Thanks to everybody who entered our ‘What’s in your shed’ competition. We had a fair few entries but there can be only one winner and it goes to the sender of the photo above.
The entry was sent in by Sean Robinson, Sean runs the Garagistas Facebook page and creates some weird and wonderful scooters in his spare time – as you can see below. He wins a pair of weekend tickets to the Shed rally.
We asked Sean to explain exactly what he’s got tucked away in his garage and why….
A couple of years ago I started building my Vespa project scooter. I wanted to step away from the usual chop projects with no legshields and extended forks looking like a praying mantis, so I went for the fat look with a capital PH! It kept changing and evolving with bits of sheet badly welded on by myself (I have improved my welding a bit). It’s got a 210 mildly tuned lump, it’s hard-tailed and scruffy looking, just how I like it. It is fuck ugly but I never wanted that look. It’s all been done in my single garage with no permanent electric..
Once that was on the road my idle thumbs couldn’t stay still and I made the next one, inspired by the french Kabin scooters of the 50s/60s. I acquired some battered bodywork off a 1950s Morris Oxford and a rusty PX frame then went to work creating my Scootacar.. it took six months of Sundays and odd afternoons to do but it sailed through its MoT (after much laughter) and has now been on the road nearly a year. I took it to Little Brittany earlier this year and won the build off trophy.
The other two are my current time wasters, the little chop frame came as it is but it’s for my stepson. We’re going to fit his heavily tuned 210 into it, 3-inch extended forks and Mustang tank with turned down bars and the LD horncasting.
The other long chop is my latest build, it was a dead early Rally 200 frame (so I’m told) cut in half, extended and raked with Sprint panels fitted. The tank is an old Enfield one, the headlight came off a Citroën 2CV and it has an old Harley seat, plus 6-inch extended forks with foot gear change. Hopefully I’ll finish this in time for either the Warmwell rally, or maybe earlier. I can’t blame anyone else for these bikes I am the perpetrator of these abominations, though several of the spare bits and pieces I’ve got from really good mates and friends I’ve made on the Garagistas Facebook group, which I started up 2 years ago. It’s a gathering of bike/scooter and car garage/shed workshop living room and small business owners who get oily doing their thing…
What next? Well a mate of mine challenged me to a mini scooter build so we each set about building wee scooters. Mine is probably only ever going to be a potter around a rally site ride but it could easily go on the road with a ‘daylight’ MoT. The frame is a bit of Vespa and my wife’s cross trainer chassis mated together with cutdown Sprint forks an old cement mixer fuel tank and it’s currently running a standard PX 125 engine – though I have an 8′ wheel VBB engine to fit at some point. The worried looking blue PX next to it is our two up bike and has a malossi 166 kit but I’m under orders not to cut it down.
’nuff said!
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Thanks to everybody who entered our ‘What’s in your shed’ competition. We had a fair few entries but there can be only one winner and it goes to the sender of the photo above.
The entry was sent in by Sean Robinson, Sean runs the Garagistas Facebook page and creates some weird and wonderful scooters in his spare time – as you can see below. He wins a pair of weekend tickets to the Shed rally.
We asked Sean to explain exactly what he’s got tucked away in his garage and why….
A couple of years ago I started building my Vespa project scooter. I wanted to step away from the usual chop projects with no legshields and extended forks looking like a praying mantis, so I went for the fat look with a capital PH! It kept changing and evolving with bits of sheet badly welded on by myself (I have improved my welding a bit). It’s got a 210 mildly tuned lump, it’s hard-tailed and scruffy looking, just how I like it. It is fuck ugly but I never wanted that look. It’s all been done in my single garage with no permanent electric..
Once that was on the road my idle thumbs couldn’t stay still and I made the next one, inspired by the french Kabin scooters of the 50s/60s. I acquired some battered bodywork off a 1950s Morris Oxford and a rusty PX frame then went to work creating my Scootacar.. it took six months of Sundays and odd afternoons to do but it sailed through its MoT (after much laughter) and has now been on the road nearly a year. I took it to Little Brittany earlier this year and won the build off trophy.
The other two are my current time wasters, the little chop frame came as it is but it’s for my stepson. We’re going to fit his heavily tuned 210 into it, 3-inch extended forks and Mustang tank with turned down bars and the LD horncasting.
The other long chop is my latest build, it was a dead early Rally 200 frame (so I’m told) cut in half, extended and raked with Sprint panels fitted. The tank is an old Enfield one, the headlight came off a Citroën 2CV and it has an old Harley seat, plus 6-inch extended forks with foot gear change. Hopefully I’ll finish this in time for either the Warmwell rally, or maybe earlier. I can’t blame anyone else for these bikes I am the perpetrator of these abominations, though several of the spare bits and pieces I’ve got from really good mates and friends I’ve made on the Garagistas Facebook group, which I started up 2 years ago. It’s a gathering of bike/scooter and car garage/shed workshop living room and small business owners who get oily doing their thing…
What next? Well a mate of mine challenged me to a mini scooter build so we each set about building wee scooters. Mine is probably only ever going to be a potter around a rally site ride but it could easily go on the road with a ‘daylight’ MoT. The frame is a bit of Vespa and my wife’s cross trainer chassis mated together with cutdown Sprint forks an old cement mixer fuel tank and it’s currently running a standard PX 125 engine – though I have an 8′ wheel VBB engine to fit at some point. The worried looking blue PX next to it is our two up bike and has a malossi 166 kit but I’m under orders not to cut it down.
ScooterLab Directory
Don’t forget to have a look at our Directory It lists most of the scooter events around the UK and Europe and comes complete with Google mapping to help you find a campsite, or give you directions to a town, event or shop. It also has a list of dealers and services plus you can list your scooter club on there for free.
Wow thanks for that wasn’t expecting to win… I just tinker in the garage letting my imagination go and seeing if I can turn them into real rideable bikes… keep up the good work SLUK and taking scootering forward..
You’ve gotta be in it to win it, keep tinkering Sean!