During the 1960’s in the United Kingdom, Scooter shops would compete to produce their own unique and individual scooters based on either a Piaggio Vespa or an Innocenti Lambretta.
These scooters were often tuned with their own unique paint work and their own identity and then put out on the track to race!

 
One of [...]

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After visiting the Lambretta clothing website I noticed that the company is planning to release a clothing range with help from the band The Who. This could be very interesting and maybe this could be a trigger for another mod clothing revival?
Here is an excerpt from the Lambretta site: “Lambretta has partnered with [...]

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While the scooter is being painted there are five jobs that you can (and should) be doing:

Clean the wiring loom with degreaser and inspect it: Usually, after all these years the outer sheath will become brittle and have bits broken off it.
Fixing the sheath: Don’t ignore this, as the sheath prevents the inner wires from [...]

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After reading a number of blogs and forums I came across an article stating that Quang Nguyen (winner of Amerivespa Concours d’Elegance ) has pushed the modding craze one step further. Whilst I admit to have added a few extra mirrors or maybe even a sticker to my Vespa’s, Quang has gone an put a [...]

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After some discussion with the team at nyscooterclub.com I feel I have gained a little more insight in to the world of female scooterists. In my last post I made the point that I felt a lot of my earlier posts were aimed at male scooterists. But as aawatters posted in nyscooterclub forum:
“Some gal’s [...]

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The vast majority of my scooter/vespa friends are male and I feel that I may have left some of my female readers out in the cold with most of my recent blog posts. However today I saw a pink Vespa parked up outside my work and it reminded me to write a blog [...]

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At the very least, subsequent use of the Union Jack in the Gear boutique sunglasses of 1965 and John Entwistle’s jacket on the cover of The Who’s My Generation in 1966 can be directly traced to Geoff Reeve’s similar experiments with sunglasses and silk screened fabrics in the early 60s. The art-clothing connection of [...]

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