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https://www.instagram.com/p/CaJyFktg7Ta/

and if you want an encore:

https://www.instagram.com/p/CZmylqGgHsj/

For the Instagram'ers out there, this guy's whole account is pretty great.
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Riding off the stand. tut, tut...
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Riding off the stand. tut, tut...
Yeah, I involuntarily flinched when he did this. I imagine the floorboard had a nice crease in it from this "stunt"...
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Yeah, I involuntarily flinched when he did this. I imagine the floorboard had a nice crease in it from this "stunt"...
The guy rides doing a headstand and that the coming off the stand is what made you flinch?
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adri wrote:
The guy rides doing a headstand and that the coming off the stand is what made you flinch?
Yes. All of us felt an involuntary wince and commenced gnashing of teeth regarding those actions.

Riding on your head, no big deal that has nothing to do with the machine.
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Riding off the stand made me wince too!
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Nicola's a great guy and a terrific stunt man. I met him in 2016. He was in Greece at the 30th year celebration of a fellow vespa club. His vespas are pretty crazy...
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Yes. All of us felt an involuntary wince and commenced gnashing of teeth regarding those actions.

Riding on your head, no big deal that has nothing to do with the machine.
My buddy might give you nightmares. 120,000 km on his GTS...

*Whispers* Many of them off road

He's got trails by his property and that thing gets ridden hard and put away dirty on the regular. Can't kill it though.
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Nicola's a great guy and a terrific stunt man. I met him in 2016. He was in Greece at the 30th year celebration of a fellow vespa club. His vespas are pretty crazy...
He's super encouraging in his videos and takes his time to break stuff down into steps. Good to hear the offline matches the online!
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My buddy might give you nightmares. 120,000 km on his GTS...

*Whispers* Many of them off road

He's got trails by his property and that thing gets ridden hard and put away dirty on the regular. Can't kill it though.
It's a GTS, who cares what you do with it.
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It's a GTS, who cares what you do with it.
Well said
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Vespa on Vespa hate crime lol
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Vespa on Vespa hate crime lol
allow me to spin you a tale of correlation

A- my friend has over 100K on his 1979 AMC Spirit, most of them off road and he rags it

B- my friend has a 2012 Honda Civic with over 100K on it, most of them off road and he rags it.

one of these is a a totally cool and unassailable truth. the other is lame.

the choice that is made weeds out interlopers.
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adri wrote:
My buddy might give you nightmares. 120,000 km on his GTS...

*Whispers* Many of them off road

He's got trails by his property and that thing gets ridden hard and put away dirty on the regular. Can't kill it though.
I love exploring on unsealed roads, a lot less traffic I do get strange looks from dirt bikes and 4wds but who cares

a couple of weeks ago ...
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I love exploring on unsealed roads, a lot less traffic I do get strange looks from dirt bikes and 4wds but who cares

a couple of weeks ago ...
That looks like the normal county roads up by my house that I normally commute on with my P200 to take the back way into town. If I want to shorten my route by about 1/4 mile, i hop on a deer trail that leads through an old overgrown motocross track that was active from the early 70's through the mid 90's.
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That looks like the normal county roads up by my house that I normally commute on with my P200 to take the back way into town. If I want to shorten my route by about 1/4 mile, i hop on a deer trail that leads through an old overgrown motocross track that was active from the early 70's through the mid 90's.
that was the start of it - it rapidly degraded
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steelbytes wrote:
that was the start of it - it rapidly degraded
Sounds like a typical Saturday night…
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That looks like the normal county roads up by my house that I normally commute on with my P200 to take the back way into town. If I want to shorten my route by about 1/4 mile, i hop on a deer trail that leads through an old overgrown motocross track that was active from the early 70's through the mid 90's.
that was jsut a fun pic of a sign on a recent ride. here's some of the roads I have ridden over the last year. (more at https://www.instagram.com/steelbytes/)
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Isn't there enough pictures of that shit in the general section? Sometimes people just want to be apart of any conversation/post. Facepalm emoticon Wha? emoticon
But I guess they can always use the excuse for adding nothing by saying ""I was just ......blah blah blah.........."

A pic with a 40 plus year old vespa in that environment would be more inline with the topic then that crap.
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Frankie says relax. no harm no foul.
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steelbytes wrote:
that was jsut a fun pic of a sign on a recent ride. here's some of the roads I have ridden over the last year. (more at https://www.instagram.com/steelbytes/)
Started following you on Insta a few days back already. The real magic isn't the the Vespa getting through the ruts... It's how you manage to get through it while still keeping it so clean I can't even make it to pick up some take out in the city without coming back wet and filthy lol
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