Modern Vespa

now if this isnt enough to put you off a velociraptor ............

It didn't stop those trendy folk with good credit pushing the prices of Split screen VW Buses past the 30k mark...

One of Martha's Velociferos.

Velocifero Italjet

Thought about this 1997 50cc Velocifero, talked with owner but I'm going to pass.

http://dallas.craigslist.org/ndf/bar/2782661014.html

Guy knows what he has and knows about scooters.

My first Scooter. I owned the world's fastest (or at least the most expensive) Italjet Velociefero. I raffled off at our club's first rally SCOOTSTOCK, 2 years ago. I spent about 8 grand on it including the original $4000 purchase price. All work was done by Italjet USA themselves. It still runs and does an easy 60mph, after all the mods.

I am very very very familiar with the ups and downs of Italjet USA as they were located 20 minutes from my home on Long Island in NY. Increasing Scooter awarerness was the upside, greed was the downside. Eventually it was all made moot by Italjet going under.

Many parts are avaialable from Malossi. Unfortunetly at the time the same guy running Italjet USA was also ran Malossi USA and their issues were similar at the time. Circa Mid/late 80'searly 90's. Some engine parts are available as replacements for the Morini based Yamaha 50cc engine of the same era.

I put over 4000 miles on it and I loved it. I followed the advice of Italjet USAs Service Manager (the only honest guy there) and got a bigger engined scooter after blowing up the motor and having it rebuilt 3 times. If I follwed the advice of everyone else at Italjet USA, I would be on my umpteenth rebuilt and kit, all of which was supposed to make that thing "go 90mph" - They even advertised that they had "kits" to do this. I bought everyone and barely cracked 60mph. BUt it was quite a strong pull up to about 50, I have to admit.

Every repair bill or purchase had to be double & triple checked for over billing, errounious charges and just plain dishonesty. I was glad to move on to more reputable manufactures like Piaggio, Suzuki and Aprilia.

Mine was featured in a 2 page spread of Scoot Quarterly Magazine as "The Scoot Quarterly Special"

The Velocifero has a fan-cooled Morini Franco 2 cycle engine. The Italjet Formula had the same engine, other than having liquid cooling and a rear disc brake. The Dragster had a Minarelli LC engine with a rear disc.
The plastic body panels on the Velo (headset, rear body) were brittle and prone to cracking from normal riding.
Parts for the Italjets were very difficult to get, even while they were being imported by Rosel in NYC. They rarely compensated their dealers for warranty work, so Italjets quickly earned a bad reputation.
However, they are pretty good scooters, and fun to ride.I had a Formula for a few years. I kitted it to 65cc and did a bunch of other work and it would accelerate all the way to top speed while staying neck to neck with a stock Vespa P200e.
The 65cc engine bored me after a while, so I sold it. I talked my machinist buddy Alex Tasi into welding up a new subframe and then I installed my Pinasco-kitted P200 engine in it. Now THAT was fun! It would do awesome wheelies and stoppies, too.
Never did get around to hooking up that rear brake....

The rider matches the bike!

I can't stop thinking about that 80s film short circuit

One of the main scoots in Larry Crowne was a Velocifero. They bought two, one to use as a parts bike.

Parts are increasingly scarce, I hear.

I bought one with bent forks and a mystery ignition problem not realizing parts were unobtanium. Heres what I came up with.
P fork/bitubo shock
100 sport headset
custom tank and body work
carbon reeds
70cc kit and back again to 50
19mm carb
technigas pipe
Polini speed kit transmission( variator, contra spring, overdrive )
big ass rear tire
Bajaj front fender
super fun project

Damn, that looks like fun. Well done!

Wall-E for sure !

Saw one at the shop the other day, mint except for a crack near one of the cowls in the rear. It was a customer's scoot; really wish I could have ridden it.

I did see, for the first time, that the pet carrier has a faux leather/vinyl liner with little pockets and pouches. Very cool!

I have a 1997 Italjet Velocifero (seafoam green like the one in the pic above) that I'm thinking of selling. Last time I rode it (this was YEARS ago) it ran, but was low on gas and I think all the gunk in the bottom of the tank got sucked into the fuel line and it won't start up. It's not in mint condition, but it's in good cosmetic shape. It has some extra bits too (fender trim, passenger seat, whitewall tires... maybe a Malossi carb?). That being said, what do you guys think is a fair price for it?

I've got two Velociferos, but you need to be pretty small to ride them

Just picked this 2000 up last night... Needs attention, but runs good.

Everybody knows, if you buy an Italjet, you buy a 180cc Dragster, because they're freakin' mad!

I already have a Dragster 172, DaveLX.

Is this a Dragster thread, or one about the Velocifero?

How do you like your CB Honda? Oh, is this thread about any of your bikes?

One for sale in Modesto, CA now. If it was larger than a 50cc I'd seriously give it some thought.

https://modesto.craigslist.org/mcy/5164324942.html

I know this is an old thread, but ran across this one on Craigslist:
https://cosprings.craigslist.org/mcy/6093170458.html

First time I had heard of Velocifero - very interesting looking scooter!

Here's another one that just popped up in Colorado.

https://denver.craigslist.org/mcy/6096925894.html

Iveco own Italjet I think, or they made the Italjet Velocifero. The main problem is if they have been standing a long time,k they tend to stop working, something to do with the electrics.

Any interest in this?

Thats in really good shape. Is it running? How many KM on it?

I am extremely interested in your Velo? What is your asking price? Running status? Mileage? Where are you located?

Rachael

Old thread, but lmk if anyone wants to sell one of these

https://youtu.be/lhFxlGNX-jE

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/431123611989153/

Just saw this one for sale locally to me the other day. Never heard of this scooter before

Hey I have one and am curious if you're still interested

Hi Dingerr, I ended up catching 🎣 a black one with 500 miles on it, a yellow parts bike. Decided to release them though. Too much plastic and not enough parts out there. Sticking with vespas for now.

Thanks for letting me know!

Mine. The Photo is attached. It was attached to my previous post. I do not doubt that the powers that be, messed with my post. I am sure a nasty responce will follow. This Velo had every option and Kit available at the time. Circa 1995... Delta Clutch, Variator... You name it. It would do an honest 60mph and would soft seize often. I switched from an Aluminum 65cc to a Malossi Cast Iron 50cc and lived happily ever after. I bought it direct from Italjet and they did all the Modifications. If you need any Italjet Velociefro info, contact me.

I raffled it off at the first Scootstock Rally, but it was lost during Hurricane Sandy. RIP[/img]

I promise you that nobody at MV -- myself or any moderator -- messed with your post. Rather, it appears to be a classic case of image linkrot.

The external image you linked to twelve years ago in 2012 -- an image that does not and never did reside on MV -- is no longer accessible. I'm not in control of external images. This one looks to be from Facebook, judging by the link. Facebook of twelve years ago.

JFC.

Here's the image link in your 2012 post, if you are curious. You can edit the post yourself and see that this is the link included:

I went through that when DropBox stopped allowing hot linking. Suddenly all my pics were borked.

So far Imgur seems to be fairly friendly, if you can deal with Imgur in general. I use it because there are some nice upload tools. I was using their upload scaling for linking to another forum that isn't as nice as this one until Apple went with HEIC format for images. Now I scale and convert with Automator anyway before I upload.

If there's one thing that is absolutely crystal clear after 18+ years of continuous operation of MV, it is that external image links will always disappear long before the post that links to them does.

External images on Imgur are not safe from linkrot. Not even a little bit. I see broken Imgur links all the time.

If you want an image to stay with the post, upload it to MV (if you hold the copyright to the image).

I mostly do here because MV is image friendly. Thank you for that. Other forums, not so much.

Thanks for the intel.

All of the images that have ever been uploaded to MV -- all 42gb worth -- costs me under $2 a month in storage fees. The other forums are doing themselves a disservice. Most welcome.

So, we're all in iCloud, then?

Hah. No such luck. MV runs entirely in AWS, all the uploads are stored on AWS S3, and those are all then cached at edge locations around the world via AWS CloudFront for faster download.