Modern Vespa

Hello best vespa lovers,

I follow this topic for a while and had also planned to come along with my husband to this wonderfull meeting and adventure ! Because of back problems I'm already 4 weeks at home on doctor's prescription.and sadly we can not go along .
We wish a safe trip to Belgium and a super good weekend with our Belgian vespa friends .
Also congratulations to the organizers who make this possible...
We will follow this topic greedy for reports and photos and hope for it again!
The weather forecasts are supper so enjoy of Belgium and a safe return to everyone !!

Best wishes with love for England and Belgium and Vespa !!

Greetz Chrideto ( Christel ) and Weorchi. ( Joppe )

Thanks for the good wishes - I hope you can join us another time!

I wish I had multicoloured paws like those...

Ew. Not in the morning, please! I was planning to take off my stupid merkin fur skirt off the scoot for this.

I have got a dandy little smoke screen for the GTS, but all it seems to do is direct wind onto my head. Not great but it looks nice.

We'll outrun the rainclouds on our way down to the coast!

Me too takes the wind off the chest and directs it at the head. Much noisier helmet, no likee.

the slightly taller mini-screen is a decent compromise i think - slight increase in helmet wind noise but i always use earplugs anyway since installing the LV. i would've loved the smoked little mini screen like the one you two have got but i knew it wasn't going to be enough protection for me at motorway speeds.

I'd like to second what Genie said .The semi tall screen is the best because it flips most of the wind just above your helmet.
It also works better the faster you go.

Thank you also for the above good wishes.

It's such a shame that you won't be joining us but I'm sure that we'll be back over later in the year so we can all meet then.

I'm sure there will be plenty of pictures take by Donna so we can show all the people that couldn't make it what a great time we had.

I'm really looking forward to meeting some new faces.

Ride safe all.

Billy-no-scoot

That would be like the famous large screen cut-down?
How To: Cut Down a Windscreen

I am still rather whimsical on this matter

I have ridden the Interloper around the block at no more than 50kph. I have one thing to say about the semi-tall screen. No offence to Genie but I hate the noise it makes.

oi. i've got that screen too!

it does stop you being blown off the back at speed. i've had mine for over 2 years now and, although i sometimes feel like removing it, i only have to remember the wind-blast above 50mph to leave it well alone.

i like the tinted one too but it looks quite a bit smaller so will probably stop a lot less wind.

If you are lucky you may in fact get to meet and test this famous cutdown on the weekend!

Genie, what is the point in getting a lovely sounding exhaust and then putting ear plugs in all the time? You may look great, but you cannot hear anyone telling you so!

Charles.

Charles, don't be so cryptic, either you are coming or you are not!

I take it from that last comment that you are!!!

i think charles is in stealth mode.

Charles is ALWAYS in stealth mode.

Standing beside him during the "speeches" at the Westminster Demo last night was mucho amusing. We agreed on many things. I think we are both jimcs in-the-making

Yeah, I am finding it annoying. Road home today and while it does something for stability, it is a pita noise wise. Not so good if you are tall.

Where can I find this compromise screen everyone is talking about?

Okay, so I'm back (on the blog). Looks like most of you will be in Belgium this weekend when I'm in London supervising teens. If, you're not - I have San Diego scooter shirts for trade. I am in lust with your new stickers. I would love to have 2 - one for my Vespa 150, and one for my hubby's 250. I also want an "L". Will look for new, but would love old. I'll be at the Days Inn, South Bank - 54 Kennington Road - Fri, Sat, and Sun night. One of the nights we're taking the teens on a ghost walk. I am subject to their demands, but . . . I am only in San Diego for another 17 hours. If interested, check out my shirt picks on our meet up site: /www.meetup.com/sd-scooters/ Then look for Megamod. If you are interested I can send you my UK phone #. I have ladies sizes S-L, and mens sizes S-XL: both in short or long sleeve. I need to know if I should pack these tonight.

Last name at the Days Inn is Moore.

The effects of my school of charm and diplomacy are paying off...

The demo was Very Good Fun - there will be quite a few more I think.
The new forum for the protest (you have to register) is at http://torytax.com

Protest now or pay forever everywhere!

Just in case I get lost in Flanders this Saturday...can someone acknowledge the exact location and (local) time for the DSSC rendez-vous in Ypres.

Adres?
Time?

I have looked in this vast post, but found just a clue on page 10 with the map from Marc

Meeting point is here ( grand place/grote markt parkingplace), because normally there is place to set the scooters:

no, not at this point. i took off the cutdown screen (it's in storage waiting to be put back on for winter commuting) and replaced it with the 'tall mini-screen' because i too hated the noise of the taller screen and i found it made the front end of the scooter dance around in the slightest breeze. i now sport the screen below and i love it:

i don't think you've ridden it with the new mini-screen, i think you rode it when it had the cutdown on it. anyway it's in the storage room now.

If anyone other than me is planning the route from Dunkirk to Ieper, bear in mind the car ferry docks West of Dunkirk (towards Gravelines), not the centre, so the road out is the N316.
Therefore, my route heads South to the D2 and then due East on D2/D17a/D3 to Bergues.

My current (Saturday 4th) screen is very much like yours. I prefer the looks with that one most!
Actually, riding with the large/full screen is a 100% pleasure except when riding in turbulence from other vehicles...it makes all wobbling and dancing for sure.

So I am curious on the large cut-downs and their practical behaviour 8)
This is mine and my sister's GTS in Sint-Truiden market square, showing both genuine Vespa large and small screens.

now packing and going to change money ,

lets hope the weather gets i bit better , cloudy here today

Beautiful sun here today athough there's a nip in the air and the wind is quite strong.
It's just like the oh-so 'Low Counties' picture two posts above!

Very nice weather, made a ride to Antwerp to pick up a newsecond hand frontrack.

Afraid of getting lost in Flanders? Why should you. On every streetcorner there is a pub with friendly people willing to help you. And I suppose (am suppose ) that there will be lots of cycling lovers on the road on saturday and sunday. Mind you, they don't know about any rules.....

Walter

Ha ha...To be honest, I once did get lost by car in the Wallon Ardennes. I had to go from Durbuy to Namur...no maps, no clue...dark and rainy

I stopped at every pub on every corner with just one question in my best French...rather unsuccesfully:

Où est la route vers namur?

OK, so this morning on my way in to work my bike DIED!

Lurching all over the place, stalling and coughing badly. Bit of spark plug wiggling etc and I managed to nurse the bike (just about) to Scootech with about 20 stalls on the way. They asked if I was a member of the strangely named "scooter club" as I said I was sort of planning but not really on going on a road trip over the weekend.

As soon as they realised I was part of the club that does not really exist they laughed and then put the bike on "priority fix".

I have had a text to say it is ready, however, I need to be 100% sure it is fine as I obviously do not want to get stuck abroad with a broken bike.

So, I am off to pick it up and subject to the report, I am in touch with Border about transferring his ticket to me.

If it is not 100% OK, they have lent me a 15 year old 50cc Zip that does at least 32mph (indicated with a tail wind of at least 15 mph) so I may just have to leave 12 hours before you all!

Charles.

Tout droit, Monsieur

Lousy luck, Charles - but as with my ET4, be glad it happened this side of the Channel.

Hope you'll be joining us! I've got a cargo net so we can always strap the Zip on the back of my bike if we need a bit more progress

Charles you can borrow the Shitty if you want. You'll just have to put it on your policy. I heard you'd been in Scootech Charles. As has young Marc, bringing Karen a slice of cake. I am being usurped!

You'll probably have much more fun on it despite looking desperately uncool.

Can I still come on Donkei Skök ride-outs on a Mana?

Is there somebody, who know a shop in his aerea where they sell Tucano gloves. I want summergloves. No shops in Belgium have tucano. So if somebody who comes to Belgium saturday .......can buy me one pair ......

What do you want and what size? Let me know by PM and I'll sort it for you tomorrow. If I can.

Oh and another question. Why do the Norwich guys always look so angry? Have I missed something? I am off to Norwich tomorrow on a little day trip. Shopping...

PM send

Take a look here....

http://shop.scootech.co.uk/gloves-18-c.asp

us angry , never 8)

Oh good. Now quite at ease.