Blimey, you've got a good memory mate!
If the article you're talking about was the one in SKY magazine, it was 1991!!! The actual article was written in 1989 though nearly 20 years ago
It was sort of my fault that article ever got written, it was by a then struggling young reporter called Steve Berry (who later went on to become a Top Gear presenter and general snob who forgot who his friends were.....)
Steve used to write for Scootering magazine in the late 's and I sort of knew him through Scooters already, then I built a bit of a custom scooter and he wanted to put it into the