Modern Vespa

You need some smooth sailing. Sorry to hear about your issues. Hopefully someone will come through for you soon. Hang in there!!!

I'm following the live on the Facebook page.

I've been in contact with gopam. She was looking for a dealership on the route. There is one in Medina, OH but it is closed to day. I've given her contact info for MC shops in Fremont and Maumee. Hopefully one of them will be able to help her.

Thanks much!

None of these had the part. But MUCH LOVE AND THANKS to Carolan!!!

The search continues

Seamus26 has this in Michigan. Can anyone confirm if this is the voltage regulator I need? He says it comes from a GT

I’ve got a call out to another GT owner who is right now digging through their box of parts for confirmation. In the meantime, I found the same part listed on eBay and identified as being for a GT200: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Piaggio-Vespa-GT200-2008-regulator-rectifier-SH640D-12-3719-/153866993901

So this seems like at least a high likelihood.

Confirmed. This part (from Patrick) is from a GT200:

If anyone in Ohio could pull a voltage regulator from their working scooter for GoPam, it would be a good act for the Cannonball cause. Is the GT200 voltage regulator specific to that model, or do all Modern Vespas use the same one?

Many from that same era use the same regulator. Looks like it’s also used in the BV200 and maybe even the LX150. And I don’t think it’s even a Piaggio-specific part, judging by my brief googling about for the part number -- looks like other brands also use that same regulator.

The GTS regulator has different connectors on it:

Give Phil Waters a call at https://www.clevelandmoto.com/

Cleveland Moto opens at 11AM today. If he’s not available, James or Renee will be able to help.

Cleveland Moto was 2005 Amerivespa sponsor.

Arrrg! Something I ate last night prevented me from watching them go by checkpoint 1 about 20 miles south of me this morning. If I'd have checked in here sooner, I could have pulled the regulator from my LX. But looking at the map, Pam is an hour plus west of me now. Hopefully Seamus' regulator can get her on the road again.

Good weather so far today. I hope it holds out for all of you riding, and be safe!

Piaggio part 58090R, according to my LX parts diagram, which is also the part for the GT200. This is a bit outside my expertise, but many regulators could be pressed into service as semipermanent replacements for the OEM part. If you can match up the number of wires on the regulator (there appear to be five), and the total watts or amps the regulator is designed to handle, a new one can be spliced into the OEM's connectors.

This Amazon listing cross-references this part to a lot of Piaggio models:
https://www.amazon.com/NEW-REGULATOR-PIAGGIO-02601600-58090R/dp/B013SH8CSS

Confirmed that the same regulator is found on a variety of bikes: https://www.scooterwest.com/regulator-et4-lx150-gt200-bv200-486062.html

UPDATE:

Seamus26 is my HERO!!!!!!

He’s meeting gopam today at checkpoint 3 the Vermontville wooden fireman — to give me his voltage regulator from his out of commission GT.

HUGE THANKS to EVERYONE on MV!!!!

I’m so grateful & full of LOVE for you all.

w00t!

Woo HOOOO!!!

Clips from yesterday as they rolled in to the bonus checkpoint in full regalia.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWt0WtXqneY&t

Update from BP4 lulu’s twistee treat. More scooter community just helped gopam!!!! A scooter couple waving at riders today….They pointed at the trailer. One of the straps on my Vespa was dragging & could have been a hazard if it got stuck in the trailer tire. I hopped off to secure the now frayed strap.

Feeling frayed too haha but so happy and grateful. Thank you. My heart bursts with love for you all.

Onward!!!

I want a Lulus Twistee Treat!

Go! Go! Go!

Sure hope it works.

Is there someplace where you can see current overall standings? When I go to the SCBR site, it defaults to the current day but not overall.

Howard

Edit - Disregard - I finally found it

Loitering out in front of Black Frog Brewery in Holland, hoping to catch a few Cannonballers going by!

Just left BP5 on our way to CP3 now to meet my hero Seamus26 for the voltage regulator!

I’m supposed to be getting rest while on this support truck but my heart has been pumping with excitement all day!!

Spotted in the wild, Holland, OH... (I tried to reduce the size, sorry for the assault on your screens...) I saw another one I didn't manage to catch a photo of - light green Vespa.

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Housekeeping notes... I was finally able to catch up on administrative stuff. We had 73 sign waivers in Bar Harbor. The leaderboard has been pruned back to riders who departed Monday, https://follow.scootercannonballrun.com/scorecards

Was bummed that the route missed Indiana almost completely. Wanted to ride out to wave and stuff.

In other news it looks like a few riders took some significant detours today. LOL

The bonus selections for days 2 and 3 were flexible enough to give you some old school cannonball routing options and interstates to gamble with. After today it gets a little thin on alternatives.

Seamus26 at the golden checkpoint day 3 CP3 is my hero!!!!

I wept tears of joy & sang Bowie we could be hero’s just for one day (thinking of all of you here) when I rode the last leg of Day 3 from CP3 to the hotel. Dan V & Candace who I met at Richmond Amerivespa were there too & gave me snacks. I’m overwhelmed with the love & support from everyone. Wept tears of joy. You are all my heroes!! I did not expect to be riding on day 3 scoring points!! I didn’t think it would be possible!! My goal was day 4 morning. Thanks to you , a miracle happened!!

I have tons to say about Seamus26 & his lovely family but I have another urgent SOS for my MV Peeps.

Anywhere along the route of Day 4 can you find……

Rider #80 Mary in Maine dumped her bike on Day 1 and she really needs mirrors.

Can someone research what bar end mirrors & screws & adapter kit if needed will fit a

2020 royal alloy GT 150

Needs mirrors
Bar end mirrors anything
Adapter kit
Screws

You’ll need to contact her directly since gopam is back riding!!!

She has a burner cell phone and told me to post her number so you can text her directly on the road.

+1 (207) 671-5709


She also had asked if there is a place to get
Full spectrum 420 gummies typically come on little packs of 10

It helps her sleep at night.

Ok sending all my love. And hopefully you can help rider#80 on the map during day 4!!!!!

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Pam, I'm so glad you got back on the road! I hope someone like Seamus comes along for Mary soon.

Pam - that is great news! Hoped the snacks helped you on the journey. Good to see you and the other riders at the Fire Station.

Till we meet again!

Best of luck to all

So very glad to hear GoPam was able to ride again!

As for mirrors for Mary's 2020 Royal Alloy GT150 mirrors - ScooterWest is my go-to for emergency on-the-road parts shipments. They aren't open now. Can call in the am. Saw that J&P Cycles have generic bar end mirrors in stock but 1-2 day shipping and no stores on your route, as far as I could tell

Wild.

12 hours in the saddle every day is about twice as far as I'd want to go on tour, but this looks like a really sweet event. Great job feb31st, and cheers to all the participants!

Seamus, you came through today. On behalf of all Cannonball riders, I want to express my gratitude for your selfless act today. I hereby bestow upon you the MV Toaster award as a small token of appreciation. Wear it with pride.

Absolutely I will! It was just serendipity that I happened to have a wrecked bike with the right part. But the simple fact that it allowed me to participate in some small way with all the other maniacs riders, it's been worth keeping it under a tarp behind my garage all these years.

It was great to see all the riders at the checkpoint yesterday. I wish we'd had more time to talk about their bikes and their rides ... you know. Sitting around a campfire making s'mores and singing Kumbaya and stuff. But it's a Cannonball, after all. It was all about explaining that the wooden fireman wasn't ACTUALLY there anymore, snap a couple of photos and smack them on the rear (figuratively, of course) to get them back on the road. And now I know where Vermontville is. I'm sure that's useful somehow.

I really enjoyed helping Pam get her scoot going. Fortunately it was an easy fix, but I held my breath not knowing if it was going to be THE fix. You know, with the circumstances around her just getting to the starting point and then her bike quitting, a lesser person may have just thrown in the towel, but not Pam. She's the kind of rider that would just stitch up her own wound, wrap it in duct tape and bungees and head out WOT screaming the words to "Holiday in Cambodia" to distract her from the pain. She's like the bike courier of riders, Pam is.

With the weather coming in, we were worried about the riders making it to Traverse before the storms hit. Below is a screenshot I snapped of said weather about the time I figured most folks were in. By then I had seen a shot of the hotel lobby Pam had uploaded, and that made me happy.

Godspeed, all you lunatics.

https://follow.scootercannonballrun.com/scorecards Just in case anyone else needs it

Following to get notifications. Just noticed this, will catch up on reading later.

I’m really looking forward to hearing about the bridge crossing. Being from Michigan I take it for granted that everyone knows what it is, but they don’t. I probably shouldn’t have told Pam about that Yugo being blown into the water back in the ‘80s BEFORE she rode across.

There was a group here in Michigan that documented a series called “One Lap” where they rode around Lake Michigan on 50cc bikes. If you haven’t checked them out, you should. The bridge crossing gave me goose bumps.