Innehållsförteckning för October 2019 från Scootering

This month's a ‘big one’ for Scootering magazine, so we’ve included a few rather poignant articles, images and references throughout the edition, to help draw it all together. Ihope you enjoy reading this edition as much as I've enjoyed putting it together. Amidst the work the team and I have put into creating this celebratory edition, I took a little time out to reflect on the fast-paced digital age we are all now engulfed in. As I pondered the various digital platforms, from dot.com booms through social media, one thing which stood out like a sore thumb is the poisonous element of Facebook. When I thought of all the websites which popped up, way back when, as various businesses first got a chance to share info and sell services/ products…

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'Yate and Sodbury' Scooter Clubs, and the Bristol scooter scene, have sadly lost a well-known and well-loved Mod and Scooterist Duncan Evans, who passed away suddenly and unexpectedly on September 2. Duncan was well known in the area and on the scootering scene for his love of all things Mod, and making sure his Lambretta and Vespa scooters were always polished and immaculate, suitably and tastefully adorned with lights and mirrors. He had a zest for life and laughter, lighting up any occasion, and his death leaves a big void for his partner Sue, his family, friends and club members.…

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An award-winning scooter photographed at an award-winning brewery, Stan’s had worse days at work... Based in Garforth, close to Chiselspeed HQ, is the Quirky Craft Brewery. This is another example of Yorkshire excellence, as in its four years of existence its picked up both awards and a loyal following for its range of small batch ales. For any club in search of a different night out, Quirky’s offer a brewery tour, at the conclusion of which participants can blend and brew their own beer. This can be taken away on the night to mature in the bottle, or Quirky’s will nurse it in the cask and await your return visit. www.quirkyales.com…

1) During early production of the TV 175 Series 2, a ribbed seam was welded along the centre of the frame tube. This was due to Innocenti being worried that the frame may not cope with the extra power. It is referred to as the ‘ridgeback’, but it is unknown just how many had this modification. 2) The Series 1 was still available in some variants during the majority of 1959, which was referred to at the time as the crossover period. Dealers expressed their concerns over the matter as they felt embarrassed at having to sell what to them was an outdated model compared to the Series 2. 3) Originally the first batch of TV 175 machines to reach the UK were only available in glacier blue. Shortly afterwards…

From? Oostend, Belgium (Blimey, that’s along way…) Riding? Vespa GTS 250 ie with 92,000km on the clock. A great scooter! How was the journey? I assume it was pretty long? Two days!! Ostend to the Eurotunnel, then across to Bristol, before heading up to Llangollen. All lesser roads, no motorways. Rain nearly all the way, but here safely. Got much the same journey going back, hopefully in better weather. Have you done many VCB events this year? Vespa World Days to Hungary, Alp Days in Italy, many others too. This is why I’ve 96,000km on the scooter.…

Although MSC usually has a selection of selected used two-strokes in stock, the business has more recently specialised in four-stroke autos. All at the company have been impressed with the Royal Alloy range’s build quality and after-sales support. Few dealers have committed to the GTS more fully than MSC. In fact, they’re probably the only shop that currently offers Dealer Specials of this popular machine. Schemes and accessory packs vary, so it’s always worth keeping an eye on the website to see MSC’s latest offerings, all of which are supported by their nationwide delivery service.…

Finding an old Lambretta or any scooter for that matter in an old garage or shed is a dream we all have. To some it does become a reality, but it raises the question of what should be done with it. Should it have a total restoration from bare metal upwards or perhaps left as it is from the day it came out of the factory? Many factors make up the final decision. Is the paint free from rust and the majority of it still intact? Does the engine turn over or is it seized solid? Is everything still connected ready to work after cleaning up? If the answer to these questions is yes then preservation is by far the best option. Why should you preserve rather than restore The…

Meeting number four of the season for Justin Offland as a rookie racer would see him make the trip down south to the notorious Lydden Hill race circuit. This is a track like no other with its huge hairpin hill and corners, all of which run on a camber. Justin openly admitted to being nervous, so was happy to take advice from fellow SRP teammate and experienced racer Stuart Day for exactly what to look out for. Thankfully, conditions were perfect with it declared a dry race. With a lap being quite short, he was hoping to qualify in a time of under one minute and in the end he just made it with a time of 59 seconds. Though towards the back of the grid his progress towards the…

Stu Smith Vespa & Lambretta owner, scooter obsessive, amateur home mechanic, rally goer, Mod sympathiser, music lover and general all-round good egg. He writes your rally reports, be nice to him. Nik Skeat Vespa P-range obsessive, well-travelled rally rider since the 80s, founder of the notorious Scooterboy World forum. He’s also a brilliant beer-brewing bearded Scootering feature writer. Paul Green Vespa & Lambretta scooter enthusiast, BSSO professional and general good egg. Our Paul has a long history of scootering both on the road and on the track, with the breakdown bills and crash scars to prove it. Stuart Owen LCGB ‘life member’, 100mph Lambretta Club owner and scooter restoration expert to boot. Scooter rider, rally-goer, restorer and author. Reaches the parts other scooter journalists just can’t reach. Dave Oakley Riding…

As we continue to showcase the final days of LML’s factory in Kanpur, it seems that news from Lucknow isn’t much better. If local news reports are to be believed, it appears that the Government of India’s patience with the loss-making concern is all but exhausted. Although it’s decades since complete scooters rolled off the production line, the factory has continued to produce spares and three-wheelers. Having failed to secure a private buyer, it seems the Ministry of Finance may order the factory to cease operations in the very near future. The Government, which owns 97.7% of SIL shares, has a preferred option of selling off the plant and machinery, but has also indicated that it may be prepared to dispose of ‘non core assets’ to improve cash flow. Areport…

This classic styled wet-waxed cotton jacket is produced by British Millerain, a company which harks back to a day when goods were transported by wind-powered ships. Their sails were made from cotton, which was waxed to protect against the ravages of the sea. The material consequently found its way into the clothing which sailors wore to protect themselves from the same weather. Respectful of the material's heritage, designers have employed traditional tailoring methods to assemble the outer garment. For example, pockets are pleated in order to lie flat when empty, but provide space to expand when full. The collar and accompanying belt are designed and cut in three dimensions, rather than as simple, flat panels, and the resulting fit is spot on. The triple-stitching employed in all the key and…

After the journey home from the Isle of Wight, Stan’s GTS seemed to have half the insect population of the south baked on to his legshields. An ideal opportunity to try Silkolene’s ‘Wash Off’ cleaner. This promises to ‘rapidly remove all types of dirt from metals and plastics with minimum effort’. Although Silkolene suggest spraying from the bottle and then hosing off, Stan used the traditional sponge and bucket method. With only a few seconds’ soaking time, Wash Off made light work of all the accumulated debris, including one insect that must have been the size of a small sparrow! Although it’s not a true degreaser along the lines of Gunk, the spray also made light work of accumulated two-stroke oil on his GP, together with some fairly heavy brake…

NSU Prima Dear Dan, It was a pleasure to see a picture like my old NSU Prima Scooter in May’s edition, and wanted to write in because I have not seen one anywhere else before and it brought back lots of fond memories for me. I bought my yellow and black scooter way back in 1959 when I was 19 for £198.06, but sadly no longer have it and at the time I didn’t realise what a little gem was under my bum. There were many adventures over the few years I had it, travelling from Cumbria in the northwest, over to the northeast with a friend, but in those days we didn’t even have helmets for protection, which was silly of us. Although I still have all my hair…

Filling up your scooter at the petrol station always required one important task. One that if you didn't adhere to signalled trouble for the engine, filling up with oil. For those that owned a Vespa, certainly one of the new fandangled ones, this didn't matter so much. They had a fancy auto lube system that mixed the oil for you from a separate tank. For hardcore Lambretta riders it was different though, requiring you to doit yourself. The problem came with getting the measurement exactly right. The Lambretta petrol tank didn't hold that much, being just shy of two gallons, and there were two types of methods when it came to mixing the oil. One was simply to pour some directly from the bottle. For those a bit more sophisticated,…

SEPTEMBER 20-23 National BSRA #7 Woolacombe 20-21 Blues SC, 40th Anniversary do. Arties Mill, Brigg, N. Lincs. DN20 9LF £10 adv, £15 otd 21 Cambridge Ska Festival 4, wth Big 10, The Two Tones and The Gangsters at Cambridge Junction.CB1 7GX. £14. 01223 51151 27-29 Jersey rally, Westhill Hotel nr St Helier. See FB 28 Amberley Museum Classic Scooter day, Arundel BN18 9LT. www.amberleymuseum.co.uk 27-29 Buchan Coasters, Pitlochry Scooter Weekend. McKays Hotel PH16 5AG. See FB 27-29 Ribble Valley, scooter weekend, Clitheroe, Lancs. Weekend of bands, scooters and stalls. Ride in from The Cross Keys, East Marton, BD23 3LP at 12.30 Saturday, meet from 11am. OCTOBER 4-6 Clacton Weekender, Martello Caravan Park, CO15 2LF 5 Scooters |In The Square, Merthyr Tydfil 6 Wicksteed Parts Fair, Kettering NN15 6NJ. Lammygirl1982@outlook.com 11-12…

How far have you come? Stoke-on-Trent (Inbetweeners SC) What are you riding? GTS 300 and a Vespa VXL How was the journey? We had a good, if short ride over from Stoke. Heavy rain meant that it took a couple of hours, but beer was waiting when the tent was up, so not all bad! Do you do many VCB events? We try to do as many Vespa Club events as we can, including Hungary earlier this year. We love the friendly atmosphere, and get to meet new people from across the Vespa community.…

It was good to see you back on track. What prompted you to race at Pembrey? After having a few years out of racing and scootering in general. I missed just riding a bike and went to Spain a few times doing trackdays on the bikes with other scooter racers and quickly got the bug back. On my return circumstances changed and I had more free time, so what better to do than go back racing. What was the engine spec... it was cobbled together quickly? RFS tuned me a 4e engine, which showed good potential on the dyno, but sadly while strobing on the drive the ring peg came out and wiped out the barrel. Three days to go we had to chuck a standard RB barrel on to…

Shaun Salmon, an independent rider from Stoke-on-Trent. It was Shaun’s first Prodigy Collective rally and he was making the most of the weekend. “I’m a rally-going scooterist and I’m here supporting my generation of scooterists! I’ve known Matt and the team for about six years and I think it’s agreat thing they’re doing.” Salford Knight’s S.C., who’d ridden in for the day. “We’re supporting these kids with this rally. We think it’s agreat idea and it’s great to see the younger end getting involved. We’ve got our rally next weekend and we’re looking forward to that as well.” All were in good spirits and were riding a wide variety of scooters. Tim Girvan, who’d ridden in on his custom ‘Prodigy’ themed Vespa from Wisbech. “It’s around 160 miles each way.…

The Scooter World halls return to Newark County Showground over the weekend of January 11-12, 2020 to form their part in the Carole Nash sponsored Classic Bike Guide ‘Winter Classic’ event. Since its inception in 2013, Scooter World has expanded over the years, culminating in 2019 with what was arguably one of the largest scooter shows in the UK with 145 scooters on display. Plans are already moving forward for 2020 and this includes the expansion of the Scooter World Custom Show with more entry categories – plus a monetary prize to go with every single trophy! LEVELLING THE PLAYING FIELD One of the criticisms we often hear about scooter custom shows is that it’s always the same custom scooters doing the rounds and winning the ‘Best Custom’ trophy (obviously…

This information is provided by Stephen Hattersley of WildWood Legal, a firm of solicitors specialising in claims for injured scooterists. Stephen, a qualified solicitor for 25 years, has been riding scooters for over 30 years, and has acted for injured riders across the UK. He knows the tricks and pitfalls that insurers use and pulls no punches in his dealings with them. He rides to work every day and understands the challenges you face out there. Q. I was knocked off my bike and badly injured. I am self-employed so I am not going to earn anything for a while. I know claims take a long time. How am I going to pay my bills in the meantime? A. Sorry to hear that and hope you recover soon. The good…

The Malossi VR-One MHR crankcase, for the Vespa PX200, provides the ideal foundation for your next performance reed valve engine. Manufactured in Italy, this high-quality crankcase has been designed to withstand increased power with reinforcing webbing in key locations, and is supplied with main bearings for the flywheel side and for the drive side, which both use balls instead of rollers, and offer greater radial load tolerance and an additional resistance to axial loads, which is not possible with the original roller bearings. Dedicated seals are also supplied. The transfer ports have been machined to ‘match’ the range of Malossi PX200 cylinder kits, saving both time and money on porting work. Supplied with a reed valve manifold suitable for carburettors up to 30mm in size which has been designed for…

With many owners of Vespa GTS/Primavera/Sprint 125 iGet models finding that they are hitting the inbuilt rev limiter, Malossi have developed an upgraded gear kit to achieve better performance than standard. The gear kit utilises Malossi’s H.T.Q. process, developed using their 20 years’ experience in manufacturing gear sets for competition and road scooters. Featuring straight-cut teeth to minimise losses through friction, this, in turn, helps to reduce the stresses placed on the gear supports within the gearbox. The new gear kit has a tooth count of 15-41 with a splined coupling specifically machined to mate with the existing gearbox assembly. More info: www.ve-uk.com…

You know the kind of thing… you’re riding to a destination and it’s raining. It’s raining really heavily, that is until it turns to sleet, anyway. Your visor is steamed up, the rain has long since gone through those jacket seams and you’re amazed at how wet your feet can be whilst they are supposedly hidden behind your leg shields. The gloves that you bought because they were ‘waterproof’ turn out to really just be showerproof (at a push). You can’t see a thing through the visor so you’re riding with it partially raised, but now your eyes are streaming and sore from the wind. Your journey is seemingly endless and the whole situation just seems grim, really grim. There’s no other word for it really. The miles pass slowly…

The Rally’s traditional climax is the Sunday Lunchtime ride out. Whether or not you choose to take part in this clutch destroying adventure is immaterial. This is one of the great spectacles of scootering to be found anywhere in the world and as a result unmissable. This year marks the 75th anniversary of D-Day and as a tribute to the Island’s key role in the Invasion of Europe, the parade was led by a pipe band several veterans and the Armed Forces Scooter Club.…

Rusty Vespa? Don’t despair! Anyone who's ever owned a post-1995 Vespa PX, unless perhaps they live in California or Montpellier (or have won a lifetime supply of Acf-50), knows about a rusted seam down the back of their front mudguard. It is as inevitable as the soles splitting on their well-cared-for (relatively new) ox-blood Doc Marten boots. The reason? Inferior materials and/or bad workmanship. There can be no other explanation. But it hasn't always been that way. Time was when your Docs would last forever, as would your hardy and ever-reliable 1980s PX. So what went wrong and how did Piaggio allow their flagship model to fall into such disrepute? And I'm not just talking about rusted mudguard seams here. That is just the tip of the iceberg or, rather,…

In the early months of 1985 rumours began circulating within the scootering ranks that a new magazine was on the horizon. At the time there were other alternatives in the shape of Scootermania and The British Scooterist Scene, but they were different. Only available from certain outlets such as scooter-related businesses or on rallies, it made getting hold of a copy slightly awkward. The supposedly new magazine would be different as it was going to be sold nationally through newsagents and retail outlets. This meant two things: one was that it would be far easier to obtain a copy, and the other was that it signalled progress of the scene. By now scooter rallies were reaching their peak and plenty of entrepreneurs were making money from it all, so perhaps…

As the 1950s came to a close and the new decade was welcomed in, it was a time when Innocenti was at its greatest. Sales of the Lambretta had reached new levels both home and abroad and it seemed that nothing could stop their domination of the two-wheeled market. A new model was on the horizon and if it was a good as predicted then this would make the company even stronger. Labelled simply as the series 2, it would be made available in three different variants, starting with the budget Li 125 followed by the standard 150 and finally the most powerful of all, the TV 175. The design was a natural progression from the series 1, but it offered far more than just a few upgrades and involved…

The Total Rejection – Everybody Knows What You Don’t Know – Raving Pop Blast (Vinyl LP) While Stone Roses had a five-year gap between their first and second albums, and the legendary PP Arnold had a 39-year and then 12-year gap between solo album releases, The Total Rejection have their follow-up to their excellent debut Wrapping Yourself in Silver Foil Won’t Protect You from the Blast, written, recorded and ready to go in under 12 months! Not only does their new offering, with a baker’s dozen of blistering tracks, pick up where its predecessor finished, it propels their blend of raw ‘n’ raucous 60s garage, 70s punk and 80s Medway delta tinged sleaze, with more than a hint of Art rock, too. Opening number Slip It To Me sets…

Name: Darryl Braga Job: Service Engineer Scooter club & town: Mercia S.C. Your first scooter: Lambretta SX200 replica based on an Li150 Favourite scooter model: Classic Vespas ‘Faro Basso’ etc and Lambretta TV Series 1 & 2 Favourite style of custom scooter: ‘Mille Miglia’ Sir Stirling Moss tribute Lambretta Series 1 First rally or event: W.o.T rally How did you get there: Scooter Funniest experience with a scooter: When I was a kid I used to ride them around on the fields just for the laugh! What do you like about rallies: Bargains!…

Best Lambretta: Li – RCA 486B (Billy Grimes) Best Vespa: ‘Prodigy’ Vespa PX (Tim Girvan) Best Vintage: Lambretta Li 150 – WSV 395 (Rhiannon Donnelly) Best Auto: Stealth GTS (Andy Williams) Best Oddity: Lambretta S2 – 344 UYT (Accys) Best Other: Honda CBR Gulf Racing Café Racer (Jake Roberts) Best Rat/Cut-down: ‘Pig Iron’ (Jacko Jacks) Best Street Racer: Servetta S-Type – VEF 248M (Tim Drummond) Best in Show: ‘Prodigy’ Vespa PX (Tim Girvan) Best Turned Out Club: Manchester Night Owls Furthest Travelled: Paul Jackman (239 miles) Youngest Scooterist: Tommy Jacks Punter’s choice: Lambretta GP – A865 TAG…