Euroyeyé XX and the Scooter Cruzada

Every first weekend of August in Gijó, Spain, for the last 20 years in scooter enthusiasts get together for Euroyeyé, a weekend of live bands playing mod and 60s music, 60s cult movies, and as you guessed it the Scooter Cruzada, one of the most iconic classic scooter rallies in Europe.

Antur Fawr Cymraeg

Yes the adventure bug bites again, this time it is the Antur Fawr Cymraeg or the Great Welsh Adventure. Thanks to Tim Fielding making this video about their adventure in Wales this past May with Jaques Renault's Pianos on the Beach as backing music.

Lambretta Rebirth

The History of the Scooter

This documentary, first shown in the early 1990s on Channel Four Television in the UK in two parts, tells of the History of the Scooter. It is a must see for Lambretta and Vespa fans.

Soweto in a Vespa

A number of Vespa heads decided to head out to Soweto, Johannesburg for a morning ride in the sun. And what fun did we have with 15 Vespas, 6 LMLs and 1 Lambretta, not to mention a huggle of other bikes joined us.

Filling up our babies before heading West then South

Meeting up with the West Rand Chapter

Heading South

Caught up to a large group of Hogs who weren't too impressed with us hogging their turf

Finally on the highway

Then off to ride pass Soccer City

And then into Soweto proper

One LML's accelerator cable broke about here and with a Vespa escorting they headed back north

Finally drinking beers in Vilakazi Street, the one street where two Nobel Peace Prize winners stayed, Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu. 

Below are all the scoots except the two which headed back

We ate lunch at Winnie Mandela's family restaurant and 

even Winnie herself came round to look at our scoots.

Then we headed for Lebo's Soweto Backpackers Hostel

After beers we then headed back home

This is Lebo on his Gomotor

And finally till next time, happy scootering....

Harties with the Mates

A group of mates decided to join the annual scooter rally held at Hartebeespoort Dam. It was a fun outing. Enjoy the photos.

From left to right is good looking me (Jerome) representing the Posers SC on the black Vespa ET4, Bruce from Aces SC on the copper plated Vespa P200E, Shawn from Vesparados SC on black Vespa Sprint, John on a silver LML Star Deluxe and James from Aces SC on a cream Lambretta TV175.

Our first sight of the dam

Well there has to be at least one photo of the Super Villain, me.

Meeting up with the other Vespa riders from Roodepoort

Meeting up with too other Posers, Duds and Charlie

Now what do we have under Charlie's seat?

 

The Vespacar