Scootering

Over the past few weeks there’s rarely been a day when I haven’t received a phone call or message from Dan over in the Scootering workshop. That’s not unusual, but in honesty most of his tech talk goes over my head. I’m capable of wielding a spanner

The name Ecurie Ecosse immediately conjures up thoughts of France, yet it relates to a successful Scottish race team, founded in 1951 by Edinburgh accountant David Murray. He was a true Francophile who, in addition to his accountancy practice, owned

Scooterists are a strange bunch. We’ll spend a fortune on goodies that promise to extract the last amount of power from our motors, but when it comes to riding gear we’ll happily soldier on with what we’ve used for years. Despite plenty of evidence t

For the majority of riders, January is probably the low point of the year. The Christmas and new year celebrations have left their mark on both wallet and waistline, the winter solstice may have passed but the evenings are still dark and winter proje

Regular readers may recall that back in August last year we supported an appeal to bring home well-known scooterist Mark Jepson, who’d been injured in a scooter crash on the island of Zante. Because of a buried clause in his travel insurance which ex

As we near the start of 2024’s rally season the National’s entertainment line-ups are being confirmed. Hot off the press is that A Band Called Malice will be hotfooting it from Leeds O2 Academy, where they play on the Friday evening, down to VFM’s Is

SIP’s rolltop backpack Destination is inspired by the classic 19th century duffle bag design and has everything you need for your next adventure on a scooter, motorcycle or in the great outdoors. Made from waterproof, waxed, thick 18oz canvas (cotton

Storia, modelli e documenti (History, models and documentation) This impressive volume is the sixth in a series featuring individual Lambretta model groups all written by Vittorio Tessera, one of the world’s most renowned experts on the subject of th

No matter how we look at it, the classic scooter scene, healthy as it may be at this moment, is living on borrowed time as the bulk of enthusiasts that love such old machinery are now well into their 50s. It’s not a pleasant thought but, one day, our

The 45bhp a Casa SSR can deliver out of the box is enough for most people, but not Dennis. No, he wanted more: the 20hp boost that nitrous (NOS) injects at the push of a button sounded so tempting. However, NOS on a two-stroke is not as user-friendly

For the close of 2023’s season AONSC put on a superb show and in the process raised £2800 for charity. Back in November 2022 we were contacted by our old friends from Rugby-based band Special Brew who told us they were getting back together for a 20t

We must go back a long time, in fact to the heady days of 1966, to reach the start of Ernie’s scootering story. So keen was he to get involved that it didn’t matter he wasn’t old enough to ride the SX200 he’d managed to purchase, he was happy to sit

From airmen preparing to fly fighter aircraft, through novice lorry drivers hoping to ply their trade across continents, to the mundane car driver; a second person imparting knowledge has been the accepted form of tuition when learning to take contro

A‘barn find’ is the term given to discovering an old vehicle that has been stored, often unsympathetically, in an old garage, hut, shed, greenhouse or, as the name suggests, barn. I have discovered many of these lucky finds way back in the day, and i

It was 1986 when Mick Brunt first saw Bitter Fingers; it was parked outside the Woodbourne Hotel in Sheffield where his scooter club met. At that time it was owned by Paul Hesse and even though ‘shopping’ always came into Mick’s mind every time he th

It’s been a while since we last visited Berkshire-based Carnaby Scooters. Since then a lot’s changed, including the company branding. As he’s one of the UK’s most successful independent scooter and motorcycle retailers, we asked Richard for his views

If anyone takes a look at the specification sheet for any show-winning custom scooter built during the past decade or so, it’s almost guaranteed that K2 Customs will feature somewhere in the list of contributors. In fact, take a look at most scooters

I was as surprised as anyone this week to see the DVLA swiftly send us out a V5 for this scooter. By my own admission, it had been a long time since I had last registered a scooter with DVLA and the process has been updated slightly since then. So la

Two-stroke tuning is my bread and butter. It’s something that I’ve been into ever since I read my first tuning book (by Graham Bell) when I was aged just 16. In a nerdy way, I loved the maths and physics behind it all, and the fact that you could use

Endurance scooter racing in the UK is now a firmly established part of the scooter racing scene and at its heart are Keith Terry, who heads the British Scooter Endurance Club (BSEC), David ‘Henry’ Smith of IDK Racing, Darren Scott of Team DSC and Dav

We’ve divided the market first by capacity, and then alphabetically within each category. We can’t possibly give values for every classic scooter, there are far too many variables for that, but we have included data for three of the most common machi

How did you get into scooters? “I’d seen the older lads riding round on them, wearing scooter gear and looking the part. At high school Mr Roberts was my metalwork teacher, we weren’t allowed to mark the outside of our text books, but if you had them

In next month’s issue: We blow the bloody doors off March with a stunning Michael Caine themed Vespa. Our Lexicon series continues with an in-depth look at the Lambretta TV175 Series 1, including exclusive images of a very rare survivor that’s never