Modern Vespa

Just back from Western Australia where I took part in the 2016 Mille, 1000km over 2 days. A mate and I drove across in a van with 5 scooters on board, so a bit over 7000 k's driving.
There were a fair few less participants - 18 - than in previous years, mostly due to the cost and time off work needed to get there. We had 3 scooters that ended up on the breakdown trailer, two Lambrettas and one Vespa, so had 15 finishers.

The course was over some pretty open roads and some long stretches without a turn... typical for WA. That meant that the speeds were higher than in other years, on day 2 Rolf and I sat on around 100 and averaged 86.

And here's the video that Rolf put together from various sources.

Good stuff.

looks like a friendly fun time - great video!

Great pics G... I'm glad you had a great rally/ride! Sounds like a lot of miles.. good miles!.. Thanks for sharing.

For people who haven't been to Australia. The top photo is somewhere in the nullabor , the ocean cliffs is the great bite and the rolling green hills are I'm guessing ,, near nannup or donnybrook prob blackwood catchment area?

Well i just loved watching that - BTW was that "speedy " i saw in the lineup?
If so great to see she had the grit to do that journey! Now if my memory serves me right "speedy " is your scoot Ginch?
If thats correct who are you in all the pictures. I am so curious what you look like from reading so many of your posts So which one are you ? And if my memory is shot and its not your scoot then whose is it and who are they in the pics !!!
cheers and great footage =- congrats on such an awesome trip

btw - we are birds of a feather I am always trying to get my scoots to go faster and ride them like theres no tomorrow lol

Great pics, thanx!!

Nope, Speedy is Purple with hints of Yellow, & is mine, sadly it was sitting back in Melbourne as my boss wouldn't giv me the time off work to go to WA.
Ginchi-Mobile is Lime Green.
We generally ride together & go to many events together as we ride at the same pace, & with the same 'style' & are about as nuts as each other ... Sadly Speedy is not as reliable as Michaels scoot, but we still enjoy the trips.
Rolf, who did the roadtrip & Mille with Michael this time is another friend, genius mechanic & a regular riding buddy. Plus we are all part of "The Dark Lords S.C." (Named such as we generally turn up after dark, often due to Speedy breaking down.... BUT we get there!

This post has a bit more about us...
Hello, my name is..
It would be good for it to continue, as not many on here would actually recognise others from here, besides spotting a scoot that looks familiar.

I was on 1st (NSW, & we rode there first, with Rolf & a few other Dark Lords, I broke down, snapped shirt off barrell) & 3rd Mille (VIC, & I had a hard seize on day 2, fixed it roadside with 120grit sandpaper, a small file, & knife! & finished (just), & had huge carb issues (float on PHBH snapped off!, which I finally replaced tonight)
2nd (QLD) I was on holiday in Israel (which included a Ride & event)
4th (WA) I missed.

Ginch is profile pic is us at Broadford Bike Bonanza, an Easter classic bike event where we 'race' in 15 min blocks, plus we did some Enduro tracks... There are heaps of different events/tracks/styles. I'm on AnaKey, which is now a dedicated Track/Race scoot.
SubEtherBASS profile is us at start of VIC Mille. I'm on Speedy, which was finished the evening before after. 5yr+ rebuild, & blew clutch while testing, & re-tested while riding to startline!

Yeah, I breakdown a LOT, but I ride hard, & generally thrash Speedy/AnaKey, with complete disregard for lengevity, efficiency nor concern about failures, but FUK it, if I wanted to go out & ride all day log or have 100% reliability I could simply be boring & buy a PX200.

Cheers Callum

Looks like a lot of fun!

Seems to me you have a case of PX envy.

Absolutely right Josh. The roads into and out of Nannup are the best! Bobo The Quotable rides again!! Thanks for that Hal, we had a fantastic time... and faster sometimes is never quite fast enough! Here's a few shots from here and there. Speedy is SEB/Callum's scooter... mine doesn't have a name. Or if it does it's just The Super.

Cool video!!! Thanks for sharing Ginch.

More great pics G.... tells a nice story! Good stuff from down undahh!

Those road trains are sommat else to witness!

Great stuff mate, maybe I'll be able to join you one of these days!

Brisbane September/October 2017... you can do it!!

Very nice cozy post Ginch, cool video

The bare-metal vespa in the video, do you know what he did with the surface so that it do not rust ?

cheers friend

There weren't any bare metal scooters in there Kasper. I'd ask Gary (can't remember his user name right at the moment) who has a project thread called 2016 GS150 project or something like that. Or Ssteam177 who has just finished one.

OK ill will try an do a search

This was the one i thought was in bare metal

That is practically in bare metal... it's worn very thin over the years.

Gary is GLScoot. He's done 2 bare metal GS150's as far as I know.

So thats GLScoot aka Gary, nice to know. He has been helping me alot on my GS160 project. Cool helpfull mate