Modern Vespa

I remember, when working at a Honda dealership, installing tires when the rims had rimlocks on them. Bitch-and-a-half!

I've at last made a decision that I've been thinking about for a while: removing the Vespa badges and adding ktm stickers because that's how i ride it

Persistance pays again!

Interesting fact: When dogs use to run free, they mostly chased all wild animals out of urban areas. With the introduction of leash laws (Dogs must be on a leash when out of the house), all form of wild animals are everywhere.

I have had fox, raccoons, deer, possum, beaver, coyotes, (everything but a bear) in my backyard. The local police actually hunted and killed the coyotes who were jumping fences and killing small dogs. I was sitting in my garage with the door open smoking a cigar when a coyote walk by half way up the drive way. At first, I thought someone had left their dog out. When I realized it was a coyote, I exclaimed "Holy Shit" and went inside and got my pistol. Although, I do understand, from our local police, that a coyote would generally not attack or approach a full grown adult. The reason they were hunted and killed was due to the small dogs being killed and mothers concerned about their small children playing outside in the fence enclosed backyard unsupervised.

That is the animal report from Lake Wobegon Minnesota.

Bob Copeland

znomit,

God that looks good.

your due for new front sprocket so probably chain and rear sprocket as well

The ski season opens next week for me so I flipped the switch and called it officially "over" for my riding season today. I need to replace the main drive gear bushing and the main shaft in my old Harley-Davidson 4-speed transmission. I pulled the transmission out of the frame this morning and started this process. It requires complete disassembly of the transmission to service these parts. A good day of wrenching always cheers me up.

YES. Those old scoot were designed to be rebuilt and run forever. Even the Sportster tranny can be removed thru the trap door up to 2003. Now, the way they are built, it's overcomplicated requiring a total tear down and cases split.

I tore into that transmission work today. What was supposed to be a simple main shaft and bushing replacement just got about $500 more expensive

1st gear has been destroyed! I've never seen wear and pitting this bad on a 13 year old (75k mile) rebuild. But only on 1st gear. The rest look normal for the mileage. At least I found it now and not while I'm 2000 miles from home. That part cheers me up!

That does look odd to me also, how did it get worn like that?

It looks like the inside of a tube (pipe but a different size spec) from a boiler wall where cavitation has cause an unusual wear pattern usually just downstream of a welded joint where the root pass was not flush with the I.D. of the tube.

It would be interesting to know if it wasn't a manufacturing defect what caused it.

your due for new front sprocket so probably chain and rear sprocket as well

Something I just heard:

"As long as it's dripping it still has oil in it"

Prague is a lovely city to visit, cheap beer, great nightlife if you are into clubbing or strippers, some great restuarants and for daytime walks Prague has some really impressive historical buildings.

I cleaned up the sprocket today. Looks pretty normal for about 12k miles of riding.