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Think back a few years and everybody sat flicking through magazines to find out what was on and what had happened.

Those times have gone. Big newspapers in Britain like The Independent are closing their print editions and going on-line. Paper sales are shrinking like your sexual organs when your waterproofs finally fail on a long ride home. Even people who say they prefer to read paper spend a lot of time on social media or a smart-phone. The world has changed.

ScooterLab.UK – or SLUK for short – is our answer to that change. It is a free-to-view internet scooter magazine that is the brainchild of two well-known British scooterists. Sticky and Iggy had a long career writing for Scootering and various other titles, as well as authoring the odd book. The duo have seen the sad decline in paper-based sales and have turned their backs on the corporate publishing world. Instead, they’ve decided to do something a little less boring. They will put mainstream scooter media back in the hands of scooterists, and the fun back into mainstream scooter media.

ScooterLab.uk was previewed at Scooterist Meltdown in February. It’s an all-encompassing stylish website with two distinct sides, one for classic and one for modern scooters with a cross-over of certain material that suits both sides of our site.

With the cost barrier removed we expect ScooterLab.UK to quickly gather an international following. SLUK is the UK scooter scene broadcasting globally and we want our scooter-riding brothers and sisters from all over the world to join us.

 

What’s on SLUK?

Video! That’s something that doesn’t work well on paper but allows you to explain a lot in a short time.

Humour! We will practice the great British tradition of ‘taking the piss’ when and where we see fit.

News! We have excellent contacts throughout the scooter world so SLUK should be your first choice to both read and feed news items.

Any screen! Our site design is fully responsive so you can enjoy our content on anything from a smart-TV down to the smartphone in your pocket.

ScooterLab.UK

How do I get involved?

Launching ScooterLab isn’t something we’ve done lightly; it’s a big project and our new full time job. We know it’s going to shake things up and we’re likely to hit a few bumps along the way, but with your help we’ll develop this website into something the whole scene can be involved with and be proud of.

Remember this online mag isn’t brought to you by a big company with deep pockets. ScooterLab is owned, funded, designed and written by road-going scooter riders just like you. We need your help to make it grow. You can help by bookmarking the page, or add it to the home screen of your phone. Use it frequently; just as you would your social network accounts. Share the videos, tag us, share our features, wear our t-shirts and stickers with pride. Send in your stories, photos, videos and let us know of any news or new products.

 

How does it work?

ScooterLab is 100% free for you to view so there are some adverts on the site to pay they pay the bills. These are not random adverts, but ones from forward-thinking scooter businesses – like Scooter Center – who can see that this is the way forward.

You can support us by supporting our advertisers. That way we can carry on giving you great content for free.

With your help ScooterLab will grow and spread like wildfire along the scooter grapevine. This is our life, our hobby and our livelihood. Let’s kick some ass fellow SLUKers.

 

Cheers

Sticky, Iggy and the SLUK team.

 

 

SLUK goes live on March 7th at Noon. Find them at www.scooterlab.uk and on Facebook

We wish you good SLUK!

Vespa Raid Maroc 2014: The hardest Vespa race in the world!

This year was the third time for the Vespa Raid in Morocco. A six-day race over mountains and across the desert. But always winding pistes and slalom through football sized boulders and other obstacles.

In addition to the absolute physical fitness, that the driver must have, the achieved average speed counts less than the navigation skills. Because only with the successful drive through all the check points you will get the highest score.

bgm PRO Vespa stainless steel rims

 

Sticky on bgm PRO indestructible stainless steel rims through the desert

For all the rivalry between the teams, the atmosphere of fair play and great helpfulness to each other is practiced. The biggest battle is against the adversities of the nature and not against the fellow racers.
Ferran, one of the organizers, made available for Sticky a pink Vespa PX on the road to enable him to expand his broad portfolio of racetracks. The Vespa PX is well prepared for this type of race and has proven itself in three desert racing seasons. Including the 2011 Pan-Africa Rally, which is the inspiration for the Morocco Rally organizer.

 

I used the BGM rim on the front wheel for 5 days and on the rear for the last two days, Initially I worried that the rear tyre might spin on the smooth rim and rip the valve out when running at low pressures, but it never did. On day 6 I rode to the checkpoint with a deflating front tyre on a BGM rim, but despite hitting some big rocks the rim was still fine when I changed the tube. The lip on the outer edge of the rim is much thicker and stronger than standard. Changing tyres and tubes with these stainless split rims is a lot easier than with loose paint and rusty steel or with tubeless wheels. If the BGM rims prove reliable in the long term then you’d expect every tyre change to be this easy.” Sticky

 

Despite of health problems (which may have had an impact on his top decking passion), he pulls up to 200 km per day on the Vespa.

Especially shock absorbers, rims and tires and the fragile engine housing are in danger to get permanently damaged or completely destroyed. In this picture the nice looking original black standard rim did not stand the stress:

bgm PRO Vespa stainless steel rims

On day 5 it is so far and Sticky get a puncture and broken navigator holder on mixed terrain. The navigator holder is replaced by gaffer tape and the original Piaggio Vespa rims are replaced by the bgm PRO stainless steel rims. The right decision! Not only stable, but also beautiful, the new bgm PRO stainless steel rims – who still needs chrome rims?
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In contrast to the completely deformed and wavy rims, our standard bgm stainless steel rims presents themselves at the end of the race still like new and in non-dented condition!

BUY HERE VESPA RIMS

 

bgm PRO Vespa stainless steel rims

 

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bgm PRO Vespa stainless steel rims

 

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New Lambretta – Bibel

As announced a few months ago: click ->

8100071 Book -Complete Spanner’s Manual Lambretta -Second Edition- by Sticky 29,90

The “best Lambretta manual” just got better!

The first edition of the Complete Spanners manual covering Slimstyle Lambretta models has now sold all 15,000 copies printed at its publication in 2004.
Rather than reprint the same version, Fingers in Pies Publications have chosen to substantially re-work and improve on the content for this new edition.

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