Modern Vespa

Ugh...I just got back last Saturday from a 3200 mile road trip of buying two different KTM 990 Adventure dirtbikes. I'm west of PDX, and I hotshotted 1000 miles to Vegas with no sleep to pick up the first bike. I left home at 10:30 am Thursday, arrived in Vegas Friday at 4:30am, took a 2 hour nap in the open bed of my truck right in front of the seller's house, woke up at 6:30am, bought the bike, left Vegas at 7:50am with bike, continued to drive another 570 miles to Silver City New Mexico. Arrived in NM at 6PM Friday evening and bought the second bike. Almost passed out from the intense pain in my foot while loading up the second bike (I crushed my foot 3 months ago, and I'm still on crutches). Started driving again at 7pm towards Alpine California. Finally stopped at 10:30pm Friday night to sleep on top of a concrete picnic table at a rest area. 2 hours of sleep in 36 hours of driving kinda kicked my butt. Woke up at 4:30am Saturday morning and arrived in Alpine California about noon Saturday. I dropped off my dirtbike's suspension at a shop, then pointed the truck North to home. I stopped again Saturday night about 11pm at rest area in Lakehead, CA. Woke up at about 5am and stopped in southern Oregon to pick up my sister at about noon on Sunday. She drove the truck the rest of the 5 hours back home. Arrived at home at 6pm Sunday. Two of my friends came over and unloaded the bikes for me at 7pm. Went to bed at about midnight, then automatically woke up at 6am the next morning.

I'm done buying scooters/bikes for a bit. My funds are depleted, and my butt is sore from driving for so many hours. My foot now hurts like a son of a gun even more than it did before I left for the trip.

I did bring a mini freezer with me on the trip, so I was swapping out ice packs on my foot every hour while driving. That was the absolute only saving grace for me.

My sister took a quick pic while I was sleeping. I was pretty darn comfortable (and tired) so it took me about 1 minute before I was out. A half cup of a medium sized coffee and one energy drink kept me powered the whole trip!

I love to read about people crazier than me, makes me feel almost normal.

We all have our own special forms of crazy around here. I don't really do the road trips to buy scooters thing (except when I do, I guess), but if you wanna talk about what I'll do once they're in my workshop...

+1 on that John.

sometimes it's: whoa this a deal a whole and sometimes it's whoa, this is worth it for the parts alone! a hydro fork & headset, throw in a motor with go fast bits, add in a seat and a tank setup? if it's tagged up and titled? even better!

Parts are getting hard to find for these. $500 not a bad deal. 5 years ago, I got a complete, running bike for $400 but got tired of hunting for parts.

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1243365553082420/

Yes, you could steal all the get fast stuff, rebuild it stock and move it even. Hell Greasy you could stuff a 2 port motor and a p2 drum fork in there with your parts stash.

Do it
Do it
Do it

betwixt you and birbs, I've got TWO devils on my shoulders. add in Mr. Owens and it's a heavy load!

if it was close I'd roll dice on it as a flip and knock stock stuff back on. I'd maybe make a few hundo and come out with some bits.

I'm trying to adios metal over here, amigo. and lemme tell ya, the combo plate is FULL right meow. need to lighten up that load and focus on my own projects!

What was the Bajaj 4T motor? I see them come up for sale every now and then. Is it one of their own designs?

If that Stella had a stock 200, then I would probably go after it, but I'm not a fan of buying highly tuned scooters that have a thick layer of dust on them.

What was the Bajaj 4T motor? I see them come up for sale every now and then. Is it one of their own designs?

But if you buy it you can steal all the goodies and flip it to me for a vbb

Hell you won't even have to put the engine back together!

GL & whodats over here reading my mind. if it was so Johnny kick ass why's it sitting.

I mean, I know life happens and shit. I just picked up that Stella with a 200 and zoom zoom parts that was sitting because dude was focusing on his relationship, career, having a kid.

but usually zipped up stuff gets sold off or borked and then it goes to "I'll get to that" status.

I'd still go 5 on it. the parts are worth that.

Wondering if blue Stella is a P200, says it's a 210 motor.

Wondering if blue Stella is a P200, says it's a 210 motor.

My gut is that it's some sort of Frankenmotor. Bored out Stella cases to take a 200 cylinder with a long stroke. While I could have all sorts of fun with a natively reeded 200, that's not the route I would choose to get there.

Even so, I'd probably jump on it if it was close to me, either to part out or swap in a stock motor and flip.

Maybe the cylinder is bored out to 67mm, if that's even possible.

But, yeah, whatever's going on there is definitely strange. Maybe it's a failed experiment and that's why the seller is trying to offload it.

But, yeah, as much as people dog on them, I love my hopped up Stella/LML motors. They scream.

I'm 1000% confident that the cases are true 200cc. In the description it says that the engine was assembled by P Town Scooters, and Patrick wouldn't ever put his name on any sort of bastardized junk.

I wonder if it's a scam, sent the guy a question and asked for pictures, his reply was yes it's still available.

Somebody nab it.

Argh. I want it. And it's close.

That's a great price for a shop. It's really straight and original, too.