Modern Vespa

oh, well if there is a Miss Selfridge there, then i'm good to go. One can never have enough cheap trendy outfits that change shape and size the first time they're washed. oh sorry that's Primark.

Rideout will involve some domestic negotiations.

it's not the venue it's the people that matter 8)

us blokey types would come to a spa weekend if the ladies organised one

i'm getting a wonderful mental image of the norwich broadsmen wrapped in big fluffy towels with cucumber slices on their eyes and wearing those little things they use to keep your toes apart whilst the toenail polish dries

There is one benefit about being single and living alone that's that you don't have to tell anyone where you are going or when you'll be back.
Alright I'd rather have a relationship but it is a plus point.
You struck me as being more of a Matalan girl Genie. That's class.

Bill X

you will never know how much trouble you're in bill

back to grading papers.

I'd be there for that you know I would. In fact we should do that and take a picture.

Genie that really is the story of my life.

Bill X

FREEDOM 8)

relationships are ok, if they're ok, give and take and all that, i like the freshness and excitement of a new relationship, the "honeymoon period" if you like, when it gets to the "where the fuck do you think you're going" period then the relationship ends

I'm busy on July 4th but can do Sunday 5th...

So much for today's grandiose riding plans - I have only recently got up after epic stag do followed by epic nightbus fail. Got home precisely twelve hours ago and today has been a writeoff. How was lunch?

lunch was fab - a very good turnout, and several new and semi-new faces. amongst the regulars were jimc, doug, bill, wonder, and genie. turning up for the first time were 558 and mr. wonder machine alex (mr. genie) came along as well, and liked bill's new helmet so much that he went straight out after lunch and bought one just like it. here they are modeling them in portland place:

Bill also showed off the latest addition to the hornet - he insisted it was tongue in cheek but we think that he thinks that he really does look like Tom Selleck, despite shaving off his 'tache last week .... you be the judge:

I very much enjoyed my self.
The food was good, the company equally so

Thanks for the sticker Wonder, though I feel I should be making some form of contribution to it...

It has to be said the Hornet is one clean scoot

no contribution needed, you turned up, we liked you, that's that. you're a skok now

The Hornet is very clean but it's started to vibrate under throttle load on the way back from London.
The whole chassis vibrates soon after the clutch expands and doesn't go away until the end of the travel.
It also does it when backing off the throttle.
Anyone offer any advice ?

Bill X

If it is quite a large vibration I think the same has started to happen to mine as of late...

Just put Logan's Run on my to-rent list 8)

I'm going to put the Logans Run theory in another thread later on this evening but right now I'm going to ask people advice on this vibrating gearbox thing.

Back soon.

Good to meet you 558. Always nice to meet pleasant young men.

XX

Very enjoyable lunch. I think I had sobered up by the end.

The fingers are very cheesey and the sticker is as ironic as it gets.

If I ever start taking myself seriously you will let me know won't you?

I think that Wonder and Alex are male and female versions of the same person if that makes any sense.

They even talk the same.

Regards

Bill X

Passing on a request from one of our Greek party, who is looking for a space to crash while in London. Has anyone got a spare room for the weekend of a 16th?

I have a sofa but it is not terribly substantial in my mushroomy garret!

Do you want me to make up the numbers on the Sunday the 17th ??

Just ask and I'll be as shy as uncomfortable as ever.

Bill XX

Yes please Bill, we are planning to eat at Arbutus in Soho at 7 on the 17th.

Then maybe either pub or Bar Italia.

http://www.arbutusrestaurant.co.uk/

In that case if this vibration has been sorted before then I'll be there without question.
God I hope I can get this thing dealt with because I've just booked my ferry for Amsterdam on the 22nd.
Crap.

could be engine mounts Bill......put it on the centre stand and see if you can push reel hard on the rear wheel at the bottom and push with the other hand on the top in the opposite direction......see if there is any play or movent

Just trying that now. Thanks Gav. Duxford July 7th ?

Bill X

No play in the engine or in the rear wheel or exhaust mounts.

Drums fingers.

what work have you done on the scoot recently bill? any?

if you've fittes a new wheel it could be the wheel nuts have loosened off a gnats.......

rear wheel same but also check the swing arm exhaust / hanger thingy bolts and the axle bolt with the split pin in........

did you put the spacer back in the right place when refitting the swing arm thingy?

have you lost a balance weight off a wheel???

process of elimination

I doubt it is an internal transmission problem (though it might be). I'd really, really suspect wheels. tyres etc. Things can change, check'em.

ahhhhh guys Im so sad I couldn't come this time

just finished a huge amount of work in record time though.
now tomorrow to the printers, get all undies together and be ready to rock
my hands barely respond to typing anymore, so I'm going to bed.

poor Velma just stayed in, tucked in her corner, didn't get to go anywhere this weekend.
I should have put her sleeping clothes on.

take care everyone and have a great week

that really made me chuckle, I needed one too! genie! do NOT speak evil of Primark! if it wasn't for Primark I'd probably walk around naked or in Asda tracksuits
where else can you get a bagful for under £15? you can't even get a hat pin even at Miss Selfridge for £15 these days!

I hear that. My poor Juicy's been parked in the garage all week as well while I've been trying to get rid of this boulder of a kidney stone (4x9mm). Luckily, it passed without too much fanfare so I'm about to take my lovely scoot out to go get some hi-lift peroxide to burn my poor scalp with. I'm having delusions of Annie Lennox circa 1985. Juicy doesn't care. She just wants her blood to quit pooling.

In other news, yesterday I bought a dress made entirely of latex. (take that, Beth-post hater! )

PICTURES!!!

Well bless your heart. Oh, and about the latex dress..... Sweet dreams are made of this... I couldn't resist. Been out drinkin and riding with a herd of scooters (AlexBV200 was along too), then we headed to Dunn Bros coffee shop, then home, I grabbed the truck and came over to my sweet little yoga teacher's house (I'm pet sitting for a few days while they're in Laguna Beach). Her little animals love me. Anyway, hope you're better soon Elizabeth!

I can see the way you guys are thinking but when the wheels went back in I gunned nuts back in with a cordless a well as the exhaust mountings.
Plus the spacers in the rear wheel were all laid out in order so they'd go back in the right way. Also I tightened up the rear wheel nut with a extension bar and put a new split pin in. Everything was tight.
I know it's not the tyres because I've experienced tyre vibration and it's nothing like this. That feels like "patter" on the wheel like it's bouncing off the road due to the unbalance and it would only happen above a certain speed.
This is a vibration that starts when the clutch and belt are under load about a third of the way through the torque curve and it transmits itself up through the scoot.
You know when you can feel the belt flexing when you wind on the throttle ? Well that's when it happens. If you throttle off then load it again it will come back but at a constant speed it's fine.
As I said earlier there isn't any play in the rear wheel/shock/mounts.
I'm even thinking that now the engine has passed it's 3000 miles run in period it's loosened a bit making it vibrate a little more or maybe when I rebuilt the back end it went back in place ever so slightly differently.
I'm really clutching at straws on those two ideas.
Would a 3000 mile belt and weights really cause a vibration if worn ?
There isn't any noise but bugger me the bars and foot plate vibrate.
Arse.

Regards

Bill Xx

Did someone say latex ?

Bill X

Both Bill and Genie are looking good as ever!

But to compare Tom Selleck with Bruce Willis Village...pick your choice

Tom all the way, no question. He's got lovely dimples

Bruce looks too slippery and there's something horrible crawling out of his shorts

Bruised Willies is a different sort of thing altogether from Magnum. Moonlighting-era Bruised was a bit like Magnum, but even that was a bit of a leap of imagination.

One of my schoolfriends called her cat Thomas, as a tribute to Magnum, who she had a massive crush on at the time.

That must be a Trouser Snake...

And Doug steers the conversation into the gutter, once again.

I have to say I think I prefer Tom to Bruce. Not that I'm biased.

Is it me or do Mondays go really fast ?

Regards

Bill X

Some cock has tipped my scoot. Again. The front fender is cocked.

I am moving asap, before I turn into a vigilante.

that would have me waiting outside with a cricket bat. i'm serious. what kind of crunts live in your neighbourhood? even the local hackney yoof have more respect than that.

what a load of bo;;ocks!

and it was all lovely and repaired