“AFTER THE EARTHQUAKES, WE’D RACE AROUND THE EMPTY STREETS MAKING AS MUCH NOISE AND CHAOS AS WE LIKED” QUAKE City Rumblers came about when Chris, now the QCR president, bought an old motor scooter at a swap meet, then saw a photo on the net of a guy riding a modified one. We’d never seen anything so awesome or even remotely like it, so Chris started modifying his immediately. You know the story, as soon as one person gets something that’s new and fun, others soon follow suite.
At the time, it was just after the big Christchurch earthquakes and we couldn’t drive our modified cars on what were now badly potholed, flooded and cracked roads, which was also part of the appeal. There are now 23 members and we…