Modern Vespa

(If you're unfamiliar, and interested in the history of this bike from the beginning of my ownership, please see HERE)

TL;DR

-All the hard work by Joe at Second Chance Scooters in SF. Can not thank him enough!
-60mm Mazzuchelli crank
-Malossi 177 kit, port matched
-Re-gear kit
-Dell'orto 20/20
-Fast flow tap
-Vape Sport
-Sip Road 2
-Sip Performance Suspension 2.0
-LML front fork

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For those of you still reading, you may remember where we left off almost a year ago (sorry I've just been lurking for a while...life, kids, scooterless, ya know...). I got the bottom end, clutch and carb rebuilt, but got stuck figuring out what to do for the top end. I was in the cycle of ruining perfectly good parts (cables, wiring harness, piston rings...) simply because I didn't have the experience to do it right the first time, which got old quick. My favorite scooter passenger is getting older by the day so I decided to punt and found Joe at Second Chance Scooters to help bail me out. I decided to go the whole nine and do the body and paint work as well, especially once the consensus by a few different knowledgeable folks was that a good portion of the current paint job was a re-spray.

Here's a quick recap of everything (with pics of course) for those that are interested. I know this is just the beginning, and I know it's just a Sprint, but I'm beyond stoked to have a running scooter. Let's hope I can keep it that way for an extended period of time Thought you guys might like to see its journey.

(Some pics are mine and some are from Joe that he sent as he made progress)

Wow, that came out so nice! You picked a great color and got good help when you got stuck. So encouraged by Nick Cage I assume that you rode... how does it GO???

Beautiful! Bice collab. Joe does good work

Wow looks great congrats and enjoy

Stellar!
Enjoy it.

Right on! Loving that. Better than new!

If it rides as good as it looks, you are golden. Kudos to Joe and you.

Looks amazing! Good decision for sure to have Joe's help. Where are you in the Bay Area?

Good dad joke!

Thanks, everyone! Like I said, I'm super happy with how it's turned out and that I can ride it for a while and get better at the simple stuff before I go cracking cases open again. Thanks, Terry! It rides great! It really gets going in 3rd and 4th when it can run out long enough to really hit the power band. Jetting feels pretty good as is (I think?) but I'm going to go through a tank of gas and pull the plug and see how it looks. Top speed seems to be hovering around the max speed rating for the tires (62 mph). I'm a little worried that since we didn't do anything to upgrade the clutch that it'll burn out early but...we'll cross that bridge when we have to. I'm actually down in the LA suburbs. I found Joe on Instagram and started chatting with him there. You can make it up and back in a day! (Probably not on a scooter though )