Show Us Your Scoots

Taking inspiration from an idea and putting your own mark on it is one thing; doing it several times to a high standard is another… When it comes to customising a scooter, whatever make or model it is, we all need ideas to help with inspiration from one source or another. It’s almost impossible these…

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It’s always great to hear about young faces on the scootering scene. It’s inspiring; and in those moments when you sometime might wonder if anything refreshing will enter onto the scene people like Aaron Williams rock-up and deliver a blend of youth with an ‘Old Skool’ classic custom… Family influences Aaron Williams first got into…

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Most people associate the Nosferatu name with Mike Davis’s blue Vespa cutdown of 1986 (see 27 November 2019 post). However that wasn’t the first scooter to be adorned in blood and to go under this title… Based on the 1920s German Dracula-inspired silent movie, you know the one with the creepy skinhead Count Orlok, I…

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Young scooterist; Fynlay Kirby was seriously injured in a road traffic accident and his pride-and-joy Vespa PX was damaged beyond repair. Yet thanks to his own determination and the help of a fantastic set of family and friends he is travelling down the road to recovery. Serious Fynlay is an apprentice mechanic who has a…

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Lucy’s love for her scooter and her desire to create a ‘thing of beauty’ has been the driving force behind a long journey… Motown  was always played in Lucy’s house, as her mum in her younger days was a classy Modette who made her own clothes. In her teenage years, Lucy’s mum used to help…

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Armandos Special Vespas and Arthur Francis Lambrettas are unquestionably two of the most iconic names when it comes to dealer specials, and owner Mickey created his own versions of these classics… Replicas of any classic scooters tend to invoke vastly differing opinions, which, especially in today’s social media driven world, can often become polarised. Keyboard…

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To those who spent their formative years on the scooter scene during the 80s, certain custom scooters epitomise everything that made the National rallies so appealing… Full blown custom scoots, chops and cutdowns were at the height of their popularity. Individual taste coupled with impressionable young minds ensured those doing the rallies on a tight…

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If you go down to the woods today you’re sure of a big surprise… ‘Wild Thing’ is back and better than ever. Some scooters enter their first show fully formed, perfect from the outset. ‘Start Me Up’ is an example that springs immediately to mind. Others mature like fine wine, evolving with contemporary tastes and…

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For over 30 years it’s been a Maca classic but now his iconic DTC theme has been turned on its head… Anyone who has been interested in the Lambretta street racer scene over the last few decades will no doubt be aware of the DTC theme. Created by Maca in the 1980s he has produced…

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Mod-Style scooters have a well-earned position in the scootering scene, and Dean Fradley’s fantastic-looking Lambretta Li150 S1 doesn’t disappoint. This scooter oozes feeling and delivers the element of non-conformity, which was generated by those sharp-looking kids of the day who were wanting to stand out from the crowd. Dean Fredley’s interest in scooters started when…

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