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Eric Cope’s TAYLOR TUNING TTYPE 252/265 | ROAD TEST

When you’re officially one of the fastest men to ever ride a full-bodied Lambretta up a sprint track there’s not much chance you’ll just pootle around town on a standard GP. We nipped up to sunny Scunthorpe to find out what 127mph sprinter, Eric Cope chooses as his road bike. Then…

Rory McIntosh9 November 2020

A grey Vespa GTS 300 sat beside a cream Royal Alloy GP300 at the train station where the cover of Some might Say by Oasis was shot.

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ROYAL ALLOY GP 300S versus VESPA GTS 300 HPE | ROAD TEST

Rebuilding the archives This feature was originally published on our old ScooterLab website. A virus corrupted hundreds of old articles leaving them unreadable. We're slowly rebuilding many of the important ones and moving them over to this site. We're publishing them on the same date as they were originally released…

Rory McIntosh16 January 2020

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CASA SST 265 – ITALY TO POLAND TEST RIDE | FEATURE

Spending close to eight grand on a new Lambretta engine is quite a serious purchase and when you’re as tight as 'Dangerous' Dave Gould then you need to be sure that you’re spending very wisely.It’s taken him two years of inner turmoil before making a purchase. He’s made three trips…

Rory McIntosh27 August 2019

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VESPA ELETTRICA | FIRST RIDE

VIDEO | A QUICK BLAST ON THE ELETTRICAWhilst at EICMA last week we were given the chance for a first ride on the new Vespa Elettrica. Piaggio have certainly put a lot of Lira into this project and it was at the forefront of everything Piaggio based at the show.…

Rory McIntosh13 November 2018

A white Vespa PX200 outisde Ron Daley Scooters showroom.

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RON DALEY SCOOTERS VESPA PX 200 | ROAD TEST

The Vespa PX 200 was (and in many cases still is) widely regarded as THE scooter rally workhorse by many. That was until the new GTS 250 came along in 2005. Tightening Euro legislation had killed the PX 200 off in 2003. Leaving just the PX 125/150 to fulfil the…

Rory McIntosh9 May 2018

The rider's eye view from a Lambretta seat.

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SMALLBLOCK QUATTRINI 210 LAMBRETTA | ROAD TEST

In October 2017 Sticky brought us news of yet another Lambretta tuning development, this time from an unlikely source. Max Quattrini, a tuner famed for building fast Vespa kits. This smallblock Lambretta kit has a 68mm bore giving it a capacity of 210cc when used with a standard 58mm stroke crank.…

Rory McIntosh11 December 2017