I think this bare metal, all original bodywork Series 1 looks magnificent. It’s for sale on eBay here

https://vimeo.com/104299199

Great little video that gives a flavour of Euroyeye – a 60’s inspired scooter, music and film event that has been taking place for twenty years!

More info on www.euroyeye.es

The view from Scoot About’s basement (Orin O’Neill photos)

Summer’s not over yet. Not until the 23rd, anyway.

When it comes to the subject of riding motorcycles and scooters, there’s an awful lot of bullshit out there.

Lovely, restored LI 150 Special on eBay…restored and rebuilt by Cambridge Lambretta Workshops. Great colours, lovely scoot, but a tad pricey at nearly £6k ‘buy it now’! See it on eBay here

See it on eBay here

I know y’all are interested in Scomadi Ltd.’s upcoming Bertone-inspired scooters. There’s a new promo video, and some new developments regarding specification and pricing, all of which can be found after the jump.

A bit of a round up of ‘bits & pieces’ that have caught my eye…

ICE – In Case of Emergency

Firstly is the ICE patch… a simple, but clever idea, and one of those things you hope you’ll never need. It’s a set of stickers you can apply to your crash helmet that give the Emergency Services access to your vital info by scanning a Quick Response code.

ICE Patch QR Codes to make it easier and faster for the emergency services to access your vital information. There’s no need to search your person for a medic alert bracelet. Your health and contact information is at their fingertips. It’s inexpensive and impossible to leave at home. The emergency services can immediately establish who you are, who to call and access any medical information that could help to save your life. They know it’s accurate and current, because you gave it to them.  Some…

Some fresh Scomadi pics from the INTERMOT Köln motorcycle show Keepup with the latest Scomadi news on Facebook, here.

Fargo Village in Coventry is an eclectic mix of creative businesses – (think Brick Lane / Camden Market) and has been joined by  an emporium for local scooter enthusiasts… Fargo Scooters. The shop is stones throw from the Hand & Heart pub, a frequent haunt of Coventry’s famous 2Tone bands The Selecter & The Specials in the 70’s. As well as having workshops to repair and restore scooters the shop is ositioning itself as an emporium for vintage and new clothes… it’s also a cool place to just hang out. If you’re in the area, I’d say it’s worth a visit… Via The Coventry Telegraph

Check out their Facebook Page, Here.

Spotted this funky pop art print by “Lobo” on AllPosters.co.uk £14.99 for a 46cm x 46cm Art Print, and £74.99 for a 41cm x 41cm stretched canvas. Pretty cool.

4 scooters, 3 breakdowns, 1 crash & a hell of a lot of fun… found this video on the Bolt Lodon Facebook Page.

Photos courtesy Jaylin Billig

If you’re a regular reader, you know that people do indeed race scooters. But something you may not know is that people also set land speed records with them.

One such person is Jaylin Billig of Houston, Texas. She and Maverick, her 2009 Genuine Buddy Blackjack, are preparing to make their third trip to the Bonneville Salt Flats near Wendover, Utah. Yes, the very same Salt Flats people like Craig Breedlove have traveled at mind-boggling speeds in vehicles that more closely resemble jet fighters without wings than cars. Or motorcycles.

Jaylin and a host of others will be spending the next six days making runs up and down the storied salt, a surface she describes as “like riding on wet concrete.”

I was sent this fantastic pic last week, by Steve Mason.  Although I have been a fan of his music for a while now, (He was the lead singer and one of the founding embers of the Beta Band, more recently releasing musing as King Biscuit Time, Black Affair, and under his own name) for some reason I never had him down as a Lambrettista. In fact he’s been riding Lambrettas since 1987… his first being a “bucket” of a SX 150 he picked up for £175. We all know that £175 was a lot more in 1987, but you can’t help thinking “those we the days!”

If you want to catch Steve Mason live, At the Festival No. 6 in Portmerion, and then he’s at the Blackheath Festival.  After that he is DJing at The Social in Little Portland Street, London W1, on Saturday 13th September. You can follow…

Jaylin and Maverick are ready to race! (Photos courtesy Jaylin Billig)

As you’ll recall, in our last episode, Jaylin spent pretty much all of Sunday waiting in line. Did she and Maverick get to run Monday?

Photos courtesy Jaylin Billig

“Best speeding ticket I ever got!”

 Liking the look of this ’56 LD150… Untouched for 30 years, and back and running. For sale for £1950 with lots of spares, including a spare engine. I found it while browsing the Volkszone.com Volkswagen forum, so you’ll probaby have to sign up to that if you’re interested, as I haven’t spotted it on eBay yet…

The King Kurt side panels bring back some pleasant memories of a misspent youth, and some fantastically messy gigs too. Ooh wallah wallah wallah, ooh wallah ooh, indeed.

Photo?Scooter Cannonball Run: The Movie

The ease with which one can make a movie today is truly astounding. Where it once took tons of complicated equipment and armies of technicians, now all you need is a smartphone and a laptop with some software you can download for free.

It should therefore come as no surprise that someone wants to make a movie about an epic scooter road trip.