The scooter outlet is owned and run by Martyn Drake, and provides everything you’d want from a local business, including servicing and restoration.
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Category: Features
Riding the Ho Chi Minh Trail: Part 2
Last month we left our gang of explorers exhausted and with 1,000 miles still left to travel. Could they bring themselves to leave Da Lat, Vietnam’s prettiest town?
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Dave’s Nostalgic Custom Corner
Amidst a recent gold rush of iconic scooters reappearing, don’t forget to pay homage to those that never left our sight.
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Latin love affair
Costa Rica isn’t high on the list of places associated with Vespa scooters but as Willy Conejo explains it’s a perfect destination for discerning Vespisti.
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Love story
Every scooter has a history and in the case of Paula Rae’s Rally, it’s one that’s still being written.
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Innocenti Insomniac: Never sleep again
Special, Chopdown, Skelly, Bonedown, Chicken Chaser and Cutdown are just some of the many terms that are used to describe a specific style of modified scooter.
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Blood Eagle – A name you’ll never forget!
The Vikings weren’t known for their kind nature or endearing approach to life. However, Melvin Garside enjoyed the eponymous Sky TV show so much that it formed the foundation for his Viking-themed custom scooter.
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Nasty!
Dave Gibbons’s street-racer ‘Nasty’ looks the part. The theme of the scooter was driven by his love of the band Prodigy, whose name suggests something of extraordinary and unnatural wonder.
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Vintage Evil: Little Red Riding Hot
Gatch, Dino and the Toxic team have produced an off-the-wall 1940s/50s influenced low-rider Vespa cut-down, which will turn heads. The scooter enters the Toxic stable with an appeal, which is a far cry from the apocalyptic industrial look.
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Eighties Echoes and Under tones: Teenage Kicks
Thinking back, those that spent their formative years traversing the UK during the 1980s to attend National scooter rallies, really did have the time of their lives.
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