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SWSC Ladrum Bay Scooter Rally | RALLERY

Woohoo, a new venue! Ladram Bay has replaced Warmwell as South West Scooter Club's end-of-season rally. Located about 20 miles east of Exmouth on the South East Devon coast, to say the area is picturesque is doing it a great disservice. It's beautiful, having stunning views of the Jurassic Coast with…

iggy-grainger28 November 2022

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SLUK’s Race-winning Quattrini M1L 60 ‘S’ engine build PART 1 | FEATURE

Recently, SLUK Racing took our second overall win at the BSEC 6-Hour endurance race. It’s the second one we’ve won outright, but the first using our new engine. Do you want to know what’s inside and why we chose it? It’s all about the ‘S’ A while back we ran this…

Sticky Round24 November 2022

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BSRA #9 VFM Southport | RALLERY

The final National event of the year has been a contentious issue since it was moved from Bridlington to Southport a few years ago. It’s ended up splitting the scene as lots of people still go to Brid for the Yorkshire Alliance event. Since Covid, Southport has lost its usual…

iggy-grainger17 November 2022

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BSRA Riders Championship 2022 | WINNERS

The Riders Championship for 2022 finished with the last National Rally of the year at Southport. Despite the first event at Whitby at Easter not counting (for various reasons), the male and female categories were hotly contested during the remaining 8 events, although sadly there were not enough entrants for…

iggy-grainger17 November 2022

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The 2023 Vespa GTS RST22 300 | LAUNCH REPORT

UK scooter press None of the UK scooter press were invited to the launch of this new Vespa GTS, which saddens us, as obviously we're lifelong Vespa fans. However, we'd like to thank well-known and respected motorcycle journalist, Chad for covering the event for us. Here's what he had to…

iggy-grainger14 November 2022

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Support ‘real’ scooterists at the Isle of Wight 2023 | NEWS

Today we've started seeing online advertising for a large scale event that is directly in competition with the official VFM Isle of Wight International Scooter Rally. The 'other' event is being held on the island at the previous rally campsite at Smallbrook Stadium and has lots of live bands, camping etc.…

iggy-grainger10 November 2022

Smoking Lambretta choppers on a campsite at the Flatlanders Scooter Rally

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Flatlanders – Gimme 6, Run to the Fens | RALLERY

After a successful Flatlanders, “Run to the Fens” in September 2021, getting tickets for the 2022 event was a no-brainer. As soon as Terry and the team released the pre-sale, we were on it. Over the year a few others grabbed tickets. Pre-ordering tickets so far in advance had its…

iggy-grainger10 November 2022

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International Lambretta GP/DL Rally Milano 2022 | FEATURE

The Lambretta Club Milano (LCM) is extremely active and in the years preceding Covid, they had organised several mono-model rallies for Lambretta Lunas, D & LDs, Series 1s and Models As. This time, it was the turn of Innocenti’s final, and some would say finest 2-wheeled creations: the Lambretta GP/DL…

iggy-grainger9 November 2022

Italjet Dragster 500GP concept studio image in red and white colour scheme

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Italjet unveils ‘Urban Geared’ 500GP Dragster | EICMA 2022

Italjet have literally ripped up the scooter design and sensibility rulebooks and created this thing of absolute joy, beauty and insanity. Enter the Italjet Dragster 500GP. Unveiled today for the very first time at EICMA in Milan this scooter hybrid is certainly going to cause a stir. Not only is…

iggy-grainger8 November 2022

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PINASCO EUREKA GEARED ELECTRIC VESPA | NEWS

Pinasco have just ripped up the electric scooter rule book and revealed this teaser video of their Eureka electric Vespa conversion. This isn’t just another electric conversion though as you can see in the video. This is a geared electric Vespa which retains the engine and character of the original.…

brendan3 November 2022