Modern Vespa

Good stuff there folks and great vid.

I have zero travel plans in October and look to make it a month of rides and wrenching.

I can imagine

We have lime clay soil here and when that gets driven from the olive groves onto the road it gets slippy too. It is however só sticky and slippy when raining that farming equipment gets stuck in it. As such it is a self solving issue
The olive harvest is not very time critical so the farmers simply wait.

That sounds like great plans to me

Putting some miles on this bike.

Great pictures.

You've worked long and hard to get to this point. I'm glad to see you getting maximum advantage while your weather holds.

Thank you! And I had a ton of help from the NSM forum.

A couple great things happen (besides having fun) when you finally get a project on the road:

The time spent on the project starts to feel like it wasn't so long or difficult.

All the flaws and imperfections one picks at and fusses over during the restoration vanish.

Hardest thing now is deciding which one to ride on any given day.

at least 3, based on the odometer readings

good work and I'm glad you're enjoying it. yes all the little flaws you can see start disappearing from your attention once you put it into service. even the small nicks and scratches you start accumulating don't hurt as much.

Yep, when you are riding, you're now looking at them. Scoot came out great!

Industrial Shitbox

This video is great. Seeing all that open space and a huge yard for goofin off really makes me resent living in this stupid city.

Guess what I did yesterday? https://www.tomenyaero.com/

AWESOME! I'm super-jealous!

And the color match between B-62 and the Stearman is just *chef's kiss*

Rad

What an awesome gift Happy Birthday!

Got the Benelli/MotoBi out for 300 miles of fun

That's a beautiful machine.

Been riding everyday. Just meeting a friend for some lunch at a local spot.

Wow that looks so cool and different. Difficult to really understand the engine layout I can make out the gearbox casing and a carb but want more pictures. 300 miles is like twice as much as I can do on a Vespa in a day.

Zipped out almost 80 km of nice and twisty countryside road.
Egig 170 is fantastic.

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Zipped out almost 80 km of nice and twisty countryside road.
Egig 170 is fantastic.

Great pics and thanks for the update on the Egig kit!

While I've been riding the Smallie a decent amount, usually almost killing myself by trying to accidentally wheelie it on top of myself at least once per trip, I've been tacking pictures on the Lammy.

This weekend was up to Kentucky and through the rolling hills. Found a cool old one lane bridge, so we stopped and took some pictures. I rode close to 200 miles total and promptly ordered a new seat and an extended range tank when I got home.

You're riding the nuts off that Lammy! Can't wait to do the same on my GS. Seeing everyone having a great time on their scoots keeps me moving forward with my projects. Thanks for that!

It eats up the road, but the dumb thing also keeps trying to vibrate itself apart on a regular basis.

Next weekend will be our annual "Snakes on the Trace" club weekend, which'll be about 300 miles total riding by the time I get back in the door on Sunday. It'll be interesting to see what tries to shake loose during all that.

Atlee mural by Case McClaim

Man, that's a massive mural! Scoots look tiny.

10 stories tall!

I don't have to zoom in. I live by downtown Nashville, so I can just walk outside.

^^^Haw!

Rode em all today. (Err… all that are running.)
P200, PV125, VNB and finished off with a bakers dozen of miles on the SS180.

A good day.

Big fan of this shot. Big fan.

Took a quick ride to Yachats this morning, before the weather turns too wet...

Ugh...but in a good way. It can totally be done, but a Baja 390...i mean KTM 390 Adventure is kind of a small bike to ride all the way down to Cape Horn. He definitely looks German with all of the Touratech gear and accessories! But at the end of the day, it doesn't really matter what he's riding. Undoubtedly he's going to have a blast with many, many exiting adventures during his trip! I have to say i'm a bit jealous.

We talked about him riding the 390 vs a bigger bike. He rode for 10 months from Germany to Singapore, then took a boat to Vancouver, Canada, rode around Canada, then into the States.

"The bike has been the perfect size - anything bigger is just heavier".

He is beelining it to Mexico because "America is so expensive - even camping!".

"It's an adventure of a lifetime, but I miss my friends and home". I felt for him...

And he made the aluminum panniers, in which he's not super happy with the outcome "but they work".

Would make more sense if it was the ET3 motor…

Satan's Little Helper.

Not too exciting - just picking up Mexican food.

Ok, who am I kidding! A chance to ride the Blue Bomber AND have a breakfast burrito? Very exciting stuff!

Breaking her in gently.

That's just such a gorgeous bike! I especially like your minty hubcaps and my favorite seat .

Oh yeah, nice pic too !

IS very exciting stuff! I think we all perked up just looking at your fun foodie/scootie pic. B looking so good!❤️

Lots of room in that bag for burritos and beer!

8" ride but not so many 8".

The 8" is weird through the twisties, it's like learning to ride all over again. Every line I took was wrong for a while, I even end up off the road once! I eventually figured out that if I countersteer more, and lean more, it is better. But that is counterintuitive. Part of that may be my tires - they are "new" from greasy's stash but probably 10 years old. The cruise control throttle isn't helping either, you put your hand off but it doesn't retract and fucks with your driving. Overall though the VBB did well.