Giancarlo Gori’s first encounter with scooters was in 1958, when he and his father Vasco ran a workshop on Lungarno Cellini in Florence. Together they tinkered with a Lambretta 175TV and soon realised that the engines of these scooters could be tuned quite a bit.
Read more
The common image of anything Italian is to think about it in a romantic and glamorous light. Is that the case everywhere in Italy? Perhaps each has its own undiscovered unique charm.
Read more
Scootering’s ‘Show Us Your Scoots’ pages are a real source of inspiration. I think many readers probably noticed the lovely black and white photograph in edition 390 (Dec 2018). It depicted five Lambrettas ordered by plate number.
Read more
Our man Rik Bardsley lands an interview with ‘the democratic dictator’ Chris Pope of The Chords UK at The Waterloo in Blackpool.
Read more
The Quattrini’s running perfectly, the Vespa’s had a rebuild and the TS1’s ready for the off. Unfortunately Stan isn’t.
Read more
The Vespa wide frame is a mystery to most British riders, but as Stan discovered, Wessex Scooters are determined to bring it out of the shadows.
Read more
DTC are usually associated with Lambretta, but this beautiful beast breaks that mould, and delivers an interesting 80s classic.
Read more
Are the 80s replacing the 60s and 70s as a major source of retrospective inspiration for custom scooter builders?
Read more
Little Rascal was developed in the early 80s and caused a stir when it first appeared on the scene. Somehow it’s a scooter which has a special place in a lot of people’s hearts, and one of those people in particular who was infected with its love was Jim Lockwood.
Read more
When Mark Broadhurst’s business hit hard times, he was doing his best to keep things going and not lose the lot.
Read more