Modern Vespa

The slope is slippery.

But I’ll answer rando parts and service questions now and then!

Damon, not so much.

Check your windshield stems. Are they both there and are the anchoring bolts at the bottom there?

to me it looks like the bults they use for secuering washing machines and such when new.....you know all of thoese fastners to remove before use?

This looks like a cb antenna mount

Clearly the mounting screw from an Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator.

Sorry.I am wrong this looked liked a early design k40 cb antenna adapter.

I have in the past poured a bit of oil under a parked vehicle to freak out the owner. Usually this is done to a friend at a vintage vehicle rally, the victim usually being some recently restored high dollar ride that is still bedding in after a bunch of work. The owner is quickly informed of the little joke once the heart attack has subsided and they’ve been halfway though the engine looking for the leak.

This however takes it to an entirely new level. I’ve a friend who recently completed a very comprehensive restoration of a 73 Z900 Kawasaki...

I think I’ll scatter a few select mystery bits on the ground under his Qwacker this weekend. I even have some left over bits from my own defunct ride.

With friends like this....

I used to hang out with a pretty crazy group. I remember stuffing a beautiful Ducati 450 desmo between two outhouses because.. well.. that where the little POS belonged. When the owner found out where it was he thought it was suitable and left it there for the rest of the day.

Then there was the Harley in the top bunk of the rented cabin, under some blankets for most of the day while his owner searched for it. It kept him from waking us all at 0600 by yanking off the mufflers and revving it out, a tradition of his.

That bike was later completely wrapped in toilet paper.

Heck I will be his co-conspirator!

Rotella?

I’d never waste the good stuff. A bit of hydraulic fluid looks the best and it doesn’t run all over too quickly. It also smells weird adding to the mystery.

If you’d like some real confusion i think i still have a litre of 85W140 in the garage... left overs from the rear end of a vintage BMW

Some time ago at a vintage motorcycle rally we swapped the clutch cable with the front brake cable on a friend's vintage Moto Guzzi (luckily he was a true friend). What fun when he tried to put the gear!
It said: "The clutch is stuck!" And then: "even the front brake doesn't work!"

Brilliant!

Sooooo.... Attila... Sir.... when can we see a picture of the MV listed under your avatar??? Everybody knows they made their prettiest stuff in the 50s!

The MV Agusta 125 Rapido Sport is the derivation of the Turismo Rapido model, the first 125 cc 4-stroke motorcycle built by the Meccanica Verghera workshops in 1954.
Until then MV had built 125 two-stroke, the engine was very simple and was designed to provide power from 5.5hp (Turismo) up to 8hp (Rapido Sport) with top speed from 80kmh to 110kmh for the RS ; the engine is an air-cooled 4-stroke with rod and rocker arm distribution, lubrication with piston pump for the valves (overhead and V) and splashing by means of flywheels, 4 gears and chain transmission. Electrical system with 6 volt battery.

The Alfa Romeo Giulia 1,600 cc of the year 1971 had a power of 110 hp with two double-barrel carburetors and reached a maximum speed of 180 km / h, in the elaborate version of the engine it reached 130 hp with a maximum speed of over 200 km / h but consumption of fuel from Chevrolet Corvette! It was used by the Special Forces of the Italian police until the mid-1970s.

The Alfa is sweet but that MV, oh my...

Very little of that stuff finds its way over to this side of the Atlantic and very little of that trickles up to Canada so we never see the cool little Italian bikes that the industry grew on after the war.

I did have a rather nice Gilara 125SS 5 speed from the early 60s for a bit, factory clip ons and an open throat Del Orto carb made for a special little noise maker!