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BSRA #8 Woolacombe National Scooter Rally | RALLERY

After tootling down from Scarborough to Woolacombe and back (a 700-mile round trip) on his standard Vespa PX 125 Col has recovered and written this report from what has to be the largest non Bank Holiday rally of the year. Be sure to check out the four galleries of images…

iggy-grainger5 October 2022

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Retrospective Scooters electric scooter conversions | FEATURE

You’ve got to admire the fine looking collection of classic scooters pictured above. Look a bit closer and you’ll spot the (not quite finished) Lambretta isn’t quite as ‘Innocenti’ as the Italians envisaged it back in the day and those four Vespas weren’t how they left Pontedera either. All these…

iggy-grainger4 October 2022

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British Scooter Endurance Club – Round 3 | The Tside6

The third and final round of the British Scooter Endurance Club Championships took place recently at a fairly wet Teesside Autodrome. This was the seventh BSEC event since its inception in September 2019 and it just gets better and better.Get involved If you’ve not yet ‘got into’ scooter endurance racing…

iggy-grainger22 September 2022

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Mersea Island 2022 | RALLERY

The Colchester DVLC’s Mersea Island is a rally that many look forward to and this year was no exception, all of the 2000 tickets available sold out quickly meaning that many were left disappointed. The team have limited the amount of tickets available for those using four wheels to ensure…

iggy-grainger20 September 2022

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Scooter Center SCOOTERIST WEEKENDER | RALLERY

Scooter Center Köln’s 30th anniversary was certainly a worthy celebration. Customisers and dealers from all over Europe met in the German city of Cologne to display state-of-the-art scooter culture. Essentially, this was a one day event set in a spacious (20,000 sq ft) airport hangar converted to a stylish exhibition…

iggy-grainger16 September 2022

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BSRA #7 ISLE OF WIGHT NATIONAL SCOOTER RALLY 2022 | RALLERY

August bank holiday weekend 2022 has been and gone already. It’s frightening to think that a full calendar year of scooter events has now passed since we got the go ahead to meet in large numbers again after the dreaded pandemic and its restrictions. The Sandown Airport official Isle of…

iggy-grainger13 September 2022

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Wangerland Scooter Rally 2022 | RALLERY

Wangerland is not just a silly name for an all-inclusive summer scooter rally in Germany. It’s not only the daft name of the holiday camp that houses the event but is actually the silly name of the district. In the spirit of John F Kennedy’s famous speech, let me just…

iggy-grainger5 September 2022

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PINASCO 251 BUILD PART 7 – CDI AND IGNITION | FEATURE

If you’ve been following our Pinasco 251 engine build features you’ll be as pleased as us that the engine is almost complete. We’ve just got a few more issues left to sort out in this episode. Building a standard or tuned engine? This is part seven of an eight-part series;…

Rory McIntosh28 March 2022

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PINASCO 251 BUILD PART 8 – SHE LIVES! FEATURE

Our Pinasco 251 series has been running for longer than Forrest Gump but in reality it only took us three days to strip the old donor P2 engine and build the new 251 back in September last year. Three days of building, fettling, videoing and taking photos for this series.Once…

Rory McIntosh5 March 2022

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PINASCO 251 BUILD PART 6 – CLUTCH FETTLING | FEATURE

Pinasco’s 251 Bull Clutch system solves one of the problems of the Vespa PX clutch design for powerful engines. Instead of simply mounting to the crankshaft using a woodruff key and a silent prayer, it uses a splined fit.As such, the Bull clutch is easy to assemble and dismount, but…

Rory McIntosh16 February 2022