Modern Vespa

Took me ages to work out that it wasn't a mirror!

Yesterday. .... They're ganging up

It's Not So Relevant, but still Not So Modern.

On vacation this week in Michigan with my family, we rented a vintage speedboat to cruise around for a couple hours. My wife enjoyed it so much, she said, "We should get one."

I looked on Craigslist and there was an ad that had just gone up for a vintage speedboat with trailer and a 45HP motor about an hour from my house for the low, low price of FREE. Contacted the seller, he said I was the first caller. Since he worked for the yard, I bribed him $200 to take the listing down until I got back in town and could come pick it up, which he happily did.

Yesterday, I drove back from Michigan, rented a truck and trailer, and hauled it (plus about 30 mosquito bites) back to my house.

It had been sitting in a storage yard untouched since 1988, but I've done some pretty serious work on older sailboats in the past and now feel competent to rebuild the motor, so I'm pretty stoked.

Next up...planning & figuring out how best to handle a Bill Of Sale transfer of a boat & trailer. I may have to see if the Vermont Option applies to boats.

Haha.. oh the "joys" of boat ownership... you're in for it now c-man...

Hah!

This ain't my first boat rodeo...

I had a couple of classic sailboats, an Irwin 23 and a C&C 35 over the years. This is smaller and simpler than either of them, plus I still have most of the stuff I'd need like life jackets, radios, etc. down in my basement, so the big cost will be replacing the existing seats and adding a bench in the back.

This is a 1962 speedboat with amazingly well-preserved gelcoat and a motor that, in my VERY preliminary inspection, really only needs new rings & seals.

It even has the original throttle with the key in ignition.

Found this cool old charger at a garage sale, $5. Works!

not today buy yesterday.. have a special sunday ride to a montain, its special cause this time my wife is with me she said its her free day so she wanna go out if town as a good husband and a maniac of ride on vespa i just simply said lets go even better i meet Alif there

have a great day to you all and cheer

I'm back to daily riding 😆 woohoo ..... shame it's for my radiotherapy appointment 😣boohoo

Filled up to the top with premium. ... I got no change from a tenner 😡

atleast u can fly that T5 to 120Km/hour everyday Brother Jim
ride fast but always be safe and cheer

Gotta admit it feels good lifting the nose at 40mph in 3rd ..... shame it bogs uphill full twat ...... will get round to swapping the gaskets n float in the carb soon

Look after vader on that beast of a banana scoot e 😘

I took time out from boat work to put the new BGM top end on the Stella. Went to pressure test it and the air was hissing out as fast as I could pump it in.

I did the swap in the bike. I may need to pull the motor to do it right.

Meh.

My Sprint had been bogging every time I pulled away or changed gear...
Twisted the pilot jet (at the rear) a little outwards and adjusted the idle jet accordingly and the problem has just disappeared!
This never...ever happens! #chuffed

Also realised Id been running at nearer 3% rather than 2%. She seems to start a lot easier now too. Might be the new spark plug lead I fitted but you never quite know

Cheers
Kevin

Mine now bogs pulling away...... Won't pull uphill either gets really hot too .... do you mean air adjuster at the back? Gonna try it on mine ..... it's supposed to be 2 1/2 out

Yep Bitza the one sticking out the back...anti clockwise about a quarter turn then rev to see if theres any delay...keep going until there isnt. I think mines prob three turns now. It'll affect your idling speed but that an easy adjust
cheers Kevin

Bought a birthday cake for my wife 8) went home now and hope to see some happy smile have a nice to you all and cheer

well some dick didnt tighten the pickup after that piece of brilliant soldering ....... new stator fitted .....
then i thought id swap the cdi for a ducatti one .... the leads too short .... bugger .... ill take old one off .... snap screw inside the ducatti ... tits .... 45quid later i have a new one on order n it comes with lead n cap so it should be set up better than mine
cleaned carb n swapped out some gaskets ... fired it up n our lass even said that sounds to be running better ....
think it needs another half turn out though ... its pulling like a train when its warm but still has some flats

I love that you treat your wife like a queen! Also, all the bright colors of the Indo scoots and helmets. Happy colors

thank you Sis, she does a queen to me while my vespa is my steel horse but i am no where near a knight nor a rycerz but i did get the queen smile last night

have a nice day Sis and cheer

Tweeted the air mix that 1/2 turn n by fuck what a difference. ...... I can drop it
n overtake cars again

You, my good sir, are a knight of the highest calibre! 8)


Bitz, ya little tinkerer, are you running Spaco carbs on your T5's or original Italian Dellorto's?

Not me (not that I wouldn't do the same if it made sense). This came off the Chicago Vespatiti Facebook page.

Per the poster:
"I had put a dent in the rim so big that it wouldn't roll, so we took the Red Line to a friend's house till I could grab another wheel."

Anything goes on the Red Line.

It's a delly in murderöné. ..... I have a spaco in the orange bastard but have a delly for that now

But, oh well.. You know how when you get something new or all fixed up how you like it? Then you get your first ding,scrape, scratch or scuff and it's a mixed blessing because you finally don't have to worry about that any more?

I was riding my AllState thru a rather narrow passage, overconfidentally not paying enough attention and BAM, first blood and a bit more than a little ding . Good news is it's hard to notice on this bike anyway and easy to 'fix' when I get around to it.

Whoops!

Socalguy made the drive up to my neck of the woods for a morning ride. 7 of us went down the coast and then inland for lunch and brews.

dog gone it......................

that stretch looks awesome don't think I've trespassed.

dude that is awesome it's got me thinking.

I finally got the Stella back on the road today with a new BGM 177 on it.

At the same time, I swapped the top of the reed block from the 30mm to a 34mm inside diameter to match the carb.

Runs well, but seems consistently lean now across the entire rev range on a quick ride around the neighborhood. Hopefully I'll have time to work on dialing in the carb this week, but it's hard to say for sure.

since i am running out of bike option so for the last week i start riding the smallie again (no i hasn't fix it just ride it slowly) in order to make the smallie happy i gave the smallie a shock that i was repaired its a prototype from Mr. Toni that have a damage tube but the spring is still strong so i say why not make use of it

so i cut weld and make a new bushing pipe and voila, well atleast it look good dont you all agree

Riding home from the train today, I saw not one, but two, P's pass me going the other direction, independently of each other in the same block.

I never see any vintage scoots, much less two in a 10 second timespan.

One guy waved back to me, the other did not.

I guess assholes are allowed to own cool scoots, too.

Geeez ebeth, you're gonna burn your toes

I give up, you win the maniac award with your "i cut weld and make a new bushing pipe and voila" shock repair.

Killing time today, I was looking at this Husqvarna ad wondering why can't we ever have anything nice? How many Husky TE250i's are there and how many potential Vespas are there? Could this FI adapt to an autolube 200 I wonder? http://www.husqvarna-motorcycles.com/enduro/2-stroke/te-250i/

Killing time today, I was looking at this Husqvarna ad wondering why can't we ever have anything nice? How many Husky TE250i's are there and how many potential Vespas are there? Could this FI adapt to an autolube 200 I wonder? http://www.husqvarna-motorcycles.com/enduro/2-stroke/te-250i/ [/quote]

Why stop at the 250cc? BRC Racing is now currently making 500cc conversion cases for the older ('07-'16) KTM/Husky XC/XC-W/TE bikes. I heard a rumor that they will make cases for the newer injected bikes as well. https://www.facebook.com/brcracingcanada/

I'm envisioning Frank Sanderson building a few 500cc "Series 6" scooters...

u should see how i weld and squish my smallie pipe , my left armpit hold the upper pipe while my left hand pressing the belly of the pipe while my right hand holding the weld gun and heating the pipe till it red so my muffler can be push up away from ground i know it isnt safe, even sometime i wonder why the hell did i do that guess the adrenaline kick my senses away especially when somebody took ur pics

be safe and cheer Brother T

Got a pair of shocks a cdi lead cap plug n regulator to swap out ..... too tired at the moment. .... anyone wanna do it for me? 😁😁 the rear shock is the worse bit I think

Said the hell with things and dumped this troublesome smallie off at Socalguy's for touch up paint work. Latest gremlin on this is two year project is the lower fork bearing/race gave out after a mile of running it around my neighborhood and has since put the front fender into the frame. Be gone Satan!

Made progress on the Gilera. I put the clutch back together last weekend. Moved onto the exhaust and found that the flange nut I ordered was the wrong size. A good machinist got me back on track as there was enough material to cut new threads.

Sun came out so I swapped the rear shocker. ... went to fit the front n couldn't undo the plate so gonna have to get another n a nut to match ..... Swapped cdi n regulator but lights still don't work .... then rain came n by fuckity fid it ..... so I'm trying to learn how to use a multimeter now to try get to the bottom of this bloody mess😯

Keep on keepin' on, bitza!

there's tons o usefull stuff on youtube its finding the electrical values of the components thats the difficult bit no manufacturer ever gives them

Naaaa ..... I've given in ..... phoned me mate to pick it up on Thursday. ..... it's too much work for me ..... clutch is biting too early now n I can't seem to get it right