Modern Vespa

I used to have a BMWK1200S and so my feet could only go one place, on the pegs - but now I have all this room on a floor in front of me. Does anyone fold out the pillion pegs and use those? My feet seem to hang half way over the edge sometimes. What works for you?

Yes!

I ride a motorbike as well, small one, but on my ET2, my feet are ALWAYS at the back end of the floorboard... so if I happen to carry a pillion, feet always bump into them!

My next question is though, why an earth do you need a K1200S in somewhere like Hong Kong?! Such a small place...

(My parents are from HK, I was born in the UK)

I used to have a BMWK1200S when I lived in Australia about a year ago. It would be torture to have an S in Hong Kong - The island is only about 15km across and it is a 50km/h everywhere - it would never get out of second gear. Some of the petrol heads go out to the airport and back so they can get up to 100km/h and it costs $12.oo to use the toll road.

One of the great things about scooters is that there is no right answer here. There are several WRONG answers, such as dragging your feet but the floorboards are designed to allow flexibility to a multitude of different sized riders. And, yes, sometimes on the freeway I'll pop out the passenger pegs and use them if I'm seated far enough back in a tuck for aerodynamics, but I usually just stretch my legs out further forward.

My feet usually go in my mouth

I usually keep mine at the ends of my legs.

I rarely seem to put mine forward. I like to have them back underneath me with the heels of my boots touching the passenger footpegs. I have tried to ride feet forward, but it just didn't feel right.

I switch positions every 5 or 10 minutes.

I usually start out by putting my feet in shoes first, then when riding i put them up on the handle bars.

So that's what I've been doing wrong!

Big toes go toward the middle. Little toes to the outside.

And the toes go towards the front, right?

Why do we men have toenails, that's the question? I don't paint mine...

Dang!!! I keep messing that up too.

Holy crap! There are passenger pegs on my LX?

Where?

The pegs are by the mirrors. black round things, on the end of that bar thingy

on the floor boards.

trick question?

Oh... hmmm... I always thought that was the passenger BACK REST

Crap!!! ! Maybe damn this is a hard topic. Maybe that is why my scooter rides so weird.

"Damn dirty apes!!"

Don't know if it will help your ride any, but it's certainly more fun!

I've been thinking for a while that it would be nice to have "highway pegs" of sorts, like on the big cruiser motorcycles. Some slip out/down peg (like the passenger pegs) that pops out of the legshield.

I'm 6'1 and sometimes I want to stretch my legs out forward on long rides. Having a place to put them on the side of the legshield would be brilliant (possibly dangerous, but brilliant nonetheless...)

Haven't done it myself, have you considered straps, like those on the saddles when riding a horse?

I suppose that could work.... Bolt them on to the legshield....

Hadn't thought about it, probably because I was instinctively thinking chrome-esque in line with the trim/passenger pegs/etc (and that the concept of horse related items rarely cross the mind of a born and bred New Yorker... )

I paint mine to match the scoot when ever I wear my armored flip flops..
A nice masculine black with flourescent highlights.

mine usually fit nicely in my mouth.

That picture is so hideous and yet I can't look away.

I cross them and ride side saddle. Makes right turns a little tricky, but you know...looks good.

When riding solo, I like to put my feet on the passenger pegs, I feel it helps with better balance on the freeway and on curves.


To each their own when it comes to riding style.


Inkslinger, Id love to see a photo of that riding style.

On my Scarabeo, which I had the longest, I usually just had my feet on the floorboard. It doesn't curve upwards into the legshield, so there's really not much choice. Although, on some longer rides, I'd get bored and pop out the passenger footpegs and pretend I was on a teeny weeny little sportbike. Very handy that I could actually unfold the pegs while riding. Took a little practice.

The Vespa S has floorboards extended up inside the legshield. One reviewer suggests riding with feet up on the legshield http://2strokebuzz.com/index.php?p=4294. I've been trying this out and it does give a unique feeling of control over the scoot.

A pie chart?

I looked at the post and thought that must be a typo - what was I thinking when I typed "pie". I was thinking of a bar graph or a cupcake chart - but how on earth did it end up as "pie".

I Googled the word and found that it appears on this forum three times and it is also the name for a list of rules in World of Warcraft. They use a pie chart to agree on the strength of their weapons.

I'll think I'll just pop out for a quick ride on my Vespa now....

Jess's little joke. Everytime someone enters that word "p i e", it comes out pie. Also, if you type "g u n", it comes out gun. And, if you type "s h o t g u n" it comes out shotgun.

Tanya,

Help me find the art shots of your posing on a Vespa in heels.

Thats where your feet should be.

It did it again!

I typed "p-i-e" (without quotes and without dashes) and the word pie come out instead.

Thanks Jess - you have a unique sense of humour. I like that.

btw Jess, could you do something similar with swear words? - my kids read this.

Normally I keep em pretty centrally placed, but when I've got a load off the front seat hook I'll sometimes wind up with my feet sticking forward heal on the upslope cruiser style.

+1
I don't have young kids, but I don't like seeing those words either. I'll probably just have to go on ignoring the occasional foul language and innuendo. At least the vast majority here watch their language and I think you'd be hard pressed to find a nicer bunch of folks. Very knowledgeable, too.

On the Easy Peasey Scooter Posse site most of the 7 words you can't say on TV have been substituted. Give it a try if you like. Easy Peasey Scooter Posse - http://epsp.us/

Not trying to take away anything from MV it is one of my 3 main sites.

I'm allowed to curse on here?

*blank look*

NYAH! Holy cannibals! That creeps me out!

My other ride is a Suzuki SV650S. When I first got my ET4, my feet were always as far back as possible. When I ride alone, it's still the case. These days, I ride the girlfriend more, so to avoid tangling of the legs, I move my feet towards the front.