We’re back after a longer than usual festive break. Don’t worry though, we were SLUKing rather than slacking last week. We’ve been busy editing some more of the Pinasco 251 build videos, we’ll be bringing you the next part in that series soon.

We’ve also got a factory visit to Italian tuning house BFA. Sticky was there before Christmas and they’ve got some tasty new products to show off. The first part of that feature will be live tomorrow. There may also be some exciting news from BFA for Lambretta riders…

SLUK/Brogue Trader SSR 265 We’ve also got the final part of our long-awaited SLUK SSR 265 project, in fact, this one has taken so long that the original scooter has spawned a Vespa T5 sibling. This is one project/feature that didn’t quite go to plan and took almost four years in the making! Anyway, we’ll be bringing you that soon as well. With a combined horsepower of close to 100 the on board footage of these two scooters will keep any petrol heads happy.

If you’ve noticed the rogue text (above) on lots of old articles when you’re looking through our archives find out below why it’s been bugging us too!
Behind the scenes Despite being triple jabbed, last year our website suffered a malware infection. The pesky little bug burrowed into many of our older articles and replaced the text and many of the photos with a random snippet of repeated text (see image above where pint sized scooter sprinter Pete Newbold has been the stuff of nightmares!). We’re still recovering from that attack and sadly many of our old posts and articles are affected (or infected). There’s also no way to repair most of them, news items are usually written direct to the website and some articles are as well so it looks like we’ll be losing some of our archive material. Hitting ‘delete’ on 560 articles is heartbreaking but it looks like it’s going to have to be done.
SLUK app

On an ‘appier note, our SLUK app is just undergoing final testing and will be available for FREE DOWNLOAD shortly on both IOS and Android. We’ll bring you the details as soon as we’re happy with it. Like many things, Covid has had an effect on the app development so it’s running about two years late. It will contain all the usual features of the website but in a more condensed, mobile-friendly format.

Have you got news for us?

If you’re a scooter parts manufacturer, tuner or fabricator and have something new to show off we’d love to hear from you. Your product or business could be showcased by us around the world to a much larger scooterist audience than a Facebook post.

Email us at: editorial@scooterlab.uk

Also if you’re a scooterist with a story to tell, trip to share, bodge to show off or anything you think SLUK readers would like to know about get in touch!