Modern Vespa

Obviously, most Vespa riders are very pleased with the county of origin from their scooter, ITALIA !.

Just curious, who has more specific Italian things like bicycles, cars or maybe an Italian wife?

My Italian race bike


My former Italian car


My Vespa's

I'm warning you...I'm not sure any Italian women I know would take being compared to a 'thing' as a compliment....
Just hope Italian 'scooteriste' do not read this thread!


PS- instead of 'Bello Giallo', type 'Bel Giallo', it sounds better with an elision

thanks for the warning...I guess I should blame my non-native English language barrier for getting this so inappropriate.
Sure Italian woman are not to be compared with 'things'

But to improve my Italian grammar. Would 'Bella' not be for feminine and 'Bello' for masculin?.
Did not realize the elision styling is to be used here....

hey, I am just joking, no criticism intended!

It's just that, as Italian born&bred, I always find it a bit exaggerated when someone praises our products and generally our way of life in an enthousiastic way. You know, after all, the grass is always greener ..... in the neighbor's yard!

I spotted this - involuntary, definitely - humour in your putting those words side to side and I did not resist. Really, I do not think Italians are globally better than any other people in Europe or in the rest of the world, and so are Italian women.

I am really sorry, if I offended you in some way.

And now, since you ask me, a bit of Italian grammar :
'bello' and 'bella' are grammatically correct, once again it is just a matter of how it sounds in a particular, spoken language. 'Bel' stands for an abbreviation of the masculine adjective 'bello' and sometimes....simply sounds better. The underlying rules are a bit complicated and I do not want to bother you all with this kind of things.

http://www.gwc.org.uk/ModernLang/hotpot/Italian2/Adjectives.html

So, 'bel giallo' sounds better than 'bello giallo', but consider this, since you are not Italian, nobody in italy is going to blame you for that!

No offence at all, ellebubi 8)
But you can't be too carefull with Italian woman

I used it as Bello Giallo and Bella Bianca to have some kind of 'alliteration' on the endings.

In fact, Italian products do have a 'reputation' AFAIK...not for the high quality indeed. Like the saying that Italian cars used to rust on the advertisement flyers already.

But Northern European tend to have a romantic view for Italy anyway, we just love the weather, the ancient history, the spiced pastas and wine
And it is a FACT to say Italian products have more detail for design, I don't know why this is, but some adopt this as lifestyle.

PS: We actually are pleased we are not supressed by the Roman Empire anymore

I am pretty sure that good looking Solex is not a Vespa and not even Italian. As far as I know Solex is/was made in France

This is actually a Dutch build by Van der Heem - Stokvis in the Hague.
It insisted to be on this picture too

BLONDES................

my mama and papa were 100% italian, me too.

We were obsessed with Vespas for a bit. Had 6 at once earlier this year, and now we only have 5.

The mini is a 1974 Innocenti Mini Cooper, and we absolutely love it. Took it to an Italian car and bike show last weekend, and man we got lots of quetions.

Lovely pictures!

Obviously, blondes are like a magnet to Italians

Obviously, blondes are like a magnet to Italians [/quote]

yep, so true!

Note sure if this counts, but since I was born and lived in Italy, my daughters are at least part Italian.

My youngest is named Beatrice (said the Italian way!) after Dante Alighieri's muse:



Here she is a couple of years older on the Vespa when I first got it this summer before I started tinkering with it:

(And yes, I got rid of the statue on the front fender!!).

Apart from that, I guess I have lots of Italian clothes and shoes, but no other mechanical devices except for an Espresso maker.

Cheers,
phaetn
my scoot

[quote="Sakkerju"]Obviously, most Vespa riders are very pleased with the county of origin from their scooter, ITALIA !.

Just curious, who has more specific Italian things like bicycles, cars or maybe an Italian wife?

My Italian race bike


Sweet Bike!!! Love the Campy!!! I have a Campy equipped Fuji Provence.

Is it now for sale perhaps?

what a collection!

i love the color! nice!

Attila garage:

ooh!! that's a garage full of fun.. nice Fiat 500!

So true...and I love the Augusta too
I bet Attila was sitting on his Benelli Sei when taking these pictures 8)

Attila! Ti sei fatto il cinquino nuovo!

Attila! You got the new 500 and did not tell anything to the Scara-boys!
At the next rally, you will bring a bottle of good Grechetto or Marino....

Italian translation: adesso paga da bere!

So no Dutch treat?

Ok. if you join one of our next eno-gastronomic rallies, you too will be entitled to a glass of white wine from Attila's surroundings

(thank you Attila!) eheheheh

when do you expect us then

by the way I was in Urbino last summer and I saw a guy racing uptown in a Ape. I never ever saw a Ape speeding and driving like this guy, amazingly cool 8)

Urbino is the most beautiful city I have seen in the Marche surroundings.
That modern Gelateria on the market square is the max

The husband of my sister is the director of:

http://www.frescobaldi.it/it/tenute/tenute.htm

See Castelgiocondo

Ok, we have found a place for one of our next scooter rallies....everybody stay in tune with Scarabeoclub.it, rallies section!

(e tu Attila prepara le bottiglie)

That would be me: many trips to Italy, from north to beyond the south and west (that would be Sicily and Sardinia). A Fiat 126 in the distant past (with not-so-good memories), six Spaghetti Chairs, a modern Italian coffee table, several machinette da caffè, specific glasses for grappa (sorry, no grappa at the moment), and some Armani garments that I used in a former life. The Vespa, which came second to last, was only a natural progression, which led to the best of all, my loving Italian wife.

I forgot about the food stuff I like too...not to forget: Cappucino

... and an delicious cornetto...

In many versions....
to:
Marmellata
Crema
Cioccolato bianco
Nutella
Panna
Miele
and many others.

Sorry Atilla,

We would praise the French for such we know as 'croissant'

Even worse, this is our knowledge for 'cornetto'

...italian sport bikes.

OMG! I forgot the Italian thing that's always in my house! NUTELLA!



I couldn't live without it, not to mention prosciutto crudo wrapped around grissini and -- especially in hot summer months -- with some succulent cantaloupe. Yum! Now, to mix this gustatory delight with the heat of a summer day (and summer holidays, with no work or marking for two months - yay!) plus the heady aroma of two stroke Vespa exhaust wafting over the back deck as the scoot warms up for a ride --- I'm in heaven!! Too bad I only have to wait about six months!!

Cheers,
phaetn

Holy crap,
and here I always thought that Nutella was German. That is where I first came across it. When I saw this post I thought "No that's not Italian" Looked it up and I'll be damned if its not.

My 2 bella macchinas:

... the french croissant it's much different from the italian cornetto that it's eaten in the italian bars.
Eating it's only understood, cannot itself be explained with the words...
And we don't forget the kiwi Latina (than i produce), the best one of the world.

http://articles.latimes.com/2008/may/20/world/fg-kiwis20

I like my other Italian bike...well my gf's Italian bike that is.

Ducati is a myth...and it's not discussed,it's a Ducati.

As you can see, I like that......