Modern Vespa

So nice photos. And also nice sticker "Siate Prudenti" Have them on both my Vespas.

Great views so close, I'm envious!

Thanks Roland! I have the sticker on my Vespas as well. It reminds me every time to be careful and stay alert! Thanks man. I live in an amazingly beautiful place. But like anywhere, there are pros and cons. I'm just taking pictures of the pros....

North end of Lake Washington from the Seattle side but just north of the city.


You can just see somebody waterskiing down there

A few seconds too late to catch a commercial seaplane landing at Kenmore Air Harbor.

Huge rainfall today in Kyiv. Traffic collapsed. But on my P I can get my destination in any weather




Alfa 159 is off

When y'all do rain, you don't mess around. Scoot looks great, though.

Slava Ukraini!

Out breaking it in today. Running great! Thanks everyone.

Griffith Observatory.
Ride through here at least once a week to maintain sanity.

G. Griffith, born and raised in Wales, donated the largest city park space in the US to "promote the health" of LA's citizens in 1896.
Left in his will the $ to build the observatory, before the city got lit up a few decades later and made it useless. There's a Tesla coil in there, that they used to fire up at certain hours. It would make your hair stand up if you were close enough.

*Parking guys are scooter friendly.


That box is too big.

Century City and Westwood in the background. Without smog you can see the ocean.

Such a beautiful day for a ride today! I rode with a pal who is moving to Oregon, so our last ride here with him on his own bike. He has family to visit here so won't be our last ride together!


Puget Sound from county park at Richmond Beach where I grew up.

And a bonus stop at our impressive local mausoleum and crematorium

It was beautiful, wasn't it. It's funny; my friends who live in Richmond Beach came down today, and we tore it up around Queen Anne and Magnolia.


Looking west from Magnolia into the Puget Sound. (Spot the float plane)

Looking east from Queen Anne over Lake Union and Lake Washington.

Got surprised by rain

Riding weather and time to get old AllState out of the back shed. It just needed a fresh plug and some air in the tires then some kicks til it fired up. It is still damn quick, much fun pulling away from stop signs.


Short test run by my eager friend.

Yep, it pretty much all still works

Then off on a nice local ride to show him one of my favorite local landmarks

That would be this giant metal chicken hiding behind some trees

Now that the GL is back in business, I took it out for a little ride. I got cut short, though, because I stopped to get gas and didn't have enough 2T for what I had already put in the tank, so I babied it home to add more 2T and then decided that 96 and high humidity is not actually very good riding weather.


Gone Nashville

New Nashville

Looks great though! Get a morning ride in when you can!

All my other vespas are broke right now... so I took my silver smallframe out today and drove it around the neighborhood for a few hours. This thing is so much fun!

Happy Fourth!

I hate knowing that I have broken bikes. It's like they're shaming me every time I go into my workshop. Smallie looks great, though.

Usually the stations have at least marine 2T, I've grabbed a bottle of that when I failed to carry enough with me.

Lovely scoots! I know that GS, Mr. G.S. and I go way back

I thought about that, but I was pretty close to home, so I decided to just roll with it. Your post here reminded me I needed to order more Motul, too, so added bonus!

Last week, up in Housatonic, NY, about 90 miles North of home, the SS found a sympathetic fire plug.

I love this thread so much. We have so many cool looking scoots and so many fun places to take them, which I think often gets overlooked in all the technical minutiae (not that I don't love the technical minutiae, maybe to a fault ).

I now keep an eye out whenever I'm riding for a good spot to pull over and shoot a quick picture or two, which just adds to the fun.

This one is from ten years back, but still a good photo

Just a little tweaking/cropping and it could be from any time in the past 35 years

A few photos of our recent trip to Niš in Serbia for their 3rd National Vespa meeting. A 1100Km roundtrip in 4 days (23rd to 26th of June). We had rain, hail, fuel delivery issues but nothing "broke" our spirit. We were 7 participants (6 Vespas) from our Club and a total of 39 from Greece. We had a really great time. The meeting was organized by Vespa Club Naissus and it was excellent in all aspects. Great food, lots of beer, music and great people...

And a link of our Club's FB post with a lot more photos...
https://www.facebook.com/vespaclubveria/posts/pfbid02XYUKtF56vPpdrDy4tNBvoBL2LUggdMXyDH3zDrcjbW7Qp6dcesmXM8Ed27Qj18dfl




Getting ready to hit the road...

Waiting to cross our borders...

Refueling near Skopje...

Checking everything's still tight...

Waiting at the Serbian borders...

Waiting at the Serbian borders...

Waiting at the Serbian borders...

Refueling in Serbia...

Getting ready for rain...

Raining...

Trouble, spark plug failed...

A bit more trouble, crap in carb...

Reached Niš. At the hotel's garage...

Next day early morning troubleshooting. Found water in my T5's fuel tank and my friend had a fly side seal go bad...

Riding in Niš...

Our Club's President's Cosa...

At a historic site...

Sign said, 4 people at a time...

Greek participants...

This is the exact reason I started the thread! Lots of technical minutiae and builds and such. Felt we were lacking pics of the builds actually outside doing what they were made to do.

But if I took a picture of my scoot every time it left me stranded on the side of the road, I'd never not get anywhere!

Dammit! So true. So so true.

errands are so much better on a vespa! This is from when I still was the caretaker of this 62 allstate

What's that on the leg shield down low a light?

gat dang. I love both of these bikes so much. please don't ever restore them.

a quick gas run from the other day.



such a perfect little city run around. delights me to no end.

Trip to the beach , felpham , West Sussex


felpham

smallframe fun around town.

Well, huh...light blue Allstate with a legshield spotlight? Your Tomax to my Xamot scooter. Perhaps our scooters suffer from The Corsican Syndrome? Your engine runs lean, which makes mine seize up?

I'm getting out and hitting the local murals. Nashville LOVES its murals.

Rumor has it, Philadelphia is the mural capital of the world.

I'll get to work on showing some

Here's a throwback. I actually met bettie page at the supermarket!

It was 2001 or so, and she was behind me in the check out line. I thought maybe it was her but didn't say anything.

At the time I was driving a slammed 53 Ford, all stupid so cal style shaved handles and no trim. I was putting my bags away and she rolled by and was all: cool car. So I quipped back: thanks bettie Mae, that means a lot from someone like you.

Froze in her tracks.

Turned and came back. You know who I am?

Yeah. The eyes never lie.

Then we wrapped out for like 1/2 an hour.

She was gracious, and funny and lively and hilariously foul mouthed— for a for a woman in her late 70's!

That's awesome!

I've met a few celebrities over the years in various capacities and found that they all had their public personae and their real personae, and the two were frequently miles apart.

Much of the time, if you engage with them as people and not their public personae, you'll get the real person once they decide you're not some sort of stalker or weirdo. Of course, I can think of a few where they really were their public image, and that's not a compliment.

And since I had to go past Grimey's (famous Nashville record store/venue), I stopped and took a picture there, too.

Shopping trolly run to Trader Joe's.
Perfect application for a smalldoor with a Malossi 136