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Lee prepares for the start of the 100m backwards pram race.
Welcome, dear reader, to the first of yet another occasional Bitz series: Stars and their Cars. Or scooters or bikes or whatever's their fave mode of transport. The fearless Virginia Turbett - she of the probing lens and Pentel - journeys to deepest Camden Town to find out how Chas Smash and Lee Thompson get around.
Lee is the owner of a 5-gear B.S.A. Javelin push-bike which he got second-hand for £50 in Holloway Road.
"Quite a bargain, don't you think? I haven't got a car 'cos I'm always smashing them up. My girlfriend keeps telling me to get one. I think she finds it a bit hard on the cross-bar.
"I always carry a couple of cassettes, a spare T-shirt, £3 for the day and a pair of swimming-trunks in my back-pack.
"I go out every morning at about 8 o'clock for a quick run and then I use the bike to get around town. It really fattens up the old calves and keeps you in trim as well as being quite mentally relaxing.
"Mind you, I don't know what it'll be like in the winter."
Chas gives a new meaning to the word "kick-start".
Chas describes his 200cc Lambretta as his pride and joy. He bought it second-hand in '76 and it's been a lovely little mover ever since. Apart from when it got nicked.
"This mod stole it one night from outside the Hope and Anchor pub. The next night my brother saw it. The mod had re-sprayed it in one day from yellow to maroon-and-grey and parked it back outside the Hope and Anchor again. He obviously thought I wasn't local, so I got that back pretty quick!
"When all the mods were doing their scooters up really smart, we purposefully made ours really trashy. We'd go places and all the mods' scooters would be parked neatly and we'd leave ours on their sides."
Chas describes his scooter as "red with a matt black interior". Let me add that there isn't much call for any heavy paintwork on this particular model as it's got no engine casings or seat. It does, however, have a funny little dice and a big black '7' sprayed on the front.
"Seven's my lucky number. I'm the seventh member of Madness and lots of weird things have happened to me involving the number 7."
Contributed by Fredd Boeuf
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