Scooter Lifestyle

It’s over sixty years since the first Italian scooters rolled off the production lines but there is still a buzzing and vibrant lifestyle with the humble scooter as its nucleus. The small capacity machines have overtaken the lives of thousands of devoted scooter enthusiasts, often to the detriment of everything else they might hold dear. Careers, relationships, and families have been known to suffer because of an overwhelming and expensive addiction to the scooter experience. An addiction to which there is no cure for needing the sickly sweet smell of synthetic two stroke oil and worship at the altar of our chosen gods, Lambretta and Vespa (or occasionally Gilera and Italjet). All too many devoted scooter enthusiasts are permanently ingrained with the oily tattoos of a thousand engine rebuilds and with major organs having suffered the long term effect of a scooter orientated and hedonistic lifestyle. Including interviews with well known Scootering personalities, over 150 colour photographs or award winning custom scooters, best selling scooter models, rallies and events, Scooter Lifestyle will have an extraordinary appeal for anyone interested in these fun and all-to-addictive machines! – Midwest Book Review.

Ian Grainger has lived the scooter way of life since the tender age of 13. He’s attended, organised, DJ’d at and worked on scooter rallies and events for the past 20 years. Ian, or ‘Iggy’ as he’s usually known, writes for all the major scooter magazines, including Scootering, TAG and Scooterist Scene. He also writes road tests and features for various regional newspapers.