Northern Aces / Rugby Club Rally 2007

Here are a small selection of pictures from last Saturday's rally at The Rugby Club run by The Northern Aces, where the sun actually shone for once this summer!!

Supertune Shop.. the paint is drying...

As you may know Darren and Johns new shop is opening on Sunday 12th Aug, Come and have a gander and pick up some bargains... See you all there.

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Durham Heifer / Chester Scooter Club Do Video

This is my first attempt at editing and uploading a video to Youtube, so I hope it works and be gentle with me. This is only a small amount of the footage that Mike Wilford took on the day, (Mike you really will have to keep your video arm a bit more still) but it gets the flavour of the day quite well - Enjoy.

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Durham Heifer / Chester Scooter Club Event Report and Pictures

Enjoy the pictures from the day -

The day started with dry weather with even bits of blue sky visible, so it was up and get ready and down to The Grosvenor in Handbridge for the 11am mass rideout over to Ade + Lisa's. There was an excellent turn out of scooters when I arrived and by 11-15am there must have been 90 scooters that left Handbridge for the rideout, which took the route down the Wrexham Road, along the A55 and off at Sainsbury's rounabout for the easy run down the A41 to Broxton.
Most of the scooters arrived at The Durham Heifer O.K. at around 12- noon, with only one or two minor breakdowns and one lad who had a puncture.
Ade + Lisa had worked very hard to make the pub very welcoming and they were soon hard at work cooking the burgers and hot dogs on the BBQ. The rear garden was well set out with loads of seating and there was plenty of covered areas ready for the inevitable rain that was to come later. The far side of the pub was set up for the trade stands and there were at least five different stands selling scooter parts and clothing, which was very impressive. The scooters just kept coming and coming and at it's busiest at about 1pm we estimated there were 150 scooters parked up around the pub.
The band 'Moses' arrived a little later than planned at about 1-45pm but soon got set up in the covered gazebo in the garden, the wait was well worth it as they soon got into playing their excellent covers of the Jam and Paul Weller and also played tracks from The Small Faces, The Who, Jet and others. The band really lifted the spirit of the crowd as the rain started to lash down, but it didn't deter Dave Buckley from his dance routine and he was soon joined by others happily dancing in the rain.
Chester Scooter Club would like to thank all the scooterists who made the effort to come and support this event, some travelling long distances from Liverpool, Southport, Stoke on Trent and North Wales, we hope you all enjoyed yourselves and were not too dissapointed that we didn't do any custom show or gave prizes for other categories, but as this was a first for us we just wanted to keep things simple and make sure people just relaxed and had a good time.
Also a big thank you must go out to Adrian and Lisa and family for having the bottle to host this event at The Durham Heifer, which is a wonderful venue with plenty of room and has great potential for further scooter events, thank you very much - roll on next year.

The Chester Scooter Club / Durham Heiffer Rally

Just a reminder for all that the Durham Heiffer pub rally is on this Sunday the 22nd July, please try and come along and support this event, mass rideout from The Grosvenor Arms pub in Handbridge, Chester at 11 am.

Click on flyer below for details.

Darren and John's New Supertune Shop Open Day

Supertunes new shop is having an open day on Sunday 12th of August at its new premises on Hoole Road, Chester. all stock will have a 10% discount for people on the day and some things will be even cheaper!! vintage scooters on display, custom show etc and 3 pubs all within 100 yards! any extra info ring john on 07968 750904

Isle of Man Scooter Rally - Report and Pictures.

Well a fantastic week-end was had by all and nine scooters left Clubbies a little later than planned due to the ferry being delayed because of high winds in the Irish Sea. We had a trouble free if blustery ride through to the Isle of Man ferry terminal in Liverpool and checked in and parked up together to wait for the ferry to come in. The 11-15am sailing soon developed into a 1-15pm sailing, but as soon as the ferry arrived we were all fairly quickly aboard with the scooters strapped down.
The crossing proved to be a pretty rough storm force 7 affair with most people going fairly quiet and sitting still to get through any feelings of sea sickness. We arrived in Douglas around 4pm and all headed off to find our hotels. The lads who stayed at The Chester House Hotel (which was the headquarters) had night time do's arranged for both Friday and Saturday night in the club underneath the Hotel.
We woke up Saturday morning to bright sunshine and light winds and after a full English breakfast and a stroll down the prom, we made our way to the TT start and finish grandstand for the big ride out. When we all arrived you could really see how many scooterists had supported Barry's event, there must have been the best part of 200 scooters in attendance, most from the northwest, but some from further afield, Ireland and two guys had ridden all the way from France for this event.
12.30pm saw the start of the ridout, which was in the opposite direction round the TT course than the bikes normally do, so we headed out over the mountain section first and enjoyed the marvellous views down into Ramsay from the top. The half way stop was Gingers pub at Sulby, which was ideal and very relaxing, with the following section down through Kirk Michael having lovely twisting bends which were superb scootering roads and you could really start to understand how this island is perfect for two wheels, whatever you ride. The final section skirted close to Peel and cut back across the island through little villages and back down to Douglas. There was just time for a sit down at a quayside cafe for afternoon coffee and then it was time to gather at the Ferry Terminal ready for the second rideout to Peel. Just as we were getting complacent with the hot and sunny weather, half way to Peel the heavens opened and a we all got caught in a heavy rain shower. However it was well worth it as the town of Peel is quite unique with very narrow streets and we soon found ourselves down at the quayside at a lovely pub that Barry had selected, after an easy ride back it was quick change for Saturday night's entertainment.
We all woke on Sunday morning to a perfect sunny seaside morning and after a full english breakfast some decided on a little rideout over to Laxey, while others just chilled out in Douglas until lunchtime when it was time to go and get the ferry home.
The ferry crossing home was trouble free and very calm and we docked in Liverpool at about 4-45pm. It was a nice idea of Mike Wilford to ride over and meet us off the ferry and we set off through the old tunnel and down the A41 and back to Chester, "edit" with the Chester lads just missing a massive thunderstorm on the way home, but unfortunately the North Wales riders rode straight into a torrential storm.

I think that everyone had a really great week-end due to the good weather, good company of fellow scooterists, but most of all the great organisation and hard work put in by Barry Turner and Debbie, so a big thankyou Barry and Debbie from all the Chester Scooter Club members who attended, roll on next year.