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20th Euro Lambretta Jamboree 2009

Over the last few years we Lambretta riders from the UK have been blessed with an overseas adventure to reach the annual EuroLambretta Jamboree. For the 20th such event however, it was the Lambretta Club of Great Britain’s turn to host it once again and so for many the excitement of a ride to strange and foreign lands meant to Lincoln.
Looking at the bigger picture; for all the Europeans it meant that it was now their turn to catch a ferry to the Jamboree rather than simply trudge across from one side of the continent to the other. And with the exchange rates in their favour during 2009 the British reputation of being an expensive holiday destination didn’t seem so bad to them, for a while at least...
For more photos of the event please see the centre spread and also visit the online gallery >>
LCGB have asked us to thank everyone who attended the event and will offer a full advert of credits in next month's Scootering.
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SCOOTERING July 2009
Scottish National Rally

If you’ve never been to Kelso for a rally, you really should be asking yourselves why. Sure for the Scots it may seem local to some of you, but for us English the beautiful scenery and twisty country roads leading to the town make a pleasant change for mundane dual carriageways full of seaside bound cars.
Following a tour of Scotland prior to the rally we were able to appreciate, quite literally, a different approach to Kelso, equally scenic and stunning. Despite not attending over the last couple of years, as soon as I entered the old town the memories came flooding back. Through the square, over the bridge, turn right and you’re there...
For more photos of the event please see the centre spread and also visit the online gallery >>
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SCOOTERING July 2009
Isle of Elba Scooter Rally, 10th Anniversary

Please note:
Unfortunately, due to margins between the design and printing process, some readers may find it difficult to read the Isle of Elba review in this month's Scootering. All we can do is apologise, assure you that the proof looked ok on paper and publish the review here on the website.
Full review:
This year saw the rally being moved back to its usual 1 May date, which nicely coincided with one of Italy’s few national holidays falling on the Friday. This obviously means an ‘extra’ day for everyone, but Italians being Italians, a lot of scooterists were already on the island to get into the swing of things by Wednesday. The rally, now into its 10th year, was also the memorial event held in honour of Checco Mod, who had sadly passed away in a scooter accident last year.
We set off on the Thursday from Rimini and were about a dozen scooters, mostly Lambrettas with a couple of Vespas along for good measure. My old mucker from Devon, Paul ‘Bod’ Boddy had even flown in and was keener than a keen thing to be riding across Italy on a Lambretta again. The last time he had done so was 18 years ago when he’d ridden down from the UK for the Rimini Mod Rally in 1991.
As we always go the same route every year, a change was in order and the chaps decided on a different mountain pass – which would have been marvellous had it not been cold, foggy, bloody wet and the whole show wrapped in an industrial quantity of low cloud. Never mind… The pass was a near vertical climb that caused a few problems due to the near zero visibility and for a couple of scooters that were running-in freshly rebuilt engines. No change there then.
Despite the weather, everyone was in good spirits as we all knew that come Elba, all would be blistering hot as Max, Gianni and the lads who run the rally always book the sun for the duration of the event. By now we were firmly ensconced in Tuscany and with the mountain pass behind us, we hit the long, rolling Tuscan wine producing areas. Great scootering roads slicing through acres of mellow yellows, vineyards and country houses. I know that this is not a tourist guide but the ride down to the rally really is through one of the most beautiful places in the world.
A quick lunch stop, pigging out on the local fare, and then we had to cover the only crappy bit of the ride – the 30km of ring road round Siena. This is always a good place to lose each other and usually causes us no end of headaches. This year turned out to be no exception and about halfway along the drag, one of our lot decided that his all original GP200 needed a reason for a complete restoration. The bike, rider and passenger went down big style and if that wasn’t bad enough, the whole sorry show was witnessed first hand by two police patrol cars sat on our collective arses. This in itself wouldn’t normally be such a bad thing but the aforementioned lunch stop involved several jugs of the local wine and we had a tuned Vespa 50, several 125s and a sidecar outfit in the group (none of which are allowed on Italian ‘superstradas’).
To cut a very long story short, the head honcho copper was willing to close not one but both eyes god bless him, two of our lot got taken to A&E to be treated for cuts, bruises and a broken flyscreen – and no one lost their licence. ‘Every cloud has a silver lining’ I think is the phrase. This hiccup in the proceedings lost us a couple of hours' riding time so from there on, it was flat out to the ferry port to catch the last crossing to Elba.
By the time we hit the Morcone bay area on the island where the rally was situated, it was dark but to say it was full of scooters would have been an understatement. It was absolutely chocka. Digs sorted, it was up to the evening do and as with every Elba rally, there wasn’t a square inch outside the do that didn’t have a scooter parked up within. An Italian all girl band called The Miniskirts were already well into their set which mainly consisted of 60s and beat tunes sung in Italian. Not really everyone’s cup of tea I know but they were good and had the crowd going which is what really counts. The place was rammed right out and the atmos was electric.
The only downer was that most of the bar staff seemed to be 15-year-old chavs who didn’t have a bloody clue. Our lot were now well spread out and most of the evening was spent catching up with friends who we hadn’t collectively seen over the winter months. The do wound up at 6am but by that time numbers had dropped significantly and only the most hardy souls were still back-flipping across the talc covered dance floor.
Friday was spent riding around the island by a lot of people, sightseeing and just checking out the local watering holes. We awoke to find we had the pleasure of Big Bad John and the whole ‘Essex Massive’ as neighbours. They had music and food on the go and it was obvious that they were on the island for one big jolly up. They had travelled down on Wednesday and had ridden through some atrocious weather en route. Jezza, Southend’s answer to a Portugese Alexi Sayle, had commented that “This rain don’t half bloody hurt your face,” to the others while stopped under a motorway bridge for a fag break. “Er... that’s because they’re half pound hailstones mate,” came the reply. Welcome to sunny Italy.
Over at Morcone bay, the place was filling up to bursting point already and there were scooters from all over Europe. Rumour has it that a few Americans had even had their scooters shipped over for the rally. There were all manner of machines present although the majority of the custom bikes were non-Italian as is the norm. Of these, DJ Shifty’s ‘Soul Searcher’ Lambretta GP250 looked mental under the blistering sunshine and although I’ve yet to meet an Italian that likes engraving, it was certainly the most photographed scooter at the rally. A lot of rallygoers spent the day simply lazing around the rally site as there was music constantly on the go, bars open everywhere, scooters galore, topless local talent on the beach and an inter-club soccer tournament to boot.
By the time evening came about, most scooterists headed up the hill into Capoliveri for munchies. Being a national holiday weekend meant that the place was also full of Italian tourists so if you were in groups bigger than three or four people it was quite hard to find available spaces in the town’s restaurants and pizzerias. The parking area by the town’s square has five scooter/bike spaces in total so several hundred scooters were soon filling every possible nook and cranny. The local traffic copper turned up with ticket book in hand, looked around, shook his head and left!
We arrived at the evening do around midnight and once again it was bursting with scooterists, Mods and Skinheads all waiting for the evening’s main act, The Pioneers, to hit the stage. They willingly obliged and the crowd was treated to a couple of hours of Skinhead reggae and even for non ska fans present, there was no denying that they were good with the majority of the crowd skank-alotti.
Band over, the DJs kept up the theme and – in the main – it was a ska fest for most of the night. Once again, the do wound up as the sun was coming up and a lot of people simply headed into town for brekky.
As the rally started earlier than usual this year and Sunday was now the day to head back home, the highlight – the scooter rideout – was now to take place Saturday afternoon. The morning was spent trying our clean the bikes a bit as the rally site is the dustiest place in the universe and by the time the rideout was planned early afternoon, there must have been a thousand scooters in Morcone.
The rideout heads up the cliff-side road into Capoliveri where there is a small roundabout. This is always a superb place to witness a clutch-destroying festival as the lead riders always insist on stopping there and the several hundred following scooters then have to perform a one-in-three hill start with the smell of burnt cork filling the air. Those who have been to the island’s rallies over the years simply head up into town 10 minutes beforehand and start their rideout from Capoliveri – thus saving their engines from the abuse.
Once on its way, the long line of scooters totally blocked the island’s roads right down to the destination of the port town of Cavo, some 10 miles later. There, the rally organisers had laid on food and drink and a quayside bar and within five nano-seconds it was overrun with scooter riders taking advantage of the free fill. The whole seafront was lined with scooters and once a few beers and aperitifs had lubricated those present, people were racing up and down the strip or doing impromptu burn-outs much to the delight of the assembled masses.
The return to camp was the usual road-racing lunacy and it was hilarious watching several members of the Rimini BMW club who were also on the island, trying – in vain – to keep up with Paolo G. on his 165cc Gilera barrelled cutdown Series 2 along the twisty roads. End result: 1000cc weekend warriors 0, scabby cutdown Lambretta 1.
By the time most people had got back at the campsite, it was nigh on 9pm and with the DJs belting out music, the next surprise was that the organisers Max & Co. had laid on a massive free buffet with champagne to boot. There was that much stuff to scoff down that most people ended up skipping their planned evening restaurant attack as they were so stuffed out!
The prize giving and back slap fest then took place with most of the top scooters present walking away with something shiny apiece. Best Scooter on the island went, quite rightly, to Shifty for his Lambretta and when announced, the whole placed simply erupted with cheering. By now it was starting to get late and most people headed off to get ready for the last evening do. That was held in the smaller Mandel complex as a lot of people were giving it a miss due to either the previous night's hard partying or the following day’s ride home. That said, by 1am it was filled out nicely and for the first time that weekend, soul music took the predominance over ska.
Sunday saw us heading back to the ferry
port nice and early to beat the holidaymaker masses and once again the chaps decided on yet another ‘new’ route back over the mountains to Rimini. This saw our lot taking in Florence en route and with Trox – our walking skinhead eating house guide – leading the way, we ended up in a famous Tuscan restaurant for a 1.5kg T-bone to plough through. Just the thing to consume before you have to ride across a mountain pass on a Lambretta…
All summed up, this year’s rally was for us the best yet, so congrats all round for the organisers who really must have been best pleased with the outcome of the whole show. If you haven’t done an Elba rally yet then pencil in next year’s event and you’ll never look back. Good times are guaranteed 101 per cent.
Words & Pics: Rimini Lambretta Centre
For more pictures see this month's issue of Scootering.
SCOOTERING June 2009
Blackpool pre-season rally

'Marton Mere Holiday Camp'
After a long, cold winter it was great to get back to ‘normal’ with VFM’s pre-season event in Blackpool.
Previous visits to the North West’s Riviera had seen us using the Cala Gran site, but this time a deal had been struck with Haven for their newer Marton Mere facility. This was not only nearer the town of Blackpool but also seemed a lot more modern with two large function rooms and even an Olympic sized swimming pool.
Throughout the day the site started to fill with riders ready to party, but it was quite noticeable most were from around the surrounding NW area. Once checked into the very reasonably priced static homes (£95 for three days in a six berth) it was into the smaller bar for a meet and greet. This is where most people seemed to congregate and it gave the newly acquired bar-staff a good test of their ‘pulling’ skills before the evening rush!
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SCOOTERING May 2009
Viva last Vegas 2009

We hit the rally Thursday evening,
heading to The Tropicana hotel to
drop off our gear. We had loads of
plans for sightseeing but as usual
stopped for one beer at the hotel bar, met up
with old friends from across the world and there we remained…
Friday brought an amazing day with
temperatures in the mid-80s and not a cloud in
sight. We grabbed some breakfast and headed off to pick up our car to follow the rideout to Red
RockCanyon, a state park with amazing drive
through scenery straight out of a western film.
We caught up with a large group of scooter
riders at the lookout stop on the highest point of
the canyon and followed them through the last
part of the drive. As we pulled over to see if we
could assist with a broken down scooter, a group
of people started helping to get it going again–I
was struck bythe thought that whether you are in
an amazing desert or on a rainy ride to Skegness, scootering doesn’t change that much whatever
the location.
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SCOOTERING May 2009
Custom Show Munich

Results
Best Lambretta: Marco Penessi, Li Serie I
Second best Lambretta: Marco Brückner, S-Type
Best Vespa: Darijo Mijolovic, Martini VNB
Second best Vespa: Tom Reindl, SS208
Best paint : Maic Tilch, Nordschleife, Grüne
Hölle
Second best paint: Peter Didl,Depeche Mode
Best racer: Michael 'Maniac' Betz,ESC Racer
Best engineering: Felix Richter, El Sidney
Best oldie: Bene Wibmer,Vespa
MesserschmittT1
Second best oldie:Helmut Schlecht,Gogo
Gespann
Best old school: Oliver Kluger, Virtual Reality
Best non-Italian: Stoffi, KTM Mirabell
Bestchrome/engraving/plating: Erwin
Berger,Cypress Hill
Best oddity: Robert Schmid, Skeleton
Lambretta
Best display: Andreas Gattwinkel/Ronny
Batzk, Scheunenfund(barn find)
Best club display:Hidden Power SC
Best small frame:Peter Didl, Lotus Gold Leaf,
Jochen Rindt
Weirdest scooter (Schraeger gehts nicht):
Emanuel Less, Queen of the Nile
Best of all: DeanOrton,Speedball
Andy Lamb
SCOOTERING April 2009
10th International Scooter Custom Show (Antwerp)

The arrival of March may herald the search for mad hares, or even the beginning of spring, but for many scooterists it means that it’s time for the Antwerp Scooter Custom Show.
SCOOTERING April 2009
Coyotes 25th Anniversary Do

The Coyotes held their 25th Anniversary Do at the Whitburn Miners Welfare Club in West Lothian, Scotland at the end of January 2009. This would mean a 850 mile round trip for us from Winchester so we decided not to go two-up on the Lambretta, but to travel in the trusted hands of Flybe from Southampton. With a flight time of just over an hour, that's the normal time I spend at the first motorway services filling my 20 litre tank and generally faffing around. Oh I love my TS1!
After landing in bonny Scotland and booking into our hotel we took time to see a few sights and work out how to get to Whitburn for the Saturday night do. Acting like a canny Scot I decided we would take the cheap option of paying £3 each and going by bus, which took over 1 hour 40 minutes until we were dropped outside the do by our sniggering bus driver.
The Miners Welfare Club is the biggest venue in West Lothian that will hold the do and once inside, the venue was bursting and the dance floor already packed. Not surprising as the 500 tickets sold out in record time. We were made extremely welcome and realised this was going to be an enjoyable night.
First stop was the bar. Once I worked out that there was an orderly queue and that the space at the end was not there for me, but to collect your drinks once ordered (sorry lads and lasses) I had my gin and tonic in hand and met up with the rest of the Coyotes, many of which I have not seen since the National rally in Kelso. The night’s entertainment was supplied by rally DJ Sparky from Newcastle. Towards the end of the evening the music was paused for a while for a wee speech by club members Angela and Gus who then pulled out the winning tickets for the raffle which consisted of some top prizes including a massive basket of booze, crash helmet, gloves and rain suit also a nice Vespa clock and Paul Weller paintings – all top notch. It was good to meet up with Ronny Clark, one of the original members from back in the 80s. Dressed in his traditional kilt he's very proud of his club and its achievements over the years.
Sparky continued to keep the dance floor packed with even more hot tunes and as ever the evening just flew past and it was time to go, by taxi this time!
Andy Lamb
SCOOTERING March 2009
VFM’s New Year Party

Having partied elsewhere over the last couple of years, we decided to see in 2009 with the VFM crew at The Beau Chief Hotel in Loughborough once again.
Arriving fashionably early we began with a couple of cheeky aperitifs at the bar with other scooter revellers from around the country (purely medicinal to warm the cockles, don’t you know!) before checking into our room and getting ready for the evening. With some birthday celebrations also going on there was some room partying to be had before eventually people headed towards the hotel’s main function room. There’s no doubting that numbers were down since we last attended, but it was quality and not quantity that best described the company and music that evening. Drinks were flowing nicely, groovers were on the floor early to the well spun tunes from various DJs and, while there were few twats in hats, a number of people had ventured out in fancy dress.
As midnight approached party poppers and silly string appeared from nowhere to begin 2009 in a doubly messy fashion. After the bongs had passed the merriment continued until the early hours with a typically eclectic selection of music to please anyone and everyone. I think 4am was around the time last orders were called, by which stage even the hotel owner was dancing around with a smile on his face.
And so it only leaves me to thank VFM for organising the evening and to wish everyone best wishes for the new year.
See you on the runs!
Andy
SCOOTERING February 2009
Hemsby Winter Warmer

Early November, hermetically sealed suit of armour, destination the Winter Warmer – although on my trusty Vespa it felt anything but warm! Touching down at 6.30pm on the Thursday we procured our wrist bands and chalet keys and proceeded to decamp.
Charlotte, the latest addition to the Harvey clan is now a few months old and we elected to make this family friendly event her first official rally (she arrived in the car, not on my scooter!), breaking her into our lifestyle gentlyish – pity we didn’t approach the beckoning bar with the same restraint, instead a predictable lager frenzy ensued, as the first of many slipped down far too easily, closely followed by the second, third...you get the picture!.
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SCOOTERING January 2009
Warmwell Winter Rally

With work unfortunately knocking the Great North West Rally out of the equation, another end of season rally was needed to satisfy my needs. Step forward the South West Scooter Clubs whose event in Warmwell was next on the calendar. This small Dorset village is located just outside of Weymouth and after Friday night’s rush hour traffic with a bit of rain and some freezing winds we finally arrived there around 8pm.
Accommodation located (thanks to Stu and Andy from SWSC) we were greeted with a body-warming Vodka courtesy of Wol and Charlotte. Cheers!
SCOOTERING January 2009
Weston-super-Mare Scooter Rally

To some Weston-super-Mare may seem the spiritual home of scootering, in the South West at least
. For many years it was the HQ of Scootering Magazine and of course it is the home of the Lambretta Museum as well. It hasn’t hosted a scooter rally, however, since 1988, the first time I rode into the seaside town upon a scooter, the last time before this rally being in 2002 just before the magazine was shipped up to Lincolnshire.
And so it was a cold, blustery and nearly dry Friday afternoon that we set off from the Essex coast and headed west, stopping off in London to pick up another scooter before joining the M4 and getting our heads down in an attempt to squeeze an extra mile or two per hour out of our scooters as they bravely ploughed into an aggressive headwind. It was all looking pretty damp as we arrived in town early evening and so were pretty pleased with ourselves at having booked a B&B (we didn’t want to be carting tents around with us for 10 days!).
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SCOOTERING OCTOBER 08
Exmouth Scooter Rally 2008

Leaving home at 2pm I allowed enough time to have a couple of rest stops en route and still get into Exmouth in time to get my gear in the digs and myself back out to the boozer…
or so I thought!
On the Avonmouth Bridge, a slightly busy one at that, my GT decided to throw its plug cap off and leave me freewheeling into the hard shoulder. Phew, that was close! After some faintly mild burns to my hand trying to push the cap back on I was back on my way and still on time to meet up with the rest of the club (Company C) and a few of the Glevum Stax lot at Sedgemoor services.
Back on track we were now nine scooters strong and making good time down the M5, heading in a south-westerly direction. Only a few stops and we were heading into Exmouth and looking for our respective hostelries before a good ol’ pubcrawl in the glorious sunshine, a great excuse to socialise even with the visiting naturist scooterists too! And of course there’s lots of different ciders in this ’ere town!
Later we were off to the Pavilion where the band and the music were. The Simmertones proved to be a real big hit coz they played a lot of original Jamaican Ska and what sounded like a lot of self-penned numbers too. I’d definitely go and see these guys again, for sure! The usual SWS DJ crew then kept everyone happy with their tight and popular set. I can’t remember too much else of the Friday night as I had to go to bed and try to sleep off what was gonna be a huge hangover…
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SCOOTERING SEPTEMBER 08
Yorkshire Scooter Alliance Invasion #5

This year’s long awaited Invasion #5, Yorkshire Scooter Alliance’s flagship event, opened on a day on which so did the heavens! If waterproofs, scooters and tents were dampened, spirits were not as around 800 hardened scooterists arrived on site from as far as Northern Ireland, Scotland, South Wales, and yes, even Milton Keynes!
And their journeys were not to be in vain as they were greeted by friendly Yorkshire folk on the gate and a fantastic venue for the festivities ahead. The Alliance had provided a programme of events and a major step up in standards – camping on over 30 acres of north Yorkshire’s green and pleasant, and a fantastic venue with 30,000 watts of music power within. An array of catering units just outside offering everything from the finest fish and chips and stonebaked handmade pizza, to crepes and hog roast sandwiches.
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SCOOTERING SEPTEMBER 08
Run to the Shires 2008

VFM's premier inland rally takes place on the large camping grounds next to the River Trent, near Catton Hall, in South Derbyshire. Although grey skies corridored our journey up from the south and through the Midlands we arrived in bright sunshine in the neighbouring Walton-on-Trent village around 2pm. We then set about following the ‘minimal’ signs to the ‘secret’ location, before finally venturing up a small track to be greeted by the welcoming grin of the gate stewards; no doubt they had been listening to our exhaust confusion over the previous 10 or so minutes!
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SCOOTERING AUGUST 08
Camber Sands 2008

The 10th anniversary!
It has been10 years since this event first
exploded on to the scene and to celebrate that
fact The Chelmsford Scooter Club managed to
put together one of, if not the best rallies so far.
If you cast your addled mind back a decade you
will remember that this type of rally was
somewhat frowned upon by certain individuals in
the scene;may be a break in the normal traditions
unnerves certain brethren? Camber Sands has
sold out well in advance continuously for the
past decade. This year alone 2569 registered
souls were booked in (use your imagination).
On the Thursday night I fired up my P2 and
Bulldog and I set off for the promised land. We
left before it was dark, (well it was light, weren’t
it!) and once off the M25 it was a lovely ride down
the A21 to the back of beyond, arriving at 10.30–
and straight in the battle cruiser to get ham
shankered with CSC!
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SCOOTERING AUGUST 08
The OysterBoom Run

Speedboys SC, Belgium
For the musicans out there: ‘New York, New York – so good they named it twice’. Well you ain’t been to Boom then have ya? An amazing place that John Lee Hooker name checked four times at the beginning of his Blues masterpiece!
OK, so maybe he didn’t visit this small Belgian town located just outside Antwerp, but over a couple of hundred scooterists did at the beginning of July for some serious frivolities, as well as singing and dancing.
A new location for the Speedboys SC rally didn’t put the regulars off, although an ever more crowded calendar and the threat of bad weather did seem to affect the total of attendees compared to last year. On the ferry from Dover we met Dangerous Doug with Johnny and Helen from Bristol’s Chosen Few SC who were spending a week in mainland Europe, travelling on to the Hellraiser Rally in Brittany the weekend after.
A mere 100 miles from Dunkerque the other side, Doug’s borrowed Lambretta kept forgetting how to spark, which delayed our ride somewhat, had Johnny replacing stators at the roadside after we’d exhausted all other possibilities and ended with one of the Speedboys kindly fetching the stricken rider and scooter the final 20 miles or so back to the site on a trailer. Still, at least that meant Johnny wouldn’t be bored over the weekend…
Extra photos in our online gallery >>
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SCOOTERING AUGUST 08
Euro Lambretta 2008 Sweden

A fantastic rally and a wonderful there and back. We took literally hundreds of photographs so here’s a link to our gallery where we’ve posted some of the extras that couldn’t be squeezed in to the mag.
Extra photos in our online gallery >>
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SCOOTERING AUGUST 08
Kelso - The Scottish National Scooter Run

23-26 May 2008
Thursday
Another rally in Scotland! Oh yes, sore arse time again and as the years go by it don’t get no better either (written in a Wiltshire accent!).
I planned to break my journey up into two parts; I’d ride up from Cardiff to Manchester and stay the night there before continuing up to Kelso the next day with Disco Daz (Stockport Crusaders) and Andy Lamb from Winchester.
Upon arriving in Manchester, I arranged to meet up with the boys and have a couple of beers and a curry (mine’s a Korma, ha ha ha!). At least I didn’t have to stop to sort out my bottom unlike the other two curry fiends, who had very slight wind problems and itchy bot-bot on the way over!
Friday
Leaving just before midday and after a pleasant and slightly amusing three-hour journey, we arrived at the campsite at Kelso’s ‘Border Union Agricultural Showground’.
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SCOOTERING JULY 08
Skegness Sticky Rock Rally 2008

For the past few years the SRP Sticky Rock Rally
has been dogged with bad weather and, for me,
a sub-standard venue. This year, however,
it seemed all change as the sun greeted our arrival at the Lincolnshire
coastal resort just after lunch on the Friday, and we first saw
the excellent Embassy Centre venue on
the seafront.
On the way up we had come across
several large groups of riders,which
also made for a refreshing change
and gave the indication that this
would
be a busy event. Although a new, larger campsite was available on the
Burgh approach
road we had decided in advance that our ‘toned’
bodies weren’t up to the two-mile stroll into town.
With this in mind we had booked into the very
reasonable Richmond Holiday centre, sharing a
six-berth ‘luxury’ static caravan with mates from
around the country working out at only £25 each.
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SCOOTERING JULY 08
The Great London Ride Out
A full review and report can be found inside this month's Scootering, and the exclusive gallery of EXTRA images is here >>
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SCOOTERING JULY 08
Cobblestone Run No 3

A full report and images inside Scootering this month, plus extra photographs in our online gallery here >>
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