2017 Events

Motoretta Tourist Trophy Friday the 21st April to Tuesday the 25th April. If you can only go on one scooter ride a year, make it this one. A 4 day, 1000 mile team ride for classic geared scooters. An epic test of man and machine, taking in the best roads and scenery […]

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Burt Munro Challenge 2016

Burt Munro Challenge 2016 Recently we attended the 11th annual Burt Munro Challenge with scooter friends from around the country. This years event coincided with the opening of the new Classic Motorcycle Mecca here in Tay St. The Bill Richardson Transport World and Motorcycle Mecca are both world class collections […]

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Motoretta Tourist Trophy 2016

Motoretta Tourist Trophy 2016. “It is the responsibility of riders to ensure both they and their scooter are road legal. All scooters must be registered and carry a current Warrant of Fitness. Registration plates must belong to that vehicle. If a scooter is found to be in breach, the rider […]

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2016 Events

The 12th NZ Classic Scooter Club national scooter rally 19-21 February    Fri 12 AM · Tatum Park · Manakau   A weekend of scooter goodness. The NZ Classic Scooter Club was started in 1995 as a register of owners of old, interesting or unusual: scooters mopeds clip on bicycle motors Stepthru’s […]

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Motoretta Tourist Trophy 2015

Motoretta Tourist Trophy 2015. This was the first of the event previously known as the Mille Miglia Scooter Challenge. Christiaan from  Retroscooter and his hard working team outdid themselves this year with a sublime event. With around 70 scooters taking part this year the scene was set for some serious competition and […]

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2015 Events

35th Annul Brass Monkey Rally Queens Birthday Weekend Saturday 30th May – Sunday 31st May Idaburn Dam, Oturehua, Central Otago.     Motoretta Tourist Trophy Thursday 23rd – Sunday 26th April 2015 A four day, 1000 mile team ride for classic geared scooters. An epic test of man and machine, […]

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Southern Scoot in Africa

Recently we were fortunate enough to be able to travel to South Africa and to go on two Safari’s. The two Lodges – Hoyo Hoyo in the Kruger national park in South Africa and Muchenje in the Chobe national park in Botswana were just awesome. Most of what you see […]

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NZ Motoretta Tourist Trophy

Southern Scoot is part of team ARSCRAC and will be riding with a newly rebuilt SS180 motor by Mike at Not a motorcycle shop. The logistics are not too bad for this trip with the scooter already in Mikes workshop in Wellington. Mrs Southern Scoot is going to be involved […]

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Waiheke Scooter Rally

Waiheke Scooter Rally Recently we were lucky enough to attend this event as an addition to a planned family holiday to the north island. Big thanks to Christiaan from Retroscooter who was kind enough to lend me his SS180 for the rally and to put us up for the night […]

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Mods and Rockers 2014

Mods and Rockers 2014 Rack up another convincing win on Saturday to the MODs in the MAR yet again despite dubious judging and rigged events in the greasy Rockers favour. A barbecue to start off with at the First European motorcycle shop, 114 Carlyle Street in Sydenham and then a […]

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Mods and Rockers 2014

Mods and Rockers 2014 The mods and rockers were two conflicting British youth subcultures of the early to mid-1960s and 1970s. Media coverage of mods and rockers fighting in 1964 sparked a moral panic about British youths, and the two groups became labelled as folk devils. Direct from the horse’s […]

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Mille Miglia 2014 – Done

Mille Miglia 2014 Well it’s been a couple of weeks since the Mille Miglia Scooter Challenge and the memories are still very good of the whole experience. Since then, due to a copyright infringement, the organisers have had to rename the event. From next year the event will be known […]

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2014 Events

Mille Miglia 2014 The Mille Miglia (Italian meaning – Thousand Miles) was an open-road endurance race which took place in Italy twenty-four times from 1927 to 1957 (thirteen before the war, eleven from 1947). Mille Miglia is also the name of a jacket, named after the race, inspired by the […]

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Mille Miglia 2014

Mille Miglia 2014   Southern Scoot has joined an Australasian team for this years Mille and is working hard to get an SS180 ready after an unexpected motor meltdown. The logistics are proving as difficult as usual with the wait for parts from overseas, scooter transportation from one end of […]

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Clunk Scooter Club Calendar

Clunk Scooter Club Calendar So whose got some good pictures of their scooter? Looking for that perfect gift for your scooterist? Read the rules, get out there on your scooter, take your camera and get some pictures off to Tara for the next Calendar!! You know you want to.  

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Easter 2013

While on holiday with family in christchurch over the Easter break, the opportunity to join the Canscoot guys on a ride out to Akaroa was too good to miss so the PX was packed onto the trailer for the drive to shakey town. The weather forecast was grim but the […]

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