Custom Ciao Santa Cruz

Am Open day 22.04.23 the moped scene showed how strong it is, we received whole groups of fans and among them we saw unique pieces, but one thing caught our eye in particular, and when we were with its owner Marcus Bullock talking, we asked him to tell us more about this beautiful custom Hello Santa Cruz to tell, and he did:

"I still have such old number plates from UTHA here. Take these with you! Otherwise they go in the garbage” So, or something similar, was the sentence when buddy Marc was dissolving a company. At the same time, I remembered my first ciao in my youth, where these types of parts could not be missing in the early 90s. In principle, the idea came up to build a Ciao like I would have wished for back then. The color concept was set insofar as the number plates were not to be painted. A contrasting color was needed, just like it was good form in the 90s!

So yellow, or white? Oh no matter, both!

So began the search for contemporary accessories. Saddle cloth and handlebars from France, white lamps (dyed through) from Switzerland, lamp mask from Italy, red handles / levers from Poland, etc. Some of the parts collected in this country still had pink price tags, one or the other knows which shop that was.

"You used to get all that for a handful of DM?" Those days seem to be over.

engine-wise it had to be a side intake in any case - that was clear. By chance I got a Simonini membrane intake. A replica housing was used paired with a Pinasco full cheek shaft. The water-cooled Polini cylinder with 41mm found its way to me by accident. A good friend of mine liked the idea of ​​the 90s CIAO so much that he let me have it for a good price. Pistons and seals for the water-cooled cylinder drove the scooter somewhere. Likewise, all other required parts such as tyres, bearings, brakes, wiring harness etc. come from Bergheim Glessen. The reservoir in the place where the speedometer normally sits was added as a 3D printed part.

The Ciao is on the road on 16 inch Ten-Spoke rims and the power transmission runs via a series clutch (reinforced) including a belt pulley via an 8,5 Bravo gearbox. The engine is ventilated via a 16 Dellorto carburettor (with a 7-spool valve - important!) and the burned fuel is expelled via a FalkR Reso exhaust. This requires quite high control times, so the rotary engine ran for a not inconsiderable amount of time and ate into the material of the cylinder and the crankcase.

FalkR tuned exhaust lateral view
FalkR tuned exhaust

The frame is a Ciao (C6V moped) which received a strut. On the one hand, a lot of material disappeared to get the side intake through the frame, on the other hand, the frame is already prepared for the Malossi Big Deps with 21 carburettor. Again, some sheet metal disappeared, hence the idea of ​​reinforcement. The Ciao was painted by a good friend, the choice of color was based on the existing plastic parts.

The combination of the colors caused a number of motto suggestions to be made in my garage. After the Wolf lawn mower and, of course, the McDonald-Mobile, I finally decided on the Santa Cruz variant. Moped - skateboard - 90s... that's right!

Marcus Bullock
Flatliners

The day of the event had come and the SC team came to organize their stand with all the news and developments of the bgm.

We thank you all for taking the time for us.

Casa Performance Twin

The engine of the Casa Performance Twin was with ours #ScooterisWeekenderCologne at the premiere, but the test drive of this 250cc 76hp was done in front of all impressed eyes... what a nice Sound that from 14.000 rpm!!!

Lambreta on the road

Custom & Trade show

The scooters are true representatives of the eccentric personalities of the visitors to Meltdown in Kalkar, although we also saw some very nice O-Lacquers and Classics.

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Real Scooterists in Kalkar

And if we can find a place that concentrates these unique Scooter stories, it's at the Scooterist Meltdown, where visitors from England, Germany, the Netherlands and many other places gather to surround themselves with 'normal' people.

Real SC Gallery

And while we'd love to tell the story of each one, we believe the photos speak for themselves.

Thanks Scooterists!
We hope to see you soon and see lots of photos of your new t-shirts on the networks ;)

Pictures photo box

After hours of editing, the photos of our photo box are finally ready and we are happy to show you the pictures!
62 of 166 registered scooters have reported to the photo appointment and there are 128 pictures that you can see under this link can download!

Vespa ET3 - Petra

VyatkaVP150 
Evil Igor
Andreas Spiller – Frida & Carlo

Vespa V50
exposed O-lacquer
Quattrini M200 engine

Lambretta special

Thomas Schultz

Vespa GTS team
Red Barons

Lambretta Li 150 Series 2

Lambretta TV 175 Series 2
mad farmer
Rimini Lambretta Center

Vespa V50N Special - Noah Winzen
Vespa V50S – Tim Bucklitsch

Vespa ACMA V56
Moritz Nagy
Pinasco engine

Lambretta DL / GP
Water-cooled Casa Performance
SSR270 engine

LambrettaDL
Johnny Love Motorsports No7
Martin - Celts RC

Lambretta choppers
Enola gay
Stoffi's garage

Vespa SS 50-90 Replica

Lambretta SX150
Ursula
Airbrush arrow design

V50
Freie Hansestadt Bremen
Peter-Zottel Zossen

Calendar 2023

The Scooterists Weekender Cologne left us a lot of great memories! The highlights were of course the beautiful scooters you brought and we liked them so much that we designed a limited edition of calendars. Twelve months for Vespa and Lambretta fans because the calendar is printed on both sides!

Thanks to everyone who came to the weekender with their scooters - you will find a few of them with a detailed description in our blog soon!

Magazine

scootering

Stan wrote a great report on the event in Scootering Magazine's October issue, with a follow up in the next issue.

We are already looking forward to the next report!!!

Scooter & Classic

It's almost been a month since our weekend party, but we're still totally thrilled that you all came and made the event what it was: A huge custom show highlight with a consistently great atmosphere in every respect ! The complete Scooter Center Team says: THANK YOU!!!

After presenting the winning scooters of the custom show here, today we will show you which clubs, aftermarket dealers, influencers, youtubers, magazines and of course dealers and workshops have come to Cologne. Here, too, we politely curtsey and say: THANK YOU!

Clubs

Bella Ig

2004 since the Bella IG a registered association with the purpose of enabling the preservation, restoration and care of historic scooters from the Zündapp works.

The Bella-IG was founded in 1984 by two Bella enthusiasts. Together with its sister clubs in Great Britain and North America, it now has over 250 members. The "Bella Family" runs a colorful club life with the club magazine, forum, supply and replenishment of Bella parts and the annual Bella meeting organized by IG members in different regions. 

Hidden power

Not only because of the local proximity, we have a particularly good relationship with the club founded in 1990 as Hidden Power Scooter Club Hagen. It emerged from the Hagen Modvereinigung, which was founded in 1986 Volme Parka Society Hagen.
The custom shows organized by Hagen at the beginning of the 2000s set standards that we were happy to use as a guide. With the holidays in
Sauerland, the HiH then also set standards in the run calendar. 

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Celtic Roller Club

Another traditional club from northern Germany whose club stand made us very happy. Founded in 1994 and always at the forefront. At the custom show, the guys across from our bar served ice-cold circulatory stimulants on the rocks with their Jägermeister machine. There were also three trophies for the scooters they brought along.

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Lambretta Club Espana

Felix is ​​a real jack of all trades and as such also president of the Spanish Lambretta Club! Words are really not enough to describe his zest for action and inventiveness! At our weekender he threw himself on the stand of the Spanish Lambretta Club, offered his wonderful book about the Serveta / Lambretta production in Spain and let the small 45s circling out of his record cases on both nights. 

Lambretta Club Germany

Lambretta Club Germany gives you SX appeal. If we have to explain, you wouldn't understand! The usual sympathetic appearance, here in the picture parts of the always cheerful former board member. 

Minus screwdriver

Only a few days left until the 30th anniversary of the minus wrench with drag races as part of the DBM and Nighter in Worpswede. CLICK! With the club name you have to have a sense of humor and be personable! 

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Scoot Devils

Christian and Ronny from Scoot-Devils SC Seevetal brought two rollershop Zirri demonstrators to our last Open Day. BLOG. The two brought a prominently owned Scauri racer to the custom show.

Greetings to Mathias Scherer ;-) We're curious to see what Christian and Ronny will present as the next project. 

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Game room

Self Description: "Metal nonsense, mostly on 10 inches." Beautiful North German understatement! What's rolling out here, qualitatively and quantitatively, is just sick shit from another planet. 

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Spirit of Scooterist 84

Marieke and Marcus have been hyper-active in the German and English scooter scene since the 84s. The '90' ​​in the name refers to the year the Scooterboy cult exploded and has grown in popularity since the XNUMX's. As the organizer of Scooterist Meltdown they have established an international event completely outside of the well-known run calendar in February. Registrations are open ;-) 

Half past the bar

…is in the Scooterszene is a popular slogan to meet friends and like-minded people at an open time on a run or niter and toast together with a cold drink. The resulting organization of the same name takes care of scooterists who have had an accident and – in the worst case – their dependents who are in need. Because some will never be at the bar again at half past.

Vandalizing drool heads Ostholstein

 

One of the first clubs in Germany. Founded in Lübeck in 1986, they started a run on Pentecost that same year, which was based on the English rallies and became a complete success and the start of a movement. Here, too, the club could probably equip a complete custom show alone with the club's own scooters.

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Vesbeachy

Vesbeachi is the all-brand tin scooter meet-up on the beach. The Jelto organizes this and it was a super popular meeting right from the start. The second round will be held at the beginning of October on the beach of Beachclub Nethen and, by popular request, will be extended by one evening. He advertised the Vesbeachi a little with us and if you don't have your tickets yet, you can get help here -> http://www.vesbeachi.de/

Vespa Club Germany

The Vespa Club of Germany eV (VCVD for short) has been around for almost as long as the Vespa has been inspiring the world.
The oldest Vespa clubs in Germany were founded in 1950. The voluntary Vespa Club of Germany is the umbrella organization of the official German Vespa clubs. If you add up the number of drivers organized there, then the Vespa Club of Germany represents the
Interests of over 4.000 Vespa friends and is therefore one of the largest brand clubs in Germany, so we were happy about the visit of the VCVD. 

Vespa boys Colonia

The Vespa Jungs Colonia are an association of Cologne Vespisti who tackle joint activities related to Vespas. The group is really big and the trips together are legendary. 

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Shaggy Zossen

The Zottel Zossen Scooter Association has been around for 33 years and they have set up a number of runs, nighters and custom scooters during this time. You could probably easily set up your own custom show with their customs. That's not the only reason why it was a great honor for us that they came with a lot of cutlery and set up the two largest club stands together with the playroom. 

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Parts market

Lambretta finder

The Sam hit the nail on the head with its business name. With more than 60 used Lambrettas and Vespas in stock in 2840, Rumst, Belgium. If you need or are interested, just contact us info@lambrettafinder.com mail.

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Kolle

scooter station

Thilo & Sebastian

Magazines & Youtube Channels

Tin companions

In addition to his YouTube channel, Timo also has an online shop with selected products that he presented to us. Timo's fairly successful and well-made YouTube channel is all about Vespas. Whether individual conversions, restorations, repairs or tuning. Of course you will also find tutorials on all topics including all sheet metal work or tuning tips. This one Link to YT

Savage Scooters

Savage Scooters is fully committed to PX customizing and tuning. The Kevin knocks out super customs non-stop and his latest work is the CUDA. In addition to Kevin's own scooters, he also had a number of exhibits from his custom calendar project at the start. Kevin introduces customs, shops and everything to do with our scene on his YouTube channel. 

Savagescooters.de

scootering

The Scootering Magazine is the cult magazine from England. Scootering has been published continuously since 1985. Monthly news about customs, restorations, conversions, reviews, technical insights and backgrounds and a deep insight into the scooter scene make Scootering so worth reading. In the current October issue there is also a feature about our weekender.

Scooter Nova

When Andy told us about his plan to publish a print magazine at the Eurolambretta 2016 in Geiselwind, we frowned. And they were completely wrong. ScooterNova has firmly established itself as an independent scooter magazine. ScooterNova Magazine is mega-appealing both in terms of content and aesthetics. The focus is on Lambretta and Vespa scooters, but occasionally there are also reports on DKR, Ducati, IWL, Maico, Moto Rumi, Peugeot, Zundapp and other old scooters. With own words: "Produced in the UK, ScooterNova is a magazine we as scooterists are proud to put our name to, and a magazine that readers are proud to keep on their coffee table." Become!.

Scooteria

If you are into the topic of Modern Vespa and GTS, you will be interested in the Scooteria Youtube channel from Marc can not avoid . His love for Vespas and Lambrettas started as a mod in the late 70's, early 80's! And the influence is still clearly visible today. Together with the Cafe Racer 69 they drove to the custom show on their GTS Customs from Berlin!

Brands & Traders

We would love to introduce each of the thirty exhibitors in detail and all the highlights, special features, services and world firsts presented. Unfortunately, since this is beyond the scope, there are only a few highlights from the engine area. 

tin frind!

Cafe Racer 69

Crazy Monkey Development

Casa performance

Casa Performance / Rimini Lambretta Center of course stole the show with the world premieres announced well in advance. At 15:2 p.m. sharp, Mickey and Lorenzo unveiled and started their new XNUMX-cylinder on stage. After years of development work, it was a pretty good moment with potential for goosebumps for the two of them and many others.

More about the engine at SLUK written by the sticky

Rimini Lambretta

Flying Classics

GoWoMo

Jola

king wave

LocoWheels

McCloudts

Nagy tin roller

NICHE

Pinasco

Pinasco has a full 251cc Smallframe engine presented. An old acquaintance is used as the cylinder, the cylinder based on the T5 design with a 73 mm bore and 60 mm stroke, which we already know from the PX motor set know CLICK. The test phase of the engines has been completed and another engine concept will soon be available Smallframe- Ring left. 

PCL Corse

Powolotti

Rehab

Retrospective

roller sack

sucram

bgm

Now comes a little advertising on our own behalf. Development work on a new bgm Cylinder was completed in time for the show. And so, among other things, we presented the development work at our bgm stand.

The cylinder is for all MotoVespa 160 engines and can either be piston-controlled or driven with an additionally available diaphragm suction device. This means that the MotoVespa engines can finally be given a contemporary power output without having to install another engine directly.

Due to the 125 driver's license regulation, the cylinder will also be available with a downscaled bore.

The new cylinder series is rounded off by a tuning cylinder for the Vespa GS 150. More about that here soon! 

Superb Lambrettas

Super Lui Tom

Stoffi's garage

vehicle

Wolke xnumx

ZDesign

Thanks to our photographers:

Crisis Studio®

& Zoe Leon

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