Burt Munro 2024

  Burt Munro 2024 – Another Burt Munro challenge complete. There was a fair bit of interest in the NZ scooter community for this year’s event and a few north island riders had indicated that they may be keen to get out on the track at Teretonga. The usual social […]

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Canscoot March Hare

Another great ride up through Central Otago to meet up with the Canscoot brigade and then to Dunedin to see the OVC ones. Friday Warm, not much wind and a 200km ride to Alexandra to collect Phillip on his Vespa PX200. Both PX200’s running well but the Trojan isn’t quite […]

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Burt Munro 2023

The Burt Munro 2023 event, started badly with a washout for us on the Wednesday for the Southland Honda track day. The track was very wet and it was blowing – not a good combination for 10″ wheeled, vintage scooters with crappy brakes. For the first time, there were supposed […]

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2023 Events

Burt Munro The best motor racing event in New Zealand. 8th – 12th February https://www.burtmunrochallenge.co.nz/home   Canscoot March Hare run 3rd March – 5th March The team from Christchurch are coming south for a scooter shindig.  http://www.canscoot.co.nz/   Syds Moped Run An annual moped-scooter-stepthru-clipon run since 1995. Held on the […]

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Curling at Naseby

    Naseby is a small town, formerly a borough, in the Maniototo area of Central Otago, New Zealand. It is named after a village in Northamptonshire, England. Canscoot were organising a ride down the west coast and had put forward a Curling challenge for interested scooter riders. This was […]

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Lake Ferry 2021

One of the Auckland guys had organised a ride to Raglan. A group of us from Wellington were keen to go there, but covid 19 put the mockers on that for the top half of the North Island. Some of the team had been to Lake Ferry before and suggested […]

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Brass Monkey 2021

Brass Monkey 2021 40 years on and the “last” one is finally done. Phillip, a local scooterist, has done 39 of them. A pretty good effort, all things considered and on all sorts of bikes, but this one, on a Vespa PX200. The last time I was here, there was […]

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Burt Munro 2021

As we are local, going to “The Burt” is a no brainer. The event still just seems to get bigger every year. It’s a real boost to the Southland economy and there are very few problems. A well known NZ scooterist usually races at the Burt – 2016 event and […]

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The Grand Tour

We have been to Whanganui twice now for the vintage weekend and scootering with friends. We have stayed at the Grand and enjoyed our time there and out and about exploring Whanganui. It is well priced and clean with a good selection of room types available. The Grand Hotel was […]

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2021 Events

The Grand Tour Come and hang with scooter geeks, have a decent length ride out, then hang with scooter geeks again. It’s not a scooter rally. Don’t expect a participation certificate or concours d’elegance waffle-fest because there won’t be one. The idea is all staying at a nice old school […]

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Canscoot March Hare run

    Canscoot March Hare run There aren’t many of us Scooter riders in the deep south, so when the opportunity to mix with other like minded individuals arises, we tend to go and have a look. The Otago Vespa Club and the Canscoot Club from Canterbury were interested in […]

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2020 Events

The Grand Tour Jan 17 at 6 PM – Jan 19 The Grand Hotel Wanganui 99a Guyton Street, Wanganui, New Zealand 4500   36th Vincent County Rally Friday 31st January to Sunday 2nd February 2020 211 Fisher Lane, Galloway – Alexandra Gates Open 12pm Friday Online entries here – https://bronzotago.ecwid.com/36th-VINCENT-COUNTY-RALLY-p121526995 […]

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Motoretta Tourist Trophy 2019

Motoretta Tourist Trophy 2019 The Moto TT for 2019 was a bust for me personally but again was well organised with some awesome roads and destinations. Accomodation was outstanding with 2 nights at the Brackenridge Country Retreat & Spa in Martinborough and 2 nights at DeBretts in Taupo as part […]

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2019 Events

The best motor racing event in New Zealand. 7th – 10th February https://www.burtmunrochallenge.co.nz/home   The best scooter endurance event in New Zealand. 21st April – 25th April http://www.motoretta.co.nz/   The coldest motor racing event in New Zealand. Queens Birthday Weekend – 2nd June /3rd June http://www.brassmonkeyrally.org.nz/

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2018 Events

Burt Munro Challenge Rally 9am, Thursday 8th February – 12pm, Sunday 11th February 2018   MUNRO FAMILY TROPHY The Munro family has generously donated a spectacular trophy which is given to the “Competitor of the Year” at each annual Challenge. The Munro family presents the trophy in honour of Burt […]

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Canscoot Show Weekend Ride 2017

Canscoot Show Weekend Ride 2017 The annual ride with the Canscoot ones from Christchurch was another interesting journey into Central Otago with great weather and awesome riding conditions. We had organised to ride up to Cromwell and then on to Bannockburn to meet up with the rest of the group […]

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Motoretta Tourist Trophy 2017

Motoretta Tourist Trophy 2017 Another fantastic scooter event has finished and finally was located in the South Island. Sadly for some teams from the North Island, this years event was always going to be logistically challenging, however some would say the event was better with the fewer teams that came […]

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