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Scootering classics: Painting by numbers – part 2

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6th March 2017

The second part in our series dedicated to painting scooters, last month we covered prep and primer, this month it’s colour coats and lacquer… Preparation is EVERYTHING when it comes to painting. Nothing reflects the quality of your final finish more than the preparation stage. So if you missed last month’s edition, I strongly suggest…
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Scootering classics: Dealer spotlight – Atoms

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2nd March 2017

Ever wondered which dealer does what, where they are and who they are? Scootering magazine take to the road each month to get the low-down for our readers… Atoms were formed when Paul Hopper and Dr Dave Wyeth joined forces in 2009. Paul told us: “I’d known (Dr) Dave for years. He’d not long finished…
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Scootering classics: Eyecandy – Painting by numbers – Part 1

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20th February 2017

Tuning scooters and painting scooters, we love to do them both. In this series we will explain the full process behind painting your machine and what’s involved in achieving a high quality finish. Unless the paint job on your scooter is either a) of historic value, or b) in such good nick that it requires…
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Scootering classics: Essential Lambretta maintenance – May 2016

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6th February 2017

Every month we will offer a small piece of basic yet essential advice to scooter owners. This month: don’t hole a piston – fix your fuel lines! The scooter fuel line only has one simple task, to supply the carburettor with petrol from the fuel tank. Unfortunately it is often overlooked and in some cases…
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Scootering classics – SQUISH! The geeks’ guide to setting up the gap on your top end…

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30th January 2017

Darrell Taylor continues his series on compression and ignition by considering the various squish designs that have been used to increase the efficiency, performance and safety of engines over the years. Last month’s article on compression briefly touched on squish clearance, which we will now cover in more detail this month. For those who missed…
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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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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: 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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Scooter World

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Darren Hendley

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12th December 2016

Scooter World is now entering its sixth year as part of the Carole Nash Classic Bike Guide Winter Classic at Newark, and 2017 promises to be the best yet – so much so that it has now moved into bigger halls. In fact, with well more than 100 scooters already booked to appear it is by far the…
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