Guest post from Kirk in Pasadena So there was this film. It was Czech I'm sure, sometime in the 1960s likely, black & white definitely. It involved existentially dissatisfied bohemian youth, there was a gymnasium and coffee drinking and a fantastically bleak Eastern European flat and some zipping about on brilliant scooters through streets with old buildings and Soviet Brutalist architecture. Or at least I think it did, I'm beginning to wonder if it wasn't some sort of flashb

Guest post from Kirk Gee Motorcycles are cool. That's a simple fact- from T.E. Lawrence on his Brough to the classic outlaw chopper, the ferocious streetbike, the renaissance of Scramblers and street trackers to my mate Andy running his lovingly maintained T150 around Minneapolis in the short riding season, it's all cool with just a frisson of danger. Open any of the nearly 50 issues of this very publication randomly and you'll find cool. The scooter however, is a more diffi

Dave Taylor, Sideburn event DJ, regular show-booth operative and quirky vehicle enthusiast explains his attraction to leftfield scooters from the IWL Troll to the Honda Spacy via post-punk icons Devo. The motor scooter. A form of two-wheeled motorised transportation that divides opinion with the motorcycling community. Derided by many motorcyclists (who have never ridden one) based on their own pre-conceived stereotyping: It’s a girls bike, it’s a hairdryer, it’s a puff chari

This is another of the columns I originally wrote for Cafe Racer magazine is France a while ago. Hope you enjoy it. May 1987. I turned 16 on Tuesday and had bought a Vespa by the weekend. I must be honest, I had no interest in motorcycles then, just scooters. When I was a kid I remember a teenager on the next street had a Honda Super Dream CB250N, but I couldn’t have given less fucks about it. A guy who volunteered at our local youth club wore a leather WWII-style flight jack