Custom show in Cologne, Germany: a wide range of scooter models on display
And finally on this weekend we kick off our 11th custom show! We are proud to present you the wide range of scooters taking part to our event. This year also scooters for the first time at the custom show. We also know that some of the participatns are still working hard in their workshops in order to get their scooters ready on time for the show. It remains exciting…
New Scooter Center scooter
Of course, also this year we buckled down in our workshop to present you our last Scooter Center project at the custom show. A Lambretta or maybe a Vespa? Classic or automatic? Or something completely different? Let us surprise you… See you at the scooter show 2018.
Beautiful weather and great atmosphere
According to the weather forecast the wather will be excellent! Sunshine and cloudless sky with over 20 degrees. Just come by scooter and enjoy the legendary atmosphere!
In the outside area you’ll also find a wide gastronomic offer.
Over 150 scooters at the Customshow
In the two huge halls of the Abenteuerhallen Köln over 150 scooters on display.
Here some pictures of the scooters which will be on display at the customn show:
Scooter Customshow tickets: buy online and save 2 Euro!
The tickets fot the 11th Scooter Center Customshow are now available in our online shop. This year, if you buy your ticket online it’s 2 Euro cheaper than at the box office on the day of the event. For further information about the Customshow please visit the official event website: Scooter Customshow
Our great Scooter Customshow kicks off again the scooter season!
This year we will celebrate 11 years Scootershow and 26 years Scooter Center = Pure Scootering.
The Scooter Customshow 2018 will take place in the same location since 2007, in the AbenteuerHallenKalk in Cologne, Germany.
Also for the scooter show 2018 there will be the same custom scooter categories of last year.
Scooter Center: 25 years of passion! The company was born from the deep love the two friends Oliver and Ulf have for the Italian scooters.
By now there are forty-five staff members and Vespa and Lambretta are the cornerstones of our worldwide operating business. We offer a wide range spare parts for all kinds of scooters: from the very early ones to the modern automaticscooters.
Saturday 2nd September 2017: 25Y OPEN DAY´17
10:00 – 16:00
Scooter Center
Kurt-Schumacher-Str. 1
50129 Bergheim-Glessen
Germany
Celebrate with us Scooter Center’s 25th jubilee! We very much look forward to seeing you soon!02/09/2017 at Scooter Center.
Follow the event on Facebook.
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Exclusively in our Scooter Center shop – the official Vespa World Days 2017 merchandise
Vespa World Days 2017 in Celle, Germany, was once again a great and succesful event! Vespa lovers from all over the world met in Celle and we were also there with our Scooter Center stand. The Vespa Club Celle contributed to the brilliant organisation of the VWD. Here you’ll find a report, lots of pictures and the video of the Vespa World Days 2017.
Scooter Center was the main sponsor of the VWD17, but we still offer our support even after the event. Due to the bad weather conditions on the last day, the Vespa Club Celle could not sell many of the Vespa merchandise items and we now help them selling these high-quality souvenirs of the legendary Vespa World Days in Celle.
A wide range of items such as t-shirts, hoodies for women and men, bandanas, caps, tools, beer mugs, etc. Click on the following link to see all items: Vespa World Days merchandise
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1 Vespa at stake. 12.070,24 EUR , proceeds of the raffle tickets, were given to the foundation “Bürgerstiftung Celle”.
We met lots of kind and friendly people and had many interesting talks.
If you’re also a Vespa lover, you know, it’s not that easy to explain this great passion and the legendary Vespa is much more than numbers: 2 or 4 stroke, 3 or 4 gears, more or less HP or power.
Similarly, the wonderful Vespa World Days are much more than numbers, you should experience it!
A great thank you goes to the Vespa Club Celle and to all people helping with the organisation of the event.
We also would like to thank all our old and new customers who visited us at our stand!
VWD 2018 Belfast
And now we are ready for the Vespa World Days 2018 in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and like this year, we’ll be there as main sponsor with our Scooter Center booth.
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Our Scooter Center & bgm booth at the Vespa World Days
As main sponsor of the biggest Vespa rally of the year, Scooter Center will be at the Vespa World Days with its huge booth.
Come and see us! We will present the new items of our brands bgm and Moto Nostra and of course also many other spare parts you can buy at our booth.
Scooter Center / bgm at the Vespa Village
You can’t miss it: our big Scooter Center / bgm booth is at the Vespa Village, directly at the entrance of the area of the stands. The admission as daily guest at the VWD17 is free of charge!
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You chose how to customise the VWD Vespa and we restored it the way you wanted it!
The VWD17 Vespa V50 was on display during the Scooter Center Customshow in Cologne and now it will be at stake at the Vespa World Days in Celle, Germany.
Alex has completely disassembled and sandblasted this Vespa V50. After a high-quality professional painting we built it from scratch using our best items.
Here the video of the VWD17 Vespa restoration:
VWD17 Win this VESPA V50S Celle 2017
You can win this stunning scooter at the Vespa World Days in Celle.
Come and see us in Celle!
Scooter Center will be the main sponsor at the Vespa World Days in Germany and will be there with a huge booth.
For all information about the biggest Vespa rally of the year please click here: http://en.vespaworlddays2017.com/
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Exactly in one month Scooter Center will celebrate its 10th Customshow. We already sent all invitations to the registered participants. However, you can still register at: http://www.scootershow.de/customshow-anmeldung/
NEW: GASTRO AREA
This year you can also have an espresso at the “Expresso Mobil” or chips and other specialities at the “Curry-Flitzer” Ape food truck…
… and also tasty pizzas and delicious crêpes.
10th Scooter Center Customshow on 6th May 2017
Buy now your ticket for our international customshow!
Want to avoid queues at the box office and have direct access to the scooter show just like a VIP? Then hurry up and get your ticket in our online shop!
Admission ticket for visitors: € 5.00, children and youths under 12 years old have free entrance.
At the Vespa World Days in Celle Scooter Center will put at stake a newly restored Vespa V50s. The proceeds of the sold tickets will go to a charitable organisation. Tickets for the draw will be available during the event. Here you can decide how the Vespa will look like! At stake also 3 vouchers in value of 100 Euro to redeem in our Scooter Center online shop!
Use the configurator to have a preview and customise the look of the Vespa put at stake at the Vespa World Days!
Vespa World Days is an event organised by Piaggio which takes place yearly in a different country. The country or the local club submits to the Vespa World Club an application for the organisation of the event. For 2017 the Vespa Club Celle was nominated as organiser of the event.
The Vespa World Club is composed, for one half, of Piaggio employees, while the other half is represented by the appointed members of the national clubs.
The Vespa World Club appointed the German Vespa Club for the organisation of the VWD 2017 and this, in turn, appointed the Vespa Club Celle.
Vespa World Days: the great international rally
Would you like to join the greatest Vespa rally? You can participate as registered visitor and get lots of services or join with free entrance as daily visitor. Daily visitors are also welcome and can visit the entire event area with many spare part booths and exhibitions. You can even join the whirl of Vespas. The events in the evening, for example, are for registered visitors only.
As you can see, the Vespa World Days are not just a rally. Piaggio establishes precise rules and these are stated the in the contract with the Vespa Club Celle. Here are two significant points:
Registration for the Vespa World Days is only possible using the online tool of the Vespa World Club.
Login data for the tool are given to each national club or local club organised in the respective national club.
This means that you cannot register for the Vespa World Days if you are not a member of an organised club. How to join the event? You have two possibilities: you can join an organised club or found a new club. So if you wish to participate, please contact your national club for further information.
Why register?
The Vespa Club Celle is contractually required to differentiate between registered and non-registered visitors.
All visitors have access to the Vespa Village.
All visitors can join the Vespa whirl.
Services for registered visitors:
Booking a camping place
Access to parties and concerts taking place in the evening
Access to the scooter parking at the event area
For further information please have a look at the FAQ section of the VWD2017 website:
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10th Scooter Center international custom show at the Abenteuerhallen in Cologne Kalk on 6th May 2017. We’re glad to celebrate with you
10 years of Scooter Center custom show and 25 years of Scooter Center
Next year, beside 10 years of Scooter Center custom show, we’ll also celebrate 25 years of Scooter Center. Further information in our blog section and Facebook page:
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Last month Scooter Center rode to Pomposa, on the Adriatic coast, for the Run & Race finals of the European Scooter Challenge. Thanks to the attendance of the British Scooter Sport Organisation (BSSO) and of further international racers, spectators could enjoy wonderful performances on the circuit.
With Lambretta to the Adriatic riviera
It feels like a holiday. We still have a long way to go, about 3.000 km, and many things to do in Bella Italia. Our bus was packed with our equipment and with our best bgm parts for the Run & Race Italy. We started our journey in Cologne and after 1.000 km, from the Lake Garda, we travelled the last 250 km to Pomposa by scooter: two RaceTour Lambretta scooters with the
Test drive in Bella Italia: summertime, blue sky, now and then a short stop in Autogrill. That’s the plan! But just half an hour later, after the motorway tunnel in Verona…a pouring rain! Luckily there’s no bad weather, just wrong clothes: and we have everything with us, but that’s not enough and it still keeps on raining untill Pomposa. Several cars against crash barrier and crackings in asphalt paving show us what happened before.
Despite the bad weather and patholes we can still ride very fast, about 110 km/h (GPS). the new TomTom VIO shows us the way and thanks to the great performance of our scooters we can enjoy the ride.
Our scooter tour: the video
Great Run & Race in Italy
Just before arriving in Pomposa it finally stops raining and the sunshine starts to break through the cloud cover. Marco from Rimini Lambretta Centre and the organisers of SIR welcome us and after drinking some white wine we go to our nice bungalow.
There’s a lot going on on both evenings. On Saturday morning a delicious breakfast by the seaside, with sunshine and blue see…amazing… but we don’t have enough time sice we have to set up our stand and we’re curious to see what awaits us.
Setting up our stand was very easy, well, at least for those who went to bed sober before five o’clock in the morning. We present the wide range of our items. On this occasion we also have the chance to meet our old friends from Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Greece, Great Britain and Cyprus.
Some pictures of our weekend
RACE – The races
Just on the opposite side we can see the exciting races taking place: racers competing up to the last meter. The Italian teams CASA Performance and Parmakit dominate the race. Our Austrian friend wins the race of the standardised class with a Polini engine. We hang a camera around Michi neck (Stoffi-team) – here a video of a training in the standardised class:
RUN – The scooter meeting
Run & Race – not only race, also scooter meeting. On the site of the racetrack we find many Italian stands selling every kind of merchandise and items, there are also lots of scooters to admire and we have many interesting discussions about scootering. All participants meet at the camping and bungalow park where they stay overnight. The concert on Saturday was cancelled, but we keep on having party until the morning hours. After the delicious breakfast on Sunday morning it’s hard for us to leave. Still 250 km return journey await us, but this time in beautiful sunshine. We leave the motorway and we ride the last stretch across mountins and hinterland until we reach our Basecamp at the Lake Garda. Here we still have quite a lot to do scuh as visiting the piston manufacturer Meteor in Milan, making fotos and videos.
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For scooterists this sounds too good to be true. Run & Race – a tribute to the legendary scooter meeting of Stoneheads S.C. at the Liedolsheim karting track close to Carslruhe, which already celebrated it’s 10th anniversary in 2012.
The team of Dean Orton, Vittorio Tessera and Parmakit: Rimini Lambretta Centre, Casa Performance / Casa Lambretta and Parmakit is the organiser and main sponsor. When visiting our Customshow, Scooter Center has been invited to this great final of the ESC 2016 and as one of the weekend’s sponsors, we will sure be there as well! We are excited, because the Italians ride hard and are currently very successful with ourBGM PRO parts.
We will be at the meeting from 16th – 18th September 2016 – see you!
If you are three people who want to share a bungalow, each of you will have to pay 60 €. Included: bed and breakfast (Saturday and Sunday), dinner (Saturday), Nighter (Friday), concert of THE BEAT and Nighter (Saturday).
Do not hesitate and book now!
Their promise can be taken seriously:
WE WANT YOU TO ENJOY RACING IN ITALY AND WE’LL DO EVERYTHING WE POSSIBLY CAN TO MAKE SURE THIS A MEMORABLE HISTORIC EVENT FOR ALL THOSE WHO PARTAKE!
RUN & RACE 2016, Pomposa, Italien – 16.09 – 18.09.2016
LOCATION:
Pomposa Race Circuit
Via Orto Alfierino 32
(Statale Romea Km. 29,8)
44022 San Giuseppe di Comacchio (FE)
Italy
Combine Classic Days and a visit at Scooter Center
This first weekend of August will see a large vintage car festival just around the corner of Scooter Center, which actually focuses on classic cars. But this year will feature a special, on occasion of the 70th anniversary of Vespa. Great opportunity to combine your shopping at Scooter Center in Bergheim Glessen and a visit of the Vespa exhibition and the Vespa meeting!
70th anniversary Vespa special
The Classic Days at Dyck castle in Grevenbroich will also see a special to celebrate the 70th anniversary of Vespa. The great anniversary “70 years VESPA“ just has to be part of this weekend on classics.
Special exhibition, scooter meeting and Vespa acrobatics
The organisers try to present almost the entire VESPA history in a special exhibition. And there will be a scooter meeting.
Don’t miss the acrobatics show of VESPA-Oldtimer-Freunde München (Vespa-vintage-fans Munich)
The Munich based group presents a fascinating show of Vespa acrobatics. The show is on each day before the races on the track.
Scooter Center Classic Day
Scooter Center also organises a Classic Day every year. Watch the video of the last event here:
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On 26.-28. August (bank holiday weekend) Spirit of 84 Scooterists organise an international scooter rally in Kronenberg near Venlo, Holland.
First time Venlo – Holiday in Holland
The first Venlo rally started in 1993 and, along with the Speed Demons SC rally in Borculo, it became part of the original Holiday in Holland. Scooterists from all over Europe gathered – mainly from Germany, Austria, Benelux and Britain – to enjoy a great party. If you can remember it you weren’t there, a circumstance which, unfortunately, ended in a “compulsory break”.
Today: Venlo again
Fast forward 20 years. In the middle of a hazy night the old organisers had a clear epiphany: ‘Let’s revive Venlo again.’ Since 2013 the event is back on and keeps growing. Last year more than 1300 people attended, many of whom were already there in the nineties with most arriving on two wheels, which makes it the largest independent rally on the continent.
Bringing back the spirit of the olden days is also reflected in the programme. The main floor features scooterist’s classics like Soul, R’n’B, Ska/Reggea, Brit Pop, Madchester and more. If you are more inclined to party full-on to electronic beats from four-on-the-floor to hardcore come and join us on the indie/alternative floor. Sounds are by courtesy of British and international veteran rally DJs. Please note: Kids should be kept off the site at night time.
Volles Programm
The entertainment during Saturday daytime also uses the old template from a couple of decades ago; like a custom show and a beach area to chill and enjoy fresh cocktails. There is a versatile food offering from a genuine Belgian chippy to healthy stuff for vegetarians/vegans. Incidentally, we’d like to stress that, just like the clean showers and toilet facilities, the organisers are aware the latter are NOT authentically nineties so please do accept their apologies.
On top of that there is a horse power shoot including FREE Dyno runs! The most powerful contender wins a trophy. And, of course, there will be the obligatory fun games – we shall say no more…
Grass track racing
For many a highlight is the grass track racing, becoming ever more popular from year to year. Fast pilots ride along with total novices, which is why the grits are being made up by lap times in the qualifying. The rules couldn’t be simpler: You’ll need a scooter, a helmet and protective gear – ideal for newbies. So just run wotcha brung, no need to pre-apply, simply let us know on-site.
August 26th, 2016
For more information please contact the organisers via the details below.
Scooter Center representation with BGM booth on Eurolambretta
That was an appropriate 50th anniversary party of LCD (Lambretta Club Germany): Eurolambretta 2016 in Geiselwind!
Of course we have been part of the celebrations and have presented our most current BGM developments to the Lambretta world. Nicest weather attracted many visitors and we met many interested guests at our booth and had great talks with our customers.
We have been present with an advance publication of our new BGM catalogue and a wide range of Lambretta parts. We have been able to help many guests, who had come from far away, at our booth or with our express services and deliveries directly to this location. These are our impressions of the event:
We participated in the 13° edizione EuroZero Scooterrun of the Le BruttePieghe S.C. in Italy. The meeting was held in Arco, close to Lake Garda. Lago di Garda is, as you know, of special importance to us:
It was at Lake Garda where more than 25 years ago the story of Scooter Center has begun. Malcesine, located in the midst of lovely olive groves at the eastern shores of Lake Garda, is where Oliver Kluger bought Scooter Center’s very first scooter (a Vespa Rally TS 125), which was then sold to “Mod-Volker” from Cologne. Volker is still driving this excellent Vespa, he was our very first customer and is still loyal to us.
Video about the meeting of Le BruttePieghe S.C.
Even in Italy sun doesn’t always shine. So we saw quite a bit of rain that weekend (just like anywhere else). Luckily rain stopped for a while in the afternoon, so that the corso could take place. We personally cannot imagine a more beautiful setting for a ride out with scooters. Goose bumps. The following niter with scooterists sound was crowded with partying until the early hours.
Scooter scene Italy
If you ever got the chance, you really should participate in a scooter meeting in Italy. The SIR is the umbrella organisation. You will find scheduled meetings here:
Our Scooter Center Classic Day 2016 for our Vespa and Lambretta friends was held on 11th June.
Weather was in tune with our event, attracting several hundred visitors again, who found their way to Scooter Center in Bergheim Glessen. Before we had naturally polished and tidied store, warehouse and offices, to impress you. I hope some have realized :-).
It was an honour and yet another great day with you:
Many nice people, many bargains, a lot of metal and a tasty snack, cool drinks and a lot of pressure on the dynamometer.
Thanks go to René for a really fitting music.
Awesome that so many of you have made it – that’s how we had fun – we are already looking forward to the next ClassicDay!
Thank you on behalf of the entire Scooter Center team
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Just in time for the summer season our BGM Superstrong clutch for Vespa largeframe is available again. The robust and reliable clutch is very much sought after, leading to having been sold out for a short time.
New generation of drive plates for Vespa clutches
From now on we will deliver the BGM Superstrong and the Superstrong CR with a new generation of steel plates. Did you know, that there is a best order of assembly for the steel plates?
Vespa Superstrong clutch for Vespa largeframe P1390241
The new clutch comes with each plate being clearly marked with the correct position of the plate.
BGM Superstrong – new drive plates for Vespa clutches
We have revised all plates and optimised their fit.
The plate on position two has now got a defined curve at an individual radius in order to generate smooth disengagement behaviour with any load.
The steel plates are series tested for smooth running and planar surface, as well as for quality of material and hardness. All steel plates achieve values around 10hrc.
Apart from optimizing steel plates, nothing was changed in the proven concept of Superstrong clutches for Vespa PX, T5, Sprint, Rally…
Despite the bad weather and patholes we can still ride very fast, about 110 km/h (GPS). the new TomTom VIO shows us the way and thanks to the great performance of our scooters we can enjoy the ride.
There’s a lot going on on both evenings. On Saturday morning a delicious breakfast by the seaside, with sunshine and blue see…amazing… but we don’t have enough time sice we have to set up our stand and we’re curious to see what awaits us.
