Dropped my scooter in this week for a service at Retrospective Scootersprior to commuting to work by Vespa from April; a good idea to get it given a good once over before getting back in the saddle.
I’m currently juggling with the contents of the next issue of the JOURNAL; one piece that will definitely be gracing the pages of issue No.80 will be the story of an exceptional 1951 Vespa Allstate.
Geoff Woodin’s previous scooters have all been large frame Vespas, mostly PX models. He recently purchased a Sprint 125 ABS, 2019 model - how do the two compare?
VVC members, Warren Jopson and Roger Smith, have now returned from their trans-europe ride to Zanka in Hungary, for World Vespa Days. On the return leg, by chance their journey took them through Landsberg am Lech, home to SIP Scootershop.
Regular VVC contributor Rod Gillan, has not that long ago returned from holiday and cruising around the Mediterranean with his wife. A keen Vespa spotter while on his travels; Rod packed his camera as well as his bermuda shorts, and shares with us a few of his sightings…
Graham Keat was recently holidaying with his family in the small town of Carovigno, next door to Ostuni, situated in Italy’s southern region of Puglia. Ostuni is also known as ‘The White City’.
SIP Scootershop are celebrating; they have been going now for 25 years and to mark the occasion have designed and built their latest creation - the ‘Something Special’ Vespa racer.
Club member, Geoff Woodin, got in touch and sent me his review of Penguin’s 1962 book, ‘Scootering’. Despite the passing of 57 years, some points and tips in the book remain relevant and still apply today…
I photographed this beautiful second series GS160 towards the end of March, earlier in the year. I don't go overboard for Mod scooters but I really liked the subtle acknowledgment of this Vespa to that period.
VVC's intrepid chairman is en route to the coming weekend's World Vespa Days (formerly Eurovespa), staged this year in Zanka (just southeast of Veszprem) in Hungary.
I photographed this very early Douglas Rod Model at the beginning of the year in January, at the new premises of Wessex Scooters, located between Newbury and Reading in Berkshire.
Dario Cerano, President of Vespa Club AMICINVESPA Busto Arsizio, brought this 'Vespa' curiosity to my attention, when he sent me a link to an article featured on Italian motorcycling website motociclismo.it
Bernd Kirschner of Hola Vespa specialises in Spanish Vespas; his workshop is based in southern Germany's Bavaria region and he regularly visits España, importing vintage scooters.
Circumnavigating the island, taking in the cities and towns of Palermo, Taormina, Gela and Marsala and the tre mari, or three seas, that surround Sicily.
“Quattro Stagioni” - not talking about the pizza variety, an option found on the menus of many pizza restaurants these days, I refer instead to an Italian term meaning “Four Seasons”.
"Giallo" is yellow in Italian and this lovely small frame Vespa is most definitely that! Photographed by Andreas Dotzler, owner and rider of a modern Vespa.