One rule- Your Vespa must leave the house/shed/garage/shop etc etc.
Take some pics while you're out and post em here.
Who doesn't like a Vespa in the wild anyways?

At the William Leonidas Springs off of Lincoln Dr. in Philadelphia,Pa
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We all like pics. Let's take some more!
One rule- Your Vespa must leave the house/shed/garage/shop etc etc. Take some pics while you're out and post em here. Who doesn't like a Vespa in the wild anyways? ![]() At the William Leonidas Springs off of Lincoln Dr. in Philadelphia,Pa
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Great thread idea. My et3 is finishing up a little project this week, but I will probably get some shots later this week or early next when it's back on the road!
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On Santa Rosa Creek Rd. In the hills outside of Cambria, CA
Lupine flowers. About 4 weeks ago. Sorry I don't have any newer pictures. ![]()
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Fun thread. Here's a 3-fer...
In front of the UT BMS School in the Houston Medical Center. 3 NSM MV members bikes pictured. ![]() L- R my shitbox VNB, Captcha's ~59/60 "Torqoise Terror" VBA, PoiDogs 1963 GL
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Birdsnest wrote: Fun thread. Here's a 3-fer... In front of the UT BMS School in the Houston Medical Center. 3 NSM MV members bikes pictured. |
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Tachometer and temp gauge and other fancy-pantsy monitoring gizmos. That thing is kitted out like a rocket. As pictured it would easily do 70 (on 8's!)... now its been "refined" further, maybe gets upper 70's? Maybe 80?!?
Hands down the craziest 8 inch bike I have ever ridden.
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Birdsnest wrote: Tachometer and temp gauge and other fancy-pantsy monitoring gizmos. That thing is kitted out like a rocket. As pictured it would easily do 70 (on 8's!)... now its been "refined" further, maybe gets upper 70's? Maybe 80?!? Hands down the craziest 8 inch bike I have ever ridden. But me of 20 yrs ago would have blasted that all over town! Now I'm an old wuss with kids. |
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I ❤️ this thread! Wish I was a contributor and not just a voyeur
![]() Soon, maybe. Am inspired by your pics! |
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okay... question... my shop door is 288ft from the gate. if I leave the shop and ride around in the driveway and along the fence does that count?
fwiw, the drive way and associated area is long and wide enough to do figure 8's |
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This is quite old but a bit of my Rally outside Sydney Opera House.
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Yes, I used to camp there at Bass Lake but a bark beetle infestation killed thousands of trees around the lake so now I just hang out at Ducey's Lodge and drink beer. You can see some of the dead trees in the pic.
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greasy125 wrote: okay... question... my shop door is 288ft from the gate. if I leave the shop and ride around in the driveway and along the fence does that count? fwiw, the drive way and associated area is long and wide enough to do figure 8's |
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Rallygeek wrote: This is quite old but a bit of my Rally outside Sydney Opera House. great shots! |
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My last good ride was in Greece a couple of weeks ago.
![]() We went down to the port. ![]() First time I saw a floating dry dock. ![]() There were two of them, side by side.
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I took a spring shakedown ride a couple of weeks ago. This is down by the water in Seattle. It's been nothing but rain since then.
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Kaniv reservoir, Kyiv region, Ukraine.
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Mod Eric The Skin wrote: Nice P, I like the look of the floorboards. What'd you do with those? You have nice Vespa Club of Ukraine sticker Thanks a lot for support. ![]() Summer 2021. Vespa Club of Ukraine on the Galicia Rally 1000 in the Carpathian Mountains.
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roland87 wrote: Thanks mate. Its T5 floor mats. You have nice Vespa Club of Ukraine sticker Thanks a lot for support. So he goes to Moscow, enters a bar, orders a drink, and asks the bartender: -Is Crimea ours? -Yes, it is. -And the Donbas? -Also ours. -And Kyiv? -We got that too. Satisfied, Putin drinks, and asks: -Thanks, how much do I owe you? -5 euros.
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Mod Eric The Skin wrote: Putin dies and goes to hell, but after a while, he is given a day off for good behavior. So he goes to Moscow, enters a bar, orders a drink, and asks the bartender: -Is Crimea ours? -Yes, it is. -And the Donbas? -Also ours. -And Kyiv? -We got that too. Satisfied, Putin drinks, and asks: -Thanks, how much do I owe you? -5 euros. But not "5 euros" 5 hryvnas |
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A favorite old pic not too far south of you Mr Roland. Here it used to be drachmas and beer was a lot cheaper then too!
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Few of mine...
![]() Summer 2015, camping at mount Vermio (1300m elevation)... ![]() Summer 2019, National Vespa meeting, ride at Enipeas Waterfalls, under the shade of Mount Olympus (1100m elevation)... ![]() August 2020, Ride with friends at a nearby lake... ![]() May 2021, Ride with friends at Thessaloniki - Chalkidiki... ![]() May 2021, Ride with friends at Thessaloniki - Chalkidiki... ![]() May 2022, from our Club's annual gathering called "Vespomazox". Dedicated post coming soon...
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Took my Stella down to the DMV to get my smallframe registered. Got an a-hole employee who wouldn't let me register it untitled with the correct proof of ownership documents from the seller. Told me I didn't have the correct documents and needed to go up to Albany to get a title for it, and wouldn't listen to me that I had the correct documents cause I registered another one with the same documents last month at the same dmv. Employees are like a lottery. Sometimes you get a difficult one, sometimes you get a happy one.
So I left and chose to go for a long ride down to the Verrazano bridge Park and will go back next week and get it registered with a less obnoxious DMV employee. Getting real close on jetting on this Stella! It's crazy fast now and extremely clean throttle response. ![]() ![]() Under the bridge - RHCP
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