NOTHING ELSE CAN GO WRONG!

Those famous last words quoted by my colleague Iggy were the last thing I wanted hear this issue. On both a personal and work level it seems to have been one thing after the other just lately. On the home front, having just got my house back to normal after last year’s storms, and the resulting insurance claim, it recently rained quite heavily and guess what? My roof leaked, thus ruining my nice new wallpaper and plastering.

The scooter side of life hasn’t fared much better. The exhaust I’d been road testing on my own scooter had been returned to the manufacturer for evaluation with the promise of its return within a couple of weeks. Anyway, a month down the line and it still wasn’t back. Simple, I thought, I’ll put the old one back on – easy, right? Wrong! I’ve found the exhaust OK, but can I find the manifold? Can I hell! Worst case scenario is I’ll have to get another one from my local Piaggio dealer, but on phoning him I find that’s he’s decided to give up the Piaggio agency, leaving me with no recognised Piaggio dealer within a 50-mile radius and only one left in the county – not a good sign for one of the world’s largest two-wheel manufacturers, especially within the UK’s third largest county.

Still at least this issue of Twist & Go has gone smoothly – wrong again! A couple of stories I’d been faithfully promised didn’t materialise, so a quick revision of the flatplan was called for. Then, as deadline loomed, another feature which I’d been assured was in the can wasn’t and a few frantic conversations were held to try and resolve this. What else could possibly go wrong? Well, I hadn’t allowed for Iggy dropping a test bike and also breaking his camera, which held pictures for not one, but two of the planned articles (sorry mate I didn’t want to tell everyone about your bad luck, but what the hell, I’ve done it now).

So you see, being a magazine editor is not always an easy task. We’ve salvaged what we can from all these experiences and used a few press/publicity pictures to make up for our deficit. Hopefully you’ll get plenty of enjoyment out of reading this issue. After all, what else can possibly go wrong?

MAU

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Figures, courtesy of the Motor Cycle Industry Association Limited

MOPEDS
MOTORCYCLE STYLE
1 Aprilia RS 50 288
2 Easy Rider M 50 193
3 Kinroad XT 50GY (Rebl 50) 162
4 CPI SM 50 124
5 Derbi Senda SM 50 110

SCOOTER STYLE
1 Baotian BT 49 QT9 1166
2 Piaggio Zip 50 1055
3 Peugeot Speedfight 50 1000
4 Piaggio NRG 986
5 Piaggio Vespa LX 50 829

SCOOTERS
50CC TO 125CC
1 Honda SCV 100 Lead 1871
2 Piaggio Vespa PX 125 915
3 Piaggio Vespa LX 125 721
4 Yamaha NXC 125 Cygnus 636
5 Honda ANF 125 Innova 589

126CC TO 350CC
1 Piaggio Vespa GTS 250 476
2 Honda SH 300 311
3 Piaggio MP3 250 237
4 Yamaha YP 250 R Xmax 95
5 Piaggio X8 Premium 250 90

351CC PLUS
1 Suzuki AN 400 Burgman 223
2 FJS 600 Silverwing 138
3 Suzuki AN 650 Burgman 118
4 Gilera Fuoco 500 105
5 Yamaha XP 500 Tmax 830

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