Modern Vespa

"Restricted Area". County airport.

Full moon chase (zero traffic) night ride.
Reinstalled the cheapo DC converter & LED bulb.
This time UNDER the headlight, with insulation.
Back to bright as hell... for now.

Curry Chicken, and tempura avocado tacos. Yummmm

I WISH we had a few curry or taco trucks set up outside already. The Oregon and LA streets and warm air do look so nice.

It's 52 outside in Massachusetts, so... maybe a ride? The scoot, she is riding great today. I found a couple relics from the old industrial & agricultural ages in my neighborhood to admire. Then the sun went away again.

Been taking small rides to get to know one another!

What a nice Rally and a fab springlike setting. Enjoy the perfect riding weather!

True, and what a lovely original unrestored VBB*!



(*assuming, just going by appearance)

Thanks, Voodoo. Yeah, it's a '64. Last summer I stripped it down all the way to the original paint frame and cleaned and rebuilt everything.

New wiring, cables, rebuilt stock motor with a 177 kit, new exhaust and dell'orto 20/20 carb. It's peppy and fun.

Sprucin' her up...

Good sports.

Looks amazingly brought back to life!

local little lake, filled a bit over the brim

Two pics and two stories. Neither of these are mine:

1) Rental, on a three day ride between hill towns in lower Tuscany.
Mechanically, a piece of shit. I had a list for the mechanic when we got back.
But you can ride and park where no non-resident cars can
Ape's and wine all over the place.

2) Returned to incredible snow in the mountains that back Los Angeles.
Thought I'd take my P to get a pic today, but the tank was drained clean and engine flooded after two weeks with the tap left on
Took my wife's twin up Mullholland to get a white on white pic...
No snow there

My PK50XL2 has come back to life strong, I finally fixed the carburetor problems that made it such a pain to get started. It has a DR70 kit that has been smoothed & flowed & matched. I know , DR, but It came that way, and it's now running great after ditching the 19 carb that ran OK if you could get it started - I usually just choked it the old fashioned way, lift seat, no aircleaner & finger over the inlet then kick several times til it goes

I was given a 20L which is my favorite smallie carb. It's like a bigger 19 w/ a built in bellmouth. Seemed worth a try, a simple adapter bushing on the original intake... and problem solved, now it starts easy on one or two kicks just using the stock 'choke'. So after getting everything dialed in on a few around the block short runs, I wanted to go for a long run and see what kinda power it's got. I was concerned it might be too big for the 70cc kit, but not at all, it winds nice and clean up to the moon.

I took many pics, here's some samples:

Blue Bonnets and a blue badge...

Man that bluebadge is a pretty thang!

I love it!

Growing up in Texas, going out to be forcibly photographed in uncomfortable formal clothing amongst the bluebonnets was a rite of passage at my house.

https://www.tumblr.com/poopingonbluebonnets

Winder to Watkinsville and back.

One of my many jetting runs. Adirondack mountains in the distance on the other side of lake Champlain. Looking forward to warmer temps and watching it all go green.

Sunny ride to downtown this PM to sip a coffee cortado with my soon to be graduating h.s. daughter. She's always liked moto rides.

Not very far from house cos I can't ride them both in one time.

Weekend escape from city with Lambretta friend.

Looks a lot like my neck of the woods.

First Whole Foods run on the rally. After getting some things for a picnic had to do some quick parking lot carb adjustments…glad I brought tools!

Damn that's a good looking bike. Congratulations on a job well done!

Thanks man! It's an adventure!

Short 13 mile 78th birthday ride over to the high point on the UW Madison campus looking over Lake Mendota.
Nice to be riding after a long snowy (49+inches) winter.

Happy birthday and spring!

Happy birthday and good for you on your 'short' celebration ride. That's more like a medium longish run for me any more.

But i'm finally back on my island so I expect to be stretching that out if the good weather holds. There are two 50s smallies here but only one got out of the house so far after years and needed only minor carb service.

Good luck chasing those electrons.

Found them! On this particular stator you must ground out the blue wire thru the brake lite somehow. This one may have a blown bulb or corrosion going on somewhere, I grounded the blue and it fired right up. But now I'm fighting getting the flywheel off to set the timing which is way off. So only partial progress, but the little red one is still running great!

That's awesome Voodoo! Thanks for the pictures and story!

Terry, I'm loving every single one of these posts.

We definitely need more pictures from the docks and waterfront, though.

For a variety of reasons, I haven't been able to even ride a scoot the past week or so, much less wrench on one.

I finally took Lucy, the 63 GL (with a P200 engine w/autolube), for a proper run in around town.

What a fun scooter!

https://www.relive.cc/view/v36A3AYZXGv

Plenty of seating room for everybody on your taxi between the spare wheel and handlebars. What amazing scenery there!

My daughter is in Greece with her high school, just now leaving Delphi for Patras and the overnight ferry to Bari. I guess it's the Greek Easter holiday so she didn't get to ask the oracle for answers to the big questions of life today. Next time, tho. I've asked her to keep an eye out on the streets for nice vintage bikes.

Congrats QA on a slick, good lookin beach bike! Incredible views of the Pacific on your ride!

QA, Voodoo - good stuff! Thanks for the pics and comments.

Run in ride around Mt Davidson

That bike is gorgeous man