Those were the days, when I was a kid my Dad could fill up the van for the week and still have change for 10 fags from a quid...
No. no, don't let's start the whole Monty Python cardboard box in the road sketch!! ;D ;D

You are right about the scoots, they are the biking future - if some of them live that long!!

A lot of them look so astounded when a 'big bike' rider nods to them. 8-)