Isle Of Man Scooter Rally - Fri 6th to Sun 8th July

After the club meet on Tuesday night, it was decided for all the club members who are going to The Isle of Man to meet up at The Grosvenor pub on Friday morning the 6th July at 8-30am. This seems very early but all scooterists have to book into the ferry teminal by 10-30am at the latest on Friday, so we want to make sure that there is a margin of time for latecomers and dare I say it without tempting fate the 'B' word, if anyone was to have problems between Chester and Liverpool. Can everyone please check over their scooter's during next week looking at all the basics, wheel nuts tight, tyre condition and air pressure OK, cables all working, exhaust all tight and paintwork polished of course !!

We intend to go up the A41 through Bromborough and through the old tunnel and take the docks turn off, to bring us out by the Liver Building.

Please remember to bring:-

Ferry and Hotel Bookings,
Full tank of petrol - N.B. No petrol cans are allowed on ferry,
Two stroke oil,
Any scooter spares you might need,
Your Chester Scooter Club Banner,
Suitable riding gear if the weather is wet.

Let's make it a great week-end and one to remember,

Graham.

New Brighton - Storm The Fort Run 2007

Try this link for more pictures, see if you can see yourself !!!
http://www.vespa.org.uk/cloud9-07-lancs.html

After picking up some of the lads at The Yacht pub on the way up the Wirral we made 13 scooters in total, which was a pretty good show. The weather gods were kind to us today and it got brighter and brighter as we we went up the wirral and when we arrived at The Fort the sun was shining, the tide was in and there was a fresh smell of ozone off the sea. However there weren't many scooters when we arrived, but by 1pm that had changed and the whole parking area was soon full of scooters from all over the north west.

Well done to John for winning best vintage Lambretta in the custom show with his lovely TV 200, which was well deserved, hard luck to Darren, but at least you have had your TV featured in Scootering. It was nice to meet up with a few people I hadn't seen for a while, Karl on his Blues Brothers, and Eric Larkey, even Barry Turner was on two wheels this time. It was nice to meet Dave's mate from West Kirby again (sorry forgot your name), who turned up riding a Raleigh Runabout pedal start moped, which was something different and in lovely condition.

Anyway here are a series of photographs of the day taken by Dave, you can click on the slideshow for larger images if you want.

Wrexham rideout photo to use as a desktop photo

Had a play with the line up photo at the Cafe and have used it as my computer desktop photo. (lots of white space too put your desktop icons)

Feel free to do the same.

P.S. sorry to Brian, Sid and his son Joe who loitered in the shot and had to be removed 'digitally'.

Email me for a decent sized picture if it doesn't appear as such on this site... peter.morrissey@virgin.net

See you all Sunday.. every weather forecast has different views... time for Pint half full philosophy.

Regards, Pete, and thanks Dave for sorting out the invite to be able to post on our website.

Storm The Fort - New Brighton Run Sunday 17th June

It was decided last night at the club that we would leave at 11 - O Clock from The Grosvenor in Handbridge. We will be going along the Chester high road and calling in at the Yacht pub, so if you want to meet there, get there by 11-20 am. We will then carry on up the high road through Neston, Heswall, West Kirby and then on to New Brighton, to arrive around 12 to 12-30.

Wrexham Ride - Out Daves Pictures

This is Dave's selection of photo's from the Wrexham ride out, It looks like Blogger have altered the way photo's are displayed again, so now you get an instant slideshow without clicking on the image, but you can click on the image to go straight to the web album for larger images if you want, anyway hope you enjoy them -Graham.

Wrexham Ride Out Photo Album

The Magnificant Eleven !!!

Llangollen Ride ,Wrexham S.C.

Thanks to Gray for the previous update and photo on last Sundays rideout .The weather forecast was once again very pessimistic .When I arrived at Clubbies as was surprised to find so many already there . Lots of new faces,in the shape of the newly formed Ellesmere Port Scooter Club and very welcome they were to ! Haggis (Nomads + Cloud 9 )also joined up with us for the ride to Wrexham .23 scooters left Clubbies for Wrexham arriving in the usual disarray at the Walnut Tree pub ,a good venue but the rideout has massively out grown it . Blast off was at 1pm and it was said 300 left this year,it did look more this year . The Marshalling was up to the usual high standard that Wxm S.C. always provideso even Chester lads cant get lost !Good photo opportunity at the Ponderosa on the Horseshoe Pass,ten lammies and something else on the end !Sorry Bernie couldnt resist it !! The new legshield banners made a good showand Big Jimmy from cloud 9 said he didnt knowuntil he saw the banners that we were up and running again ,so they do work .(only 2 spare ones now ,all the rest are spoken for ) . We all made it back to the Walnut tree o.k. unlike the couple from Shrop[shire who came off.Thankfully not badly hurt .Ive read of scooters seizing as they run out of fuel but never really believed the engine would keep turning long enough to exhaust the lubrication already on the piston before it conked out ! After an hour or so back in Wxm we starte to work our way home ,the group heading towards Chester made it back in the dry ,but the ones heading north ran headlong into a cloudburst that had been threatening all afternoon . The main road through Buckley was flooded ,so I did about 100 yards on the pavementto avoid the deep water ,evetually arriving home soaked and frozen but after a grand day out !!Many thanks to our mates in Wrexham Scooter Club for once again organising a spectacular ride . Dave

Wrexham Ride-Out Ponderosa Cafe Photo

Thanks and apologies for nicking Peter's copyright, but this was a photo that Pete posted on the Lambretta Club site, (events section) which I thought was well worth putting up on here, allbeit a small scale image. Spot the odd one out competition, (Bernie you really must ride your Lambrettas more !!!)

By the way the story about the accident that we all saw on the Wrexham by-pass was that the scooter rider involved needed to reach down to turn his fuel to reserve, whilst doing this the engine had a slight nip up and he sadly lost control of his scoot, spilling himself and his girlfriend down the road. However there were no serious injuries sustained, but very nasty all the same.

Hopefully either me or Dave will be able to post up more pictures of the day at a later date.