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

Technically speaking…

German ANGST • As intact scooter frames increase in value, it’s easy to believe that the cutdown has had its day, but this stealthlike creation from Martin Zeller proves that they are still in fashion.

Tooled up • It’s not just tuning that has seen a massive revolution over the last 40 years. The way we work on our scooters has also changed beyond recognition.

Manual labour • This month Paul celebrates the humble workshop manual

Stellar soul sensation – Sidney Barnes • In a career that’s spanned seven decades and encompassed many styles of music, Sidney Barnes has sung with Marvin Gaye and written for The Supremes. Now he talks exclusively to Sarge about his career (so far!)

THE QUADROPHENIA EFFECT A history of the German scooter scene • Although it took inspiration from the British scene, as Stu Owen discovered by chatting with Christian Schneider, German scooterists have always forged their own path.

An end to ‘perpetual learners’?

LEGAL Q&A

New year in Verona?

Italjet trio at EICMA

GTS sports rims

ROLLING WITH RHODZ • Every month you ask our resident tyre expert Rhodz, sales manager at Cambrian Tyres (the UK’s largest motorcycle tyre distributor) and dedicated PX rider for his recommendations. This month we get sporty in the wet.

Holey moley

Replacement trays

Join the grass skirts and button down shirts tour

SIP’s celebrations

An African Abroad Olabisi Ajala • Outside Nigeria, Olabisi Ajala is virtually unknown yet during the early 1960s he was one of the world’s most accomplished Lambretta riders. This book is the product of his travels.

The Agrati Capri • Few scooters stood a chance against the Vespa and Lambretta cabals but the Agrati Capri was one that enjoyed a relatively long and successful production run.

Agrati Capri That was then... • If the marketing teams at Lambretta Concessionaires and Douglas Vespa subscribed to Motorcycling with Scooter Weekly in 1961, their glowing report of the Agrati Capri would have made uncomfortable reading...

Agrati Capri This is now • In its heyday the Capri was marketed as a cost-effective means of transport and as Frank Jones explains, it’s still offering excellent value for anyone looking to buy an affordable classic.

Bristol beauty • For British scooterists Bristol will forever be associated with the Douglas Vespas but, as Stan discovered, the city is also the birthplace of a brand new machine, and this one boasts 790cc.

Show us your Scoots

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The great Lambretta machine gun affair • In the hunt to find a cheap Lambretta we would search far and wide... but it sometimes seemed that bureaucracy was not on our side.

Send Us a Postcard • Every month we love to share your adventures...