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The lost origins of Scootering magazine

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Mark Lancaster

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12th June 2026

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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Classic scooterists ride in free at Normous Newark this August

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Mark Lancaster

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9th June 2026

Classic scooter owners are being encouraged to ride to Newark Showground this summer for a special day celebrating autojumble bargains, classic Fords and scooters. The next Normous Newark Autojumble takes place on Sunday, August 9, 2026, and this one comes with an added attraction for scooter fans. The event will also host the Ford &…
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Model F Racer

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Mark Lancaster

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26th May 2026

Innocenti produced several open-frame factory racers, but none of them were as outrageous as this example from Jeff Wilkes. Within months of Lambretta production starting, Innocenti began building factory racers. Entering them into endurance races was seen as a great way to promote the Lambretta brand by proving their reliability and strong build quality. This…
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ATTENTION all Scooter riders!

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Mark Lancaster

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28th November 2025

What type of scooter do you ride – Vintage? Classic? Street Racer? Custom? Standard? Cutdown? Maybe even something else that might be unusual or quirky? Whether it’s any of these (or even something else), why not register it for display at Scooter World, the first major scooter gathering of 2026, where scooter halls will form…
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Veteran Vespa Club earns its stripes with world first!

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Chris Wainwright

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14th August 2025

Visitors to Scooter World at Newark earlier this year were treated to a unique display of classic Vespas. Big Chris explains how and why this was achieved.
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Vespa PX125 tribute to one family’s sacrifices in peace and war

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Stu Smith

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24th February 2025

One family’s sacrifices chronicled in Piaggio’s finest tinwork.
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Vespa SS180 That was then…

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Arianne Davey

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6th January 2023

When Motorcycle Mechanics reviewed the SS180 in 1969 it was at the end of its production life, yet the reviewer still found plenty to praise.
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Emergency Action

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Arianne Davey

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16th December 2022

Military themed scooters aren’t unusual but very few depict the ‘small wars’ of the 1950s. As Stu Smith discovered, Gary Gould’s Lambretta is an exception to that rule.
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Introducing the new Vespa GTS

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Alex Bestwick

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5th October 2022

The birth of a new Vespa is always an epic event because it continues an incredibly successful history founded on values of style and technology.
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Sayonara Shipley

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Shannon Butcher

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12th July 2021

The LML factory is being dismantled, but is that the end of the story?
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