Modern Vespa

my most recent pic - at the tail end of a 100 mile day on RAGBRAI (bike ride across Iowa)

The wife and I in It'ly.

Here's me

This is my little family, wife-Ahlima, oldest daughter-Ahmee, youngest daughter- Ahlimee and son- Jasper with me Pete (Aka- Cuttlefish) all sporting our "Vespas Rule" t-shirt (which I produce) with our 08 PX 200.

My wife is from a small hilltribe in the mountains of Nthern Thailand.

The t-shirts I do with just plain Vespa's Rule for general Vespa fans and some with "I love the smell of 2 stroke in the morning" for the shifty riders.

pete, awsome pic

you have a great looking family and all look healthy

we are truely blessed.

i love how this thread has shown our members that we really represent a cross cut of life on earth, in a small way.

Time to unmask the wee lad that I am. I'll have to whip up a shot with the scoots one of these days.

hey xantu, you forgot your name

i swear there is no idenity theft here.

What, you don't think Xantu is my name? It's like Smith or Jones in these parts 8)

At the Bearded Lady Rally and Freak show this weekend standing betwixt my P and Provastian's T5. No bearded ladies, but a few middle-age dudes in dresses!

fair dinkum mate

Me friends call me Thackery

cool

thackery the frog

Yeah the xantufrog bit is a long story from my childhood...

Yes - well, I am notoriously camera shy:
http://www.royalbastardsscooterclub.com/forum/index.php?topic=1659.0


I think you can guess which is me in this scooter-related picture (and I'll out VP1 at the very end too):




https://modernvespa.com/forum/topic46128#627482

oh, and I'm Gitta. Pronounced like guitar, kinda.

not to forget the famous gitta that just rebuilt a beautifull motor

san diego is where i got started in 1980

i bought my 80 P and a rally at a shop on garnet around ingram i think.

you live in one of what i consider the best places in the world.

i've been around.

Excellent - an excuse to link back to my pretty motor!!!
Who is a dirty girl? I AM! Ol'Red rebuild (engine done!)

You are right, jimmy - San Diego is a phenomenal place to live. I take full advantage of that all the time. Year round riding, always something to do, somewhere to go and some still plenty of places to escape it all.

In fact - I'm saying goodbye to the keyboard right now - I'm going shiftin'.

Gitta

gitta,my all time favorite is the sunset photo of your lump on the table

heres meself -josh posing in the backyard

here's the only pic i could find of the whole clan:



it's 2 years old though, so i look a whole lot more worn out in real life.

nice pics u all

Ok! I follow you

-me and my wife on wedding day
-my family on car (smoke) free day
-my daughter Nadine

wow ur wedding pics is awesome (althought i was hpoing u will ride a velocebulux) u have a cute nadine.. lucky guy u are nino (hope my turn for wed and kid will be coming soon as i am old )

thanks bro!
here's video procession http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gb7bW0UCsT8
with old bicycle and vespa behind

Awesome pics brotha!

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Oops ! I don't know how to post pix from a iPhone ? I'm up in York Maine away from my puter.
Any body know how ?

Alright, I'll play.

Hello, I'm Meggy.

Here's me:


Here's my woman, Alisha (please excuse the crappy phone picture):


Here's us together:


I like to make weird faces, obviously.

cool meg, i'm glad you and your girl kicked in

you two look like you have alot of fun

I like this thread. Great to see all the vintage enthusiasts "in person"

me too

when big foot started it i was thinking to myself that not many would kick down their name and pic, but i have been proven wrong.

another thing is i wanted to see if we had anything in common aside from scooters, and we don't really, which is some what comforting.

i am glad that we are who we are and put up with each other and we all adore our bikes.

so the theory i have is, and i don't see this with lets say the harley crowd around here, that scooter people regardless of sex,race,politics,fetishes and whatever are just plain good natured.

if the world was gone and i had to get on a space ship to whereever, mv is the ship for me

Nice one

He he he. The "Spaceship MV" makes me want to break out into song (in a sort of bad '70s arena rock sort of way).

It's great to see pics of everyone and their partners and other personally important stuff.

A quick segue: Funny thing about Harley riders -- they're really uptight about acknowledging even vintage scooterists on the road. The (super) sports bikes guys are happy to give the rider's salute, as are the enduro and dirt bike riders, plus the BMW and touring bike riders, but not so for almost all of the Harley folks. They're too busy being cool, I guess.

It's funny (and to grossly generalize) because either they think of themselves as borderline criminal bad asses -- or at last very highly anti-establishment -- or they're slightly past middle aged upper middle class suburbanites with an identity/mid-life crisis who suddenly decide they need the freedom of a motorcycle now that their kids are grown and want the comfort of a low-rider and can afford the newest American iron. Both treat most scooterists (even vintage scooterists, though in fairness it may be hard to tell at first glance) with contempt. It's really like a pissing match about displacement, but I just don't get it... The young guys with more guts than sense on the Rice Rockets you'd think would be the ones who wouldn't give the time of the day, but actually they're often the nicest. <shrug>

In fairness, I did have a really nice chat last year with a Harley rider as we were both waiting to take the next graduated level of motorcyle license with a monitored road test, but I think it was probably just nerves. We did have a good chortle about 1300 vs. 150cc engines, though.

yea, don't get me wrong.

i have a buddy or two that ride "those things"

i scare em with a ride along call all the time

Here is me - Simon and my lovely wife Angelle on our wedding day on our Supers. Still have the blue one but not the cream.

G'day Simon,
mate that's not sheepskin along the top of your missus's wedding dress is it?
Oh jeez, I know I shouldn't have noticed that.
Yes, I know your face is up there.
Now how's about those nice pair of Supers.

But seriously what better two wheeler for your wedding day. The Vespa design in action keeping the engine grease off your finest threads.

I'm going to find out, first-hand, in 9 days, how good a Vespa is as a wedding vehicle

Not a Vintage owner, (yet!! all my dough is spoken for for the next 9 days at least) but I thought I'd join in, at least my 2t scooter smells right

The wife-to-be, and myself, on a bus:

Heres me I´ve also been subjected to restoration. Lost 3 stone and hit the gym.

Aussies and your sheep obsessions....

It's actually fur, my wife is Canadian so sheep wouldn't do, we couldn't find any real baby seals but this looked authentic.

TTT for Meg

Thanks.