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HOW IT’S DONE WHY IT MATTERS

Scooter Trader ■ Event Guide ■ Small Faces Convention ■ Show us your scooters ■ Club focus ■ Stu Owen – essential maintenance ■ Rally reports: Exmouth ■ VCB 70th celebrations ■ BSSO race reports and more…

CONTENTS 03Letter from the editor A warm welcome to September Scootering.

06Kickstart

The front section with latest news, views and product reviews!

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Mr Voodoo custom scooter

No pins or potions, just awesome artwork.

22Rally report

Tino Sacchi – Part 2: 105The Product

Our in-house Italian stallion Christian Giarrizzo takes a peek at Tino’s shiny equipment.

121Tech Torque

Bang for Buck tuning: Part 5 of the SIL 200 tuning developments – this month Darrell delves into exhausts (and clubmans).

25Rally report

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British Vespa days in words and pictures.

Exmouth National rally report, images and write up from Stan.

Letters

Feedback and full throttle responses from the readers.

32Dealer spotlight

This month we look at all things lovely and shiny with Quality Chrome of Hull.

Thrills and spills at Lydden.

Your sales and classifieds section – including Specialist Services and At a Glance.

Haynes Museum

Nik Skeat takes a look at the plethora of iconic machines on display.

146Into The Sunset

Another amusing scooter story from the past.

43Painting by numbers

Part 5 of our paintjob guide. This month – flake!

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49TS1 Roll of Honour

The follow on from our TS1 30th feature, with the best of readers scoots.

54Show us your scooters The best of the rest from the readers – stunning rides.

70Loco Wheels

How to con the wife into a scootering holiday abroad!

78Club Do’s & Events

Your essential guide to the scene – What, Where & When!

Words 90Scootering & Sounds

The best of words and music as reviewed

by Nik and Sarge.

94Small Faces Convention Sarge gets down at the 20th convention.

96Club Focus 99Beyond Quadrophenia

Poole Inner Circle SC – a family affair.

Author Simon Wells delves into the current projects which stem from the cult classic.

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Mr Voodoo

Bad to the bone.

Designed by Rigsy.

July 29-31, 2016

Two Rallies for the Price of One?

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’m a big fan of South West Scooter Club events but have to admit I didn’t arrive at Exmouth in the best of spirits.

A combination of unpredictable weather, a very congested A303 and my PX being uncharacteristically temperamental made for a very trying journey down.

An impulse decision to enter the town by the first B-road signposted in Exmouth’s general direction cheered me up though, not just because of the enjoyable twisty road but also because I stumbled on the camp site without making any effort to find it at all. And what a camp site it was too! The views over Exmouth were stunning, the facilities were clean, the spares stall was well stocked and the catering van reasonably priced.

Unfortunately the camp site was also probably the subject of more discussion over the weekend than anything else. But before the organisers throw this magazine across the room in frustration let me explain exactly what happened and put this to bed right now.

The most diplomatic way of summing up the situation is that while some local authorities embrace a scooter rally and the

trade it brings, others don’t. In previous years the rally has used a camp site near the sea front and close to the main events.

Sadly that site was not made available to the organisers who, faced with little alternative, secured the Exe Camping Site. As already mentioned this is a great facility but unfortunately it is also about two and a half miles out of town. As the bus service was a little hit and miss (although I understand there was an excellent rendition of Wheels on the Bus by one group), in practical terms this meant either a taxi or the best part of an hour’s walk in either direction. The organisers know this isn’t ideal and there is an alternative being pursued for future events.

Inadvertently though the situation created two rallies and I’ll come back to that later.

Having pitched my tent I took a ride into town and found the Pavilion on the sea front, which was to host the weekend’s main events. I decided that I’d ride down later that evening, see the band and have a relatively early night after my trying journey down. In the run up to the rally various pubs understandably decided they wanted a piece of the action and it was only due to

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METAL FLAKE PAINTING BY NUMBERS: PART 5

Our ‘painting by numbers’ series is here to guide readers through the process of painting a scooter. Parts 1-4 (see previous editions) have covered prep, primer, paint and pearls. This month we move on to flake…

What is flake?

Metal flake was first introduced into the automotive scene in 1959 on a Barris Kustom called the XPAK 400, back then it was actually made of fine flakes of aluminium which is still available today, however modern metal flake is typically a polyester substrate thinly coated with anodised aluminium and dyed. It is supplied in both dry and pre-suspended versions and available in a huge range of sizes, colours and finishes.

It looks just like kids’ glitter and I’ve heard of people using that, but please don’t! Those flakes are typically made for crafts and the printing industry etc. This type need only last a month or two in sunlight, they are not automotive grade.

Automotive metal flake is chemically treated to withstand varying external temperatures and harsh sunlight. I say this with a side note that as the flake is dyed using the same dyes as in candy paints they will lose some colour over a period of time when exposed to direct sunlight, so if your pride and joy is flaked or candied protect it from direct light when it’s being stored… if you have a shed with a window make sure the sunlight isn’t going to bleach it every day.

Coverage

The results you can get with flake vary greatly from a few light dust coats giving a nice bit of bling when the sunlight hits to the full old school 70s effect when the style was at its height. Always ensure your spray gun’s nozzle/needle configuration is capable of spraying the flake. Your supplier should be able to advise you on that. When customers ask me how much flake do they need, it can be quite a difficult question to answer as I don’t know what finish they want added to it.

Of course the size of flake affects the

Silver flake over a black base coat, simple yet very effective.

amount you need, but it can be best explained like this…

Imagine you have a black bucket with three large stones in. Well, you should see the bottom of the black bucket through the gaps in the stones. But if you crush the stones to a powder, they will cover the black gaps up no problem. So using that analogy you can see how the principle applied to the flake would work: the smaller the flake the better the coverage.

Typically between 300g and 500g are used on an average scooter.

XL flake.

APPLICATION INFORMATION Applying metal flake wet Firstly mixing, the weight per litre will vary greatly depending on the size of the chosen flake. Be careful – too much flake and it could delaminate as it wasn’t able to get proper adhesion to the base coat. Speak to your supplier for advice on this (typically from 20g to 80g+ per litre).

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Show us your

Please send your scooter pictures to: Show Us Your Scooters, PO Box 99, Horncastle, Lincs, LN9 6LZ (include an SAE if you want your print returned) or email a HIGH RESOLUTION image to suys@scootering.com

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Tosh Cullen is now back scootering after a 40 year break; the GP was his 57th birthday present and he loves it that much, he got his wife Michelle the LML 125 Star. Pictures are from Whitby Rally 2016 (left), Bridlington Rally 2015 (middle) and Isle of Wight 2015 (right).

Mark Bowron’s first Vespa.

This is Cian Evans checking out his future inheritance – his grandad’s Vespa Primavera!

John Welch’s before and after shots of his Vespa in his garden.

Ciaron Mcaleer, from Drogheda, Ireland, sent this in of his PX125 and sitting on it is his son. Ciaron has been buying Scootering since issue one.

Trevor Osborne’s Vespa T5 – Too Tone.

The current choice of hire scooters.

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It’s nice to get away on your hols for a week or two, forget the stresses of work and suchlike, but if only you u had your scooter to hand to get out go for a decent rid de too. Well... now you can.

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Imagine it’s the one time of year she gets to drag you away from your beloved scooter, two weeks in the sun for the family holiday and she is in a good mood. Perhaps you suggest that she takes a few euros down town with the kids and does a bit of shopping, while you take in the culture of the island’s capital. If you are a very lucky man, the capital city in question will be Palma, Mallorca, and one cheeky little gem you might unearth on your travels is Loco Wheels at Jaume III next to the heart of the city.

It is the brainchild of lifelong friends and scooter addicts Daniel and Tomas.

After a family member passed away and

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Home from home.

Scootering Words & Sounds Contained in music somehow more than just sound...

Various Modernism (Kent) Taking the original 60s Mod(ernists) taste for obscure American black music as their starting point, those Kent records compilation compilers have come up with a 24 track collection. Hypothetically, the featured tracks would pack dancefloors in Mod clubs during any era. Embracing early rhythm and blues, jazz, Latin, upbeat, quirky blues and early soul sides, Modernism certainly aims to provide something to appeal to all tastes. Albeit a genuine eclectic mash up of styles, all the tracks have proven dancefloor appeal. The formula, a proven winning one too, for Kent compilations is previously unissued gems, lesser known nuggets and a handful of evergreens. Needless to say all those boxes are ticked on Modernism. Seeing light of day for the first time is The Turn Arounds’ When One Of Them Won’t, their Soul Walk/Telephone Is Ringing a current spin in cutting edge soul venues currently. US garage outfit The Ambertones, with the raw and raucous Clap Your Hands from 1965 along with King Carl’s Everybody’s Feelin’ Good from the same year are prime examples of the diversity of this CD. Timeless 60s club soul standard Beg Me from Chuck Jackson flies the soul flag, as does side one time Yate all-nighter coverup (Del-Larks – The Dance), which is The M&M’s And The Peanuts – The Phillie, plus the floor-shaking ponder Do It by Pat Powdrill. Yet another top quality Kent release Sarge

Faintest Idea Increasing The Minimum Rage (TNS) Kings Lynn’s finest continue their run of hard-hitting releases with this, their fourth album, and it’s exactly what you’d expect from this punk-fuelled ska band.

If you’ve got their previous material – and you really should have – then you’ll know what to expect from this. Bouncy skapunk fuelled by a powerful brass section which riffs its way through the album and a powerful rhythm section with vocalist Dani growling and snarling over the top, in many ways an angrier version of The Specials’ Terry Hall, preaching about the state of the UK in much the same manner as their predecessors did in the late Seventies, but with a stronger punk edge to their sound.

As such, it’s almost a continuation of their last album, the equally punning The Voice Of Treason from four years ago, their agit-pop lyrics still fighting to raise awareness of the corruption of the system and the issues that surround the every day existence of our lives.

It’s not preachy though, the emphasis is entirely around good time dance tunes, and this is what lifts this band above the common herd of many other bands in this ilk. They’ve not forgotten their street punk background, the growling and prowling guitars make sure of this, but it’s lightened by upbeat rhythms and brass that make you want to skank. Certainly there are a couple of moments of ‘Okay, where is this going?’, none so much as on the intro to Corporation which meanders for a moment before erupting into one of the many highlights of the album. They’ve managed to achieve that balance of lyrical smartness that few of their contemporaries possess, and are well deserving of the suggestion that they are the inheritors of Random Hand’s crown while they’re in absence.

In short, this is a punk fuelled, brass laden, dance floor filling monster of an album that really should be on your shopping list this summer if any of that appeals to you.

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Smalltown Glory The Tenement Commandments part 1 (Birth) Founder member of The Alarm, Eddie MacDonald, has returned to the world of music with brand new band Small Town Glory. First result of which is the five-track EP, The Tenement Commandments part 1, which showcases what Small Town Glory are all about. Influences include The Who, The Beatles, The Byrds, Paul Weller and, of course, The Alarm, all of which shine through at various points. Lead track Small Town Glory comes complete with instant appeal, so much so the hook line will earworm into your subconscious. Evoking memories of 60s west coast America, especially The Byrds, is Can’t Stop The Waterfall, while High, High, High has even more of a jangly guitar aura.

Every Day is a well crafted classic guitar British pop number, with more than a nod to The Byrds, last but not least Fly Way, closes with an acoustic summer evening ditty.

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Poole Inner Circle SC FOUNDED 2006

With a welcoming attitude and well-presented scooters, Poole Inner Circle seem to have found the right formula for a family friendly club.

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elebrating their 10th anniversary at Hayling Island was Poole Inner Circle SC, a club with great ancestry.

Founder members, including No 1 Mark Notley, originally rode with The Modrapheniacs back in the late 70s and early 80s. Like so many others they drifted away from scooters to concentrate on careers and family, but once ‘in the blood’ scootering never leaves you, and in 2001 they rejoined their old club. “There was no animosity,” explained Mark. “But it just wasn’t easy for either side to pick up where we’d left off, so we parted on good terms.

From the outset we intended to be Lambrettas only, but one member objected as he rode a Vespa. He had a good point;

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this was about friends getting together so we decided to open membership to all makes.

“A week or so later he bought a Lambretta.

As I’d already ordered the T-shirts we became an all makes club! There are currently around 30 members with most riding regularly to meetings and events.”

The club attends most of the South Coast rallies and has won ‘Best turned out club’ two years running at the Isle of White Lambretta day. The club also travels further afield with representation at Euro Lambretta events in Ireland, Spain, France and Belgium.

Setting up a new club is always a gamble but it does allow a fresh start and the Inner Circle are very family orientated, with a good proportion of female

members. Dee, Mark’s wife, is heavily involved in the club and the Notley household kitchen often acts as an impromptu club house. This familyorientated approach, consciously or not, gives the club a very relaxed, almost European feel.

At Hayling Island the club drew quite a bit of attention, due to its very well turned out machines, many powered by engines Mark had built. The name? At an early meeting the members were sitting around a big circular table and a late arrival asked to be allowed ‘Into the inner circle’.

The club meets on the first Wednesday of every month at the New Inn in Poole and you’re guaranteed a warm welcome.

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ESENTIAL LAMBRETTA MAINTENANCE

Scooter sounding like a bag of spanners on the way back from a rally?

This month: fault diagnosis‌ without taking your Lambretta apart!

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here are many occasions when there is a problem with your Lambretta that requires a strip down to see what is at fault.

While this may be the case, it is still possible to diagnose a fault without taking too much apart. There are two big advantages to this. Firstly, you may be out on the road and a quick diagnosis will let you decide if it is safe to continue or recover the vehicle. Secondly, it can help you define what has failed to cause the problem in the first place.

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A loose gearbox end plate gives the rider an unpleasant feeling of instability from the rear wheel. On long stretches of road it can give a weaving sensation and when cornering can cause exaggeration of the line you take as you approach a corner. At the same time if left unattended it will damage all the endplate studs causing quite often lengthy or irreparable damage to the casing itself. It is also possible it will wear the gearbox selector (sliding dog) or lay shaft as the gears will have excess movement. In extreme cases the clutch can be damaged as this can foul on the kick-start shaft.

DIAGNOSIS

Putting your hand on top of the rear wheel and attempt to move it back and forth. If there is excessive movement repeat the procedure and this time look at the kick-start pedal on the other side. If the kick-start moves at the same time then the endplate is loose. The reason being as you move the rear wheel it is like a domino effect. The gears push up to the endplate which in turn moves the clutch which then pushes against the kick-start shaft finally moving the kick-start pedal.

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1: This engine cutaway clearly shows how if the endplate situated between the gears and the crown wheel comes lose everything will move from side to side. As the rear wheel is moved the exaggeration causes the clutch to foul on the kick-start shaft.

2: If the gearbox endplate is loose the kick-start pedal will move on its own when the rear wheel is moved back and forth without having to dismantle the transmission.

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Party Time BSSO Round #6

Lydden Hill July 16-17

The Lydden Hill round of the British scooter racing series always has a slightly different vibe about it. For many years the circuit has not been able to race on Sunday mornings due to noise restrictions and a local church having services. So over the years the chance of a Sunday morning lie-in means that the Saturday night of Lydden has an all-round party atmosphere with a barbecue and drinks party for the riders.

But before party time there was the serious business of racing‌‌

Day 1

Practice started with changeable weather contributing indirectly to a nasty crash which saw leading Italian Luca Zani hit the track after a last minute rushed tyre change for the conditions. Unfortunately in the change the front wheel was not seated correctly in the rush and led to an accident in which Zani suffered some badly bruised ribs but was able to continue in the later races albeit in some pain.

Once again, due to healthy numbers racing, the autos and geared scooters were split for races. The first geared race saw a great start as normal by Mike Bonett, but even better was Luca Fuschini taking an early lead. An early retiree was Darren Conneely, leaving Stuart Day to chase

down the leaders, with the other Conneely brother in hot pursuit. There were close battles up and down the field, unfortunately Jason Metivier suffered a DNF after a great first five laps but the exciting stuff was again in Production class with big Bob West taking a win in only his second meeting in this new class.

Group 4 was won by Steve Conneely who had a great race finishing third overall on track. Taking second place in Group 4 was Jahspeed rider Dave Bristow who had finally cured his gremlins of earlier in the season and was followed home in his class

by Chris Geyton and Dan Lewis who were close all race and swapping positions.

In the first auto race it was a close three-way battle with Justin Price, Scott

Casa Riders Luca Zani (499) and Luca Fuschini (497).

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