Features

Riding the Ho Chi Minh Trail: Part 2

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Shannon Butcher

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23rd September 2020

Last month we left our gang of explorers exhausted and with 1,000 miles still left to travel. Could they bring themselves to leave Da Lat, Vietnam’s prettiest town?
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Dave’s Nostalgic Custom Corner

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Shannon Butcher

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21st September 2020

Amidst a recent gold rush of iconic scooters reappearing, don’t forget to pay homage to those that never left our sight.
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Latin love affair

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Shannon Butcher

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18th September 2020

Costa Rica isn’t high on the list of places associated with Vespa scooters but as Willy Conejo explains it’s a perfect destination for discerning Vespisti.
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Love story

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Shannon Butcher

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16th September 2020

Every scooter has a history and in the case of Paula Rae’s Rally, it’s one that’s still being written.
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Innocenti Insomniac: Never sleep again

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Shannon Butcher

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14th September 2020

Special, Chopdown, Skelly, Bonedown, Chicken Chaser and Cutdown are just some of the many terms that are used to describe a specific style of modified scooter.
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Blood Eagle – A name you’ll never forget!

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Shannon Butcher

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11th September 2020

The Vikings weren’t known for their kind nature or endearing approach to life. However, Melvin Garside enjoyed the eponymous Sky TV show so much that it formed the foundation for his Viking-themed custom scooter.
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Nasty!

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Shannon Butcher

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9th September 2020

Dave Gibbons’s street-racer ‘Nasty’ looks the part. The theme of the scooter was driven by his love of the band Prodigy, whose name suggests something of extraordinary and unnatural wonder.
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Vintage Evil: Little Red Riding Hot

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Shannon Butcher

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7th September 2020

Gatch, Dino and the Toxic team have produced an off-the-wall 1940s/50s influenced low-rider Vespa cut-down, which will turn heads. The scooter enters the Toxic stable with an appeal, which is a far cry from the apocalyptic industrial look.
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Eighties Echoes and Under tones: Teenage Kicks

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Shannon Butcher

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4th September 2020

Thinking back, those that spent their formative years traversing the UK during the 1980s to attend National scooter rallies, really did have the time of their lives.
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Replica revisited

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Shannon Butcher

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2nd September 2020

Certain scooters have become genuinely hard to find as the years have rolled by. Then there are those machines that are categorised as mythical!
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