couple of other custom scooters, twenty year old Russell built the very first 'Exile'. At that time it was fashionable to name your chopper, and Russell chose Exile as it was "a short, tough, symmetrical word - and it had an 'X' in it!" Exile 1 was the Lambretta chopper to beat all others. It had a coffin tank, twisted forks and a foot-shift, and is still held by many to be the most significant scooter of all time. It took all the trophies in all the categories, so Russell figured he'd enter it in the Kent Custom Bike Show, the biggest show in England. However, the Hell's Angels ran the Kent show and they warned him that they could not guarantee the safety of a Lambretta in a HA show. So Russell borrowed a mate's 650 and went to check out the show anyway. As he'd feared it would, his first 100mph ride changed everything.
No longer could Russell ride around on a glorified moped, no matter how custom. So, at the very next Scooter Rally he sold raffle ticketsfor fifty pence (about one dollar) each and on Saturday night he got on stage, drew a number, and gave Exile 1 to its new owner.
Although Russell did build one more scooter, Exile 2, a flat-black chop much more akin to his bikes of today, the proceeds of the raffle were used to buy a KZ650 which became Exile 3, a red Kawasaki rigid that made it into the pages of Back Street Heroes. This was the last 'colored' bike Russell ever built.
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