Scootering

The UK's biggest and best scootering magazine - with over 130 pages containing some of the best examples of customised and restored Lambretta and Vespa scooters in the world, new scooter reviews and test rides, events/ rallies/ show reports, and the massive 48-page pull-out Scooter Trader section - the best place to buy & sell scooters, spare parts and memorabilia!

Each month Scootering also has a large Music section with reviews, band news, interviews and event exclusives. It also regularly raids the archives to bring you best scooter stories and pictures from yesteryear, from Maico to Heinkel, Lambretta to Triumph! With the best classified ads in the business, the very latest news (often before anyone else in the UK!), it's a must read for every scooterist of all ages

Something for the weekend? • For everyone at Scootering, August is dominated by the Isle of Wight International and Brighton’s Mod Weekend. I love them both – and strangely for the very reasons that put off the detractors from attending.

Treasure Island • It’s the August Bank Holiday, it’s the Isle of Wight and that can only mean one thing: it’s time for the largest scooter rally in the world!

Royal succession • Plenty of pictures about new products from Royal Alloy have been leaked, but our man Rik was at the factory launch, so stand by for the accurate report…

Oddballs Rally 2023 • Unique, independent and alternative are all fittingly accurate one-word descriptions that apply to the Oddballs Rally.

FORTY-YEAR ITCH • Creating the perfect chopper can be a complicated affair but 40 years is perhaps taking things a little far. Rich Addison reports on Dean Lloyd’s irrepressible attitude to building custom scooters.

Vespa GS150 • Regarded as one of the best scooters ever produced, on its introduction the Vespa GS150 was way ahead of its time and streets ahead of its rivals

Vespa GS150 That was then... • During the summer of 1956, the testers at Motor Cycling experienced a new concept – a factory produced sports scooter. It’s fair to say that, with only a few reservations, they eagerly took to the GS150.

Vespa GS150 This is now • What’s it like to own a GS150 in 2023? Colin Hart talked to Scootering’s Joe Davies about his passion for veteran Vespas.

It will never be over…… • This month, Paul Green turns his thoughts to Northern Soul, both past and present.

Returning to an old haunt • With almost all avenues of nostalgia for scooters being covered somewhere, Stu Owen asks whether we’ve entered a new era of reminiscing…

Are e-scooters affecting scooter sales?

Farewell to the man who saved Piaggio

LEGAL Q&A

Win with SP Developments

ROLLING WITH RHODZ • Every month you ask our resident tyre expert, Rhodz; Sales Manager at Cambrian tyres (the UK’s largest motorcycle trye distributor) and dedicated PX rider for his recommendations; this month were turning our thoughts towards winter.

Time Trouble and Money Mark ‘Brad’ Brough • There’s a commonly accepted narrative that ‘Scooterboys’ emerged from the 1979 Mod revival. Time Trouble and Money sets the record straight.

IRISH CREAM: British Vespa Days 2023 AUGUST 4-6, CITY OF DERRY RUGBY CLUB • Every year the Vespa Club of Britain hosts its own national rally. This year it was Northern Ireland’s turn and, as Robin Quartermain reports, Irish hospitality made it one to remember.

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