Modern Vespa

It's EngMod2T (Oops typo) - https://vannik.co.za/EngMod2T.htm
$400 US so not to be sneezed at!

Chandlerman, have you seen this guy's work? Quite interesting - in regard to max power from the 150 case motors. Especially the case work on the LML. https://www.facebook.com/Stratocaster99/

https://vannik.co.za/index.htm
it's not inexpensive, but it is the real deal.

happy to run the simulation for you if you do all the measuring.

No doubt there's a fairly long list of stuff that needs to be measured?

I just found this on Instagram (thanks Swiss1939), didn't know they existed. Seems like a good thing.

https://www.sip-scootershop.com/en/products/steering+head+bearing+set+_90115100

Me likes!

This looks great. I think I'll try one before my next 221 MOT. It only just scraped through this year.

Looks cool. I might try it on my p200 project. Not sure how the steering play is adjustable from the looks of it though.

Although from last week, here it goes. Found me some nice 80s goodies for my T5 and my blue P. The "unobtanium" Pinasco wheel discs (they're missing their valve stem covers, maybe I'll do something with the 3D printer), a UTAH engine cover (this one goes over the kickstart's axle), a nice T5 Buzzetti kickstart lever and a NOS Piaggio / Elma headlight from 1984 for my blue P...

My smallframe was taking 20+kicks to start when cold, so today I went after the choke cable.

1. I discovered that it was engaging, but not enough. The inner cable is too long. My solution was to add an additional tophat at the lever end; in effect making the outer longer. This worked, and the choke now fully engages. Starts on second kick!

2. But after a run around the block, it ran like crap and died. I discovered that now the carb end of the choke had pulled loose and the plunger sprung out, effectively leaving the choke wide open. Fixed that after a lot of swearing.

3. Took another short ride and it ran like crap after 10 minutes. The air filter had fallen off. Fixed that.

It's funny. Laugh.

It's a Vespa, right?

so needy....

I loaded up the Allstate for a trip to the DMV.

I might be legally allowed to go slow on public roads. Finally.

wow great shot FNG!

+1 love a bit of Vespa art, especially with the ocean beyond

The trip to the DMV was a failure.
Apparently the title that I have from 1960 is just the "owners title card".
It won't do even though the DMV has seen it twice already and said it was okay.

It looks like the only miles I'm going to be riding are around my neighborhood.

This works very well!: How to Guide- Apply for a Vermont plate

is that title from California or another state? The DMV can be a difficult, but persistence can pay off.

This works very well!: How to Guide- Apply for a Vermont plate[/quote]


I have been looking at that.
It might be the way I go with the VNB project.

For the Allstate I'm going to continue bash my head against the brick wall that is the CA DMV.
At least for a little while.

is that title from California or another state? The DMV can be a difficult, but persistence can pay off.[/quote]

The title card is from TN.
I'm in CA

put some make up on the vespa

I put the motor back together in the Sprint. Bearings & seals, the new crank & piston, new 3rd & 4th gears. I wish I'd replaced the entire stack, because while 1st and second are worn, they're not jumping out of gear.

It took me a lot longer than I was expecting, almost five hours, because every single task seemed to take longer than it should have, either because I couldn't find a tool in the mess that I call a garage or simple things just took longer, like fitting the cylinder back over the piston & rings or re-installing the exhaust.

Port timings are at 175/125, which I'm down. I didn't have time to check squish, but since nothing "should" have changed measurement-wise, I'll let that go until I get a new spark plug so I can have a fresh one in there.

Still, it's a first kick starter again and running smoothly thus far. It still needs the final once-over, tuning check, etc., and I'll call it good-to-go.

Got me some new Vespa T-shirts and the NOS 80s Malossi levers I bought on eBay arrived today...

You can always tell the real Italian stuff by the instructions, which will be so unintelligble that even Google Translate will barf on them and come back with something like, "the dog insert most urgently" on your new ignition system.

The poor doggy!

I shortened a candle stick to be used as a plant stand. Welding - my wife is so happy.

while running errands on the rally, the gas station I planned to stop at was no longer there. I'll make it home, sure, no problem...

ran out the first time approaching the top of the second to last hill, weave a bit, crest the hill. coast down to the bottom and stop at the stop sign. kick, fires up and up the hill to the stop light. red with two cars in front of me and on a steep hill. kill the engine and push it to the cross walk. cross as a pedestrian, bump it down the hill and pull up to home with enough to pull into the garage.

Tomorrow I'll siphon some fuel from the MotoBi...

I think you just described me last May, but just barely rolling into a gas station, otherwise nearly identical. Small world.

But w/ bonus of first reaching down to switch tap to 'reserve' ALREADY there!

Who else?

Not only liking the new makeup, I am very impressed with the American flag screw driver?

I ran out of gas on my way to catch the train to work on Monday. Luckily, it was at the light with a gas station on the corner, so I just pushed it to the first pump, filled up, and didn't even miss my train.

I've had a couple of instances where I was riding home and stopped on an uphill section before a light that's a block past that same gas station. The uphill is steep enough that it causes the gas to run into the back of the tank, so I get to push the scoot up and through the light in the crosswalk, then give it a minute for the float bowl to re-fill and I can usually get to the gas station.

Along those same lines, I once spent about 20 minutes troubleshooting lack of fuel one time because I'd ridden home, not realizing I was running on fumes, and then when I put the bike up on the center stand, it tilted it back far enough to cause the same problem.

I'll never get bored looking at that back tyre Brother E. It looks so so good on Pink. Especially on that terrain! How do you rate it for Indo roads and weather? Give us a review of the K58 please =)

So Friday afternoon, I was walking up to where I parked the Sprint on my way back from the train to the office. Right as I get close, I hear that unique vehicle-on-vehicle crunching sound and see the person who had parallel-parked in front of me hit the scooter and knock it over.

He gets out, sees me looking at him, and irritatedly (is that a word) asks, "Is that yours?" as if the armored jacket wasn't a dead giveaway. He immediately goes defensive, saying he couldn't see me in his rearview, which might be true with the underbar mirrors, but he'd parked after I did in the morning, so he must've known I was there. He was also holding a bluetooth headset, so I'm assuming he was on his phone.

Anyways, we stand it back up and I look it over. The lefthand cowling already had some scrapes on it, and looks about the same as ever. I didn't see any damage on the righthand side. It was kind've weird. He was simultaneously aggressive, defensive, and also genuinely sorry.

The only real damage was to the lefthand turn signals. The front lens broke into four pieces, but I should be able to superglue them back together. The rear turn signal has both the housing and lens cracked, but it all held together.

I'm going to put it all back together, but I'm contemplating swapping out the signals, because as much as I love them, I don't want to eventually kill them just because other people don't pay attention.

At the end of the day, it's all fine, albeit irritating. My philosophy on these things is, "If you can't stand the idea of something happening to it, shrink wrap it and leave it in the garage."

Dang it. There are not many of those lenses left in the world. It's like running over an endangered animal.

That said, I think I have one in my boxes of assorted scooter junk. If I do it's yours buddy. I'll pm you.

That sucks, pretty sure I gave all mine away, but I'll look.

let the kiddo, who really wanted to help, do the oil drain bolt, promptly stripping the allen T8 drain bolt on the bv350...

I still love him but... pure bollox.

I super-glued it back together, then backed it up on the inside with some epoxy because there was one chip I couldn't find under the screw hole, so that needed to get built up anyway.

I'm seriously going to find some alternate turn signals, because they're funky-cool, but not something that should live on what's effectively a street-parked daily rider.

In other news, I got the Sprint motor finished up. When I checked the timing it was at 10 degrees BTDC at 6,000 RPM's. It's now set to 17 BTDC @ 6k RPM's. First kick start now, too. I got it into the Stella frame, then got the shift cables hooked up, but needed to replace the clutch cable, which turned into my typical cable swap fiasco. I pulled the new upper into place without issue, but somehow managed to pull it back down out of the headset and now can't get it back in place.

Anyways, solid day in the garage.

I've got an extra set of bar ends if you want to go Teutonic.

I think I've got some as well that I will not be using. We should get the best one over to https://www.claussstudios.com to have a mold made

That instruction sheet is amazing.
The instructions were printed on a dot-matrix printer, the letterhead/logo was printed, but the diagram was drafted by hand! Then literally cut and pasted for printing.

Hi quality Japanese same size & very similar, metal except lens? PM shipping info if interested?

I was thinking about seeing if one of my 3D Printing buddies would be willing to help me draft one up for 3D printing.

I did a bunch of searching for replacement options last night and didn't really find anything. Pretty much everything on teh Interwebs only works if you can mount them perpendicular to a bar, which is pretty much the opposite of the mounting holes on a Vespa.

V oodoo, I'll shoot you a PM. Even if I don't use them on the Sprint, I think those would look pretty sweet on my GL, once I finally get that project rolling.

Hated that damn sito anyway.
Was fooling around "off road"