Scootershow 2016 now a weekend event

It is no mere coincidence that our 9th Scooter Center Customshow 2016 will take place on April, 9th 2016.

This year there will be many international exhibitors and a huge market for spare parts but also supporting programme. A Nighter, concerts, parties and the largest pub crawl of the region on Friday before the show and Saturday after the Show. The Scootershow party.

For visitors

Visiting our Customshow will pay off:

  • more than 150 international Vespa, Lambretta and scooter tuning customs with big presentation of prizes
  • scene meeting and an afternoon with friends
  • large market for B stock, remaining stock, rare individual parts and second hand scooter parts
  • stickerbombs and high quality raffle
  • presentation and live DJ
  • cheap snacks
  • easy to get to
  • Cologne, metropolis and city of parties
  • cheap tickets, free entry for kids

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Get last years insights in this video, pictures from 2015 and previous Customshows here: Scootershow

For exhibitors

Exhibitors will gain fame and fortune plus prizes, vouchers, sponsoring packages and, naturally, free entry to the show!
Registration and approval are necessary of participation:

For sellers

You would like to sell parts during Custumshow? No problem. Please register here.
Registration and approval are necessary of participation:

[wpanchor id=”party”]Party

Friday
8/4/2016

Party am Freitag

starting at 9 pm
Concert
CHARLES BRADLEY and His Extraordinaries
https://www.facebook.com/events/1497634680541019/

starting at 10 pm
HINT Party
Scooterist Niter of Prengel S.C.
Northern Soul & Scooterists Sound

Saturday 9/4/2016

Chills and Fewer Allnighter, Soul * RnB * RareGrooves

starting at noon
Main event
Scooter Center Customshow
http://www.scootershow.de

starting at 6 pm
Culture / party
Ehrenfeld-pub crawl
largest pub-crawl of the region
http://www.ehrenfeld-hopping.de/

starting at 10 pm
HINT Party
Chills and Fever Allnighter,
Soul * RnB * RareGrooves
https://www.facebook.com/chills.and.fever.cologne/

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Individual gift ideas for scooterists by the Scooter Center team

Name: Andreas

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How long have you been working for Scooter Center:

Since 2007

What is your task at Scooter Center:

I’m responsible for IT at Scooter Center

What’s your relation to scooters:

Rally 180 and PX200 are currently roadworthy. I ride scooters since 1987, it all started with a PX80. My most exciting experience with a scooter was a trip to Lake Garda and back.

 

Gift idea for scooterists

Entry ticket Scootershow 2016 CUSTOMSHOW Cologne

Part no. TICKET0019

 

entry ticket

Why:

Scooter Customshow 2016 – simply put, our Scootershow is a great fun event.

Scooter Customshow 2016

9th International Scootershow
Scooter Customshow scooter Customshow
– Classic & Automatic Scooters –

Participation is free, register here
Register a scooter here:
http://www.scootershow.de/customshow-anmeldung/

Register a booth here:
http://www.scootershow.de/customshow-anmeldung/anmeldung-haendler-teilestaende/

Free entry for children and teens up to 12 years of age.

Large SCOOTER CENTER market with remaining stock and bargains for Vespa, Lambretta and automatic scooters.
More booths for parts and private booths.
Booths with shirts, Stickerbombs, merchandise, many prizes and great cups.

 

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VespaBabbo

RheinSchalter Köln, the Vespa club, again organises the Vespa Babbo in Cologne. Of course Scooter Center supports this great event, participating is worth it!

Suddenly there is a lot of noise at the Zülpicher Platz, a square in Cologne. St. Nicholas’ (ok, we will be more precise: rather Santa Clauses) on scooters are riding the streets of Cologne honking. Did this seasonal Vespa gang also attract your attention on St. Nicholas day? We will provide some background information: http://goo.gl/txGroz (Video: mik)

#VespaBabbo Posted by KSTA, a local daily newspaper, on Saturday 6th of December 2014

“VespaBabbo” is the flash mob for St. Nicholas! Around 100 Vespisti in Christmassy dresses with Vespas decorated with colours and glitter just like a Christmas bauble. Scooterists dressed up like this cruise the streets of Cologne – from Christmas market to Christmas market and through the city centre of Cologne. Vespa Babbo

Italian tradition: “Babbo” is the Italian St. Nicholas. This tradition of riding through the city in a St. Nicholas or Santa Claus costume during Advent is an old tradition in Italy, which fills young and old spectators with enthusiasm. Of course this is best on a VESPA :-)

Take part in the VespaBabbo

Feel like taking part? Click here for further information.

St. Nicholas in Cologne… traditionally with the “VespaBabbo”**… A Christmas corso with fitting costumes passing the most beautiful Christmas markets of Cologne finishing off with a glühwein/ hot punch at “Piazza Rudolfo”. Same motto as last time: Having fun and spreading the joy of Christmas in the City! :-)

Meeting point

Gathering again at the Deutz fairground (shores of the Rhine, central in between the bridges Deutzer Brücke and Severinsbrücke, Deutzer Werft)
Participation ONLY and EXCLUSIVELY in a Santa Claus, St. Nicholas or angel costume! Feel free to “dress” your Vespa (classic/modern) accordingly! Of course the track is suitable for 50 cc scooters, mainly within the city of Cologne and will take approx. 1 1/2 – 2 hours.

Donations for the good cause

We are celebration the season of giving. Therefore there will be a collection of voluntary (!) donations at the starting point, which will be given to charity.

Necessary information:

  • Taking part is at own risk.
  • You have to adhere to road traffic regulations.
  • Drinking glühwein before or during the corso is to be avoided.
  • The corso will only take place if the weather is fine and streets are free (no black ice, layer of snow or heavy snow fall).

** …”Babbo” is the Italian version of St. Nicholas. The tradition of riding through the city in a St. Nicholas or Santa Claus costume during Advent is an old tradition in Italy. Similar corsos exist everywhere by now: in Strasbourg… Paris has experienced it, Cardiff was amazed, Manfredonia, Sassari, Roma and Foggia in Italy are passionate about it, cheering in Bangkok and in Portuguese Gaia – corsos even in wintry Kempten/Allgäu or in the northern and wet Hamburg… and now once again in Cologne! See you on December 5, 2015! Vespa-Babbo

Vespa World Days 2017 Website

Great Vespa events are often foreshadowed.

First the Scooter Center Customshow in Cologne in April: http://www.scootershow.de

Followed by the Vespa World Days 2016 in France in summer.

And the website of the VWD in the following year, the Vespa World Days 2017 in Celle / Germany has currently been put online: http://www.vespaworlddays2017.com

It is stated on the website:

Welcome to Celle, where Germany’s Vespaheart beats. A small town with a big heart and a group of passionate Vespa drivers. Look forward to four days of Vespa fun, great tours into the local heathlands and a chance to catch up with other like-minded Vespisti.
See you in Celle – 22nd to 25th June 2017Vespa Club Celle

We are already looking forward to it!

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Legendary parts fair for Vintage scooters, bikes, pushbikes and cars in Italy

From the 6th to 8th of November one of Italy’s Mostra Scambio took place in Novegro, Milan. Advertised as market for cars, scooters, bikes, pushbikes and the respective accessories, it was and is even more nowadays heavily focused on Lambretta and Vespa spares and scooters. The 64th Mostra Scambio in Novegro brought along summer like temperatures and heavy sunshine during the complete weekend.

Beside the bargains everyone is looking for, the Italian markets convince with the very special Italian atmosphere. And a very broad selection of everything related to by-gone times. Especially all the Lambretta and Vespa afficinados are pleased by the collector’s items, spares and accessories.

The dealers focused on Lambretta or Vespa know what they are selling and the prices are okay, but not real bargains. Very often they apologized for the asked price and added that it is Lambretta or Vespa and hence the high asking price. But once you find the dealers that have a bit from everything and that are only roughly in the knowledge of the things they are selling, the chances are there to have the desired bargain.

 

Mostra Scambio in Germany

If you are looking for a small scale parts fair in Germany, you have to come over on the 9th of April for Cologne’s Customshow with Vespa and Lambretta parts fairt.

For used scooters check our offers. New Scooter spares, you’ll find here: Scootershop.

9th International Scootershow

The ninth scooter Customshow for Vespa, Lambretta and automatic scooters will take place on April 9th, 2016. The event of the year of the custom scene will take place in our city by the river Rhine in Cologne. As in the past years, international exhibitors will present 150 scooters in the legendary location of AbenteuerHallen KölnKalk. Information: Scooter Customshow 2016

Will you take part?

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Scooters – Market of parts – Bargains – Scene

A big private market for spare parts will be part of the show again. You might find rare spare parts or accessories or make a bargain for your scooter.

We expect producers and retailers with booths again.

Registration

You can already register as exhibitor at Customshow: Customshow registration
Registration of your producers booth now possible: Registration booth for parts / club booth / retailers booth

Customshow Flyer 2016

We reckon that the new slogan for our Customshow is a nice one and well designed:

 Scooter Customshow 2016

Download Customshow Flyer

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 Scooter Customshow 2016Flyer Print (PDF)

 

 

Video of Scootershow 2015

World Vespa Days 2017 Celle

VWD 2017 – Celle

The official announcement was made 2 years ago: the Vespa World Days 2017 will be in Germany – more specifically in Celle.

But where is Celle and who are the Celle Scooterists?

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Celle in Lower Saxony in the beautiful Lüneburg Heath

Celle is located in Lower Saxony, about 50km north of Hanover and has a population of ca. 70,000 people. The town lies on the banks of the river Aller and is the southern gateway to the Lüneburg Heath. The castle and the picturesque old town centre with over 400 timber-framed houses, make Celle one of the most remarkable towns on the German “timber-framed” road.

The Lüneburg heath stretches from Lüneburg in the north to Celle in the south. The Südheide nature park covers an area of about 500km². Woodlands and heathland, remnants from the middle ages, are now protected as a nature reserve. Well known in the region is the Heidschnucke, a moorland sheep, which lives from the local heather. The perfect destination for a group excursion!

Great starting point for further ride outs

Celle is the perfect base for various excursions, the local roads perfect for Vespa trips. Within a 100 km drive a variety of destinations can be reached. These include: Steinhuder Meer, northern Germany’s largest lake with a circumference of 24 km. Hannover, Lower Saxony’s capital. The Deister hills with their wide variety of flora and fauna.

Vespa Club Celle

The Vespa Club in Celle, founded in 1986, is an active group of passionate Vespa drivers, who are known for combining this passion for Vespas with the importance of family and community. The club organizes regular activities, highlighting in August with its annual “Heidetreffen” in nearby Walle. This scooter rally is one of the largest in Germany, with its reputation of bringing together scooter drivers of all generations and backgrounds as well as being planned with families in mind.

The Celle Vespa Family: The World of Vespa hand-in-hand with the community.

Further information:

www.vc-celle.de
www.vc-celle.de/heidetreffen
https://www.facebook.com/vccelle
https://www.facebook.com/vwd2017

Flyer WVD 2017:

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Classicday Vespa Lambretta Video

Scooter Center Vespa and Lambretta Classic Day 2015

Vespa Lambretta Classic Day 2015

Scooter Center Vespa and Lambretta Classic Day 2015

Many thanks go to the many visitors of our Classic Day 2015. The sweet smell of two stroke engines still lingers around the Scooter Center. You really gave our dynamometer some stick. The waiting queue seemed to be endless.

The weather was fine, all sausages were being eaten, the refrigerator truck is empty and we have fewer products in the remaining stock. Which means: you are satisfied and happy – and many of you went home with a great bargain. The 10% discount in the store and our Scootershop was, of course, also a winner.

There will be even more private booths next year – so please make a note: Classic Day 2016 with large market for Vespa and Lambretta parts.

It was a really great day. We are very happy to have such great and loyal customers!

Keep on Scootering.

Photos Classic Day

Vespa Lambretta Classic Day 2015

Scooter Center Classic Day 2015 news

Our Classic Day for classic Vespa and Lambretta scooters starts coming weekend. Spend a day with friends and visit friends – we are looking forward to your visit! The long-term weather forecast is positive and we can bring on every item of our schedule:

Vespa Lambretta Classic Day 2015

Free sessions on the dynamometer

On Classic Day we offer to use our professional dynamometer by Amerschläger for free.

Market for Vespa & Lambretta parts

You will find bargains of samples, second choice products and returns on the Scooter Center market again. If you don’t get everything you want, you will get it from the many private sellers.

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New exhibitors and retail sale until 4 pm

Scooter Center retail sale, bargains on the market and many private booths. But there will be further exhibitors:

  • PLC Corse
  • Bell Helmets
  • Crazy Monkey Development

Scooter Center Ladenverkauf

Food

Also this year we will have the popular and large swinging grill. We will also provide cooled drinks.Grill und Getränke Scooter Center ClassicDay

Bouncy castle for children

Scooter Center Classic Day ends at 4 pm. There obviously is a large offer for big kids and there will be a bouncy castle for young kids.Scooter Center Hüpfburg Cassic-Day

How to get to Scooter Center

We are looking forward to meeting you!

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Date Scooter Customshow 2016

The next Scooter Center Customshow 2016 will take place in Cologne on April, 9th 2016.

Video Scooter Customshow 2015

BGM PRO Vespa shock absorbers successful in ASCC race!

Just as we do for our Scooter Customshow, Austrians also cooperate: ASCC – Austrian Scooter Challenge Cup – is Austria’s racing series for classic scooters, automatic scooters and electric scooters.

Every season consists of seven races with two runs each. At the end the 2 worst race day results are subtracted.ascc-vespa-racing-oesterreich

Successful with products of Scooter Center and BGM

Lukas Schossmann is the big surprise of this season. As member of the sQooter racing team he already won 4 races. The team bets on many tuning parts by Scooter Center Cologne. Quattrini engine with M1L-60 cylinder and crankshaft with 51mm stroke. Suspension: BGM Pro shock absorber for Vespa PK front and rear. The braking system with a radial brake master cylinder in front is also made by BGM.

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Only 5 Euros shipping fee to Austria

Scooter Center delivers very quickly via UPS and DHL for 5 Euros shipping fees to Austria – up to 31kg, you can order a lot.

Order now in the Scooter Center scooter shop

ASCC – innovative and modern scooter racing series in Austria

ASCC supports trying well known and new products during training. Thus enabeling the drivers to rent and try suspension for instance. Many racers, however, also install these products in their street scooters and recommend these products to friends and family.

The organisation team of ASCC did not spare any efforts and heavily invested in season 2015. They now own a timekeeping device and from race day #2 (25th of April in Greinbach) onwards all races will be documented via MyLaps Live-Timing. This is the next generation of timekeeping with live-app on smart-phone and tablet, live-timing online and on screens at site, as well as offering various information to displays of the drivers. You can find racing results on www.ascc.at or on www.mylaps.com (choose Austria in “all countries”).

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1st race day in Tulln. A raging success

Waiting has an end on the 11th of April 2015: the first race of the new season was about to start. So were 23 scooterists and several thousand spectators and fans who could not wait to see the start of the first race in 2015. At the same time, a motorbike fair (the largest in Austria in 2015) offers the possibility to present ASCC, the teams and oneself to an interested audience. What happened?

Many spectators were there on Saturday morning to see the qualifying. The weather was perfect. Drivers were motivated. And the perfect surprise: Newcomer Lukas Schossmann of team sQooter.com won the pole position with a lap time of 22.8sec. Thomas Lukaseder of GP-one started from position 2 and Thomas Prasch, the overall winner of 2014 of the Horny-Hornets, started from 3.

The first race started at 2 pm and took, like any other ASCC race, 15min + 2 laps. The track turned out to be rather slow, narrow and highly selective. Therefore many drivers fell and there were many defects, luckily, nothing was really bad though. Lukas Schossmann, the surprise, didn’t have any difficulty and celebrated his first win. Thomas Prasch finished 2nd and Christoph Lafer 3rd. Organizer Ron: “We knew in advance about the narrow and slow track. But all the racers were fair.”

Race 2 saw an even larger audience, which witnessed more race-action and exciting fights for the lead. Lap times were tight, the lead changed, drivers were lapped. All the drivers were convinced: “Tull was awesome. And a large audience, cool.” Schossmann and his BGM PRO Vespa suspension also finished first in race 2, in front if Prasch and Kirchhofer.

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Race day 2: Greinbach All or nothing!

All the racers of ASCC agree: “All or nothing!” is the slogan for the track of PS-Racing Center in Greinbach. Either you pull through the long high speed bend (more than 100km/h), don’t care about the bumps at its end and perfectly meet all the load alterations or you loose.

And this happened on race day #2 on April, 25th 2015: only those racers without fears and with the most experience reached for the podium. Gerhard Konrad, local hero and member of HG-Racingteam, was forced to quit early (damage on a cylinder during training). This paved the way for the 3 best racers of the season: Lukas Schossmann, Thomas Prasch and Rainer Kirchhofer. Christopf Lafer of the VorResoSchalter team surprisingly put pressure on them and even finished third in the second run.

Schossmann and Prasch battled for the lead for some rounds, which were the most exciting scenes of the day. Due to a badly adjusted clutch, Schossmann lost his pole-position right away. But he won the race in front of Prasch and Kirchhofer. Schossmann and his BGM shock absorbers gained another full 25 points, in front of Prasch on two and Christoph Lafer on three.

ASCC pictures / photos

Here you can find many great pictures of the races:

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ASCC results / table

Current overall table:

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Vespa meeting in Isny in the Allgäu at the Motor Show in Isny

Big Vespa-corso and raffle, powered by Scooter Center

On May, 9th 2015 cars will be exhibited in the city and the street Espantorstraße will be turned into VESPAtorstraße. Vespacorso around the city for 50s.

All Vespistis and visitors are WELCOME!!!

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Schedule:

Vespa meeting Saturday, May 9th 2015 in Isny in the Allgäu
(takes place in any kind of weather)
registration from 11 am line up of the Vespas in Espantorstraße
Vespa corso around the city + photo shooting from 1.30 pm
small raffle about 3 pm with prices from Scooter Center and others
end from 4 pm

Further information on Facebook

Vespa Allgäu

Catering:

There is a coffee and cake for every registered driver.
The pizza wagon will be at one end of the Vespatorstraße so that you will be fittingly nourished:
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Rules for the Vespa corso:

Participation in the corso is at your own risk! We won’t incur liability for possible technical defects. Every participant should drive considerably towards others with sufficient braking distance to other participants. Overtaking and dangerous tricks are unwanted. Pirates with safety vests will secure every crossing. At the very steep part, please bear in mind: Do not use your front brake! We advice all the slow participants to drive at the front, tricycles, apes & Co. have to be at the very end.

Your scooter is not ready for the corso yet?

You can purchase parts for your Vespa cheaply at the Scooter Center Vespa Shop– also per UPS – Express – for only 6,90 Euros Express-shipping fees (throughout Germany). (status as of 05.2015)

Buy Vespa parts

How do I get there?

Arriving from Lindau and Leutkirch, you should choose to come via the Espantor.
Participants joining from direction Kempten are allowed to drive through the exhibitors area in Kemptener Straße to get to Espantorstraße.
How to get there

Part 2 Teste Cromate Scooter Club Ride Out / Rimini

1. Rimini Lambretta Centre 20th Anniversary Open Day / Rimini
2. Teste Cromate Scooter Club Ride Out / Rimini
3. Polini plant tour / Bergamo
4. Visit of the Casa Lambretta and the Lambretta Museum/ Milan

Lambretta Rally

Teste Cromate S.C., the local Lambretta Club, organised an awesome ride out in the soft hills in the region of Emilia Romagna on Sunday as a side program to the Rimini Lambretta Centre Open Day.

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Entire video

You can find the video of the entire ride out beginning at the stop at Europlastsucci with GPS – measured speed display. Enjoy:

Yummy stopover

In a well organised corso of about 50 Lambrettas we reached our first interim goal after a few kilometres: Europlastsucci. An old customer and manufacturer of GRP frame sections and further Lambretta specialities.

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In order to regain strength for the rest of our ride out and as as mental preparation for lunch we have an Aperitivo. After adjusting the tick-over rpm with Prosecco and other non-liquid refreshments we leave the city and cross the mountains in a great track.

Lambretta BSG Corse with 45HP and 305cc

Of course we have already had the opportunity to drive many extreme scooters. But Philipp’s scooter for the corso was a doozie:Lambretta Scooter Center Italien

BSG Corse Lambretta with 305cc cubic capacity and performance of more than 50 HP. The most violent we ever rode. CNC – engine block milled from one single piece, 305cc BSG Corse cylinder, Cyclone5 5 speed gearbox and BGM PRO Superstrong clutch. This monster has more than 50 HP. The demonstrator was downsized from 51HP to 45HP via ignition for the RLC Open Day.

First impression:

The beast has instant throttle control and within a blink of the eye you exceeded 100km/h. Thanks to BGM PRO SUPERSTRONG clutch, switching gears is clear, easy and very smooth, the 5 speed gearbox perfectly transferred. Power without limits and pressure in every gear.

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Lambretta with a high amount of performance

The CNC engine has a crankshaft with wide crank webs. In order to securely transfer the performance of the 305cc cylinders to the street, the proven components BGM PRO shock absorbers and BGM silent blocks are used for the wheel suspension. Due to the enormous cubic capacity the exhaust is large. However its distance to the ground is sufficient for it to not put down on the street, even in hairpin bends. A vehicle of such a high performance also needs a strong braking system. RLC uses a a MMW disc brake.

There is a high amount of performance in this engine, so it doesn’t come unexpected that the frame hits its limits, since the original engine offers only a fifth of performance when being compared to the BSG Corse engine

Thanks to Dean Orton for this amazing experience! And thanks to Teste Cromate S.C. for this beautiful day!

All pictures

All pictures of the Lambretta Rally in Rimini:

Scooter Center trip to Italy – Part 1 Rimini Lambretta Centre

The Scooter Center-Team on a trip to Italy: Last weekend Oliver, Philipp and Heiko started their trip to Italy. They had a tight schedule, but the long way had to pay off: during the weekend they covered more than 3,000 km.

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Stops during their trip to Italy:

  1. Rimini Lambretta Centre 20th Anniversary Open Day / Rimini
  2. Teste Cromate Scooter Club Ride Out / Rimini
  3. Polini plant tour / Bergamo
  4. Visit of the Casa Lambretta and the Lambretta Museum / Milan

Part 1

Rimini Lambretta Centre 20th Anniversary Open Day / Rimini

Following in the tracks of the history of Scooter Center by the Lago di Garda

 

Video of the first leg

Lake Garda was the first interim target. We visited old friends, enjoyed Italy and wallowed in memories. In its 23 years of the history of Scooter Center Lake Garda plays a crucial role.

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Back then, Oliver Kluger bought the very first scooter for Scooter Center and transported it to Germany. The Scooter was a Vespa Rally TS 125. Later, the Vespa was processed in Cologne and resold to Volker, who is still driving it today. He was our first customer and naturally sticks to us. You rather know us for a quick delivery of spare and tuning parts for scooters. However, we currently have several used Vespa scooters on offer.

The night was short and the journey continued early on Saturday morning, heading to Rimini. The track to travel sounds like music to our ears: “Verona, Mantova, Modena, Bologna, Imola, Rimini”. Our anticipation grows, the closer we get to our destination.

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The Rimini Lambretta Centre and Dean Orton

For years the Rimini Lambretta Centre has been a good customer and supplies us with 5 speed Lambretta Cyclone gearbox, Maxi Flusso Lambretta intake manifold and the new Casa Lambretta Performance cylinders.

Rimini Lambretta Centre

The 5 speed Lambretta gearbox is more than a mere part of a scooter to Dean. You know this once you saw the CYCLONE 5 tattoo on his forearm. We mainly supply BGM products to RLC, which are used for their restorations. Lambretta restorations are the main business of Dean Orton and his team. RLC loves and lives Lambretta. Overwhelming Lambretta scooters are created in an impressive garage. Our anticipation and expectations were immense and we should not be disappointed.

Rimini in the region of Emilia Romagna

“Rimini: the Adriatic, centre of beach tourism – a seaside resort with a long tradition, beach, sun, sea.” But we had more important things to do! Our destination was the Zona Industriale: The 20th anniversary and Open Day of Rimini Lambretta Centre.
After a heart warming welcome by many old friends, we started to put up our stall. This was quickly accomplished, since Philipp had sent the products we wanted to display to a wrong address… :-) Luckily we were allowed to display products from the RLC stocks.
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Rimini Lambretta Centre Open Day

The grounds around the RLC were quickly filled with mainly Italian and English Lambrettisti. There were overall 500 visitors with about 120 Lambrettas and only a handful of Vespas.

Dean really dished up for the 20th anniversary of RLC. Entering the shop you were welcomed by a world record Lambretta: The fully faired Lambretta that broke the 200 km/h limit on August 8th, 1951. Romolo Ferri set the world record on a motorway that was blocked from traffic between Ingolstadt and Munich. The mechanically supercharged 125cc engine is told to have had about 21 HP.

A huge transportable pizzeria supplied finest specialities from the region including sufficient wine, water, beer and coffee.

Overwhelming Lambretta test drive

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Alongside scooters, which have been restored by RLC, there were mainly scooters from the Casa Lambretta collection available for test rides. The two Lambretta Innocenti two-cylinder prototypes were at the centre of attention. In the past months these were restored by RLC for Vittorio Tessera. The June edition of Scootering will present the restoration of the interior of the engines. We also did a test ride on the Innocenti two-cylinder prototypes. We can only say: Too sad they didn’t make it into serial production.

Lambretta with 305cc and 50HP

305cc and more than 50HP – the most violent scooter we ever rode: BSG CasaPerformance 305cc prototype. CNC engine block with 305cc BSG cylinder, Cyclone5 5 speed gearbox and BGM PRO Superstrong clutch. This monster has more than 50 HP. The Lambretta’s programmable ignition was downsized to 45 HP for the test drives. On our cruise on Sunday we were able to extensively test it. The fitting video will follow in the second part of this article. Watch this space!

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BSG Corse brought scooters with overwhelming performance. Vespa Smallframes were those scooters that chased around the circuit with immense revs. These were later joint by the legendary Signore Angelo Zirri and almost the entire Smallframe tuning scene.

Even the greatest events have to come to an end. So at some stage we had to dismantle everything. But luckily we still had a joint tea and nighter with a fantastic view on the mountains left!

Nighter in the mountains in the region of Emilia Romagna

The joint meal and all-nighter took place in an Osteria in the mountains. A fantastic site with view on the lights of Rimini and San Marino in the distance.allnighter_04rimini-lambretta-italrimini-lambretta-ital

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Many kind talks, many Italian snacks and some cups of wine later we fell into our beds in the early hours of morning. It was a short night with only a little relaxation. Only several hours later we were meant to get to the next highlight. On the cruise we were able to test the 305cc prototypes for their fitted BGM parts.

All pictures of the first leg of our trip to Italy:

Vespa – season opening with a corso in Essen

On April, 18th 2015 the AVR – Altblech Vespa Ruhrgebiet, a local scooter club, organizes its season opening in Essen.

Vespa Anrollern Essen

Just as for the season closing 2014 last year, the entire proceeds will be donated to a social organisation. Last year, 1,050 Euros were donated to the Kinderhospiz Regenbogenland, a children’s hospice, in Düsseldorf.

This year’s donations will go to Friedensdorf in Oberhausen, which flies in children from war or crisis areas and then provides medical care. This association is merely funded by donations, without contributions by the state. Therefore every Euro counts!

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Agenda:

11 am start
1 pm auction
2 pm official end

The event begins at 11 am. It officially ends at 2 pm.

At 1 pm there will be an auction of awesome, astounding things! Furthermore there will be a raffle with more than 100 prices (no blanks).

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Vibrant classic scooter community in the Ruhr district

Many drivers, but also clubs from the region are supporting the AVR. Amongst others,

  • Schaltroller Freunde Meiderich from Duisburg,
  • Vesparados from Dortmund,
  • Vespartisanen from Bochum,
  • Scooterboys Gelsenkirchen and
  • Düsselvespen

will take part in the event. You see, the classic scooter community in the Ruhr district is vibrant and active! Scooter Center supports the season opening in Essen! So raid your piggy bank and support the AVR in Essen.

Further information on Facebook: Season Opening AVR in Essen 2015.

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Scooter Customshow 2015

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Take a look at the photos of the Scooter Center Customshow 2015 in Cologne! Click here to get to the photos of the photo shoot and here if you wish to see the photos of the winners.

Have a look at the photos taken at the Scooter Center Customshow in Cologne!

The book:

The video:

The photos:

These are the winners of SCOOTERSHOW’15

Classic & Automatic Scooter Customshow

The Scootershow – our Scooter Center Scooter Customshow – took place on March, 21st 2015. And again we are totally flashed by the amount of passion to scooters. No matter if automatic or classic. Once more, great scooters and great people were part of it. We are already preparing for Scooter Customshow 2016 in Cologne.

The 8th SCOOTERSHOW ’15 saw 150 scooters and 1,500 visitors, exhibitors and sellers from Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Austria, Switzerland and Poland. THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!

 

Winners 2015

 

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Joint corso to the Custumshow in Cologne

The new season starts with a big season opening on May, 6th in Aachen and on April, 12th in Cologne . Even before this, Vespa-Nest Aachen and Rheinschalter Cologne organize a joint scooter corso to the SCOOTERSHOW´15 in Cologne, March, 21st 2015. For more information click here. Facebook-Event.

The members of Rheinschalter are real home boys and girls, therefore they will, as it is the standard, meet their friends from Aachen at the gates of Cologne. And then they will accompany them to SCOOTERSHOW´15 – the international Scooter Center Customshow in Cologne Kalk.

Anroillern Aachen Köln zur Customshow

Meeting point for all Cologne scooterists:

Meeting point Cologne: 9:00am at Rudolfplatz
Departure: at 9:15am direction Frechen
Meeting point Aachen/Cologne scooterists: about 10:00am with Vespa-Nest Aachen at the AVEX petrol station (Bonnstraße 15 – 17, 50226 Frechen)

At about 10:30am departure to a short, joint rideout in the surroundings of Cologne, heading for the Scooter Center Customshow SCOOTERSHOW´15 in AbenteuerHallenKalk; arrival at about 11:30am.

Entry/opening of the Customshow from noon, entry 5 Euros only

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