IceniCAM News Archive
2017
Bernard Soler-Thèbes
December 2017
We’ve just heard that Bernard Soler-Thèbes, the
great sports Moped enthusiast, died at the beginning of
December. ‘BST’ as he was popularly known, was
the author of several books on sports mopeds and also wrote many,
many articles for thr French motor cycling press, not only on his
specialist subject of sports mopeds, but also regular reports of
runs and jumbles in the South of France. He had, in fact, been
reporting on a motor cycle event only the weekend before his
death. Back in the mid-1990s, BST contributed several
articles to the NACC’s magazine, Buzzing; at that time, he was the secretary of the
club he founded: the Club Français du
Cyclo Sport.
All the same
December 2017
I recently filmed a music video for my new song ‘All The
Same’, inspired by mod music. The video was
professionally made with a film crew of four and features 23
mopeds. I thought this may be of interest for an article
for your magazine. It was a combination of the Woodley
Scooter Boys and Reading Comedy Mods out in action and the video
acts as an excellent tour around Reading as an added bonus!
Here is the song and I
have also attached some photos from the day.
Merry Christmas!
With very best wishes,
Allan Stewart
Mopedathon for Kidney Cancer UK
August 2017
Kidney Cancer UK is involved with a group of seven Superbikers
from London who are taking on a personal challenge this August in
memory of one of their fellow bikers who died from kidney cancer
in 2016. They are swapping their Superbikes for 50cc mopeds
that they have renovated for the adventure, which will see them
ride the coast roads from Lands End into London, taking roughly
six days. One of the members of the group, Silvio, lost his
brother to kidney cancer last year so they are riding in his
memory to raise funds and awareness of the disease.
The Mopedathon ‘Just Giving’ page is at www.justgiving.com/fundraising/mopedexpresswayarmy17
Moped owners wanted in Ipswich
July 2017
There is a 40th anniversary reunion for the class of ’77
from Copleston School, Ipswich and the organisers would like
people to bring along a few 1970s’ period Puch Maxis and
other sports mopeds to the event—the kind of
‘sixteener’ bikes they’d have been riding back
in 1977. The event is from 8pm on Saturday 15th July at the
Conservative Club in Newton Road, Ipswich and will be raising
money for St Elizabeth’s Hospice. Please contact Mark
Fosdike: if you can provide a bike for the evening.
The original Mobylette badge,
which was plastic moulded, back
painted, and was held on by a
special M3×0.6mm pitch screw.
Mobymatic badges
January 2017
Mopedland
has now generated NEW badges for For Mobylettes AV76, AV77, AV78,
AV88, AV89, etc.
The original badge and special screw have not been available
for some time.
It would not have been viable to remake badges by the original
method, so they have been re-created by more practical modern
means. The new badges are made of two components: a bright
nickel-plated metal diecast badge mount and a domed badge with
self-adhesive backing so it can be stuck to the bright face of
the badge mount. The textured back of the badge mount can
then be glued (with impact adhesive, Araldite/resin, or mastic)
to the badge mounting point on the fuel tank; it engages in the
correct position by the location pin on the back of the badge
mount, which centres into the former screw hole. The price
will be £18 a pair (2 badge mounts @ £5 each + 2
domed badges @ £4 each). The new tooling has produced
prototype samples and the production badges are expected to be
available for sale very soon.
Left to right: the textured back of the badge mount with location
pin,
the bright front face of the badge mount, the domed badge as
supplied
on peelable backing, and the domed badge stuck onto the badge
mount.