** Competition now closed **
It’s only another couple of weeks until the Isle of Wight International Scooter Rally and you can win a pair of tickets and return travel with Red Funnel!
That’s right, VFM has kindly given us a pair of weekend tickets worth £60) for the rally and all the entertainment at Sandown Airport.
Getting there
Of course, you need to get there first, luckily Red Funnel has also given us a ferry crossing from Southampton to the Isle of Wight for two people and a scooter.
How to enter
Every scooterist loves to see rally photos, so we want you to share one of your favourites. It doesn’t have to be from the Isle of Wight, just email us your favourite ever scooter rally image. It has to be owned by you, or have the photographer’s permission, and be as high resolution as possible (images lifted from Facebook aren’t good enough quality).
IOW Comp
Email your ‘IOW Comp’ photo to us at editorial@scooterlab.uk and tell us a bit about it, where and when it was taken and anything else interesting about the event or photo. Also, let us know what you’ll be riding there this year.
All photo entries will be posted on this page and we’ll pick our favourite on Monday 12th August.
On the gate ticket prices
VFM advance ticket sales ended on Sunday 4th August but of course, you can still pay on the gate when you get there.
A weekend ticket costs £35 including camping, custom show, parts fair and all the entertainment on the flyer above. Remember it’s cash only at the gate.
Day/evening visitors
If you’re staying elsewhere but want to visit the hub of the rally at Sandown Airport you can pay at the gate as a day or evening visitor (camping/overnight stays aren’t included).
Friday till 5 pm £4, Friday night £10
Saturday till 5 pm, £5, Saturday night £10
Sunday day £3
The entrants
Below you can find our entrants, we’ll keep adding photos until Monday 12th August.
#1 Sarah Coope
#2 Tim Rickards
Please find my picture for the IOW competition, it was taken on the IOW ride out 2022. It was my partner’s first scooter rally and just sums up what a fantastic place and event it is. We will be there again this year, either on the Gilera Runner again or a Scomadi.
Best regards
Tim Rickards
#3 Jason Burpitt
This thing was a right pile of crap, with different bits off of different Vespas. After getting fed up with it being completely cut down I used some old scrap metal off an old washing machine and bodged on some makeshift legshields. One year I rode this pile of poo to Mersea and as a bit of a joke I stuck it in the custom show, only to come away with a trophy for Best Vespa to my amazement! Only to see a bloke absolutely fuming as his nicely restored Vespa GS didn’t win anything!
Regards
#4 David Jenkins
No info with this one I’m afraid.
Winner! #5 Richard Griffiths
This was our favourite photo, scooterists doing what they need to do to get a scooter home under its own wheels. Get in touch at editorial@scooterlab.uk and we’ll sort your prize out Richard.
#5 Richard Griffith
My S2 needing surgery at Smallbrook some years ago now.
Cheers
Richard Griffiths
#6 Andrew Fox
This was at Mid Cheshire last week, a gathering of old and new friends. Scooter rallies at their best.
Foxy
#7 Ellis
One of about a thousand pictures I have on my phone from the IOW.
I never can remember which ones I’ve shared, and never can bring myself to delete them 🤓
Best regards
Ellis
#8 Doug Turner
#9 Steve
Goin on my old chop, hope the weather is the same as in the photo, riding a Rally for a dear friend.
Thanks
Steven
#10 Dave Wren
A pic of mine and the Mrs’ scooters on the way to Great Yarmouth scooter rally last year. Her first rally adventure.
#11 Dean Bennet
Morning, attached is a photo taken on our way to Adria a few years ago at the top of The Alps in Switzerland. I’ll be riding a lynx to IOW
Cheers
Dean
#12 Martin Hopkin
My name is Martin and this photo was taken at oddballs in August 2017 and as you can see it is a bit of a strange one. I don’t usually dress up in women’s clothing but there are a few of us who do it for charity and have a bit of fun at a lot of the rallies we go to (I say it’s for charity but maybe we all quite enjoy the attention it brings). The ladies’ clothes are brought from one of the charity stalls at the rally and this charity was for Teenage Cancer Trust. I wasn’t planning on going to IOW this year as funds haven’t allowed.
This year I am riding the very scooter I am sitting on in the picture but I also have a Lambretta GP 200 which I also ride.
Martin Hopkins







