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  • Fully Trailered

    Fully Trailered

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    So here we have it kids, the latest chapter in our never-ending series of ‘what happens when your imagination runs away and you start sketching ideas on a scrap of paper’! Ant is no stranger to either the pages of Scootering or a bit of engineering, his other appearance being back in May 2001 when…

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  • Roadsiders -Back to Basics Rally

    Roadsiders -Back to Basics Rally

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    Roadsiders -Back to Basics Rally Earlier this year Oxford Roadrunners and Witney Outsiders hatched a plan for a join rally, combining to two scooter club names, it became Roadsiders rally. Trying to find an unoccupied weekend date is less likely than winning the jackpot on lotto these days! Availability of host venue is also a…

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  • Tech Tips: A Hydraulic conversion with a difference

    Tech Tips: A Hydraulic conversion with a difference

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    Qustom Inc in the USA have come up with a kit for Lambretta owners who want a little more from their braking system, but don’t want to permanently alter the look of their scooter. It sounded interesting so they kindly sent us one to play with. Firstly let’s have a quick refresh of the advantage…

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  • Tested: Sena Prism Bluetooth Action Camera

    Tested: Sena Prism Bluetooth Action Camera

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    Sena tells us that its Bluetooth Action Camera Prism is the first on the market that provides authentic Bluetooth technology. The main use of this is with its intercom units (which I’ve been using for a while now), although there is also a smartphone app to change settings and offer a handbook; the latter is…

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  • BSSO Scooters at Petrol and Pistons Show

    BSSO Scooters at Petrol and Pistons Show

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    Recently the BSSO race series held a racemeeting in conjunction with the Petrol & Pistons Car race series and Show at the popular Croft Circuit in the North East The race scooters went down very well with the different audience and the organisers put together a video which is great …. take a look here…

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  • Euro Lambretta 2017 – Venue fears allayed by Lambretta Club Italy

    Euro Lambretta 2017 – Venue fears allayed by Lambretta Club Italy

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    Recent news of problems at the Adria Raceway caused concern and confusion as to whether this would affect the Euro Lambretta event due to be hosted  there in 2017. Thankfully the Lambretta Club Italy have stepped in now to make a formal press release on the matter and have announced the venue will proceed as planned: …

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  • Brighton Mod Weekender 2016

    Brighton Mod Weekender 2016

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    Since 1964 Brighton has been regarded my many as the spiritual home of Mod. A perception that’s been enhanced and immortalised on screen by the film Quadrophenia. New Untouchables revived Brighton as a mod Weekender some 12 years ago. Initially attracting hundreds, as the years rolled by those hundreds became thousands and thousands. Peaking numbers…

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  • Great Yarmouth Sidewinders 40th Anniversary Rally

    Great Yarmouth Sidewinders 40th Anniversary Rally

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    Back in the 80’s one of the favoured and favourite rally destinations, with many scooterists and scooter clubs, was Great Yarmouth. Pretty much as something of a mainstay on the National Rally list of destinations, albeit on and off on occasion. The last time it was featured as a National was at the end of…

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  • Reviews – Books & DVD’s

    Reviews – Books & DVD’s

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    Rockers – 25th Anniversary Edition (Wienerworld) If you enjoyed the film The Harder They Come, then I think you’ll like this too. Made in 1978, in Jamaica, Rockers tells the story of Leroy ‘Horsemouth’ Wallace’s attempts to succeed in the cutthroat business that is the Jamaican music industry. More reggae than ska, as the era…

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  • Exhausting!

    Exhausting!

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    Many moons ago, or so it seems, we began putting together an article on performance enhancing exhausts to suit Lambretta Series 1 and 2 scooters. As you may imagine, these things are never easy. For a start, within weeks of contacting the various exhaust manufacturers it became apparent that it wasn’t just Scootering who were…

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