Scootering Magazine 393 - March 2019 Back Issue

It’s hard to believe how quickly the time has gone, as I now enter my fourth year with the magazine. It was back in 2015, whilst running the scooter garage Scooterotica, when I spotted an advert for the position of assistant editor.

Having had 11 years’s experience in publishing, as well as being the co-owner of a scooter garage, dynocentre, and the UK’s No1 scooter forum, I sent in my application, in the hope that all of the above would be enough to get me a foot in the door. It was. Not long afterwards, I was being interviewed for the position by then editor, Andy Gillard.

He gave me a two-hour grilling, leaving no stone unturned as he checked my credentials. Part of the process was for me to give a synopsis of the mag, its problems, and deliver ideas for future editorial features. I must have got something right, because only a week later I received a phone call offering me the job.

It took me a good three months to finish off the scooters and engines I had already taken in at Scooterotica, and then I had to inform my customer base that I could no longer service their requirements. It was quite a sad time for me in that respect, being the end of an era, but I knew I was going on to something bigger an better… Scootering magazine!