Modern Vespa

Later in the day I met a Polish guy who had a Honda CB900F in Red and White in his garage plus a Jawa 350 in mint condition plus a Matchless 650 G12 CSR.

One of 125 built apparently.

100 pages of cheer!

One week to go until my other half and me join our friends on a little tour of France, Belguim and Luxembourg. We're on the GTS, one guy on his Royal Alloy, another friend on a BMW GS1200 and his wife on her R1200R.

I wonder if they will get miffed at us stopping for petrol every 90 miles

What cheers me up is folks get soo pissed off. Cheer up, everyone!

I'm super happy with how my shoulder is progressing after rotator cuff repair. I took my first ride today (almost 6 weeks post op). It wasn't a long ride. Just a few laps of the neighborhood. But no pain from the riding. Before the surgery I couldn't ride without pain. This cheers me up!

Im diggin your recovery but we need a current ride pic! Can't believe how fast the time went. Seems like yesterday you were skiing.

When ASR intercedes slightly (not savagely) at 64kph on a sealed wet road

Doing it's job

This makes no sense. You're happy that people are pissed off? Okay, kind of antisocial, but... if they cheer up, then won't you be unhappy?

One of the wing nuts on my crash bars had cross threaded, screwing up the bolt in the process. I figured out the thread size (M8 x 1.25), picked up a tap, die and the necessary handles, and managed to fix it. Haven't used a tap or die before, so I feel quite accomplished

I don't know if it would work in your case, but they make thread files that can restore threads that aren't too badly mangled. However, a tap and die are preferred. Good job!

I'll get a ride pic on my next scenic ride. Today was a relatively boring ride around suburbia.

I skied until early April. My shoulder was injured Feb 11th. I did my best to ignore it in the hopes it wouldn't need surgical intervention. When it was no better in April, I decided I better get an orthopedic surgeon to have a look. I debated if I should hold off on the surgery until summer ride season was over. But the pain was getting worse and costing me sleep. As smoothly as the recovery has gone, I'm happy I did it sooner rather than later. Still plenty of riding weather left in this area.

Unless you are running wide open throttle, you should be able to go at least 110 miles before needing petrol.

The fuel gauge starts the low fuel light with one bar showing.

You can ride around twenty miles until the last bar goes out.

I haven't tested it much past that but I have never put more than 2.1 US gallons into the 2.4 US gallon tank.

Running at medium cruising speeds I have gotten as many as 150 miles out of a tank on my 2023 Vespa 300GTS HPE.

Bill

My GTS with a full tank did exactly 99 miles in one straight line without stops heading west at continuous WOT from Parker towards Joshua Tree N.P. on the 2012 Cannonball.

Two-up (as Coddy seems to be doing)? 90 miles sounds about right.

A slightly more leisurely pace might well go >110 miles, granted.

I squeezed 269km from my HPE. Unintended.

185 miles on the Kymco on a brimmed tank and a new air filter.

Saw the Psychedelic Furs last night. They sounded better than ever. Richard Butler is still amazing.

Then, in the parking lot on the way out, I saw a Janus.

Friday I transferred the registration on the new-to-me Vespa and took it out for its first legitimate ride. Met a lady on a Stella with a sidecar.

Also, I noticed a sound from the Vespa I hadn't heard with my full face helmet ... like a leaf caught in a blower motor. I think I narrowed it down to a rattle in the muffler.

Fortunately I still have the original pipe from the Aprilia, which I think will be a fine fit. So, a little sanding and painting and I should be able to get that on the week.

Somehow I became that guy that just so happens to have a spare pipe and muffler paint on hand.

Also changed the oil in the Vespa. What came out didn't look good. But, 570 miles on the bike over nine years? I don't know what I expected. Gear oil this week, to be sure.

A Halcyon 450 with a SWM engine I believe.

Nice paint scheme.

Yesterday cheered me up.

A walk in the sun, A ride in the sun, A couple of hours talking bollocks with a Riding Instructor friend of mine and then a ride home to watch the Grand Prix while flipping between that and the Spa 24 hours.

This is cheering me up today:

I like it

That my local Library is beginning its Summer Reading Program!

I blame the heat and lack of alcohol.

It's no wonder those hard drinking Northern Europeans are always topping the polls for happiest nations in the world.

34 degrees Celsius today. I'm happy.

Infinity X1 3000 work light.

$35 from Costco, charges from USB or solar, magnetic mount, so I can just stick it to the P's frame and it illuminates the interior like a champ!

Now I just need to watch Robot's video on installing the wiring harness and cables so I can get this thing back on the road!

When you discover a reg hack that disables "Modern Standby" in Win11 which then allows access to all power plans and can then select high performance which then stops Windows from slowing down apps that are not currently in focus (cpu would drop from 100% down to 15%). eg Rendering a video would take 15mins if I watch the progress bar but if I switch to email then it takes over an hour. Friggn stupid.

(google for "Modern Standby" "PlatformAoAcOverride" to find method)

Best thing I've seen on YT for a long while!

Isn't my video today better?

https://www.designboom.com/technology/worlds-narrowest-fiat-panda-drives-fully-functional-single-seater-electric-car-06-27-2025/

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fwdjjkJ3iBg

the looks you get when lane splitting on a ptw, imagine doing it in that

The Fromagerie beneath my apartment in a pleasant central Porto location (we used to think it was a front for something because it never had any cheese) has closed and is now what appears to be an upscale brothel.

The signage says Spa outside, but during the hot weather, there have been both pretty girls and pretty boys sitting at a table outside (and they didn't look as if they were clients).

and this is cheering you up because..

OMG, I've just looked at their website