Modern Vespa

Looks like a grand adventure. Now the P has battle scars to show it is well loved not locked away

Shitboxin at the Hare Krishna temple. They have a wonderful restaurant inside called Govinda's. We grab take out there often. Does not suck!

I love everything about this picture, including the idea of Indian food.

We have a Govinda's here in Philly too. I haven't been in over a decade. Last few times I was there it didn't agree with me at all. They had gotten a new chef…. Next time I'm out I'll pop by our Krishna temple and take a pic, it's very close to my house.

Back in the day I had a Krishna buddy I used to work with and he'd bring in leftovers to the lunchroom.

Weird thing was nobody would touch them, but I would eat all afternoon like a king!

Couldn't help but think of this.

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Left the house, but only far enough to go back and adjust some brake cables.

Tough luck on that, man.

I see what you did there

Just like a thrown brick, I'm subtle.

https://images.app.goo.gl/vyK7NfsnpjnxvjAHA

Finally did the first ride.

Gremlins!

Clogged tank cap vent (I think). Loose spark plug connector. Ride a mile. Stall. Vent tank. Wedge plug cap under air bellows. Ride another mile. Repeat. Lacked tools for field fixes. But those are easy gremlins.

Short 4th is nice. I'm not really sweating break in. Tank of 1%. Varied speeds. No max revs until after a couple tank fulls.

Dude... So good to see you out on the road. 😃

As first ride gremlins go, that's not bad at all. Annoying AF, but not bad.

First ride gremlins are a given. Minor and simple to fix. I only got slightly annoyed. Calling it a win.

Looking forward to seeing pics of your scoot out and about!

Did someone say Indian food? That's my fave.

I haven't been riding often so I haven't been posting much. But I just enjoyed an end-of-holiday weekend run this evening. There are many historic public and family cemeteries here in the Pioneer Valley, so I pulled over at one around the block from me in Greenfield.

It seems Graves is as good a name as any to place on a headstone (rip).

Bike still running strong and 2.5% mix seems just right. Hope you all ride safe.

Haha these photos are awesome! Love taking these things off road sometimes.

Heres a video from last summer, me and my buddy Pete went camping in Harriman State Park right outside of New York City. I shot it on an old Hi-8 camera, hence the quality...

That was awesome. Looks like y'all had a blast.

The Lo-Fi production really matches with the vintage bikes, too.

Gorgeous out today. 70° while I was out and about checking my carb tune. Went from BE3 to BE1 and turned the mix screw out another 1/4 turn and it's almost done. Gonna have to pop in a richer idle since I'm at 3 3/4 turns out I think. Going one or 2 richer should get me around the 2.5 turns out area I think. Anyways here's Wonderwall….

First photo makes your scooter look so insanely small haha.

I took the VBB out for deferred maintenance shakedown this evening and stopped off at what used to be the World's Sketchiest Waffle House on my way back home for a couple of quick pictures.

Waffle House closed due to sketchiness?

That's gotta throw the stats on The Index...

That memorial is close to 70' tall… it's not just the photo angle making it look tiny, it kinda is next to this. There's a matching one on the other side of the street too. And a whispering bench behind it. It's a curved marble bench that's like 100' long and if two people sit on the far ends and whisper to each other it sounds like you're talking in a normal voice. It's kinda wild honestly.

You're scoot DOES look tiny by that wall! Besides seeing cool pics of scoots, I love this thread for the great photos of different places, people and food! Makes me want to get out and explore!

Dude...it was amazeballs to go there. My daughter and I loved it, but my wife refused to set foot in there after one visit. I'm not sure whether the customers or the staff were doing more meth, either.

The intersection it sits at was #2 on the list of locations with the most police calls in the entire city. #1 was the "get drunk & yell" tourist district on Broadway, which kind've doesn't count if you ask me.

You can't really tell in the picture, but there's a bum either passed out/asleep or dead up against the building behind me.

They're building a Dunkin' Donuts on the parcel next door and I'm sure it's going to wind up with some interesting issues of its own.

Love that orange with the black running gear! I can totally see us scarfing down mass quantities of waffles and fried chicken at that place. Bummer it's closed down.

Yeah, it really lived up to the adage that, "IHOP is just Waffle House for people who don't like to fight."

They built a new one a couple miles up the road, but it doesn't have that same "whatever life decisions brought me here, I need to make them differently next time" vibe as this one did. It's pretty normal as Waffle Houses go.

Mmmm,waffles ..

I liked that they were always willing to serve us, even if we were sober.

Gotta love a good dive!

I have on by work. Think I'll hit them up for lunch tomorrow. Went to one in Fort Lauderdale when I attended a vendor conference earlier this year. Was still good, not sure why I quit going.

Our "choicest" intersection is Grant & Alvernon. Full of prime real estate, but equally full of fentanyl zombies. The Walgreen's closed due to theft. The Burger King was closed and bulldozed. The Church's Chicken burnt down (because drug lab) and was bulldozed. The Circle K closed up and was bulldozed. Someone was shot in the WalMart Neighborhood Market a few years back and the body just laid there until morning. Mom used to get mad that I would take her across town to a different Neighborhood Market...

At least Nashville has character. Tucson has dirt and aggravatingly sharp plants.

Man... I have a waffle house story... I was lucky to only bear witness to the calamity, but things could have certainly gone far more pear shaped for me had I been closer to the cacophony nucleus.

Cliffnotes - Florida Panhandle, town of Midway.

Big guy on bath salts or ketamine or who knows what extremely upset that his bacon wasn't crispy. (Seriously.)
Mouthing and yelling at one of the female staff members.
Johnny Upstanding at the stool adjacent verbally intervened to protect the honor and dignity of the wafflehouse lady.
More yelling ensues, and then.... Shoving/scrambled eggs flying/punches thrown/teenagers cheering/waffle frisbees/more violence/police arrive almost instantly/more yelling/po-po assaulted by ketamine man.

(I still ate my food before giving a statement as a witness.)

This is how you know you belong there.

Waffle House: Where food-fights and fight-fights are one and the same.

They do seem to attract the a certain crowd. I haven't been in one in many years although when my kids were young, they used to enjoy the heck out of going there. Now, my cholesterol seems to climb just driving by one...

It used to be that IHOP, Denny's, and Waffle House were pretty similar, more geographically than culturally separate. Now, it seems like Denny's & Waffle house are a lot more similar, while IHOP floats above them. Maybe that's their "International" sophistication coming through.

Maybe they adopted the rules from The Continental? Being declared excommunicado from IHOP could be some serious stuff.

Maybe. It's probably something much more mundane, like the sort of people that go for Breakfast Brawlin' get embarrassed when they order something named the "rooty-tooty-fresh-n'-fruity."

Change the name to the Rowdy Roddy Pipen Hottie Pancake Pulverizer

A stack o' the donnybrook flap jacks please.