Welcome letter from the Editor

A warm welcome to the April edition of Scootering

Right off the bat, this month I want to quickly make mention of the new videos we have been placing on our Scootering Facebook page. In this age of social media, it would be remiss of us not to get involved and move with the times, so I’ve dipped my toe in the water and had a crack at a few videos. I hope you enjoy them. Online presence is not our primary focus here at Scootering, even though we have a fantastic website (scootering.com), which is full of interesting stuff, a wellestablished scooter forum (scooterotica.org) where scooterists can interact and share info with each other, and a popular Facebook page (with over 64,000 likes).

We do like to stay old school. Well, I do, anyway. It just seems there is a new platform at every juncture, and for me that’s video content. Don’t worry though, we save all the really juicy stuff for the magazine, although we do give away teasers as to what’s coming up, and tips on what you can look forward to in the mag. We’ve put a few videos out there, so take a peek via our FB page and enjoy. I’d love to hear feedback from you as to what you’d like to see on the video stream for future concepts, so feel free to email us with your ideas. Racing, tuning, rebuilds, custom shows, rally reports... if you want it, and we can do it, then we will try.

Back in the world of print, the mag is looking mighty good this month. We undertook test rides side by side on the Royal Alloy and Lambretta 200cc models, to see what we made of them. Check out our reports on pages 48-53. Stan has also delivered the final instalment of his epic journey along the Ho Chi Minh trail; Jamie brought us back a cracking report from the Scooterist Meltdown in Germany (p106); Stu delivered us this year’s Burton Brewers updates (p94); and I started on the Targa Tech updates. It’s a great start to the season for us all.

Anyway, that’s enough of my ramblings. It’s another belter this month… enjoy the issue.