Modern Vespa

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/mcy/1390548644.html

This is da bomba......mother load as it were....

Checking my bank as we speak.

R

8)

No thanks ... I'll stick with my LX's!

yep very nice, do wish italjet was still one the scene (really on the scene not perhaps, maybe)

These are supposed to be pretty hot little racing scoots!

Dragster. Want. Want. Want. Lovely.

But I don't want to die just yet...

I'd kill myself...

Way sick!! No asking price, though. I wonder what he wants for it?

Seats kind of hard, If you don't mind sitting on your balls, Go for it.
I prefer the slower GTS 250, But the Italjets are nice looking though.

I want, too.

But mainly to tell people it -only- has a 180cc motor in it and race 250 four stroke guys for pink slips.

I could end up with probably a dozen slow GTS250s or 300s before people caught on not to drag race the tiny motor Dragster.

Had a go on one last year.....like shite off a shovel but i want to keep my licence thanks

I think you'll find we're not quite that dumb.

Holy freaking crap WANT.
Waaaaaaaaaant.

Glad I'm not the ONLY one!

au contraire mon frere: --

https://modernvespa.com/forum/topic43873

Post, oh, 20 or so...

Now if you know what it is you wouldn't be so dumb, but there are a lot of dumb people out there - witnessed by the fact cars think they can beat Vespas off the line at green lights...

Hey Oz, which of your scoots u ride the most?

the mp3, mostly for storage reasons. Most of my other bikes don't have as much storage an I carry a lot if stuff with me to work.

That and I'm not finished "fixing" my GT.

The only Italjets I would be interested in are two that they have never made, the Scoop and the Amarcord.

The Scoop: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0m7o4yt0Sg

but that guy posted in the vintage section

I thought the Amarcord was compelling and sexy but I'd rather have a Dragster any day of the week.

If I had to choose of course. Which is a luxury that I don't have at this point - hell, I actually want to thin my herd a touch.

Bah. You can prove anything you want with a sample size of one.

Should I count up all the "I beat (insert vehicle type here) off the line" threads

We can argue all day but you know that most people wouldn't know 1: what in the hell an Italjet Dragster is and 2: not realize that a smaller displacement 2-stroke will whallop the daylights out of most 4-strokes up to double their size.

Hell I run into it every day on the RD with that little teeny 350 stamped on the side...until I leave those 600s behind off the line. That Italjet has a 0-60 time of 4.8 seconds. The RD is 5.2 (unmodified of course)

There was one that sold last year in Canada for $5000. Cad$,
Could have been the only one in Canada, Sold by a Vespa (Dealer) importer.

Technically in the project reports section... 8)

hahaha oops got me.

Well there goes your karma.

oh noes, I quit!

Banhammer, here I come

Except that we've talked at length about the Dragster here. The fact that one guy didn't know anything about it doesn't prove anything, and ignores the substantial knowledge that is, in fact, present.

By your logic, I should be able to prove that all vintage guys are gun-toting alcoholics just by reading a single thread on ScooterBBS. When they're in proper tune, yes. Sadly, most of the vintage bikes we see out here (and there aren't a lot of new 2 strokes in CA) wheeze their way up the hills, stall out, burn their clutches on a hill, and generally give 2T a bad name.

Well by your logic I should be able to pull up to anyone on a Modern Vespa and they should know every topic that occurs on MV.com...

Oh Felix!
Oh Oscar!

You're making the rash and rather foolish assumption that you would be able to catch up with us after we smoked you off the line.

I just got to get one of those, but i'm not going to pay shipping from the west coast anymore. Gotta find one some where down south. Sigh.

sold already

You should also look out for the Gilera Runner 180SP - same engine, same weight but not quite as pretty. I used to have one and raced absolutely anything in the city limits - other scooters, 600cc sports bikes, it didn't matter. If you couldn't out drag them at the lights then I could certainly fit through smaller holes in the traffic. It did play hell with my riding style - you could only drive these things like an idiot.

Is this a modified scoot, or do they come out of the factory like this??

And what's with the shock sitting horizontal in the middle of the footboard????

Not particularly modified. That's the design.... weird huh?



And this is a Gilera Runner SP180 with the same engine

Besides the gilera what other scooters go that fast?

It's not the top speed (many modern scooters above 200cc will do the same) but the way it gets there. I'd imagine the T-Max and Honda SH300 are close on acceleration while the Gilera GP800 may be quicker. Italjet were rumoured to be producing a modern 4 stroke version of the dragster but I doubt that will ever happen now - shame as you'd just need to keep the same general look then use the 300cc engine off the SH300 then either add a turbo or a supercharger just to ensure the same feeling of wildness and you'd have a winner.

The dragster 4T was just going to use the QUASAR250 which would have been terribly disappointing to people who wanted a wild an crazy dragster.