Modern Vespa

No, it's not the bloody Vietnam episode that someone starts a new thread about every time the rerun airs.

There was a brand new episode on last night, where they were in Italy. James May and Hammond had to ride to the airport from the starting line of the race,... and they jumped on 2 perfect looking old fenderlight vespas. They must have been private collection ones, because i was thinking "too bad nobody rides bikes like that in Italy anymore." There's probably more vespas like that in the US than there are in italy after all the government buy-out tax incentives to get people to trade in their old vespas for new bikes.

Anyways, they got a minute of air time or whatever, and i was happy.

Praise to the scooter gods for tivo! I went back and froze it to check them out.

i don't get that channel

maybe i can you tube it

if not youtube.com, maybe hulu.com or one of the other sites like that.

Here you go. Start watching at 2:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvOtuhRDgE8


And if you don't have BBC america, you should start either buying the DVDs of that show ( they are on season 13 now ) or you can bittorrent every season if you're so inclined.

It's the best show on TV.

I like the color of the scoots too! -but that car was awesome!!!

MaxMeyer Grigio 15048.

http://www.vespaclub.com/tecnica/1953-125.jpg


I have it formulated if you want to paint a bike that color

Love that show.
I wanted to see this episode but missed it last night.

Thanks for posting the link...no work getting done this morning! heh

edit: That was was a really good episode. I enjoyed the hell out of it.

Glad to see I wasn't the only one who caught that. Although my wife didn't understand why I suddenly went bonkers when two minty fresh looking fenderlights came on the screen....

I think that's actually quite an old episode, but the first time it was broadcast in America. I wish I could get my hands on the complete, not time-edited broadcast version of Top Gear!

I watched it also and was surprised how nice they looked and rode.

-funny, have always wanted to get rid of the Serie America green too but should probably just leave it that way - if I get a hankering, will hit you up for the color formulation