Show Us Your Scoots

Both chops and cut-downs are thought of as sacrilege for some within the more ‘conservative’ scootering circles. Now add to that a modern automatic engine and you could be committing one of the seven deadly sins! I am not one of the ‘do-gooders’ for whom chops and autos amount to heresy. I have enjoyed riding…

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Looking back to the 80s through rose tinted riding goggles, they were great times. Despite that particular decade being responsible for yuppies, Filofaxes, giant shoulder pads, and the British manufacturing industry being decimated piece by piece. In the UK, the scooter scene, via the National scooter rallies, provided a welcome distraction for tens of thousands.…

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I’ve a soft spot for the lunatic fringe of the scene: those who tune a scooter to within a couple of millimetres of explosion and then disguise it as a bog standard example of the ridiculously slow scooter it started life as. There are also some who want to take that idea a little further…

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The latest offering from the ‘Exiled’ stable – based on the stunning ‘Pure Sex Dragster’ – made by Exile Cycles… After I built my tribute to the ground-breaking chop Exile in 2012, we met up with Russell Mitchell and his family at his California base while holidaying. He was just finishing off one of his…

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A music inspired Lambretta, sell-built by the owner, and what a result… Many people can claim a complete self-build but Andy Newman took the concept one step further by building his own sandblasting booth for the job. “I restored the whole thing myself, engine build, electrics, spraying, panel beating, even the sand blasting. The only…

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This month Dave brings you another stunning Vespa from the Apocalyptic 80’s, and if anything sums up the 80’s film era, this has to be it: Road Warrior Certain types of film have always been favoured as themes by the scootering fraternity: The Warriors, Clockwork Orange and of course the Mad Max series for example.…

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While photographing Simon Cuerdon’s S-Type Lambretta for a separate feature we spied a true ‘love or hate’ machine in his garage. Hard as I might try, Simon sums up his machine far better than I ever could… They say that you can’t polish a turd, and no matter which way I looked at the Vespa…

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I have pretty broad tastes when it comes to custom scooters, but every now and again I see one that’s so ‘right up my street’ that it may as well be parked in my garage. Mike Copland has built one such scooter. Git… For many who came up through the rally scene of the early…

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From an early age scooters were an integral part of Dan Etherington’s life. Growing up surrounded by scooters and scooterists, it was preordained that he would continue the family tradition by becoming a second generation scooterist. Inspiration “Ever since I was very young, as far back as I can remember, there have always been scooters…

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Many scooterists have the idea of building their dream scooter at one point or another. For Gareth Gadd, that dream has finally happened with his Custom GP ‘Atomic’ even if it has been 30 years in the making. In 1985 Gareth first start attending national rallies with the Birmingham E-Types Scooter Club. This was at…

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