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  • Scootering bookazine sales hits all-time record!

    Scootering bookazine sales hits all-time record!

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    The new publication from the Scootering magazine stable has been selling off the shelves. This publicaton is a one-off ‘hybrid’ of book and magazine which can be found on the newsstands of WHSmiths for a select three to six month period, but once sold out (as I understand most WHS stockists now are) then it…

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  • SIP Classic Vespa Glovebox Bag

    SIP Classic Vespa Glovebox Bag

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    What they say “This bag allows rapid access to essential items such as your motorway toll documentation, road maps, mobile phone, camera, etc. without having to frantically search through your whole luggage and jacket pockets every time one of these things is necessary!” What Stan says I’ll admit to dismissing these bags as a novelty,…

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  • Scootering Words & Sounds: Jan 17

    Scootering Words & Sounds: Jan 17

    Ready Steady Girls compiled by Mark Baxter, Jason Brummell and Ian Snowball (Mono Media Publishing) While there have been countless books focusing on the Mod scene(s) of the 60s, revival era, the 80s and beyond, they all have skimmed over the subject of the females of the species. Until now that is. Ready Steady Girls…

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  • Scootering classics: Clothing spotlight

    Scootering classics: Clothing spotlight

    CABERG DUKE H LEGEND Being a lifelong fan of Arai and Shark helmets (currently using a Shark Avenger) I’m stubborn when it comes to changing brands. However I’ve been looking for a while now at flip front helmets with integrated sun visor, and Bluetooth intercom options. So when this Carberg Legend came up I jumped…

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  • NEW POLINI IGNITION FOR PIAGGIO AND MINARELLI 50 SCOOTERS

    NEW POLINI IGNITION FOR PIAGGIO AND MINARELLI 50 SCOOTERS

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    Polini have launched the digital ignition kit for all the 50cc scooters equipped with liquid cooled Piaggio engines and liquid or air cooled Minarelli engines. The ignition kit includes: gear case support, stator and rotor, coil with CDI provided with the map of electronic advance ignition. The setup is very easy and it lets the…

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  • Scooters and Oil – a Q&A with Silkolene…

    Scooters and Oil – a Q&A with Silkolene…

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    It’s one of those topics which ends in some of the most heated debates…oil! 2-stroke enthusiasts have raged about this for as long as I can remember… Which oil do you use? What percent do you run it at? What does a JASO rating mean? But my mate said he runs his scooter on chip fat and…

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  • Stealth Tax Aiming To Ban Classic Scooters in Inner London?

    Stealth Tax Aiming To Ban Classic Scooters in Inner London?

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    Transport for London have already created an Ultra-Low Emissions Zone (ULEZ) in the Capital. The Dept. headed by Sadiq Khan have taken what was initially the area of London subjected to the Congestion charge and via their current proposals, aim for that area to become London’s ULEZ. Which, over a course of a few years,…

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  • LeJog: T5 Resurrected…

    LeJog: T5 Resurrected…

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    LeJog: T5 Resurrected… If you refer back to Scootering issue 11 in 1986, there is an article on a head-to-head road test between a Vespa PX200 and the newly launched Vespa T5, the test route was Land’s End to John o’Groats and it was to be completed in a day — The Longest Day. According…

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  • Undercover Festival back at Margate for 2018

    Undercover Festival back at Margate for 2018

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    UNDERCOVER FESTIVAL VI a 2-day celebration of alternative music including Punk / Ska / Acoustic + so much more. Undercover Festival is returning in April 2018 to the unique setting of Dreamland Margate in Kent a venue and experience that defies all other conventions and festival templates. Not only do we have a cracking line…

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  • LAMBRETTA & VESPA STREET RACERS – The Ultimate Guide…

    LAMBRETTA & VESPA STREET RACERS – The Ultimate Guide…

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    Scooter sales had already peaked in Britain by the mid-1960s – led by the likes of the Lambretta and Vespa. Originally designed as transportation for commuters, the scooter came to be seen more as a vehicle for leisure. Ownership shifted to the younger generation and their appetite for speed and power was insatiable. Shops appeared…

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