Modern Vespa

Yes, a good story and a happy outcome.

Please hold.

It's a 2007 GS 1200 with about 29k miles on it.

I was after my Mate's GS when he had a wobble recently but sadly he's sticking with it out now, and so I went looking for a similar bike.

This one isn't mint but with a bit of TLC I'm pretty sure that I can turn it into something special.

The Benelli and the Honda are going to be swapped in as much as I love the feel of the Imperiale it's achingly slow and the Honda is hard to love because it's a Honda. It does everything well, but not with any flare.

I rode an earlier GS a few years back and didn't really warm to it because the RT is a better handling bike and that's what I was used to but this one is a lot better once it gets rolling.

I should have it in a couple of weeks.

Special how? In a unique way or just great running?

Just tidy it up a bit. I'm pretty obsessive about the way I clean and maintain my bikes but this one has been a little neglected so after a few bits have been replaced and I've managed to pull it apart to clean it properly, it's going to gleam.

It has a full service history also.

Like all GS's it has Continentals and I'm not too sure about those.

I was raised with this type of approach, which included small machines like the push mower.

2 months on the Bindelli?

Just over 3 Months on Benelti.

It's not a record.

My uncle has informed me that he put this in his will for me, and I if I sell it he'll haunt the sh*t out of me.

What a pretty bike.

I'd ride it, haunted or not.

We have distinct threads for happy and pissed off. I'm not sure where you'd post this.

Here. I've put it here. I can also bow out if I've overstayed and missed the point of these SKOK threads!

The point of these threads seems to be casual bollocks, so don't anguish over it.

I had a yellow one, imported all the way from Grand Rapids Ohio to Godzone.
Loved it, 'til one day I pulled-up at a red light, put my foot down on a puddle of oil and over it went. No bike damage just my ego- I couldn't lift it up and cars were driving round me. It took a mechanic from a workshop opposite to come and hold up traffic while he hauled it up and I could sheepishly ride off.
PS: I did go back-on my scooter with a box Roses-chocolate ones.

The only downside to this purchase is that I'm going to be put in the same group as many other GS riders that got the biggest bike and didn't ride it anywhere.

Ho hum.

You guys who think this thread has a point have missed the point of this thread.

I was aware of the pointlessness. I just wasn't sure if there was an initiation process.

Dug up an old thread to get you closer to a vague inkling.

I imagine it to be a more nebulous and less acerbic interpretation of the Algonquin Round Table, and you have to travel to England to attend the luncheons.

When it was a thing we'd have to meet you and sort of welcome you on board but after a while it sort of ended up in a free for all which spoilt it for everyone.

These days the Skoks are scattered to the four winds these days so I'm not sure that there are any real structures to adhere to so anyone is welcome to post here if they want.

I've believe I've met some of your brethren. At the old Quitters meet ups in SF.

The title also reads 'New SKOK post,' so I thought this was finally a recruitment thread.

No I think that the solidarity that we once had is slowly fragmenting.

It was great while it lasted.

It's better to have loved and lost.

...than to have never skokked at all?

Please keep this going!!

Do you remember when you had a favourite band? You had all of their early releases and saw them a couple of times in small venues and on occasion met them.

Then they make it big with a single that didn't represent their work at all and soon after everybody loves them, when all they bought was the hit.

This is what happened to the Skoks.

It became a free for all, reached critical mass and fell apart.

But can't you just live off the royalties now?

That's funny.

Welp this thread provided some fascinating internet archeology (digital pseudoarcheology maybe?). I want to believe!

Save the SKOKs

Move on. Let it go.

Fun while it lasted.

The second rule of SKOK threads isn't to not miss the point of SKOK threads

Anyone still got the photo of the original rear view of 'that' car?

Nostalgia...I miss it all-over again

Let me see.

Heh. Thanks.

What's the tale behind the picture?

I think that it was a bet to see if I could drive the car to Belgium with that on the back.

Driving that pregnant roller skate to Belgium and back wasn't enough?

Well over here the roads came first and so we built the cars to suit.

Over there there were no buildings and so the roads came first and the cars were built to suit.

So explain 150 HP V8's to me then ?

I knew I guy who bought one as his first ever motorcycle.

Rode it through North America, several times. Road it around continental Europe, several times. Mostly with a pillion.

After all this, he admitted that he was stupid to start with a bike this heavy and big. Even during his final tour in Europe, he admitted that he had never felt like being completelely in control of the bike.....but he had a dream to own a big cruiser (he lived in the USA at the time), the dream was fulfilled and he rode thousands of miles without any accidents.

When he sold the bike he told me he felt mostly relieved....a man and his dreams, go figure.

Oh, and next he bought a sail boat.

Probably a GS owner.

It would make a great anchor.

Jagso.