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Syds Run 2024 Syds Run is an annual moped-scooter-stepthru-clipon run and has been going since 1995. Initially it was a pedal powered moped run, held on the closest Saturday to November 24 remembering Syd Falconer. He ran the event for nearly 20 years and after he passed away, his son […]
Read moreCanscoot Show Weekend 2024 – Another enjoyable scooter trip, around some awesome scenery in the South Island and a good catch up with other scooter enthusiasts. The plan was to meet the Canscoot mob and stay overnight in Twizel. Trojan, my trusty blue PX, was up for the job […]
Read moreItaly Vespa tour 2024 Recently we were lucky enough to travel to Italy and meet up with Canscoot, a Christchurch based scooter club. This trip had been planned for some time and a lot of thought and effort had gone into making it an adventure not to forget. We were […]
Read moreBurt 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 […]
Read moreCanscoot March Hare 2023 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 of the PX200’s are […]
Read moreBurt Munro 2023 The 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 […]
Read moreCurling 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 […]
Read moreHaving lived in Southland most of my life, I had never heard of this and looked it up online. Run by the Clutha Valley Tuapeka Heritage Trust this service has been going since 1896. Some 25 punts used to operate on the Clutha River but now there is only the […]
Read moreLake 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 […]
Read moreRiding over 500kms in a day on a scooter, can be quite daunting for some people but is something my friends and I do as regularly as we can. Based where we are at the bottom of Aotearoa we generally tend to have to travel to attend the different scooter […]
Read moreBrass 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 […]
Read moreAs 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 […]
Read moreThe 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 […]
Read moreCanscoot March Hare ride 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 having […]
Read moreVespa Stretch Most of the scooter enthusiasts that I know, enjoy their vintage scooters for what they are – classically styled forms of transport that require some maintenance and a lot of patience to be safe and fun to ride. Many are just collectors and store their treasures away while […]
Read moreMotoretta 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 […]
Read moreBurt Munro 2018 Wow, what an awesome weekend! This is the first time the drags have been run as an event in the Burt Munro challenge rally and it was very well received. You don’t have to like motorcycles to appreciate the drags as the concept is very simple – […]
Read moreCanscoot 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 […]
Read moreWinter is here and we recently had a -6 frost, just nippy enough really. Not much to report on the scooter front as the new workshop is still under construction. The Bajaj was left outside in the interim and has expressed its disgust by leaking oil in the new carport. […]
Read moreMotoretta 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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