Modern Vespa

Nice one Ebeth!

And dammit, I got a lock for you!
I shoulda been in Seattle and shoulda been a week ago to send Tierney for you...

Well today whilst waiting for more parts to arrive.

I made a throttle wheel from a gear selector wheel for a frends P Series

took me about 30 mins and has a much greater travel which will allow his 30mm to be operated more easily and open fully

Did you make a stop for it as well? I did this the other day but wondering about the stop.

you can just tap a bolt into it to act as a stop. Otherwise, the gear cable will fray and eventually break when it's backed down past idle.

What, like a nylon bolt or something?

I installed an oversized SIP throttle pulley for my PWK, but it didn't have any sort of stop on it. I drilled and tapped the throttle pulley so I could screw a random M5 bolt into it so it protruded to the right. There's a stop built into the headset that the stock pulley hits.

I don't have a photo of it, but if you look at a stock P-series throttle pulley, it has a knob on the right hand side that acts as the stop.

here's some bad photoshopping to hopefully better illustrate what I did

Did exactly the same on my P...

Yes that's what I was imagining, I suppose it can still be tapped even though it's nylon or something.

The one in the Super operating a PWK is one like both of yours, but without a stop due to having very very little room in there, so I've learned to live with it. But this P project has tons of room!

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Seems like everyone beat me to answering

yes i made a stop, drilled a 5mm hole and placed a 4mm high tensile bolt with a washer either side and a nyloc to complete.... these were what i had to hand.

all the other options to do this by everyone else are valid and show the excellent creativity of peoples problem solving skills when presented with the same conundrum

Cheers GR!

First batch is ready...

Had the smallie out for the first time in months, had a good ride.

I am testing Mr. Tony newest prototype homemade smallie front shock.. Its a whole lot better then my previous bicycle shock

Cross my fingers this one will last longer

Stay safe and cheer guys

always impressed with the ingenuity of your posts

Thanks Brother G, i am just trying my best to make the vespa keep on going ehatever it takes

Have a nice sunday, stay safe and cheer

Picked up a new project on the weekend - a flat-pack smallframe. Fortunately it came with both of the tools I'll need to finish it off.

I will be watching the progress thread on this one with interest!

Cheers GR. It originally comes from up your way too. Maidstone? It was brought to Aus privately (as all but a few were) and found it's way to Melbourne, where the previous owner backed his car into it. Hence the "customisation".

"brought to Aus"...by way of flat rate shipping?

Dad joke alert!

Think she may have been a little more fulsome at that stage!

May want to check the compression.

unless you need it to change the pad on the buffer, you're not going to need that allen wrench.

I was going to put in a joke about buying it at Ikea...but didn't.

I picked up on the flat pack joke too (all flat pack items ship with an allen wrench) but I thought it'll buff out was the winner!

Here's a shop tool that might be appropriate....

Looks great - perhaps that's how it got into the flat pack? Thinking I may need the opposite - this is the right colour too!

this look like it been step by a cyclops feet, whats the story Brother G

Today i trying to make a vespa cafe racer screen out of busted helmet

The previous owner squashed it behind his car!

Was his other car a bulldozer?

Ha ha! I have no idea but apparently it was in his garage and he just backed into it and squashed it. The spine looks perfect though, which is the important bit of course.

Does my bike look like a cafe racer now

And today i also test fit my front 12 inchi wheel that i fix to be allign.in the center, but i forget to change the tyre so the 120-70 sit so close to the fender, even my finger cant get trough, next on the list is to fix my pink vespa centerstand to be taller by 1cm to accomade the tall front tyre

Hope u all like my backyard mods and cheer

Finishing my windshield 8)

I'd noticed that shifting was not a smooth as it should be of late, so I pulled the clutch cover to see what might be going on.

And I found it. One clutch plate was basically sheared off and a second was starting to wear.

My EGT is supposed to arrive today, so now I have to decide if I want to drop in a stock 22t clutch that I have lying around and have to re-do it once the new BGM plates arrive, or just wait for the new plates.

As of right now, I'm leaning toward waiting for the new plates and maybe working on putting the VBB's motor back together instead.

This is the problem with fast scooters...they have fast scooter problems.

Typical. Put some CR plates in there...

This is one of the older Superstrong's that takes cosa2 plates.

If the ID is 108mm, here you go...
https://www.sip-scootershop.com/en/products/clutch+friction+plates+sip_93081800

Thanks for the link, SaFis!

I already have some cosa2 plates in the mail from scooter-speed, but those are on my notepad for my next SIP order

So what's with the SIP "CR80" plates? For whatever reason they are so much wider in the friction area than actual CR80 plates. According to the theory, the narrower plates allow a given spring to exert more pressure between friction and steel plates.





Some of these things are not like the others...

Oh man - I am so confused - but glad this convo posted.
I have a Super Strong on the suggestion of many here.
No clue what plates I should have on the shelf to replace when these wear out.
Dragging sidecar around on higher power - suspect I will need an answer to that question.

What is the word on best plates for the modern Super Stong then?

CM