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New member saying hello.

Having owned a Vespa gts 300 in 2010 and recently talking my sister into purchasing one, I've gotten the bug and purchased one myself.

I was looking for another black one like my original however after a few wasted journeys decided to opt for touring in my least fav colour.
I think the price and spec swayed me.

Now I've never been a fan of the brown personally but the bike was priced well and came with loads of extras such as crash bars, top case, akrapovic exhaust and even a spare single seat, It had 3700 miles on the clock and one owner from new.

I spent the next few months stripping the bike and selling all the items I didn't want to fund the remodelling, even managed to coax my 16 year old son into helping, no mean feat.

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De badged
De chrome
Classic rack
Powder coated grab rail, bar ends, break leavers, and pillion pegs
Super sticker kit
Tinted indicators
Notte mirrors black
Volt meter
New badges
Black leg shield trim (fav mod)
Powder coated wheels (nightmare)

Currently waiting for delivery of a tinted rear light which should complete the cosmetics.

I'm very pleased with how the bike has turned out, love the colour now. The items sold more than covered the remodel costs which helps.

I've been a lurker on here for a while to be honest , it's a wealth of information, non so more than when it came to the wheel balancer sold on here by Marc P. Wonderful bit of kit and sorted my issues out after powder coating.

Hope I ain't bored you to much Laughing emoticon
Apologies for the poor grammar, very embarrassing.

Hopefully you will see some pictures underneath.

All the best Paul
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Last one, can't seem to add more than one pic
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That looks really sharp! Where did you find the Piaggio shield decal with the radioactive symbol? I like it!
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Hi Kevin, thanks for the comment. I got that one of Amazon for around £6 I think.
I've just replaced the front decal, these were from zen graphics
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Nice pics, welcome from the Bluegrass!
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Looks nice!
The super and black wheels really set it off

Is it a thing that Vespas put Piaggio badges on their scoots?
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Welcome from The Salt Lake Valley in Utah
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Welcome from Rochester, NY. Your scoot looks sharp. Love the color.
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Re: New member saying hello.
Gts1882 wrote:
Now I've never been a fan of the brown personally.

I'm very pleased with how the bike has turned out, love the colour now.
Welcome from a sunny but cold Cyprus. I love what you have done with your touring. Great idea to use rubber grommets to cover the front rack holes, I might try that myself if I ever get tired of my front rack.

Regarding the colour, if that's the 2014 model, I'm sure the correct definition of the colour is 'bronze', not brown.
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Ciao Paul and welcome to MV from the city of Latina in central Italy.
Good intentions from what I see; in a negative era like this, having something distracting us is useful and helps us to cope better.
In addition, a scooter is very useful, especially the Vespa because it is flexible to upgrade. Good job.
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Welcome from New England
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Hi from Staffs

Nice mods 8)
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Nice looking scoot, love the colour! welcome from St Neots, Cambridgeshire!

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I kind of liked that small rack in the back.

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Thanks for the warm welcome.
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"Boring?" Hardly. Congrats on your new ride...looks fabulous.

And, welcome aboard!
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welcome!
You look ready to go, good tires and all! So happy your sister is willing to come on board and get a scooter. My husband is NOT a scooter guy but will get an old beater motorcycle to ride around on and I will have my GTS. Somehow my husband does seem to 'appropriate' (take and borrow!) the good stuff, I will hide the key to my scooter. 8) I am in the middle of the US currently under the bitter cold attack of the north. Chicken coop managed to stay 20 F overnight though and we have a -8 F this morning. They are still alive. Come on Spring!
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