Scootering

Just when you think nothing new is on the horizon, someone only goes and pulls a 488cc ‘Twin Engine’ Vespa out of the bag, and it all goes crackers again. This Vespa is like no other I’ve ever seen, I love it. And I don’t just like the fact that it h

A service on Stan’s GP coincided with the arrival of Quattrini compatible Clubmans. It would have been rude of him not to test them… Pitting any Clubman against an expansion chamber is only going to have one result – the expansion chamber will win. T

This information is provided by Stephen Hattersley of WildWood Legal, a firm of solicitors specialising in claims for injured scooterists. Stephen, a qualified solicitor for 25 years, has been riding scooters for over 30 years, and has acted for inju

Vespa & Lambretta owner, scooter obsessive, amateur home mechanic, rally goer, Mod sympathiser, music lover and general all round good egg. He writes your rally reports, be nice to him. Vespa P-range obsessive, well-travelled rally rider since the 8

Scooter racing in this day and age is fast and furious, and a very serious business. It needs to be that way in these health and safety conscious times, unfortunately. Years of legislation and risk management mean that circuit-based racing of any typ

I have no doubt anyone who owned a Lambretta back in the 1980s will remember the build-up to the launch of the TS1. Various snippets of news were carefully fed to the scootering media before the launch of such a ground-breaking kit, ready to revoluti

Tony (aka Ginger Bollocks) is host of the ‘Mersea Games’ and owner of the new online scooter shop VepsaJets. He told us: “I have been attending the Mersea Island Scooter Rally since it started 27 years ago. In the months leading up to organising the

I agree with Tony’s letter (July issue) regarding the amount of custom scoots in Scootering now. There’re far too many engraved machines, and airbrushing, and paint, and air in the tyres. Especially air in the tyres. Please stop this, or I shall go b

A whole 18 months it took to restore that Lambretta, but finally it was done. It may have seemed like a long time, but back in the 1980s original parts were hard to come by. Not forgetting the only help was by way of an old workshop manual with pages

Name of scooter: Bob Keeler sporting combination. Bob Keeler, the dealer’s sporting achievements and him being a scooter dealer combined with clubman combinations in the 5t’s and 6t’s. Scooter model: Lambretta Rallymaster. Any modifications: Sideca

John Beynon from Pompey, who was wearing a happy smile and (quite rightly) feeling very chuffed with himself, having just won Best Engineered in the Custom Show – Allwyn Push Pak. Well, the engine is a special that I thought of myself. It took two

I first came across Seratones when they were a fairly average new wave influenced band with a brilliantly soulful singer. Sadly, at that point they weren’t anything special. A change of emphasis and line-up though, and they’re a completely different

As discussed in part one, the way you tackle cleaning an original condition Lambretta depends on exactly what state it is in to start with. The techniques used are the same if it is complete or in parts, i.e., the paintwork will be cleaned the same w

Unusually, Cadwell Park in September this year was actually the penultimate round of the 2019 Championship. In a break with tradition the BSSO have slipped in one more round in mid-October, so the traditional excitement of the season finale at Cadwel

Name of scooter: Toxic 9 –‘Toxic Purge’. It’s the Toxic interpretation of the film, The Purge. Scooter model: PX 125 Date and cost: 2016 – £900 Time to build: Dean Child and myself built it. It took about a week once we got everything back from pa

Name: Michael Brunt. Job: Electrician/Lecturer. Scooter club & town: Chesterfield Spiral Scooter Club/Sheffield Steel City SC. First interest in scooters: 1980 when I saw Quadrophenia for the first time at Woodseats Working Men’s Club; the rest is