This year Scooter Centre Cologne celebrates its 30th birthday. Scootering was there to join in the celebrations.
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Category: Features
Polo, a Mint Little Lamby
No list of mutated scooters would be complete without mentioning the Lamby Polo. Often described as ‘the ugliest Lambretta of all time’, its fans may be small in number, but so was its production life.
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Vespa SS180 That was then…
When Motorcycle Mechanics reviewed the SS180 in 1969 it was at the end of its production life, yet the reviewer still found plenty to praise.
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Emergency Action
Military themed scooters aren’t unusual but very few depict the ‘small wars’ of the 1950s. As Stu Smith discovered, Gary Gould’s Lambretta is an exception to that rule.
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13 Station Road
There aren’t too many addresses that, on their own, will make scooterists smile but this is one of them.
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The beginner’s guide to PX maintenance: Indicators
In the first of an occasional series the good people at Ron Daley’s talk us through basic PX maintenance. This month Michael Daley tackles common indicator problems.
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Queen of the road
In 1953, at the time of Queen Elizabeth II’s Coronation, scooters were already (just) a thing. If you were buying a new Lambretta to go and watch the pomp and ceremony, you’d have likely been buying a grey Lambretta LD.
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Five Hundred CCs of Fun
What happens when you reach the top of the tree as a restorer of classic British motorcycles? If you’re Steve Robinson you turn to building insanely fast Scomadis.
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JJ’s Jet 200
Many regular readers will probably recognise Julian Jones, if not by name, then probably by face, as he can in no way be described as camera shy. He featured in Classic Scooterist a couple of times last year with two beautiful classic scooters that have passed through his ownership.
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Eating Up Italy – a trilogy by Matthew Fort
He’s an award-winning food critic but Matthew Fort also has an impressive amount of time in the saddle of a Vespa.
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