Modern Vespa

I'm looking for other Seattle area ppl that would like to get together one or two evenings a month to work on scoots and learn stuff from one another. Swap parts too if we want. Maybe early birds could come at 5 and shut it down at 9:30 or so, with some beer n pizza to survive on?

I like Tuesdays cuz you're rested from the weekend. Wednesdays are always taken it seems and Thursday is for prepping for the weekend again.

I have decent tools, nothing too special. I do have a welder & can weld steel OK for a non pro.

Feel free to PM me if interested or post up here.

Also please feel free to post here if you want to 'borrow' this scheme for your area. Who knows, maybe there's a couple scooter ppl close by with no good place to do simple work on their scooters. I 'borrowed' it from what's-his-name... Oh yeah, Quasi-moto is it now?

snip: Just like Lend a Helping Hand in 3D Nice going, Len!

edit: keeping us Seattle ppl properly differentiated

Sounds good.
In my neck of the woods we have the Thursday club.

i need a club as well, but i am banned so many times

Sounds g ood, V oodoo! I'll be there whenever I'm up north!

Len

T hat's g reat L en, y ou'll c ertainly b e w elcome!

First up, one week from tomorrow, Aug 13.

Looks like maybe 3 or 4 ppl so far. A couple more would be OK...

This is of course the one Tues I might not be able to make it. I'm going to try to get out of the arrangement but don't have high hopes. I'll part the sea to get to the next one. Keep me updated please!!!

Keep Scootin 8)

Bubonic

You know I would if I could! Klatchin' w/ the voodoo is something I've always wanted to do!




Really! Wish I was in your hood... 2 Thursday nights a month anyway!

Hmmm, reading class on Tuesdays?

Tell you what. If you wanna come around on a THURSDAY , we will set one up in your honor and probably limit attendance to the first 100 respondents. For the planned TUESDAY session, we do still have a few openings.

ebeth, ebeth, ebeth....

1) get permission from wife

2) set up your own scooter klatch! I bet you have knowledge & skills that some ppl there might want to take advantage of. Then YOU can ban the ones who turn out to be assholes.

I like it! ScooterKlatch seems a much better term than a high-brow "tech session." I'll be there if I can (how's that for not committing?)

Ha ha... I did see that.. BUT I read the part about getting ready for the weekend on Thursdays so I ASSUMED you'd do the RIGHT thing and make 'em Thursdays.. as everyone's in a good mood and it's a much better atmosphere than TUESDAY.. who the hell schedules ANYTHING for Tuesday??? Why don't you just move 'em to LATE SUNDAY NIGHTS???



Damn stinky!... mon,tue,wed,thurs,fri,sat,sun... if it was for klatchin' w/ you.. I'd be IN no matter what!

haha, exactly how I commit usually.

I will be looking for you, even if it's just to stop by. On that note,I am adding a small request here:

If a member should, through no fault of his/her own, arrive by automobile - we ask that all smartass remarks & insensitive needling be concluded within the first 15 minutes of member's arrival to avoid persistent butthurt and unnecessary distraction from the important tasks at hand. This accommodation shall of course be waived if the vehicle is in any way 'special' or highly modified.

Hey Doc,

Don't forget to snap a couple of pics!

Q

FTFY

See, I'm trying to be satisfied with just the leftovers...
& already Mr Plague up there is doin' better stuffs on his Tuesday

I'm definitely going to try and make it this Tuesday.

Will you be riding your mobility scooter?.... you'll fit right in! Ohhhh!

Thanks V oodoo...

The next San Diego North County ScooterKlatch will be Thursday, August 15th! PM me for more details if you're interested, and I'll send you the info.

Vader, your 15 minutes were up 16 minutes ago

Unless of course he's modified that thing & it DOES look that way....

I'll take a Cialis and double clutch it all the way there

Gotta keep this in mind next time I'm in Seattle.

aha the best advice ever why i didnt ever think to banned other before they banned me, thanks Terry now all i have to do is open up a recruitment for the green horn with commitment (normally folks tend to fleet away once they found a more up date club which is normally the blink-blink and the money eater mods club which is getting more and more compare to the rat club )

have a nice day to you and cheer mate

ummm, ebeth..........

You forgot step one.
Usually not too difficult if approached tenderly.
Critically important!

IF you wanna be having that 'nice day' yourself.

Have a nice day!!!

my approchment usually start by

1. fixing some other bike i saw in the sideway (the emergency fixing)
2. other rider that i meet along my way

once they get to my house they seem to like my method of restoring a bike, but after some time they seem not satisfied by the world i provide, when it come to this it ussualy they went to other club that have collection of nicer bike in order to get their identity by showing up their bike (youngster) and when they meet me back they start to talk about price they spent on their bike and what parts is that become trend and suddely they ride become what we all know as bodge and when i said my opinion they start to attack me and never come back, the worse part is when they actually dump their vespa and change to autos scooter just to get a chicks

sad but its what lies in Jakarta, while the Indo boys that located in bogor all are too busy working and have no time to ride a scooter with me

My utopian vision: A group of scooterists meet regularly, have a shared but secure toolbox with all of the special factory tools, a hoist, or scissor lift, five commas, and no period

The ultimate resource however is a fully stocked jet "library". Take one out, put one back. Get your plug all nice and cocoa crispied. Replace the one that stays in the carb. No more grasping at straws trying to guess which jet and dropping 5-10 bucks a piece.

Seattle Shifters,
I REALLY hope you will be able to stop by for this klatch thing. Looks like might be 4 or 5 ppl, but still working on schedule to suit. Maybe more!

We've been planning Tue nite, maybe Wed is better. More ppl available possibly, I'm still checking now.

Could you make it either of those nites or is one of them better for you?
Please lemme know and if you'd like to bring somebody.

Gonna have available:
Engine tach
CHT
torque wrench
compression tester
hunk o plate glass, fine sandpaper & water
tap wrench
timing light
degree wheel
welder, steel only
compressor
lame 3/8 impact wrench, OK for tire work
awesome collection of tire prying levers
probably several new spark plugs, for both 150s & 200s
and STARRING NOTE: alcohol FREE gas is available close by, on the way out from the city.

*we'll see how that goes.


Thanks.


Terry

cc: seattle shifty scooter ppl

WEDNESDAYS for now. Got Tuesday obligations for the next few weeks.

KLATCH!!!

I'll be there whichever night. My order of business is to get my carb dialed in. It's close but I've been having trouble getting it to perform well without going too lean.

I'm ready!!!

Good. And I have plenty of zip ties, but low on baling wire - somebody bring some of this?


The 'pre-patinaed' please, if possible

So we can still fix our shit like this when there's a serious problem & no 'correct' part available.







BTW, there will be a timing clinic ~when as everybody gets here, so don't dilly dally!

I'll bring the 2X4s

But I'll be bringing my new scoot by.....

and then I woke up

^^^ Damn, I think we coulda really stepped up our game there. Don't know a lot about those, but I'm sure it can't be that hard to figure out if you brought one & we wanted to pep it up some, mod it, TUNE it! Get right into the guts and figure out something special to try out...

Well anyway, we had a good klatch. Tried to rain hard and did rain some, but we are hard core. Pretty nice turnout with seven of us and one noshow w/ a last minute diversion, and Falcon even called in from work crying cuz he couldn't make it. We planned to repeat in 2 weeks, then 2 weeks later again w/ focus on parts swap. The main event tonite was the timing clinic put on by Brent Scheffler. Thanks again, Brent.

This was a great demo and we ALL learned the right way to do it, def the hit of the show. Followed closely by the 'winner, winner chicken dinner', super tasty fried chicken brought by Bubonic. (Hmmm, fried chicken brought by Bubonic????) Anyway so far, no symptoms or anything...

The first motor we timed was an LML on a motor stand so it was easier to watch. Then as a reward for chicken excellence, the timing was next checked on Bubonic's bike by 'students' Skott & Eric(B'nic & flyngti), with occasional oversight. The LML timing was OFF significantly & corrected(thought it was OK). B'nic's bike was found to be right on which he didn't expect.

Then we checked idle RPM on the B'nic bike & found that this tach shows the oscillations in RPM, swinging from 900 to 1400, so with 'overswinging' due to momentum, probably more like ~1050 to 1250 range, but def changing. Motor was running normally & audibly 'smooth' enuff.

Flyngti brought his disassembled horn for examination. He also surprised me by arriving on his immaculate elderly BMW(I can't say classic or vintage around here, right?). Neighbor Vespa rider & amateur machinist Dana finished up & brought the swiveling intake adapter prototype he and I have been working on for pre-unveiling. Have no idea yet if it'll work, we'll see soon.

As usual, Bubonic's bike barely was able limp all the way out here so Brent & I helped fix a few things to increase his odds of making it home sometime tonite.

A great time for me and I learned a lot, can't wait to do it again. Thanks guys.


PRECISION is our game...


not enuff pics of that ol' Beemer.
Adam's pristine but naughty Stella w/ the stolen Rally stripes is hiding a P200 motor . His original motor is our 1st timing test motor.

Skott's P200 looks great below. I heard the blue may be changed to something he likes better, but the bike's staying two tone.
I like it cuz it reminds me of Fang, my P200.

Brent has the tunedest bike here, with ALL the goodies! SIP Tubless & SIP Gauges & SIP shock, Boomstick, plus, plus, plus.
Bike is damn ugly tho. For now. It's tight, it's straight, gonna be nice!









I luv that 'trunk' on Dana's bike


"No Skott, the flywheel goes on this side of the bike."

Apologies for not making it....

I was looking forward to it all week.

Broken pipe+water outage=Distressed wife

Mrs. Always comes before scooter fun (if I don't want to sleep on the couch...LOL).

Are future session being planned? I have a bit of work on the smally to do.

it sure does look so so fun Brother Terry wish i can join in

Don't think because you got that lucky last shot to win the tie breaker in pool you can keep talking all this SMACK!

My white n blue scoot ROARED home thank you very much. I did have a working running/break light and a clutch that didn't try to pop a wheelie in 1st because of you (Many thanks ) but I made it home just fine thank you.

Really it was a great time, loved the bikes and having the engine out was nice to be able to see all the moving parts. Got a good laugh out of this one but I'm gonna get you back for that comment. We spoke about the next one being in two weeks from yesterday. You should definitely come!

I spoke with Brent about next one a week from now, Wednesday the 28th. We will try to do another two weeks later with a SWAP MEET agenda, just possibly at Rob Hodge's place. He has TONS of good stuff and has given modest encouragement, but he DOES have a jammed schedule so nothing definite yet.

Next meeting will be BASIC MAINTENANCE. Like you did or meant to do last Spring, but now it's end of August. We need a list and the more ppl that think of what stuff needs doing/checking, the better list we'll have. Will have tools & supplies available - cables, spark plugs, gear oil, light bulbs, Italian tire air, etc

Will probably have a shift cable adjust demo and assist for those who want. In fact we'll probably need a guinea pig.

Anybody , PLEASE POST UP additions to the list, Here's a modest start ONLY in no particular order:

Tire pressure
Tire CONDITION
Brake adjust
Brake drum/shoe clean/refurbish if needed
Clutch adjust
Check all lights
Aim headlite
Check timing, points gap
Compression test
Inspect spark plug
Lube front suspension
Gear oil
Clean air filter

Voodoo,

Horseshoes and hand grenades...I'll be up in Bellevue to help move my brother in law back to SoCal on the 24-26th of this month. Would have liked to stop by for the event.

Hmmm... Well we were kinda crowded last time...

OK, I think we could'a squeezed you in!

PS you got PM

Maybe I'll pack reeeeal slow. It's a long shot that we'll still be around but stranger things have happened. Will understand if its at capacity though.