Modern Vespa

Happy endings...

The last cheered-up thread reached the traditional limit of 100 pages, so it's time to start a new one.

This is the third one, so maybe we can catch up with the pissed-off threads!

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Frotagerie.

I like a nice bit of blue

Sounds like they got all bases covered

My wife (who speaks a little French) had to explain that to me.

I couldn't find it on Quack Quack Whoosh.

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/frottage

I got a "new" phone. My wife's hand-me-down iphone 13Pro.
There was nothing wrong with my 2018 Android but she insisted I needed an upgrade.
I'm not sure if this Old Fart is going to handle the switch from Android to IOS very well...... so I might be moving this to the Pissed Thread

Oh god. Look what I started.

I'm cheered up because I took the GTS 310 into the hills today at Santo Tirso. I love it. It's surprisingly capable including 10km on a cobblestone highway.

It's 32°c here too with a breeze so nice weather.

I am cheered up today because I just got my full CBC results most of them are within healthy tolerances except for a possible thyroid issue. Seems no matter how badly I abuse myself my body seems to be bulletproof.

Now if I could only get this AFib under control then I would be so cheery I would be quite annoying.

Cheers loudly.

Ah, so like brass rubbings? We have a few of those my parents made in England back in the '70s.

Glad to hear that - I'd thought of you what with the heatwave hitting Europe.

Scorchio

Our fav hotel in Todos Santos moved our upcoming reservation (starting Sunday) with no fee. They are always so nice and accommodating. I was bummed we needed to reschedule, but they made it a breeze and it didn't cost a nickel. Class.

Porto is one of those places which is usually quite cool! I actually had to pull the duvet around me in the middle of last night; all the windows were open and there was quite a pleasant through breeze.

The humidity here wasn't too bad at only 55% with that 32ºC. I was pretty much in full gear with a mesh jacket and mesh pants. It was sweaty but not uncomfortably so!

Oh, yeah.

I'm familiar with definition #3.

(It's a professional thing.)

Some kind of rubbing.

Go back and read #3.

I prefer nimbo cumulos

Actually Caroline Aherne is a total star. RIP Caroline. One of my favourites of hers, was when she interviewed Bernard Manning as Mrs. Merton. Not for those of a nervous disposition! He really met his match that night.

How old are you?

How much you pay??

130€

Good value?

Do you have to leave a Deposit ?

56. I was young enough when they went that they left me behind. So it must have been around '70, before they stopped allowing it. My brother was seven years older, so he went with them.

We keep a couple of them in the dining room.

took a break from rubbing my....."brass"....to start emptying the gun safe (TMO movers aren't allowed to take the things inside and frankly i wouldn't let 'em even if they were lololol) and holy gotdang hell i found a spare key to the Bonneville in the very back of the top shelf where we had things like car titles, birth certs, mawwiage wicense, etc.

That lessens the short-term stress load immensely. Still have a fresh blank on the way, gonna use the spare I found to have a locksmith dupe the physical, and then just use DealerTool to add it to the ECU later.

oy vey. big relief.

worked out how piaggio fucked their backup function in their vespa mia app and was able to write some code to unfuck the backup file for another MV user.

After a brakeless winter and way too much brake fluid changing drama, the BV has been up and running nicely, including some mild cosmetic tweaks. Riding home last night it was a joy to have a perfectly running scooter with zero concerns on the horizon. To be fair, the GTS is in good shape too. Woot!

I would love to see a technical write-up of that. Maybe even a wiki article.

The key …

Love it.

file format info:
Exporting Data from Vespa App (Post 2710427)

export bug info:
Exporting Data from Vespa App (Post 2741642)

Yeah, that'll be easy to find.

a big write up for a bug that they'll probably fix is I'd think overkill.

Oh ye of too much faith.

Finally worked out (and fixed!) what was causing a wheel-speed clonking sound in our van after getting tyres changed a few weeks ago. It wasn't the usual cause (worn CV joints) but something entirely different! Full write-up here:
https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=804103