Scootering

Show Us Your Scoot

The great thing about editing Scootering is seeing the array of scooters that readers send in hoping that they’ll make the magazine. Whether it’s a single snap that ends up in Show Us Your Scoots or a sneak preview of a five-figure build that’s about to be unveiled, I never get bored of looking through them. The downside of that is telling someone their pride and joy won’t end up on the cover. That’s part of the job I really don’t like.

So how does Sam Greswell’s cutdown Vespa end up filling four pages? When I opened the sample shots Sam had sent in, my first thought was that it was an ideal candidate for Show Us Your Scoots. I had to concede that it’s a tidy Vespa cutdown but, despite the impression given

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