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Scootering classics: Dealer spotlight – OilTek

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27th January 2017

Ever wondered which dealer does what, where they are and who they are? Scootering magazine takes to the road each month to get the low-down for our readers… Paul Gillow has been fettling scooters one way or another since his teens. Originally a hydraulic engineer by trade and now running his business from an industrial…
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Scootering classics: Lifelong Companion

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23rd January 2017

One-owner scooters are seemingly coming out of the woodwork at an ever increasing rate, some having seen constant use, others having laid dormant until a spark of interest rekindles a dwindled interest. The 1959 GL150 you see before you is one of the latter sort, having been in cold storage since the late Sixties, and…
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Workshop essentials: CBS Whitton

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16th January 2017

Each month we’ll be visiting a scooter shop somewhere in this wide world of ours – whether its speciality be restos or racers, engineering or basic servicing – and heading into the workshop to find out what the people there consider essential to keeping it running smoothly. This month we dropped in on CBS Whitton……
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Scootering classics: Scootering Words & Sounds – May 2016

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16th January 2017

Various Artists The Glory Boy Radio Showcase (Vol 1: Detour) The first of what is set to be an on-going series, the Glory Boy Radio Showcase provides a platform for new and relatively new bands, appearing via the many factors of the current Mod scene. Glory Boy Radio DJ Alan May has selected 23…
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Scootering classics: Crosswinds from Trieste-Opicina to the Carnaro Circuit!

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13th January 2017

After negotiating the 106mph ‘Bora’ winds of Trieste and the rolling vistas of State Road 58, Christian meets up with Grand Prix track marshal Fedele for beers, memories of 500cc GPs in the 1980s and a spin around the historic race track on his ‘negra’ Vespa. The walls of Trieste, a port in north-eastern Italy,…
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Scootering classics: Bang for buck tuning part 1

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11th January 2017

Cheap power, using old school tuning techniques, tested on a dyno to separate fact from fiction. Tuning components for Lambretta and Vespa scooters have never been in such plentiful supply if the fancy takes you and you have available funds… the array of shiny tuning-exotica is really quite astounding. Vespa has always had the…
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Scootering classics: Dopo il caffe (after coffee)

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6th January 2017

Travelling Italian photographer Christian Giarrizzo discovered Sydney’s best scooter specialist once upon a time, and recalled the encounter in the pages of Scootering magazine… I was a moody Lamborghini mechanic working in Australia during 2008 when I had a flash of inspiration, Destiny had brought me to the ‘biggest island of the world’ and…
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Scootering classics: Giallo Arancio

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1st January 2017

Scooter restorations don’t always turn out the way you expected. In our latest trip back in time through the Scootering magazine archive, we take a look at Graham Dent’s 1972 Rally 180. Purchased just over a year ago the original plan was to restore the scooter. Graham says: “It was complete, but barely running,…
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Scootering classics: Learning the hard way

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25th December 2016

Life with scooters doesn’t always run smooth. Gav Watson learned the hard way, as this classic feature from the Scootering archives reveals… There are two types of custom scooter: the all-out show stopper in its clean, sparkly, glittering glory, and the road going custom which has a distinctly used feel about it (and so it…
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Scootering classics: Do Not Disturb

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20th December 2016

There are many gems lurking in the vast archives of Scootering – including the tale of Graham D’s Vespa 150S… Graham is one of that ever-increasing bunch who found their way to scootering comparatively late in life. A series of fast bikes preceded the interest, and a succession of bad ‘offs’, combined with matrimonial…
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