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

SCOOTERING

Two tribes?

All the gear and some idea

Chasing cars…motorcycle registrations growing at a faster rate than four-wheeled

Distressed rims

LEGAL Q&A

Harlem Shuffle Presents –Hot Sauce Volume 3

Secret Affair: So Cool – The Very Best of

Royal Day Out

Fantastic 500

D-lightful stuff at Cam Lam

Not so Super

It’s about the human race • The world may seem mad – but on the road and race track there’s still time for fun and kindness

The best ever custom scooter is? • Custom scooters as we know them have been around since the 1970s, but which one can be classed as the best?

The Breakdown Brothers • No matter how reliable your own scooter was, a rally could be made or broken by the machines ridden by your fellow club mates.

Golden era • The 1980s was a time of ill-advised haircuts and questionable fashions, but it was also the decade that saw the rise of the Scooterboy. In this book, Stu Owen captures the spirit of that influential era.

RALLY DOWN UNDER • What could possibly compare with the sunshine of Queensland in Australia? Carl Burroughs thinks that compared with his lovingly restored Rally, everything else pales in comparison

FUTURAMA Koln Intermot 2022 • Hope for the future? Are you a Belieber? And are friends electric? As Rik discovered, Vespa flew the flag and Royal Alloy nailed the company’s colours to the mast at October’s Intermot show in Cologne.

Sayonara Southport • The end-of-season National has a new home for 2023 but as Stan reports, there was still plenty of fun to be had this year.

Here comes summer! • The season’s barely ended and Santa’s yet to empty his sack but it’s already time to start planning next year’s adventures. Here’s a selection of our favourites from the rallies that have already been announced.

Italjet Dragster • It’s hard to believe that a quarter of a century’s passed since one of the most radical scooter designs of all time made its debut.

Italjet Dragster That was then... • In Lexicon, we usually take a look at how the press received our chosen model but with the Dragster it’s impossible to ignore Italjet’s self-confidence

Italjet Dragster This is now • Dragster demonstrators are thin on the ground but having tracked one down to Cornwall Scooter Centre, how did Stan enjoy his date with a Dragster?

Rick Buckler on 1982 • In December 2022 it will be 40 years since The Jam played their final gig. There’s always been gossip about that final year, and now Rick Buckler has written a book all about that tumultuous time. Our very own Rik Bardsley was tasked with bringing home the gossip…

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