Vespa 50 Special

  • Very Special: the EGIG-powered Vespa built to surprise

    Very Special: the EGIG-powered Vespa built to surprise

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    Last month we profiled a German rider with what we thought was the coolest first scooter in history. However, Sonni Howe thinks otherwise… The owner of this Vespa smallframe, Sonni Howe, is a fortunate young man. He’s had the benefit of being brought up in an environment surrounded by scooters and the scooter scene. His…

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  • The lost origins of Scootering magazine

    The lost origins of Scootering magazine

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    Most scooter historians know that Scootering is the child of Back Street Heroes but, as Stan explains, that’s only part of the story… In August 1981, I’d nursed my Vespa 50 Special to Scarborough, where word of mouth said that there was to be a large gathering of scooters. The previous year a group of…

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