Modern Vespa

hahaha. I'm buzzing. A friend of mine from work has fallen in love with scooters from me riding my Lambretta and GS160 to work all the time. She started by asking if she could ride on the back of mine... she bought her own helmet and gloves...

since then EVERY scooter i get her around she takes a ride on - all my friend's bikes... modern vespas, Pseries/ Stellas, smallframes, supers, sprints, ..everything. She told me she ONLY wanted vintage, and ONLY a lambretta - that it was the only bike that felt substantial underneath her. She learned on my LI150 and that's exactly what she wanted.

So today we see this all original 1963 Lambretta LI150 with the stock paint and everything up on Ebay... with a buy -it-now of $1500. And so she bought it.

I'm so frigging excited for her. She's just emailing me constantly about it ...she's so excited and it makes me excited. I had to post it somewhere... i love hooking up people with scoots - particularly their first scoot. There's something so wonderful in recapturing the feeling of getting YOUR first scoot again.

Incidentally, any of you heading from the VA / MD area up to the Pittsburgh Scooter rally this weekend? I could use a ride for this bike if you're heading that way ( or any way over westward in the next week )

here's a pic of her new bike:

Dang....why can't I ever find something like that for sale when I am online! Looks great!

It's weird how cheap bikes are when you get away from the coasts.
On the other hand, I see Eric carries the extra helmet for the ladies too. 8)

Sweet....way to go Eric!

makes me want my old lambretta back, i wish i never sold it. someday i'll get another one.

That's awesome man...beautiful find too!

she'll look REAL purdy when i get some rubbing compound and cleaner wax on her. That bike will shine. I'll post pics.

Glad you put on that last part. I thought you were talking about your friend for a 2nd ...

That is so amazing! I can't wait to get a Tambretta.

the ride on the back of the series one was enough to convert you eh?

lemme know when you're ready tammy, you know that i love to play the part of enabler!

best,
-greasy

Don't think that - that's innacurate.

I bought MY LI150 ...which was in about the same condition as the one above for $1300 off of Glenn Reid ( from reid studio ..those awsome art prints ) under a year ago, and he's right in Boston!

I just trip over good deals sometimes. It's nice when you can pass them on to a friend ... I knew that bike would be bought on ebay within hours if she didn't act on it right then, so i convinced her to do it.

Deals like that don't come around that often. Maybe 1-2 a year for me.

Not cheap in the Southeast, just fewer of them.

Great find eric, i hope your friend has lot of fun. It's nice to see a Lambretta going for a reasonable price.

Mate, post some pictures when you get the chance.

Cheers

Will do, buckaroo.

"Can't wait"


HURRY..

It's funny that we're drooling over this bike ...i mean, it's the ford escort of Lambrettas... they made 146,000 of them! They're the most common model next to the LI125 ... all it's got going for it is that it's unmolested, Italian, and original paint.

I dunno. I guess i get more excited about an unmolested relatively common 45 year old scooter that's going to need some work than i do about almost any other bike that's been resprayed or restored.

I mean, an unmolested TV200 or SX200 would be nice ...but you gotta do a little dance when even the most common of models rolls out of a barn or estate sale like this one.

you'd be suprised what's out there. i got two series 1 LI150s for $175 each from this guy here in alabama.

they're out there........somewhere.