A Brief History
The B5000 Scooter Club was originally formed in
1983 by a group of scooter riding mates in the
village of Polesworth on the outskirts of Tamworth,
the main road through Polesworth is the B5000 and
that is where the name of the club originates from.

The club used to put on disco's at Polesworth
Working Mens Club, known then as The Top Club,
these events were popular around the area and
became a focal point for local scooterists.

Many members of the club regularly attended the
seaside scooter rallies that were a part of every
scooterists calendar on either their Vespa's or
Lambretta's.

As with a lot of the scooter clubs of that era,
members lives and responsibilities changed and
the club went into a period of hibernation. However
during 2004 people who had not seen each other,
in some cases for years, got back together and
found that some of them were still riding their
scooters and others wished they were! A tentative
meeting was held in the Red Lion Public House in
Polesworth, to gauge the enthusiasm for
resurrecting the club, due to the amount of people
in attendance it was decided to progress on to a
formal meeting at Dordon WMC before which the
word was passed around the local scooter fraternity.


By the time the meeting at Dordon WMC came
around in excess of 20 people turned up, lots of
talking was done, ideas discussed and plans to
take the club forward formulated. The club is now a
mixture of original B5000,s and newer members
who have been members of other clubs or have
moved into the area and until now never been a
member of any of the local clubs.

From this beginning the clubs pre season do for
the 2005 season was attended by 200 people with
members from other clubs in attendance, all
entertained by local band 'The Pinch' and the
B5000's answer to Fat Boy Slim, Knobby, on the
decks.