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With a career spanning over four decades, Dewey Franklin’s artwork has achieved popularity in London, Paris, and Los Angeles. His work also adorns some of the finest custom scooters on the scene, and he is now one of the most sought after award-winning airbrush artists… Dewey was born America, his father was an American serviceman…

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There are some times in life when the odds seem firmly stacked against you and only those with a strong personalityand character can overcome them… For the majority of owners, riding a scooter is a pleasure that lasts for many years. However, at times, certain circumstances intervene, and that pleasure is taken away… perhaps due…

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One minute you intend to buy a full frame scooter, the next you own a chopper. But this was no ordinary purchase, the chain of events it would spark helped to create the now famous ‘Oddballs’ rally… Yabba dabba doo! This month’s nostalgic offering is an unusual leather-bound and chopped Lambretta called Bedrock – that…

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Stan’s Casa 185 kit’s now covered 5000 miles and visited nine countries. This month he presents Scootering’s longest road test to date. Let’s be clear, for anyone seeking a high power, knee-scraping, sports conversion Casa’s 185 kit isn’t the answer, but no one’s making that claim. With an output of just over 10bhp it’s close…

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‘Patina’ and ‘automatic scooter’ aren’t often used in the same sentence but the people at Scooter Center Koln aren’t ones to be bound by convention… When Piaggio revealed their Sei Giorni in 2016, some saw it as a marketing ploy to sell more GTVs; others felt it was a worthy tribute to the legendary 1950s…

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There are defining moments in everyone’s life, first steps, first words and their first 210 conversion. In this month’s ‘quick ride’, Stan takes Polini’s kit for a spin. If I had to nominate one scooter to be preserved for future generations to ride it would be Vespa’s PX200. It has legendary reliability, is easy to…

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Incorporating a bordering on obsessive, passion as your main source of income equates to having a dream job. Well known scooterist, rally regular, DJ and builder, rider and owner of show winning custom scooters, Mick Gauntlett certainly has his dream job. For the past 15 years or so he’s been at the helm of Surrey…

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Development of the Lambretta engine is a continuous cycle but in the early 1990s one such creation completely blew the opposition away… the cooler. Conditions were ideal for racing on that day in the spring of 1990, the weather warm and sunny, the track surface the ideal temperature. Three Sisters race circuit in Lancashire was…

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Vespa’s Primavera is often overlooked by the rally goer, Stan took one for a spin to see if it deserves better recognition. Small frame Vespas were a catalyst to my love of all things scooter related; I honed my road riding skills on a 50 Special. I’m not alone in feeling misty eyed about small-frames…

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KAONASHI literally means ‘faceless’. It’s a spirit in the Japanese animated film Spirited Away. This character reacts to emotions and ingests others to gain their personality and physical traits. Regulars of this parish will be aware of a few projects that Scootering has reported on from the mental metal lab that is Butcher Garage. As…

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