Modern Vespa

Lots of gardening things, from tunnels to trees

Maybe he is going into the rickshaw business. The forward seat for 2 or 3 looks comfortable.

For a deck expansion project

I've carried watermelons, bags of concrete mix, but my favorite was the Christmas tree.

40-lb of heating wood pellets in a downpour.

hahahahahahahaha i absolutely love seeing you transport that giant MEAT.

Puts my meat pocket to shame right there......


hmmmm.....yum.....

My daughter was complaining about having to catch a ride home and back to campus with her laundry so I sent her a link to the video of the guy with the couch and told her we are bringing laundry there and back on the scooter!

Any idea where Birdsnest got that side car?

I want one so I can still ride when it snows.

It is the frame of a Texas Via sidecar without the fiberglass body.

No such thing.

Yeah, fair enough.

Went for coffee, picked up daffodils.

Took home a large planter.

I have posted this before on another thread, and maybe not that unusual, but here is another cat litter haul....along with a bag of groceries.

You should leave that on and use it as an improvised top box

not that strange for me but certainly one of the best things to care on my scoot; a case of black beer 🍺

There's a story behind Black Beer.

They used to make a rather tasty Dopplebock they called "Winter Ale". They were taken to task over it because it was a lager not an ale. About that time the main beer awards in NZ changed their criteria adding in a stipulation that a beer name reflect what is actually is. The main target was probably Tui which is a popular NZ lager billed as East India Pale ale for unknown reasons.
They changed the Dopplebock recipe soon after and Black Beer was born. It is tasty.

Using the Vespa to haul plants. It was a pleasant ride.

I couldn't pass on these two wood frame folding canvas patio chairs today (marked "free" on the roadside). I had just enough straps.

Ironically I'd just disposed of our old ones, thinking I'd never find replacement canvases.

The 1-mile trip home was ok, just didn't lean too far on left turns.

Those are very posh deckchairs to have arm-rests! Good score.

Thanks. They remind me of the outfits of Judy Carne, Jo Anne Worley and Goldie Hawn, from Laugh In.

I saw that first picture and I thought you'd found a new alternative to crash bars to protect the body sides.

Well done on the find and for having the foresight to carry around luggage straps with you.

As we head towards Spring, a young man's mind tends to think about sowing his wild oats, cucumbers and tomatoes. But before that happens the garden soil should be enriched with organic matter, that means a visit to the local stables.
There are about 10 stables adjacent to the Morphettville racecourse, when they are cleaned each day the poo-poo is bagged and left on the footpath/sidewalk for the public to collect. My scoot will only fit one bag so I'll be back.

The bag opening is literlly right by your face!! Do you have an oxygen tank under the seat?

I think that takes the crown.🏆

I found a rug on the curb and brought it home!

On a Suzuki FA50... complete straight 6 Ford head... i put it on the seat & sat on it.

Also on FA50... 20kg bag of something

Both were for about 15km on open road!

A large panel heater (across feet/knees), actually rather difficult!

Many bags of groceries (2 or 3 each handlebar, whole floor full , rear rack & tied together under seat!)

Anything that needs to be carried.

1969, in medic training, San Antonio TX....on PFC wages.. wife and I had a Honda CB 350. Wife carried the groceries on her lap. But I had to leave her home to strap the 6' live-cut Xmas tree across the back.
(loved that bike...but sold it when my orders for 'Nam finally arrived. Wife went home to her parents on the Santa Fe Chief ~!)
O.S.

I lashed a new set of golf clubs (in the box) to the back of my (sold) GT 200. In Tokyo, my room mate and I picked up a used small refrigerator - we call them a dorm fridge here. It sat between us on his Kawasaki 750. The police pulled us over . . . to take a photo!

two 12 ft orchard ladders, two people, two lunches and two water jugs, i wish i had the pictures.
ken

I just discovered there's a whole subreddit dedicated to this called MotorcycleLogistics
Some of you guys should post your pics: https://www.reddit.com/r/MotorcycleLogistics/

Here's a sample:

https://preview.redd.it/qkf0hh6pvxl91.jpg?width=1816&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e815d6977ae142d76cd5a117d548edc70b25f702

The hardest to handle, for me, were a few loose golf clubs for a scooter scavenger hunt, and a rake and battery powered blower with battery powered weed whacker. If I'd only thought to tie them all together...

A free roadside cheapo kayak paddle to replace one that I lost. Luckily I only had a couple of kilometers to get it home–since the blades covered my blinkers.

I used to play in a brass band...

That's one hell of a backrest!

Could do with an MV sticker somewhere there...

Not going to win most unusual with either of these but I was happy with both hauls.