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.

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.

Leg Shield Banners

The leg shield banners have arrived .R+R Graphics have made them for us with " Chester Scooter Club " , "On Tour " and a couple of target roundalls they look strong enough with Four brass eyelets that wont scratch your scooter . They have cost us £8.50 each so thats the price . Eight went at the meeting last night so ring me soon if you want one weve got eleven left,but some are already spoken for . I'll bring some with me on Sunday for the Wrexham rideout . Dave

Wrexham Scooter Club Ride Out This Sunday 3rd June

If it ever stops raining this ride out should be the usual very well supported event, which seems to get bigger every year. We will be leaving The Grosvenor pub at 12 noon this Sunday 3rd June, to meet up for the mass ride out from Wrexham which starts at 1 pm.

Click on the flyer for more details.

Wrexham Rideout

Leek Jesters Photo Album

Leek Jesters Scooterfest 3

These are my selection of photos from the Leek Jesters day -
Click on the image above and select slideshow -enjoy

P.S. There are loads of other pictures of the day on the Jesters web site, reached via the links tab on the side-bar.

Leek Jesters Scooter Run

The good weather kept up on Sunday and 4 scooters left The Grosvenor, picking up Gavin at the rugby club making 5 in total. We all had a smooth trouble free run over to Leek, bumping into Carsy's Northern Aces in a 'fag break' lay-by. The Jester's put on a fantastic event which was very well supported by scooterists from all over the north west and the midlands, with lads from Wolverhampton, Walsall, Manchester and even some of the guys from Llandudno made the trip. The Hog Roast was delicious and there are so many pubs around the market square in Leek that you can't go wrong, the young lads in the band were very 'LOUD' but very good in a sort of Arctic Monkeys Stylee.

We all left around 3 pm for the ride back to Chester, going back the same way through Stoke and Nantwich, but both Bernie and me had minor breakdowns due to spark plug problems, but hey ho that's scooters for you.

The full set of pictures of the day will be loaded up soon.

Leek Jesters Scooter Fest 3

For Everyone who is Interested in going on this rally this Sunday 20th May, we will be leaving The Grosvenor pub at 10-30am for the 45 mile ride down through Nantwich and Stoke and up to Leek. The weather forecast is for a cloudy breezy day with maybe a shower, but no heavy rain is forecast at the moment !!!, so fingers crossed.

Liverpool Scooter Rally Photos

Liverpool Scooter Rally

These are a selection of photos taken by Dave on the day, I agree that the venue looked really good, pity it was spoiled by such a wet day.

Liverpool Scooter Club Rally

Six scooters left Clubbies just after 12 noon for agood dry ride to Liverpool Cricket Club Ground at Aigburth .The mass ride had already arrived when we got there at 1pm . It was agood turnout of probably 200 ? scooters wich was good considering the lousy forecast ,mostly from the Lancashire Alliance clubs ,but several welsh based clubs had made the effort . Within an hour of our arrival the weathermans predictions came to pass and a steady drizzle stayed with us for the rest of the afternoon . Liverpool scooter club had picked an excellent venue and laid on all the rally necessities including a really talented three piece local band "GRACE " who played excellent covers of rally favourites . We left after the raffle ,Mike missing out by one number,to a very unpleasant wet ride home ! Iam sure it was a dissapointment for the organisers the day was so poor ,but also so many scooterists panic and run for home at the first sign of rain .If you are already out when it starts ,what difference does it make .Well done to all the Chester members all of whom stayed on . More pictures to follow soon . Dave .

Ade + Lisa's Durham Heiffer Pub Do Full Colour Flyer

This is the full colour flyer that Ade has produced for his pub do in July, I understand that this flyer will be published in the next edition of Scootering.

Liverpool Rideout Sunday May 13th

This Sunday is the Liverpool Scooter clubs Rally .Any members wanting to go meet @the Grosvenor Arms ,handbridge at about 11..00 am .we will take our time going overto arrive @aigburth cricket ground at about 12.45 as the ride out comes in from the city center . See more details and poster on our events page on this site .See you Sunday ,Dave . If you need to get in touch my number is 07773 669330 .

Ade tells me he has booked the band MOSES for the Rally on JULY 22nd @the Durham Heiffer . A rough schedule will be : Meet @ Grosvenor Arms ,Chester at 10.30am Leave at 11.15 either via the city or Wrexham Rd.for the by pass ,then down A41 to arrive at the Durham Heiffer @ 12 noon for BBQ,Live band and stalls .Tell as many people as possible about the event ,cause if its a success Ade and Lisa will probably run it again .The location is spot on for clubs from all over the place to get to . More info on having a trade stall F.O.C. (scooter related gear only ) and any other questions contact Ade Jones ,the Durham Heiffer ,Nantwich Rd ,Broxton ,Chester CH39JH. 01829 782253 . Dave .