| Woody | |
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Woody has been running the club from the beginning and in the past has been the principal organizer of the rallies. It is not easy for Woody to be the driving force behind the club. He is willing to do what is best for the club and the scooter scene. Woody knows how to be a bit anal-retentive when it come to running things – but we still like him. There is a method to his madness and that is why the club has stayed together for all these years. Woody's current bikes are: a Vespa p200, a '68 Vespa ss 225 cutdown, a Lambretta chopper, a Lambretta 190 racer, and a restored '56 Vespa 150. |
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| Misty | |
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Misty initially hated scooters -- or the time Woody spent on them. Once he managed to convert her, she became unstoppable. She has a '66 ss90 replica and a '66 150 Sprint that she has ridden to Canada twice and N.Y. four times. One of her more memorable acts involved riding Woody's scooter full throttle over a ten-foot cliff during the gymkhana at a Demon rally. She showed Woody how to get a better time but broke her shoulder in the process. |
| Vinh | |
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One of the original members who held out first meetings at a parking lot in front of his house. He currently DJs at the Common Ground every Wednesday for "mod night" and is known for having an entourage of Euro-trash chicks wherever he goes. He owns a rally 200 and is on the lookout for a SX 200 "just like Paul Weller has." |
| Jon Rhodes "Roadkill" | |
| A Strangler from the start. Jon is a rare breed that will ride his scooter 12 hours to a rally, then drink for 12 hours to balance things out. Jon's current list of wrecks, blown engines, and misadventures includes: dropping his freshly painted GL while pulling up to the N.Y. rally, running into a bicyclist in Allston and denting his mudguard, having his Li towed on the way down to the cape rally because of no rear taillight and then breaking into the tow yard to get it back, twisting his crank while two up on the highway, and then seizing up on the way back from N.Y., dropping the bike in the middle lane, sliding across the high speed lane and into the jersey barrier. All these things have given Jon the official nickname of Roadkill. Oh, and we ever find the bastard who stole Jon's red 1976 P200, there will be blood. |
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| Tony | |
| Our original token lowlife whose favorite saying is: "It's not easy being fat and greasy." He is one of the biggest personalities in the club and makes an unforgettable impression on everyone he meets. Tony has also been the other major organizer of our rallies and was the inspiration for our "Sleazy Rider 96" run. He has a Bajaj chopper, a '64 GL chopper. |  |
| Andy | |
| He has been a member since 1994 and has yet to finish his bike because he's constantly immersing himself with half a dozen projects. Andy's current project is a series II TV 175, but rides a rice burner a majority of the time. | |
| Benny | |
| Known to many as "Modley," Benni is a first generation Strangler. He has owned many a motor-scooter, but his most recent bike is a Lambretta Jet 200 (sadly "in the shop"). Benni is an avid disc jockey and master of ceremonies, and has possibly the most extensive caribbean vinyl collection in Massachusetts. |
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| Casey | |
| Casey has been a member since 1995. He has recently returned to Boston from DC, where he got his Ph.D. in psychology. Casey can be seen riding around town on his sweet SX200 with a different girl riding bitch every week. |
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| Michael "Lifto" | |
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It seems that Lifto has owned every bike in the club at one point or another, after selling his modded-out 1965 Vespa Super to Grayson, who knows what's next. Lifto may be living in California now, but he's still a Strangler. |
| Buzz | |
| Two stroke isn't the only thing burning here! |
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| Jason "Popeye" | |
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Jason owns and operates Boston Scoot. The major problem we have is that Jason wants to keep most of the good bikes he gets. He currently has a ss180 that he is getting tweeked out and a smallframe 135 that he had customised, as well as the ten other bikes he does not want to sell. |
| Drew | |
| Drew went thru several scooters before settling on a lammy silver special. He used to just borrow a scooters from Jason's collection but club rules require that he has a running bike of his own. Now if we could only get him to ride it. Fun Fact: Drew is also the only vegetarian I know who has a weakness for bacon. |
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| Tasha | |
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She has had her Primavera for a several years, but still has not ridden it anywhere. We work to change that evey year. |
| Fordy | |
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A Boston native of Irish descent, Fordy has collected more than one "Rally Asshole" trophy. By day, he works at a university archive and by night runs a club night called "Get Smart!" where he and other top deejays spin Jamaica oldies and "Northern" soul. He also paints pretty pictures that have been exhibited in local museums, fashion shows, galleries and bars.
Fordy is currently "working on" a Vespa cutdown project, but swears by his 1964 GL 150, "Miss Jamaica," which has somehow run beautifully with very little engine work. |
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| Jackie "mumbles" | |
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Jackie joined the club in 2000 when she finally got her Vespa 90 working. She is currently working as a school teacher in NYC. |
| Daniell | |
| Daniell got her scooter from Michael who got it from Andy, who got it from a man down by the river. She likes her red 1963 Vespa '90 because it is very cute, and cute ass girls ride cute ass scooters. |  |
| Jay "Stick Boy" | |
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He is the token mod/skin every good club needs. Jay rides a Lambretta GP 150. |
| Johnny "Aggro" | |
| Part-time Boston Scoot mechanic and full time traditional skinhead, Aggro rides a '63 vespa with a Bajaj 150, painted in '55 Cadillac Red. His latest project is a red, white and blue small frame racer. |
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| Darren | |
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From our London office, Darren came over here to work at Boston Scoot. He has been a scooterist for many years and is a great addition to our club. Too bad when he first showed up he had a mullet. He has a GP225 a P225 and a T5. Currently Darren finds time to come visit us on holiday while working as a mechanic in the UK. |
| Eric (aka "EP") | |
| Eric caught scooter fever when he first saw a NSU prima D at Boston Scoot. He spent the summer and fall of 2000 bringing the scoot back to life. Since then Eric has developed a fetish for all bikes German and has quite a collection of teutonic scoots including NSUs, Zundapps, and Maicos. Don't ask how many he has, because he refuses to count. Eric is most often tooling around on an incredibly reliable Zundapp Bella R154K. |  |
| "No Neck" Noel | |
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Noel started out thinking plastic was cool, but we since set him on the true path. He now owns a '02 PX200, a '63 150 Vespa, and parts that could someday be reassembled into a Lammy LI 200. No one can take a joke better then Noel. Noel is currently living in Brooklyn, servicing Hillary Clinton and other NY democrats. |
| Greyson | |
| Greyson is our club's official camera man. On the off chance he's not working on a porno, you can find him hustling around town on a '65 Super fitted with a P200 engine that he picked up from Lifto or his recently recovered '63 Vespa with a P200 engine. |
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| Saudi | |
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She has been hanging out with us for a while and rides a Lammy J125 from Boston Scoot. Being a lammy lover, she has had a few problems with it but overall she adores the bike. She's now living in New Mexico. |
| Nikki | |
| Nikki is a Califorian transplant who loves to ride hard. She rode the same P200 for 4 years until it was stolen in 2003. She has responded by buying every bike she's seen since then and keeping them so ugly no one would steal them. She's now living in Philly subjecting those brotherly love jackasses to the horrors of her penguin-themed P200. |
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| Henry | |
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A true blue American, with the heart of a lion. Gurr... Herny is our favorte flavor figure. The man just has bad ass style. Although Henry doesn't hang out much anymore, we're always happy to see his blue Rally parked up outside the pubs. |
| Joe Negri | |
| Joe is currently on his 2nd '74 Rally 200 after his 1st was stolen in 2003. Contributions to the club include being partially responsible for the Wicked Pissah (A.K.A Pack Your Shit the Police are Here Rally), though he redeemed himself by finding the last rally site. He's known for sleeping in tents with kegs, constantly trying to trap Beau in his tent, and getting in fights with his brother in front of the State Police. |  |
| Betty | |
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Our bodacious Betty is known for finding her self on the side of the road pulling gravel out from underneith her skin. In her first year of riding, her scooter came across a few incidents involving SUVs, busses, and a green line train. Yet she still rides... She has since moved back to Philly where the living is easy. Lord only knows what bikes she is riding now-a-days. |
| Travis | |
| If it's reggae music you're looking for, Travis is the guy to talk to. As an avid connoisseur of skinhead reggae and rocksteady, Travis has been known to DJ many a party with his "Allston Steady Rock Easy Sound System." A bartender and bouncer by night and scooter riding low-life by day, Travis rides a now banged-up 61' Vespa VNB with a Bajaj 150 engine, or a P200 he bought from Jon who bought it from Buzz. Rumour is he is currently working on a "Harder They Come" themed bike built from an ss180 frame with a 200+cc engine. |  |
| Old Man Norm | |
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Norm has been dedicated scooterist since the 1950s, so much respect goes to him. He has been hanging out at Boston Scoot for years, has been to parties and even rallies with us, but what truly made Norm a Strangler was when he showed up at the 2003 Vegas rally with a rented twist and go. He was initiated months later at our Rally and we are honored to have a man that dedicated to scootering in the Stranglers. Norm has 2 1964 Vespa 90s, 12-14 rare mopeds and has previously owned a Topper and Wizzer. Fun fact about Norm: he worked for Converse, building plants for them through out the world. Suffice to say he has seen more Converse All-Stars than all of us combined! |
| Ciaran | |
| Ah ya take a kid and raise 'em as your own. Ciaran is Darren's son and has logged a greater percentage of his life on a scooter than anyone in the club. He has regularly attended rallies since Isle of Wright in 1989 (when he was one year old!) and is always sure to return to Boston for the annual rally. Now that he's of age, he's got a Runner 125 (pronounced "one two five") that he's covered in bling. Oh Ned why?! |  |
| Sid | |
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Sid lives the life of leisure, forsaking work to scoot around the world from scooter rally to scooter rally. He currently owns an ugly '80 P200, a beautiful '85 T5, a monster '86 Sport with a 210cc P engine in it, a kitted-all-to-hell PK, and a similarly suped-up Sport 100. Fun fact: Sid once dropped his engine doing 60mph on a stretch of dark, wet interstate between Boston and Narrowsburg, NY. He took a few rolls then was back up and running after Noel's van. After that, we called him "Skid" for a while. His old club called him "Teflon." |
| Plymouth Steve | |
Steve's stomping ground includes Plymouth and Cape Cod. He can be seen terrorizing tourists on his modded-out P-166. You may also remember he and his wife during the infamous wicked pissah rally a.k.a.(The neighbors are still pist and will be for a while, "Damn you Scooterboys!"). Current projects include a LD restoration and a GL street Racer. |
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| Frank | |
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Frank is a mysterious sort that may, or may not, be a hitman for the US Military – we don't ask, he doesn't tell. We do know that Frank finally got running a Rally 180, and a project Servetta Li150 allowing him to sell his sport bike and ride with us, and we couldn't be happier. |
| Erin | |
| Erin is one of the most hardcore ladies around. As a bike courier and a former roommate of Travis', she has seen every horror known. She unwinds on her titty-pink VBB, or with copious amounts of alcohol. |  |
| Adam Parr | |
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Adam is another Brit who has found his way to Boston. When the weather is nice, and the wife says it's okay, you can find Adam scooting about the 'burbs on his 1965 pretty-in-pink TV equiped with a new GP200, monster carb, and noisy pipe. After hooking us up with the ride around the Esplanade in the 2004 rally, we returned the favour in 2005 by making him a member. |
| Billy Hatecrime | |
| Billy was like most Stranglers, he was a straight-talking son of a bitch that you didn't want to cross, but he was also funny as all hell, and willing to go out of his way to help anyone out. When Billy wanted a bike he went out and found himself a Bella, because shiffting with your hand is for sissies. Sadly, Billy passed away in July of 2005. We all miss that wise-ass. |  |
| Fred Owsley | |
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Fred got into scooters when he moved to Boston in 2002 and since then he's been to every rally any Strangler was going to, including making the 15-hour ass-busting ride to Montreal in '06. He rides a an unrestored '59 VNA or a red '65 GL that took a beating when we made him scooter joust for membership in '07. Good thing he was drunk or he might have been pissed when he saw his bike laying on its side in the gravel surrounded by broken bits of taillight. |
| Ryan (aka Horton) | |
| Horton is a jackass that rubs everyone the wrong way. After pissing off the whole of Rhode Island, he had no choice but to look for a club in another state. We took pity on him because he's a loud, hard-riding, tattooed kid who wrenches scooters. When not working as Javaspeed's mechanic, he's riding around on Sharpie-customized bikes like his current P200. |  |
| Irish Paul | |
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It only makes sense for an Irishman to end up in Boston, and it only makes sense for a guy who has been into scooters, mod, and skinhead culture since the '79 revival to end up in The Boston Stranglers. Irish Paul didn't get his first scooter until he was 40, but now rides around on his red Stella painted with 2-tone murals. His PX 150 should be rolling any day now. Any day now... |
| Jessica | |
| Jessica got her 1980 P200 in 1999 as a Christmas gift from her parents -- she just didn't really ride it until she started dating Woody. You can now find her at rallies commiserating with other vegans on the lack of non-leather riding gear, or on the streets of Boston popping wheelies at every stop light. |  |