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Vespa LX stalling.
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Here is a strange one, the bike starts okay LX 125 07 Reg, idles well but when I take it off the centre stand it stalls. Any ideas🤔
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rocksteady wrote:
Here is a strange one, the bike starts okay LX 125 07 Reg, idles well but when I take it off the centre stand it stalls. Any ideas🤔
It's probably the spark plug lead. The engine moves with respect to the frame when the suspension compresses, flexing the lead.

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Thanks for your advice. I will have a butcher's this afternoon. Could it be the spark itself 🤔
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