Letter from the Editor
A warm welcome to the January issue of Scootering.
New Year, new opportunities! I can’t tell you how much I’m looking forward to the scootering year of 2018. The past two years of being editor have taken up a lot of my time in ‘repositioning’ things here at the magazine but I can now honestly say, I feel things are quite balanced at the moment, not perfect… but balanced. So I want to now focus on the year ahead, and see what new challenges we have to look forward to. I don’t want to give too much away at this point, but two recent projects I’ve been putting in the groundwork on have been particularly enjoyable for me, especially due to my soft spot for tech-stuff.
The first project was to be invited down to Replay Scooters by owner Paul ‘Chalky’ White, to strip down his BSSO race winning engine, with the intent of laying it all bare in the magazine. It’s a very rare, in fact almost unique, occurrence that a scooter builder/ tuner lets you through the door and tells you, well, everything – port timings, ignition settings, component choices, component failures… the lot. But Chalky did, and we have the information and images for you next month. The second project which was enjoyable for me, was to work on the Quattrini Lambretta 210 kit report, because we managed to cover this in two key stages.
Firstly, Max Quattrini himself took our reporter Christian in for an ‘all Italian’ interview, and secondly I was invited over to Chiselspeed, to be the first UK scooter journalist to test-ride their Quattrini 210 Lambretta. You’ll have seen the Max Quattrini interview already in last month’s edition, and next month will see the Chiselspeed test day report, complete with comparative dyno graphs against other small block kits on the market and info on their bespoke exhaust range. It’s not all fun and games behind the scenes – there’s a lot of hard work which goes into making the magazine – but it’s days like these that make it worthwhile for me (Stan might argue it was his Month in Italy, but there you go). But in either case, I’m looking forward to a lot more days just like that in 2018. Anyway enough of my ramblings, it’s another belter this month, have a Merry Christmas, a Happy New Year, and most importantly of all… enjoy the issue.