Cutdown

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Cutdown is a term referring to a customised scooter (usually Vespa or Lambretta), which has had parts of the bodywork removed or cut away.

Cutdowns were popular in the 1970s and 1980s with skinheads and scooterboys. Many of the scooters are cut down to improve power to weight ratio, and tuned (much like a four-wheeled hot rod). Some cutdowns are used to drag race.

[edit] See also

• Hot rod
• Skinhead
• Scooterboy
• Rude boy
• Kustom Kulture

[edit] External links

• Scooter drag racing series in the UK featuring cutdowns
• The UK scooter scene's website]