Modern Vespa

well done alice!

does this mean you have an iron butt?

Such a sad day. I'm almost close to tears. No I'm actually crying now.

Johnny Halliday has retired.

A great great loss to the music industry.

A country mourns but not ours.

Bill X

and can we stick magnets to it?

way to go alice

Can we get it naked and try and stick magnets to it.

Even if they don't stick christ it's going to be fun.

Bill XX

Well done Alice!

Good Job Alice,
Its a good cause (one of the reasons my daughter is named Poppy)

Well worth a sore bum.



Marc

Alice!

Butt Busting ? Yeah I could add something really obvious to that but for once I'm going to keep my gutter mouth shut.

Wouldn't mind some of that stuff regardless.

Love and Rockets

Bill X

why whatever do you mean? And which stuff do you want?

I am back! Had to wade through six pages of utter rubbish. Just a shame that I wasn't able to add my idiotic opinions too....

How is everyone? Our local school now has that 'flu. Damn.

Off to Italy next Monday, Pontadera, here I come!

Oh and on the subject of cars, don't buy the 500. Fiat servicing sucks!

doug's back!!

we've done a rather poor job of maintaining this thread whilst you've been gone - the only excitement recently has been when a drunken badger wandered in and we had to shoo it out with a broom.

i'm almost finished stripping the paint off my transmission cover. i had to buy a set of little tiny wire brushes for my dremel to get at the nooks and crannies fun

I need to rationalise a few things. More later.

A badger?

i'd have removed the bearing and taken it to the blasters......... that fine grit does a lovely job of getting in the hard to reach places, then off to the powdercoaters 8)

I turn my back for five minutes and everyone starts discussing my bottom

Dig the wheels, Maver!

Thanks for all the good wishes! The shoulders are where I'm really feeling it; I always tense there when I'm riding. Deep Heat is wonderful stuff

Justgiving seems to be b0rked atm

Oh Maver, those wheels are loverly

maver are you sure you weren't an interior designer in another life?

i'd love to be able to afford a trip to the media blaster and the powder coater but my paint job is going to be a bit more lo-fi - strip the cover, prime and rattlecan it. i did my ET4 transmission cover two years ago and it's holding up beautifully

maver, those wheels must look awesome at speed...
got any pics of them in motion?

Oh Maver those wheels are stunning and I am very jealous indeed.

Oranges are the only fruit it seems.

I'm eyeing up the Hornets wheels now.

Doug when you get time could you expand on the Fiat servicing problems please ?

My decision has already been made but a little bit of info in my business goes a long way.

Good to see you back Doug. I've missed you in ways you'll never know.

Love and Rockets

Bill X

just noticed that some chavscum twat has nicked a load of plants out of my front garden .... farking hackney - anything that isn't bloody nailed down ...

Maybe like Wonder it's time to leave ?

Oh yeah and I'd buy into the Chutney Ferret just as long as I could ride it sometimes.....often ?

Bill X

Seriously though if the Chutney Ferret won't go in the garage it can go behind the house in my little garden where it will be covered and locked up.
I could ride it up to you at the weekends then walk around shopping malls on my own while you go out and have some fun while I dwell on just how lonely I am.

Bill X

HANG ON. You'll powdercoat the Hornet's wheels orange but you won't let me paint the whole thing orange??

No I'd powdercoat them green not orange.

Bill X

Chutney ferret?

Wrote up an account of the weekend's misadventures here.

And JustGiving is back up: http://www.justgiving.com/huskyteer

Justgiving's burgered again. If it wasn't for the gift aid, I'd send you something in a brown envelope.

Mm. Can we give cash?

Goddamn. They claim it'll be going fine by the end of the week...but yes, cash might be less hassle all round.

Let's give it a few days and if it's not working I'll send you a donation. A fabulous effort and a worthy cause. (Hope you're able to sit down by now)

thank you for the kind comments on the wheels and tranny case powdercoating, it is a big relief to see that orange and vintage red actually do go together, there were many folks who openly laughed at my suggestions when the scheme was in the planning stage, so glad i stuck with it 8)

genie, satin black or matt black powdercoat would be awesome, much more resilient to chips and scrapes than any paint, price would be cheaper than my rims were too, my "chromax and KTM orange" rims were £45 each blasted and coated........

you're tempting me ..... can it still be powdercoated without being media blasted first? i've done a pretty decent job of getting the paint off it (and yes i was thinking of going satin black )

edit: and it turns out there is a powdercoating place right around the corner from my house .....

Oh Maver what have you started. I think if I had to I would have the rims so polished that I could see my face in them but not much else.
I kinda like the way the Hornet looks as it is.
Well apart from the twat who rides it.

Bill X

genie, the powdercoater should give them a blast before coating to get rid of stuff you can't see like greasy fingerprints, part of the job really, better preparation means better end result 8)

clip and bearing needs to come out of vari cover prior to blasting and tell powdercoater bearing seat and mating face require masking 8)

bill, polished metal is sooooo high maintenance, had it on my runner nutter basted and vowed never again, hence the powder finish which just requires a wipe over to get it looking top notch again 8)

agian a bit of masking required on the rims, just the mating surface where the rim mounts on the shaft

So today at my local Audi Dealership a driver came to collect £35,000 of BMW M3 and he made the mistake of leaving the keys in the car then shutting the door on it while I went looking for the paperwork and it self locked itself. Good English huh ?
So there was he with all his gear inside and no way of getting in.
He rang his boss to tell him what had happened and he sacked him on the phone for being such an idiot.
We tried hard not to laugh but failed.

I just had to share.

Bill X

clip? what clip? you mean the bits n bobs on the inside? all that's out already. how does one get the bearing out?

Seriously?! Hardcore.

Yes seriously. I'm not kidding.

I didn't know you could get sacked for being an idiot. I am lucky I work for family.

Quite right too. What a tit. Could have been worse, could have been me...