Events & Highlights — Where the Road Has Led

2026

The road does not end.

Pindos Vespa Ride · Zagori, Greece

• July 24–26 — Pindos Ride, Pindos Mountains, Greece — confirmed attendance

2025

Two major tours. Three book launches. Keynotes across Europe.

Vespa World Days · Gijón, Spain

2025 was one of the most productive years — two major tours, the launch of 10 Zoll Geschichten in three languages, and keynotes across Europe.

• February–March — Iberian Peninsula — Vespaseo Iberico — 6,390 km in 30 days two-up with Martina on PX125 T5, through Malaga, Aveiro, Porto, Bilbao, Pamplona
• March 7 — Waltenhofen-Oberdorf, Germany — travel presentation "80 Days Around the World" — home crowd
• March 15 — Blaubeuren, Germany — sold-out presentation at Vespagioia Vespa exhibition
• March — Madrid, Spain — 25th anniversary rally of Scooter Club Madrid — 1,560 km in 5 days from Barcelona
• April 30–May 4 — Gijón, Spain — Vespa World Days — own stand in Vespa Village, bilingual keynote (EN/ES) to large audience, launched 10 Inch Tales (English edition)
• May 23–25 — Pristina, Kosovo — Vespa Festival — invited by Vespa Fanatics Prishtina, stopover in Belgrade
• June 6–8 — Zell am See, Austria — Vespa Alp Days — launched 10 Zoll Geschichten (German edition)
• June 12–15 — Novi Sad, Serbia — European Vespisti Week — photo presentation and book stand in Vespa Village
• August — Luxembourg — Red Lions Luxembourg — 1,150 km on T5
• September 13 — Neumünster, Germany — Nord-Bau Messe — book and travel presentation
• September 26 — Aachen, Germany — travel presentation in a converted church — organised by Michael Zinnen and Zok Zok
• September 27 — Bergheim, Germany — Scooter Center Open Day — own stand, book presentation
• October 19 — Martorell, Spain — 16a Pujada a Montserrat en Vespa — AMCAM — classic Vespa ride to Montserrat monastery
• November 29 — Barcelona, Spain — Primer Memorial de Isma — scooter tribute ride, Barcelona

2024

New city. New Vespa. New chapter.

2% Brothers Rally · Sofia, Bulgaria

• January 1 — Barcelona, Spain — Barcelona Scooter Club New Year Scooter Run
• March — Sofia, Bulgaria — 2% Brothers Rally — season opener
• June 15 — Blanes, Spain — 1a Trobada de Vespes i Clàssiques — first meeting of Vespas and classics in Blanes
• June 29 — Santa Susanna, Spain — 20è Scooter Meeting Santa Susanna
• September 8 — Llinars del Vallès, Spain — XI Trobada de Motos Clàssiques — Moto Classic Llinars del Vallès
• September 15 — Vilassar de Mar, Spain — 2a Vespeinada — Vespeinados Maresme — route along the Costa del Maresme
• September 20–22 — Figueres, Spain — 3a Trobada d'Scooteristes i Clubs Catalans — invited as "escuterista il·lustre"
• October — Santa Eugènia de Berga, Spain — Scooter Run to the Hills — SEB Scooter Club annual Vespa & Lambretta meeting, Osona
• November — Barcelona, Spain — Barcelona Scooter Club annual anniversary

2023

19,000+ km. Five major events. One book project born.

Vespa World Days · Interlaken, Switzerland

2023 was one of the most active years — 19,000+ km across two major tours, five significant events, and the start of the book project that became 10 Zoll Geschichten.

• January–March — Malaga, Spain & Amman, Jordan — extended stay in second home, followed by trip to Jordan
• May 20–21 — Bad Waldsee, Germany — Erwin Hymer Museum — travel presentations for Crazy Camper weekend
• June 6–11 — Zell am See, Austria — Vespa Alp Days — presenting new book project, old friends
• June 15–18 — Interlaken, Switzerland — Vespa World Days — Cap10 America service, 2,500 km alpine tour through Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Italy
• June 25 — Osterhofen, Germany — Vespafreunde Osterhofen presentation — spontaneous €200 collected for children with cancer

Erwin Hymer Museum · Travel Talk · Bad Waldsee 2023

Ape 50 Anita · Erwin Hymer Museum · 2023

Cap10 · Edelweißspitze 2571m · Grossglockner 2023

Vespafreunde Osterhofen · Bavaria · 2023

Cap10 · Lago Maggiore · Italy 2023

Cap10 · Reschensee · South Tyrol 2023

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• July 14–16 — Sheffield, UK — Lightweight Adventurers Festival — presentation to new audience
• July — Rotherham, UK — Meet & greet with Vespa Club Rotherham members
• August — Northern Europe — Penistour start — 16,500 km, 17 countries on T5 Tamara
• August 11 — Örebro, Sweden — Coincidence meet & greet, dinner and overnight stay at Mondo Scooter Syndicate
• August 21 — Trondheim, Norway — Meet & greet hosted by Vespa Club Trondheim and Vespa Cowboys Norway
• August 24 — Bergen, Norway — Meet & greet with local scooterists including Stian and his ratstyle Vespa
• August — Stavanger, Norway — Honorary member of Storhaug Scooter Club — meet & greet
• August 28 — Kristiansand, Norway — Meet & greet with Rivals Kristiansand and podcast recording with Kickback Scooter Garage
• Late August — Oslo, Norway — Meeting with Peppe Pettersson and Stein Overland (Scooteristen Magazine) and Restless SC Oslo

Nordkapp · 71°N · Penistour · August 2023

Lightweight Adventurers Festival · Sheffield · 2023

Overland Event · Oxford · With Ted Simon · 2023

Mondo Scooter Syndicate · Örebro · Sweden 2023

Mondo Scooter Syndicate · Dinner · Örebro 2023

TOSK · Vespa Cowboys Norway · Trondheim 2023

Storhaug SC · Stavanger · Honorary Member · 2023

Pit Stop Krew · Dublin · Ireland · 2023

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• September 2–3 — Oxford, UK — Overland Event — Tamara exhibited among adventure bikes on the way back from Nordkapp
• September 8–9 — Alcalá de Henares, Spain — Vespalcalá 2023 — Vespa Club Alcalá de Henares — meet & greet stopover
• Mid-September — Antwerp, Belgium — Two-day stopover, visit to Scooters n Coffee
• September 24 — Montal, Italy — Meet & greet with Vespa Club Montal — return home after 51 days on tour
• November — Dublin, Ireland — Visit to Pit Stop Krew in their Vespa Manshed — 57th country visited
• November 16–20 — Barcelona, Spain — 4th anniversary Barcelona Scooter Club — guest speaker, presentations and rideouts

2022

Outside the Vespa bubble. Into the adventure world.

Overland Event · Oxford, UK

• Landsberg, Germany — SIP Open Day — participant
• September — Oxford, UK — The Overland Event — first UK presentation outside the Vespa bubble, among overlanders and adventure riders — humbling and inspiring

2021

6,300 km. Suit and tie. €88,000 for children with cancer.

Vespa Gentleman Giro · Imst, Austria

2021 was almost entirely dedicated to the Vespa Gentleman Giro — 6,300 km through 7 countries in suit and tie on a 50cc Vespa, raising €88,000 for children with cancer.

• May — Hong Kong — Vespa Club Hong Kong — organised a Poker Run for the Gentleman Giro charity campaign
• June 5 — Augsburg, Germany — Gentleman Giro kick-off — 390€ raised despite rain and Covid restrictions
• July 3 — Leonberg, Germany — Official tour start at Alvivo, followed by VC Freiburg
• July — Austria/Italy — Feldkirch, Imst, Bruneck, Zell am See, Graz, Wien, Tulln
• July — Bavaria/Franconia — Ingolstadt, Lauf, Schwarzenbach, Ebermannstadt (Skull-Scooters), Plauen
• July 28 — Berlin, Germany — 45th birthday celebrated on tour

Charity Cheque · Vespa Nest Düren · 2021

Gentleman Giro · Moers Bahnhof · 2021

Vespa Club Zürich · Gentleman Giro · 2021

Vespa Club Singen-Hegau · Gentleman Giro · 2021

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• July/August — Northern Germany — Lübeck, Kiel, Flensburg, Denmark hotdog detour, VC Hamburg
• August — Western Germany — Warfleth, German Vespa Rally Hannover, Wolfenbüttel, Braunschweig, Bielefeld, Essen, Moers, Bergheim
• August 15 — Luxembourg — Vespa Club Roude Léiw Lëtzebuerg
• August 25 — Kempten, Germany — Gentleman Giro finish at St. Lorenz Basilika — 54 days on tour
• September 9–11 — Zell am See, Austria — Vespa Alp Days — Grossglockner on the 50cc in full suit, world trip presentation
• September 12 — Rorschach, Switzerland — Hafen-Vespa-Treffen — CHF 1,155 raised for children with cancer at the harbour meeting
• September 18 — Bergheim, Germany — Scooter Center Open Day — Gentleman Giro stand
• October — Barcelona, Spain — Barcelona Scooter Club visit, bought Vespa T5 Tamara, rode 1,671 km home in 4 days

2020

Pandemic. Ape. 3,600 km. Pure slow travel.

Erwin Hymer Museum · Bad Waldsee, Germany

• August 29–30 — Bad Waldsee, Germany — Erwin Hymer Museum — 4 travel presentations, two scooters exhibited in micro-camping special exhibition
• September/October — Faro to Kempten — The Slow Way Home — 3,600 km on 50cc Ape Anita through Portugal, Spain, France and Switzerland
• October — International — post-trip interviews: Adventures in a TukTuk, live interview with Malportados Vespa Gang Mexico

2019

Post-world record. The world wanted to hear the story.

Vespa World Days · Zanka, Hungary

• February — Kalkar, Germany — Scooterist Meltdown — meeting friends, talking about the world trip
• February 26 — Bavaria, Germany — Bayern 1 Blaue Couch — radio interview about the 80-day world trip
• March 30 — Mainz, Germany — Vespa Club Mainz — world trip presentation
• June — Zanka, Hungary — Vespa World Days — Balaton, Vespisti from around the world, first time with Winnie ze Wanne as base camp
• June — Zell am See, Austria — Vespa Alp Days — world trip presentation to participants
• November — Kempten, Germany — Visionaire Summit
• November — Germany — Speaker Summit — spontaneous stage appearance

2018

80 days. 27,113 km. 3 continents. Madrid to Madrid.

World Trip Finish · Madrid, Spain

• May 5 — Landsberg, Germany — SIP Open Day — rideout with old friends and Maltese Vespisti
• May 27 — Kreuzlingen, Switzerland — Tre Nazioni — 900 Vespisti — met Alessio Liebert, Olaf H. Just, Giacomo Casale and Giuseppe Cordioli
• July 6 — Belgrade, Serbia — Beovespa — national Vespa rally, organised by VC Vespasian
• June 30 — Madrid, Spain — World Trip start — Km 0, Plaza del Sol, with Scooter Club Madrid
• September 15 — Valladolid, Spain — Hispanovespa / 1st National Vespa Days of Spain — standing ovations, two days before the finish
• September 17 — Madrid, Spain — World Trip finish — 80 days, 27,113 km, 18 countries, 3 continents
• September 21–23 — Moura, Portugal — Iberovespa — first event after the world trip
• October 2 — Hannover, Germany — VC Hannover presentation + NDR1 Plattenkiste radio interview
• October 11–15 — Ibiza, Spain — Sargantanas 2018 — keynote and interviews
• September 10 — Hasselt, Belgium — Classic Vespa Club Hasselt — Day 72–74 of world trip — reception at Björn Hauben's (Solvato) shop — Björn designed the official 80-day world tour logo
• September 10 — Hasselt, Belgium — Classic Vespa Club Hasselt — Day 72–74 of world trip — reception at Björn Hauben's (Solvato) shop — Björn designed the official 80-day world tour logo
• October — Santa Eugènia de Berga, Spain — Scooter Run to the Hills — SEB Scooter Club — 9th edition

2017

8,290 km. €25,000 raised. Germany to Spain and back.

Giro Germanica · Alps

• Lamia, Greece — National Winter Vespa Meeting
• Celle, Germany — Vespa World Days — charity info stand for Giro Germanica
• September — Columbus, Ohio, USA — Cutters Columbus Scooter Rally — won the Robot Price
• October 7 — Dallas, Texas, USA — Classic Scooter Rally — won furthest travelled
• Giro Germanica — 40+ Vespa clubs visited across Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Luxembourg

2016

Castellón. Broken rib. Holed piston. Perfect memories.

Vespa Alp Days · Zell am See, Austria

• May 5 — Kempten, Germany — Blechrollerbande Kempten Anrollern — official season opener
• June 4–5 — Castellón, Spain — Vespazahar — international Vespa rally
• June 11 — Zell am See, Austria — Vespa Alp Days — arrived after the throttle cable drama in the Felbertauern tunnel
• Pontedera, Italy — Piaggio Museum — visit during Spain tour

2015

Two world records. One club founded. Common sense on sabbatical.

Elefantentreffen · Solla, Bavaria

2015 was the year my common sense took a permanent sabbatical. I rode over 15,000 km, founded a Vespa club, set two world records, and somehow organised two events of my own.

• January — Solla, Bavaria — Elefantentreffen — world's oldest winter motorcycle meeting, -14°C, camping in a tent, snow inside the tent
• January — Friedrichshafen, Germany — Motorradwelt Bodensee — Madalina exhibited at "Vespassione" to 30,000 visitors
• February — Kalkar, Germany — Scooterist Meltdown — held in a decommissioned nuclear power plant
• March — Madrid, Spain — 15th Anniversary of Scooter Club Madrid
• June — Zell am See, Austria — Vespa Alp Days — Grossglockner (2,504m), Austrian TV appearance
• June/July — Biograd, Croatia — Vespa World Days

Elefantentreffen · Night Camp · Solla 2015

Elefantentreffen · Snowstorm · Solla 2015

Madalina · Covered in Signatures · Solla 2015

World Record Finish · Padborg · August 2015

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• July — Tomelloso, Spain — Concentración Nacional de Vespas y Lambrettas — prize for furthest travelled
• July — Landsberg, Germany — SIP Joyride — 360 km with 400 Vespas in 39°C heat
• July 22 — Kempten, Germany — Founded Blechrollerbande Kempten — 17 founding members, one massive thunderstorm
• August — Brenner to Padborg — Scomadi Double World Record — 1,691 km, 10 countries, 23.5 hours
• October — Austrian Alps — Pre Re 2 Night Rally — midnight start, Timmelsjoch at 2,474m
• November — Milan, Italy — EICMA — world-record Scomadi exhibited

2014

The first year. Everything began here.

Vespa World Days · Mantova, Italy

• June — Mantova, Italy — Vespa World Days — Madalina on stage
• June — Battipaglia, Italy — First national Italian scooter meeting
• June — Livorno, Italy — Marco Quaretta workshop — following in Peter Moore's footsteps
• June — Pontedera, Italy — Piaggio Museum — first visit with Madalina
• August — Perpignan, France — Palmarium Scooter Club Rally — official stop during the 2014 Europe Tour
• September — Isle of Wight, UK — Scooter Rally — Custom Show participant
• September — Turku, Finland — meet and greet with local scooter club

All Vespa Adventures · Speaker & Keynotes · About Markus André Mayer