Lee & Mark first met, on a cold night in Windsor, the venue was an Onlookers concert which Lee had arrived late.
The next day Lee joined Mark and a couple of the lads from Maidenhead,
off we all went to Swindon for a party at the invitation of the "InCrowd SC".
 We stayed the night at the Hang On Cafe on army style cots the boys had put out for us (beware the flooded basement Pikey!!).
The die was cast, from that moment on they became the best of friends. It did not take long for these two, with their band of reprobate friends to form the A4 Prowlers Scooter Club, which was based out of the long gone "Gardeners Arms Pub" at the bottom of the High Street in Maidenhead.
If memory serves me correctly, the initial six members were:
Mark (Baldy) Jones, Lee (Baldy) Jeal, Danny (Pikey) Ike, Simon (Ferret) Houghton,
Graham (Wing Commander) Mitchell & Brett (Bigus) Middleton.
The club grew from strength to strength, with the addition of such notables as Frank (Chunky) Matthews, Nick (Dick Sinman) Inman, Ben Drysdale, Ian (Flaker) Butterworth, Phil (The Man) Edwards, Bob & Mark (The Slough Uglies),Stuart Godbolt, Tony Randall, Eggy and of course the rest of the High Wycombe and Marlow boys, the crowd on a Sunday ride could be 70-100 strong.
The club was filled out with others - Dean (The Bean) Jeal, Darren (the Crowman), Les (The Veg), Marc (Boysie) Towning, Fatty Jeff, Gonky Steve, (Garabaldi) David, Dawn & Angie (The Glister Sisters), Jackie Ansell, Alison, Anthony (Sylvester) Sloane.

The A4 Prowlers became well known at all the rallys, making friends werever they went.
 When Paddy Smith started his now legendary patch business, the Prowlers were one of the first clubs to have him design one.
The runs are a blur: Isle of Wight, Skegness, Yarmouth, Weston etc what a laugh who can forget!!! The legendary Belgium (Beersel) Run, where the normally calm and peaceful Nick Jolly was seen kneeling on the bar with a beer crate connecting to foreign heads.

Mark & Lee outside
Brenneke's in Poipu 2007

The clubs Mod & Northern Soul were also well frequented, Cheeky Pete's (Richmond), Shepard's Bush Hotel (London), White Hart (Southall), The 81 Soul Club (High Wycombe) & Slough College were some of the regulars.

As the times changed, so did the scooters.
From Mod to Scooter Boy to Scooterist, styles went in and out but the feeling remained.

Now here we are, 25+yrs on: too many beers, fights & rallys to count, but still scootering; it really is "A Way of Life"
 
I apologise now and ask you to forgive us if names are mis-spelt, or people forgotten, we are talking about a very rather crazy time.
Let us know If we need to correct something or add someone in.

Once a scooter boy, Always a scooter boy!!!!!!