Modern Vespa

I'm going to start researching it! The first time I need to crack open the cases on Ruby......

The White P200 has been sold.

A cool dude named Chris from Springfield came over to the coast today and left with the P in his truck. Luckybear just happened to be here tightening shift cables on Flo and went for a ride through the neighborhood with him.

He comes from a sportbike background, but wants something cool to ride around the Eugene area. He was stoked because he read this thread and knew what he was getting...

The engine is sweet. I'm still amazed with the slight porting how it woke this engine up.

Thank you all for all the input and advice. It is very much appreciated! It's been a super fun project. Turning out the lights....

A couple more action shots of it getting loaded up. Thanks Luckybear!

Great! He getting a very good bike knowing it was brought back properly.

Congrats quascooter, next

I'm thinking smallframe & am keeping an eye peeled

Strong fast P200
Sexy old AllState
Nimble quick smallie

Like hitting the Vespa trifecta or scoring a Vespa hat trick!

congrats! Feels good to get a project sold and make more space in the garage!

Thanks guys! It does feel good to know it was a solid build, and to get some space in the garage. I rode the GTS-250 today into town. Needless to say Ruby, the P200 that has been tucked away in the back of the garage is moved to pole position for the next run into town. And the GTS is for sale....

And Voodoo! I'm going to end up with a smallie one of these days, just because of you! Ha!

A little update. The new owner of the White P200 is Chris, or ScooterNewB. He's put over 700 miles on Feebs (the white P's name) and ridden it almost every day since he's got it!

He bought a 24/24 carb and pipe from ScooterMercato and came over last friday for a "lets install some stuff" day on the scooters.

Something also that was really cool is he picked up a box of parts for me from WhoDatChrome in Portland, who picked up from Voodoo in Seattle. Very cool! Voodoo flipped me that 20/20 carb for B-62, a seat frame, and a couple 2-port 150cc cylinders and pistons. It was really cool of Chris to do this for me!

So here is where the story gets good. Friday was my birthday, which Chris didn't know, which was perfect. But what I didn't know was my wife had planned a surprise birthday party for me at noon. Just a bunch of friends over for cake and ice cream.

Chris and I were just getting ready to take off and check the jetting on his new carb and the first car pulled up, with a cake and ice cream. I just though a few friends were stopping by to wish me a happy birthday and brought a cake. Then the next car pulled up. My buddy Cliff. My brain said: "What's he doing here? He's working!" Then it dawned on me. I'm definitely not the sharpest tool in the shed!

After a couple of hours of visiting and eating cake and ice cream, Chris and I finally got to go for a few rides. We got to ride all three bikes around town and dialed in his new carb and pipe.

It was an awesome day indeed, and a perfect sunny day way to celebrate a birthday!

Happy Belated Birthday, qa!!!

Sounds like an all-around great day! Cake, ice cream, riding around town with a new buddy. Doesn't get much better, now, does it?

Glad you had fun! Great smiley scoot pics

Thanks Kimono! It was a pretty awesome day. I finally finished off the last of the German Chocolate Cake yesterday!

But now the weather turned here, raining pretty heavily. I was going to take Ruby on an errand but wimped out...

Sounds like a great day!

Happy b day!

That's awesome qascooter happy birthday and Swiss1939 where have you been need some learning through you.

Life has gotten busy the past few months. Moved and dealing with that on top of busy work schedule. Broke for the past month with moving and all bills backed up from slow summer work schedule. Couldn't afford all the parts for my engine rebuild. Finally gonna put my big order in this week and get back to rebuilding engine in the next month. I figured I'd wait till it's running again to do one big update on everything up to that point.

Terrific Trio! Good times w/ dues paid in full.

Birffy Hapday, Scott!

Thanks guys! I appreciate it!

Great Photo

I haven't posted to this thread in a while so here is an update. Ruby is running great, considering the cases have never been opened and she's almost got 10,000 miles on her. She's also traveled over 5,000 miles on the back of the 30' motorhome, which she travels admirably and it's nice to ride where ever we are staying.

Today was one of those winter days when the storms pass, and the sun comes out briefly, so I put all the must-do's aside, gassed Ruby up, checked the tires, and geared up. Then headed north along one of my favorite strips of pavement, to Yachats.

There was very little traffic along the coast today and it made it super enjoyable in the twisties, which the road is pretty much all one big windy road. I had a chocolate filled crescent and a hot cup of coffee, and watched the ocean roll in.

Then headed towards home and decided to go to the South Jetty in Florence, cause I haven't been out there in a while and it was still early. The recent storms put up a ton of driftwood up on the south jetty - pretty amazing to see trees floating down the river and washed up on the rocks.

Just thought I'd share

I knew Ruby was SPECIAL, didn't realize how lucky too! The lovely lady was smart enuff to avoid the dreaded 2020 and its host of plagues . Last post before yours was October 19th back in twenty nineteen and here you are again January fifteenth in sweet 'twenty one!

I love your rides and even more your snacks, I always get hungry when you ride .

And a belated Happy Birthday 2020, FWIW...

Well, you shamed me into it. If you can ride in the chill of Oregon, I can ride in the cool of Fresno. I unwrapped Spermy yesterday and took a 10 mile run across town. Granted, riding the streets of Fresno is nowhere and inspiring as riding the coast of Oregon but it sure did feel good to get out on two wheels.

Thanks for the boost.

Thanks V - and someday I'm hoping to get up to your neck of the woods, or maybe you'll make it down here and we can do that famous 35 mile ride up the coast to Yachats. I even have a scooter for you to ride!

BTW, it's not really famous, it's just my favorite run, so, famous to me

And Luckybear - good man! Keep that scooter running! No need to go into hibernation. And just so you know, I went and picked up Hukilau takeout for dinner tonight, and made a trip to True Value, the hardware store first. Daily driver

Put on four thousand fun filled miles since buying her and she's still running strong😄

Today, Chris brought Feebs over. He's been wrestling with a short that blows the fuse every couple of days. And I apologize in advance for not taking a bunch of pictures...

So we did a number of things...

1) replace positive and negative battery connectors. They were spade connectors and we swapped them out to eyelet connectors

2) dialectic greased and tightened down the regulator. It was loose and the ohmmeter showed 0.001 on the ground wire. Now it shows 0.000. N resistance.

3) tighten up the fork! The front fork was sloppy so we loosened up the headset and pulled it up to find dry bearings in the upper race, and managed to drop a bearing down the neck while trying to fix the bearing holder. So we greased it up sans bearing and tightened it up.

4) while doing the above we discovered a wire in the harness that had it's insulation worn off. The grey wire or rear brake light. Chris tested the theory that it was the main issue by touching a screwdriver to it and ground and pop goes the fuse. We got some liquid insulation and globbed that on. Also, we made a plastic shim to stuff into the column to protect the harness from further rubbing. At this point there were high fives and hell yeahs going on.

5) we replaced a chunk of green wire while the headset was off with a big piece of heat shrink tubing.

6) soldered a loose wire onto the back of the light switch. It was for the high beam.

7) tightened up the front brake cable, making it functional now.

Oh, and we went and got burritos and ate them with a view of the jetties, then a ride around the outskirts of Florence. It was a bitchen day. Chris has put over 7k miles on Feebs since I handed her over to him. We'll to the steering bearings at 10k.

Two thumbs up to Scott's Scooter Sales. Three years and 7k miles after purchase he fixed the forty three year old wiring and only charged me a burrito. 😀

Today was a bittersweet day.

Feebs came back to live in my garage and
My buddy Chris (Scootnewb) is moving.....to Florida!

I'm going to keep Feebs here at my place so he'll have a scooter when he comes to visit. And I'll treat it like my own, putting it in rotation, fix whatever, etc. So it'll be ready whenever he makes it back to the West Coast.

Sad day indeed though - my riding and wrenching buddy is moving.....

We did get some stuff done on this rainy morning though
Feebs old left cowl reinstalled
Feebs rear tire changed
B62s loose headset tightened
Grub screws added instead of the pinch bolts at the selector box (thanks GeekLion)
And lots and lots of BS. Good times....

Well I'm happy for Chris if that's a good move for him but it really sucks loosing a friend to a faraway land. I was looking forward to riding with BOTH of you after Donatella gets finished. 😩

Awe shucks the dynamic duo going on hiatus. At least Feebs is in good care. Looking forward to the next chapter and future ride reports from you two.

Thanks guys - and Rob, I'm sure if you fly up we can get GeekLion to come over to the coast for a ride. And now I have three working scooters, which means two can be ridden by you and Hibbert, or GeekLion

I'm still waiting for V oodoo to come visit

I don't see any pastries or coffee. Double sad.

Count me in! Coffee & Cruisin on the coast! I really need to make an effort to get over there more. Last time was a blast, and much needed recharge for the soul.

Godspeed to Chris! You'll be missed in the PNW

You've got a plane, go pick him up in Florida on your way up north!

I would but it takes a whole day just to fly across Texas! I need a faster plane.🤔

I love your thinking!

I was just wondering what it'd take for BajaRob to fly up here...
Cessna's fly between 100 & 200 mph, so let's just go with 150mph
About a thousand miles up the coast.
That's six hrs flying time.
Then there is the stop for gas - once, twice?

So a good 8 hrs with two stops. If you figure I5 is 75 to 85 mph and 15 hrs drive, and add a couple gas stops....

Flying seems much more fun, but still not a teleportation device

Took me 4 hrs from Grant's Pass to Santa Paula in the RV4. No fuel stop but can't fit the GS in that one! The 180 does about 155 mph in cruise at altitude and burns 13 gph. The RV4 does 190 and burns 7.5 gph. Only one stop for gas in either. I'd be close though!

The brake light wasn't working.

Bulb was good.

Pulled headset and plugged in the brake wire (it was loose) and the front brake switch was back in business!

Rear brake pedal switch, not so much.

So I took the pedal out and the switch.
Took it apart and gave the contact points a lick with a file.
Put it back together and all is working again.

Some good scooter therapy today 😃

After seeing this I'm really going to look over my electrical doodads during assembly. Maybe put in some copper pieces like Whodatschrome did. The switches don't seem to be the most robust items.

They're pretty darn reliable in a P series, so i don't think i'd go to the trouble to fab up copper terminals. Plus it's a super easy fix with a P brake switch IF it ever happens to corrode.

Chris and I have been talking about Feebs and what I should do to her. We decided on an O-Tune like Ruby, but with a brand new cylinder and piston.

Feebs currently has a 3rd over cylinder and almost 10k miles.

And after riding her it's obvious she needs:
the shifter and throttle tubes cleaned and lubed,
maybe new cables,
Clutch rebuild,
New front tire

So first things first:
rewatch the below O-Tune vid,
review Ruby's thread, page 9 P200e - this time for real! (Ruby's Thread) (Post 2629778)
Then port the cylinder and piston
Drop the engine and clean, clean, clean
Install the cylinder & piston, then pressure test
Reinstall engine
Clean headset stuff and check cables.

With this list, I'm gonna get busy. It'll probably take all winter, but I'm in no hurry

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Good plan! Feebs will be fresh in no time

Looks like you've got a good Winter Project

Luckybear