Modern Vespa

So just say you could custom order one more Vespa for the barn. Would it be one that is already made? Would it be something Vespa hasn't thought of?

My next dream Vespa would be a little something like this..........

2010 300 GTS Super

Orange with painted Brown stripes, OEM brown leather seat and backrest and orange wheels.

Now If I don't see what I want at the dealer show I will probably build this bike myself. I did have an orange GT a while back ("orange crush") and I loved that scoot.

Anyway, anyone?

SDG

50 Special! Don't know why, they just push the right buttons for me

If i could have any other scooter in the world right now, i'd have a TV200 or SX200 ...because those are the only bikes i really feel would do well in my small collection.


Now, if it had to be a modern scooter... it would be either the Lambretta / CMSI L-series ( 250cc modern engine in a Lambretta GP )

or it would be some new hybrid where i stuck an Italijet Dragster engine in a GS160 complete frame, and put some bigger wheels / disc / better suspension on it. Kinda like that Venti Hammerhead thing, but with a REAL GS frame / dimensions, and a kickass engine instead of some GY6 garbage.

That would be fun

It's tough to say... It would probably be a GTS300 in some color combination not offered by the factory, but I don't know what that would be yet. I'll have to give it some thought.

Scooter Guy, seeing how you're a dealer and all, I was hoping you were in some way offering us that "just one more" scooter.

Should you decide to, I'll take mine in a GTS250 shell, with a GT200 instrument panel, the 300's engine, and celeste green (from Bianchi bicycles), with chrome wheels.

I'd like an updated X9. To my mind they've still not replaced it with anything that comes close to the looks, ride and extra goodies built in.

300 Super with separate trip meter like the 250!!!
Also, ALL the chrome/silver metal blacked out. Black wheels with red pinstripe. Black mirrors on the end of the grips. White paint with Martini stripes, like those cool racing Porsches from the late 1970's, early '80s.

Oh, and an exhaust system that does not blow out it's gasket!

GTS 300 painted Audi's Nogaro Blue color...

A 2010 GTS 300 Super... in Vintage Red, with a Vespa topcase, tan seat & backrest, chrome crashbars and fender guard. Little simpler than my GTV, but even prettier color.

Too many scooters to choose just one!

I have been tossing around the idea of a vintage scoot for quite a while now. I am just concerned about parts and maintenance. I'd love to get one of the more offbeat scoots. Perhaps a Cushman or a Gogo or a Fuji Rabbit ...

id rebuild me old t5 mk1 "fully bully"

2010 GTS 300 in "Daring Plum" with a trip odometer, and rack, crash bars and glow wire on the undercarriage in 'utraviolet'

Or if I could get a custom paint job sort of like this color:

With some white reflective rally stripes, whitewall tires, matching purple rims
and a full face helmet with the same purple and white scheme.

White leather armored pants and a white rally jacket (armored of course) with a purple reflective stripe.

Kewlness

GTS 400 in Dragon Rosso, (with an accurate fuel gauge, a trip odometer would be nice too).

Rally 200

Another Smallframe; but this time I wouldn't spend so much on it. A true money-pit the last time around.

is this some type of market research project?
Should I start saving my beer cans?

I want this 1947 from Amerivespa. I don't care how old or how much it's worth I would ride it everywhere. I love this bike. So low and small. Pure pimp riding. I talked to the owner for 10 minutes about this bike and I love it.

i want a brand new GTS300 (even with the dodgy exhaust) with this picture airbrushed on the front.

the parts and maintenance bit is what scares me also, although a friend of mine just road his 25 year old Lammy from Manchester to the IOW and back so maybe a vintage isn't always a bad thing

Orange Rally 180...

or

Any of the 10" wheeled Vespa large frame models with the factory original, infamous, Atomic Booger paint.

Refridgerator white gts300 with racing stripes like my GT, in black.

That could be tough! It's such a rare color, and i've only ever seen it on a 50 special, and on a '74 Super.

I agree that a GTS 300 Super in orange would be awesome - complete with orange stitching on the seat like they do on the S150 and white Rally-style racing stripes. And an actual 300 cc engine would be a nice bump up from the current 278 cc mill. And I want the ABS brakes like they sell elsewhere in the world.

Ned

haha Matt I wish !!

They don't seem to listen to my great idea's, lmao.

SDG

I was just thinking about something like this yesterday. Essentially, since their reintroduction to the States, Vespa has introduced three new model Ranges: The ET range, the LX Range, and the GT Range. All other scooters so far have been variations on those three themes. From the LX Range we get the LX, the LXV and the Vespa S, from the GT Range we got the GT200, GTS250ie, GT60, GTV, and now the GTS300 Super.

What might be the next really new scooter from Vespa? A newly built bike with removable cowls modeled after a Rally? A new smallframe modeled on the SS90? Or will they make an entirely new scoot altogether, like they once did with the Cosa?

In one sense, by making every bike throwback to retro styling, their future bike iterations would appear to be limited by past models. I have to say though, Piaggio is nothing if not ingenious... how many other companies have been in business continuously since the late 1800's?

It may be that the Piaggio line is where they're going to be pushing the envelope, while the Vespa line will continue to offer minor cosmetic changes, color changes, and ever more powerful engines in the same body styles, much like the Sprint - Rally - SS180's of the past. Many of those scoots have more chassis similarities than differences.

Changes I'd like to see: upgraded suspension, really great all-day saddles, good looking and well designed throaty exhaust in a stainless steel, alloy wheels, all available as OEM upgrades, and the spring rack back as a standard feature on the rear.

I think it was used for Sprints/GTR models, and maybe the 125TS? Here's a question for ya.... do they have that paint swatch in Tecnica 6?

I would have to go for something dramatically different: the MP3 500 in Black.

But, unfortunately I don't have enough room in my garage.

I'd take a GS200 with updated brakes,engine and such
but keep the old style body

I *THINK*

So... what we colloquially call "Atomic Booger" is what i believe to be Max Meyer 1.298.8302 "Verde Mela" ...or "Apple Green"

Correct me if i'm wrong. Isn't this the color we call "atomic booger" ? It's so rare i actually see a bike in that color that i forget the shade until i see it again.



If it is, yes, i have it. In the late 60's / early 70's they did a lot of really...well ...gross looking Yellow /green combos. Giallo Positano and Giallo Cromo both have that baby-poop ochre about them.

8) 8) Holy Crap that's bright! I actually thought it was little more muted, a little more baby-barf tone than that... but then my only frame of reference was the 71 Super that one of the NSM members bought off ebay. Maybe he still has some pics to confirm...

Still, that's just a wonderfully hideous color. I'd rock that for sure...

Thanks for looking into it. After I finish the P, my next project will probably be the "Atomic Booger, TX" An order from VespaPaintCodes is eminent.

Here's Giallo Cromo :

http://www.vespaforever.net/Public/data/spino75/200841002858_Vespa-50R1969-83.jpg


And here's Giallo Positano

http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/4863/giallopositano2.jpg

could be either of those

Giallo Cromo looks closer to what I was thinking.

I did find the old thread with the super, but the linky to the photo is dead. I have a PM sent to the owner though, so maybe we can get a pic to compare. Thanks again for taking the time Eric. Appreciate it...

A certain robin egg blue 1981 P200E, the one that started my interest in scoots. If i could have that one, I'd be content.

I got a whole laundry list of "wish I hads." If I could have just one? SS180, red or silver. No fancy bling. Trapezoidal headlight, FTW!

Modern-wise, a 300 Super or the Scarabeo 500.

Non-Vespa-vintage-wise: Rabbit Superflow Touring or an SX200.

Non-Vespa-modern-wise: 2T Stella or a Symba. (Okay, not all that modern...) [/quote]

+1. Really like these.

The 2011 GTS 500 i.e. ABS, Now that I could live with.

That's the color of the Butternut Squash soup my wife makes...

...as for my ultimate choice, I really like the Rally 200s and P200s. Big fan of green.

First off I think Vespas are much like Pringles "you can't just have one"

Now, I would like the green GTS200 or maybe custom paint it metallic copper orange AND THIS ONE ....1965 Vespa VBB

Except it will burn through exhaust gaskets every 500 miles.

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