Modern Vespa

ive dropped the reserve price



Callum whats the Daewoo Lanos doing in your driveway ?

Made some Italian coloured pasta...

Damn, now I'm all hungry.

I got home today on the Stella, went to turn off the fuel tap and the tap lever was disconnected from the tap.

Time to pull the gas tank. Damnit.

Several weeks ago I did all the post melee maintenance on the rally, new tire, changed the clutch cable that was starting to stretch...

Today, it dies at stops, has to be bump started...

Thought it was a fouled plug but no. Float was full of gas! seen that on old brass floats, heard of it happening but never actually seen it. I will carry a spare going forward.

Today I put new brake shoes on the 90 Riva 200. I also picked up my rims with new Dunlop 4 X 10 tires. They said that since it was a 200 cc scooter they had to be balanced...=...+...$

So I pick them up and they couldn't balance the front because the axle is too small. I flip them over, look for the yellow dots and then said "Dude...you're charging me for balancing two whe you only balanced one. And they aren't mounted right...the yellow dot goes at the valve stem"

They had no clue what I was talking about. I hate mounting tires by hand but it looks like I need to do it my self. Dyna beads instead of balancing.

All in all a good day! Tomorrow repack the bearings, new front brake cable and I will be set!

today i just got home from a week vacation in london and a short visit to paris for a day. i saw 3 vintage scooters the entire time i was there. 2 p series in paris and 1 lambretta that was parked in front of modfathers at the camden stables.

needless to say i saw about fifty thousand moderns of many different makes, even the police were riding mp3's.

shit was weird.

Have you had any experience with them before? Any good?

yeah....they really work!

Cheers S.R! I'll put it on my ever increasing wish list!

I did however order a Pinasco split tubeless rim. I looked around for somewhere with reasonable shipping to get your kind (the FA Italia "Rush" - no longer made by the looks so not stocked by SIP etc) but they always worked out 1.5 - 2 times the price of the Pinasco. I piggybacked it on an order from SCK. Hoping it doesn't actually need balancing to be honest.

I got the FA Italias from Mercato. I don't usually balance 10 inch tires but that Riva 200 can make it over 70 mph pretty easily. All in all I would think the Pinasco and FAs are probably pretty close to each other.

Now I did just read in Scootering that Pinasco is coming out with tubeless splits for Lambrettas...no release date yet but I'm gonna get me some of them!

Yeah you gave me the link... the shipping from the US is a killer. SIP must get a very good deal because it's always cheaper shipping than from USA.

its because we get heaps of Germans flying over, pretty much every backpacker van is full of germans who are taking a break after school and before university. out of every 100 german tourists there is probably two american ones, shit we get more brazilians (they come here to surf) than north americans.....at least thats my observation living in a tourist town

My ex-girlfriend is on holiday in Portugal at the moment and took this pic for me yesterday... it's covered in buttons!

Friday night I got off work early, went for a ride, grabbed some dinner at my friend's bar, and went to pre-run some of the roads I had planned to lead a group ride through the following day.

On my way hom I turned down one of the side roads I needed to check after the storms and got half a mile into the dark when I snapped a throttle cable on my P. I managed to get the remaining length pulled between the frame and cowl so I could use the cable as a pull string on the carb. The one handed ride home was, "interesting".

The next day I tore the whole damn thing apart at 6 am in order to meeting up with the group ride folks at 9am. Thinking I'd be done with it quickly, I grab my replacement cable and some heat shrink tubing and a roll of tape to fish it through the frame.

Turned out I needed to drain and pull the tank as the shop who cabled it before I bought it last year managed to get the throttle cable set entangled with the wiring for the turn signals. Morons.

I got it all buttoned up and the ride was a success!

its stunning, wonder is the owner a tailor nor a a fans of benjamin buttons

managed to get up enough energy to do the rear t5 hub seal trick ....... just hope it holds .... quite scary havin no brake

what the fuck was wrong with the fuckin designer of the t5 lump musta been real pissed off with someone when he drew it up

cant believe how good theyve been at work lettin me do it all there

There aren't any scooter rallies where I live (there's hardly any scooters) so when a local rally welcomes all rides, and free Dickey's BBQ to anyone who shows up on a ride, we thought, why not?

Our scooters got some strange looks from the people wearing skulls on their clothes, but mostly people were impressed by our rides (or maybe just thought we were brave to show up on them). We sat back on the grass and just people-watched as they drifted past the scooters and stopped, gawking and commenting. There weren't any rally rides, but there was a crazy-scary motorcycle stunt show and a below-average 80's cover band. What more could you ask for on a lazy summer evening?

Yip, I wanted a Impreza WRX STi , & when I shifted from New Zealand to Australia (2001) found out this cost the same price (due to Aus not importing from Japan).
brought it with 35k, ran it till 250+k, ended up with a 1600cc DOHC out of a TK Barina in it! Used to work at Repco/Napa... Brought every available suspension/steering performance part they had, fully soundproofed it, fitted a competition stereo... Had a ball in it.
Due to only needing a Roadworthy/pink slip/MOT it NEVER went to a mechanic, I did all t work myself.

Yesterday with some spare time, I was able to help the fellow Vespa enthusiasts from West to East coast to reborn their scooter's original locks. Will ship those 8 back out today.

Today, coincidentally, the USPS guy just delivered 4 more locks from the great John McDaniel in Kentucky and cool Luca in Wyoming while my buddy got a hold of 5 NOS Blank Neiman keys. Fun time to rekey and make new keys for these locks.

lol locksmith in the making.

went for a head clearin blast ....... it's amazin how ya brake late n lean harder when ya feel if ya crash fuck it

What is that yellow scooter in the foreground? I haven't seen one like that before. Kinda interesting. Almost half-motorcycle.

I think that is a Big Ruckus Chinese clone.

Yup! I call it the yellow panda. Or the taizhouzing. we picked it up off Craigslist for $300. It's a 150 so it doesn't go very fast, but it's been a lot of fun on the cheap. My husband is a little too big to ride a vespa!

Took me awhile to realise but dropping my scoot was a blessing. Stopped worrying about it being pristine.

Yeah I'm too scared to ride the orange un hard

i always cousion while carefree as well but my bike is always down cause someone else... kick

The scruffy ones are always more fun to ride

Well the rear hub trick dint work .... I'll have to split the fucker 😡 feckin t5s

What exactly is the rear hub trick Bitz? Outer seal as well as the (presumably buggered) inner seal?

Outer hub seal with a small screw in the breather hole under the casing

The only way that can't work is if you don't have the right seal (27 or 30mm) matched to the hub... what do you think went wrong?

dunno .... its worked before on others ive had to do it on .... well confused

took out the smallie to work

its a gonna be hot today as in 8am the sun is already this bright

have a nice sunny day to you all and cheer

What's this? Yamaha 80cc or what?
Seems like a another nice little project i could start and never finish it really

Hodaka Wombat

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hodaka

Thanks buddy. Random fact: wombat (the animal) poops cubic sh*t.

Got me hands on pinasco 162kit
But can't decide if i gonna use 24/24 g or pinasco 28/28
Or direct reed on cylinder but then wich carb.
Have pinasco crank also, gonna post the prosject when have the parts

Here's the wombat piston I ran in my Midlands Reverse Barrel kit in the '80s