Modern Vespa

big time.. i'm jelly.. you had a good plan and it came out great.. and that TSR seat looks great! really slim.. need to bookmark that.

I'm really happy for you B.. I just hope you don't have any run in's w/ any jerks in cars or anything like that.. I'd cry if somethiing happened to this one.. keep yer wits about you.. it's too good not to.

I know ill be shittin on me first run but its built to ride ..... the seats comfy as fick

Big day Bitza. Good luck.

Vader seal of approval is an ongoing thing though. It gets checked monthly for cleanliness

itll fail that soon ...... do they work like michelin stars?

I can't take it anymore....im going out in true vintage style.

Signed,
Navin R. Johnson

Don't do it Mikey!

have you seen .... putoline do a sister oil called doppler .... thay also do a semi synth in a sicky strawberry smell so you can annoy friends on rideouts .... its a quid cheaper than rockoil .....
im stickin wi rockoil

Patrick - how do you get a toaster under your name on the side? It's a mod toaster, even. Never seen that before.

ah, that was for scanning in an old piaggio workshop manual

The correct way to build VBB engine

Nice one! Why a toaster? Who knows, but I like it.

cos he burnt the copyright law?..... I dunno ..... why?

And how come you are banned, but still posting? Nice trick!

Yesterday I brought home a bike for my husband. Today I am adjusting to seeing it in our collection and its definitely the odd man out but I think it will fit in eventually.
a late 60's (gotta verify the model still) Sears 250 "Twingle"
Titled as a 1967, was listed for sale a couple years ago as a 1969 so I will find the model number and actually get a correct year....
My husband is working on a tugboat and couldn't test ride it and so I took my dad. It runs and the price was reasonable.

Definitely different but very cool

Huh, I'd not noticed that, may the toaster cancels it out.

Now why doesn't that ever happen to me?

'67 or '69, that thing is beautiful and looks to be in 'much loved' condition.
Better pix when you get a chance? I think Dan will be pretty happy.

V oodoo. Here's a full sized picture of Dan's Twingle. It's a Puch and is Austrian. I will have my work cut out for me when I need to find parts. The company in Wisconsin was out of parts we needed often for the DS60. I did find the supplier's website in Austria but that will be challenging to navigate I'm sure. It's so goofy! If interested look up a twingle engine on YouTube and be amazed. It's fascinating to me.

this whole summer has been bollox, I think in 8 weeks we have had 4 complete dry days and I have managed one decent run on the scooter. I use it everyday for work and when you have been soaked already, the will to go out again and experience the same thing, slowly wears on your will to live. in fact I have never been so scunnered with scooters that I can't be bothered working on next years project, as Im thinking, whats the fcking point.

yeah but ya do live up there .... i thought we had it bad but today i had me vebnts open in me jacket .....

hopefully bought an sm100 .... did buy a pair from glasgow lambretta but they then had the decency to say theyve sold out and removed the ad .... now me brass is in paypal

its not the fact "you live up there" its the fcking west coast of Scotland, I think in July we had over one meter of rain. I left the scooter out all afternoon and at one point the thunder & lightening was so impressive I stood at the front door and watched it for half an hour, then the sun came out so I decide to go for a wee run and the scooter ran like a bag of shite, probably because the electrics and carb were soaked and even a good blast would not dry the engine out, more than likely got water in my carb now.

ive been through the fucked off phase .... get ya build done n you feel different

no scatter cash at the moment, but there is stuff I should be doing and the motivation just isn't there. punting all the odds and sods lying around that I don't think I need.

That sucks. We've had a pretty wet and cold winter here (by our standards anyway). That and too much shit to do has me hardly riding at all lately. Nice day today - gonna ride to the shops at least.

Its fcking summer though in Glasgow, we've got plenty more shite coming our way. It seems we just get rain 12 months a year now & its starting to get on my tits. Managed to punt a few items today, so at least Im getting cash together for my winter build.

It's been shite here too glscoot. May was OK. Been shit ever since.

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Don't mean to be mean but I couldn't do it. I'd end up in the bath with the hairdryer. You boys should move out here.

Had an odd thing happen today. Bumped the mirror when I was getting the scoot out. Saw it move a bit and thought I'd snapped another fucking stem. Rode off as I was in a hurry. Stopped at the lights and the mirror swung towards me and must have snagged on the throttle cable. Scoot was revving like crazy and I couldn't move the throttle at all. Killed the scoot and pulled over. Took me a little while to work out what happened. Pulled out the mirror and good news is the stem hadn't snapped - just come loose.

I am reading about all of your complaints about the rain and cold and we are having record heat and drought in a place where we usually don't have to worry about rain and water shortages.... I can't remember the last time I drove my car to work.... I don't like driving in rain because of the slick roads.

Sending off paperwork so I can get collector plates on a bike I acquired from V oodoo currently.

So I didn't know Motorsports did Saucer Tune Ups....yea modern, vintage, but [b]futuristic??[/b]

I was down there yesterday after work. this dude has a space saucer that fits over his portable bed, and a super beater scoot with a sidecar. He is headed out to the desert to watch the Perseid meteor shower. No doubt some Orange Sunshine is involved, or mushrooms of the magic variety. he was loading the sneak-a-toke before he drove away.

it was a trip to be sure.

meteor shower should be cool, NASA is hosting a live stream

http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-tv-to-host-perseid-meteor-shower-program

The cup holder^^^... say what you want about them, but that one looks just right on this scooter.

I think that may be there to prevent unscheduled pit stops. If you catch my drift.

How bout the straps around bottom of leggy? Could that be helping to hold the sidecar from doing a 3 stooges separate - and - demolish ? I go left, but you and curly go right?

Yeah, the hack looks like it parted ways with the scoot a few times... oozes comfort and safety too.

Hahahahah WTF!

New pair of eight holes. I go through a pair every 12 months

I like those, good for the ankles looks like... how much are they down there?

ps you only using seven, Mr. Lazy.

I mix it up so mine last longer. Have a black and an oxblood pair. And a pair of DM Chelsea's for work. Have a couple pair of adidas for when I'm pucking the sliotar about too

I STILL have my 10-up Dr Martins (pre-AirWair) that I got for my 16th Birthday, yeah the soles are flat & sides blown out due to my mutantly wide feet (not good in the wet!), the insoles are pretty much gone... but damn it all they have "Dr Martin" tags on them!
I ride with them now, as they offer ankle protection, & look right

Fixed my mirror and worked out what happened. As the mirror came loose and unscrewed it jammed against the handlebar inside the headset and locked the throttle on.