The Thrasher. Volume 2. March 1982.

This was the second edition of the Portsmouth Polytechnic Motorcycle Club magazine. Produced in late 1981 as a club sponsored activity to make life interesting for the student membership.

The text was typed up by Adam's Girlfriend, Carole, on a typewriter (remember those things? They came before PDA styluses. [Strange, I read this some place else.]) The cartoons were hand drawn, photocopied several times to get them to the correct size for publishing, then pasted into place on an appropriate page. Headings and other text were added with Letraset, and also placed where needed. The whole ensemble was laid out as facing pages, page numbered, then taken down and photocopied onto A4 paper - unlike the first issue - to save a bit of money and a lot of time! The slightly wobbly look to the pages was deliberately photocopied in, for aesthetic value. Uh-huh! The finished tabloid was produced in editions of about 100 copies. This required a lot of double sided copying - a process of copying to one side, then putting all the paper back through the copier machine, turned over to print on the backside. We lost a lot of paper in this harrowing process. The complete magazine was collated, and stapled by The Lads.

Selling at 10p a copy, 20p to non-believers, the revenue allowed for more issues to be produced.

Martin found this issue deep in a closet and brought it to me on a recent visit. I scanned it in using an Epson 1250 scanner, then edited the images in Adobe Photoshop. I changed the image contrast, and scaled the images down to approximately 600 * 900 pixels. The crossword answers page is a magnification of just a small part of the crossword page, so the answers can be more easily seen. The answers are still a bit murky.