Modern Vespa

Let me be the first to congratulate you (if I hit Submit quick enough)!

GO DESSA! WHOOOOO!

(edit: Ooh, you have the same gas meter box outside your house as me!)

YIPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Why don'tcha start a new thread and let the rest of the world (the ones who are sick of the DKSC) congratulate you also?

SUPPPEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR....... CONGRATS

A real Donkei Skok now.

Well done Girl! I was very confident you'd do it.

thanks!!!!!!!!!

alright, alright, expect more showing off in the General Discussion



PS ALICE: the jacket is the bomb!!!!!!!!!! if you don't win it it's because I did! hehe no I'm not allowed any more gear shopping. fact.
Bill I too want to see pics of the Hornet with its new screen, and genie same goes for you and your pipe though I'm a little ignorant as to what the LV pipe does different, sorry if it's obvious! why is it better/nicer? convince me i may buy one too! heheheehe... ooops, except that I can't as I said above.
now I can talk about everything else too instead of being paranoid about my test and u turns (by the way, my u turn was magnificent!)

congratulations!!!!!!!

8) 8) 8) 8)

*CONGRATULATIONS*......
from a little corner of a foreign field (garden!)

Mike & Eddy.

ok, i'm gonna congratulate dessa over here too, especially as doug is insulting me in the other thread

alice, here's a strategy - why don't you and i and dessa all bid on the jacket, which we are certain to win by these sly means, and then we can have a runoff poll to decide who gets to keep it?

now, what did we say about ME NOT BEING ALLOWED TO SHOP!!!!!!!

Well done. I love this one:

a) You look gorgeous and sexy!

b) Great pose!

c) Great shot of the rock on your engagement ring.

HAHAHHAAHA... well I try...

ahhhhh I like the last edit, I thought that too!!!

Now you will have to swap Velma for a sassy 300!

Or get Alex to swap George!

the amount of mileage George does a day we are expecting him to ride for a while until he's tired.
I think the plan is when that happens we'll go to Italy pick up a brand new Scarabeo 500i.e. hmmmm 8)

but you never know, do they take wedding registery at Vespa.com?

i've already congratulated you in the other thread.

but, CONGRATULATIONS!

What fantastic news Dessa. Really well done. We're both grinning here, remembering how good it felt when we passed our tests.

You've had a lot of practice celebrating lately, eh? Long may it continue.

And the picture is great. Do you think you could do another one, and try to look a little bit happier?

Dessa very very well done. I'm so proud of you as I'm sure we all are.
Loving those pictures. I'm sure I dreamt of those.
She does look a bit sexy doesn't she ?
Happy Happy Joy Joy
Love Billy-no-scoot

ahhhhh thanks guys I'm all joy, what a great year it has been
can't wait to take Velma for a spin tomorrow.
I'm going to meet one of me bridesmaids for a Vera Wang sample sale (honestly can't stop grinning here!!!) and may take her on my back, very chic dahrling! haha
8)

Dessa - I'm going to sound really old now but please be careful tomorrow because although you are full of the joys of spring right now - because of your recent success but don't let it go to your head and have a fall.
Hard to do I know so please be careful now you are free.
Two bits of joy now huh ? What could be the third bit ?
Ride safe
Billy-no-scoot

That whole notion is very hard to assimilate without laughing. Do you mean pillion, dahling?

Well done, Congratulations!

oh, yeah, well, you know what i mean!!!
and I also meant taking my friend as a pillion, not Vera Wang herself!

bill i appreciate your concerns and i'm with you, I took alex as a pillion on george once and it was very scary, but this was before all my training.
i want to have a go around the block a bit, and plus my friend is a lot smaller/lighter than alex so that might help!
i've also taken a friend around on Shirley once (L plates carefully peeled off) and it wasn't so bad, just at slow speeds and I couldn't do U turns, never mind with pillion - we got stuck at the bloody notting hill carnaval trying to get to high st ken and it was a nightmare, but we made it ok
so I want to have a go

bill you want to know the third bit? i got promoted 3 weeks ago too!

i can't imagine what can be next. only philip green actually asking for me personally to be full creative director and make bhs the new victoria's secret!

Congratulations. That's a huge achievement in a very short time. All the more impressive because you did it without lessons.

I pass a shop every day called Herbal Wang

thanks teaboy, im too very proud for that very reason! amongst others!

I've always wanted to be a Bridesmaid either that or a Dinner Lady.
Can I throw rice at the wedding ? Ambrosia.
So happy for all.
Billy-no-scoot

Well Done Dessa! Congrats!!

I have been following this thread picking up all the tips you have been getting, I watched your u-turn vid a dozen times, to see how its done. I have my test on the 31/3/09 I hope I can pass first time too! Well done you.

Constant throttle, control speed with back brake. Pause between practices as the clutch and brake will get hot otherwise...

there was a takeaway in a town i used to live in, called 'Lik-a-chik'. i, uh, never ate there.

No Guesses who was the total numpty who set his alarm clock for 4.00pm instead of 4.00am and awoke to the sounds of the birds outside at 7.25 am. Totally dissapointed - now pissed off for the entire weekend. Public apology to all. Thats if I would have been missed of course.

Well done Dessa for passing the test.

Off out to buy a numpty proof alram clock.!!

WELL DONE DESSA... its was a good day for tests as a mate of mine passed his as well. So im off for a spin on his new Guzzi today wooohhhoooo!!

BTW seeing as your getting married, i dont suppose your looking for a wedding photographer are you? i just happen to know one who is very experienced and will do a good price for a fellow Skoker PM me.

Bill, as you have decided to keep the Green Hornet tag for the scoot I may have something you might be interested in i'll have a rummage round and see if I can pull it out for you... watch this space.

Have a good day y'all on your Euro run.... (Border, DOH! )

marc here's more tips then, Jim, taught me that one and I adapted
right, practice riding in the slowest speed possible (not in idle) just controlling your back break, that'll teach you the control when you're doing the turn and how you don't fall off

then the thing with the u turn is to focus on a spot high at the horizon.
in the test they'll ask you to do exactly what I did on the video, so it's not a long ride then u turn, it's from where you are stopped.
so basically as you are sat on the bike checking your mirrors before you are going to start riding off, look back and find a spot behind you.
like I found 1st floor windows of a house behind you works.
so you start the turn then turn your head to find that spot and keep focusing on it, that's where you're going and no one will stop you!
this way you don't even worry about your balance, you find balance, because you are aiming to get there and anyway, you have the control because you practiced slow riding with back break.
keep a steady throttle slow speed and just control with the back break.
really you can do such narrow ones after you get the hang of it.
I practiced in really wide car parks for a while before I started trying on actual roads with cars and narrow curbs.

it's like that scene from Billy Elliot where his teacher is trying to get him to do that spin and she says "find a spot on that bloody wall and don't lose it, spin and come back to that spot" or something.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoiVEyCosEE

i'm so pleased.
off to oxford street now.

guys if Vera Wang heard you she'd be so distraught! shocking! ugh!

thanks Christos I should have thanked you specially in my speech as well as the magic DVD got me through the theory test! I failed first time around because the one I had here was rubbish!
PMing you right now re: photography, it's quite a while away, but yeah, we are looking for someone
cool bananas

Big congrats !

Something nice to see on a thoroughly grey and miserable day

hi, it's genie using doug's account .... we've just fitted the LV to my GT200 and gone for a spin up to epping forest for a bacon sandwich. pictures to follow soon [*yet more gleeeeeee*]

Here's one I took earlier..

that is a fine looking bacon sandwich. you've got the bacon to bread ratio just about perfect there. we didn't get pictures of our bacon sarnies - they vanished into our greedy gobs much too quickly to be captured on film - but we did get some nice shots of the LV install, including photo evidence of an interesting bodge on the old exhaust studs. pictures in the Project Reports section.

wooo pics please, remember the cheesy grin in manner of pipe catalogue!