I pulled the CVT apart on my Piaggio Beverly 400 HPE here in Spain to check the belt after 12,000 hot kilometres. Piaggio do not give a stock width measurement, so I compared a brand new belt to the old one. The width was basically identical, but the depth told a completely different story. Here is why you need to look past the standard width checks and look at glazing and depth wear to get your scooter running smoothly again.

Always on the lookout for the next great thing in the scooter world, I decided to give the Honda ADV350 a test ride. Awesome Showa suspension they said, massive underseat storage they said, class leading performance they said. Honestly... They talk a lot of bollox.

A while back I upgraded the Irish Beverly 350 to some Dr Pulley sliders. The results were excellent. So of course, I had to try them in the Spanish Beverly 400. But this time, the goal was different, but the results the same: Big improvement.

Piaggio claims the Beverly 350 gets 65 MPG, but most real-world owners see the high 50s. I wanted better. Ditching the "butt dyno" for cold, hard data, I threw in some Dr. Pulley sliders, tweaked the aerodynamics, and made a counter-intuitive exhaust choice to push this old agricultural 330cc up to a massive 74.4 MPG.

I’ve just finished a digital deep-clean of 74 .htaccess files, and it turns out my server was a graveyard for dead PHP versions and redundant code. Here’s why your server config is probably a mess, how to fix it, and why "set and forget" is a lie we tell ourselves to sleep at night.

I wanted my Beverly 350 to stop screaming at me on the motorway, so I swapped the stock rollers for Dr. Pulley sliders to see if they actually deliver a real-world "overdrive." I didn't rely on my gut; I plugged in the OBD2 kit and logged the data. Turns out, the numbers don't lie, and the difference at 70mph is anything but anecdotal.