Vespas and other scooters

I Love scooters man, I used to jam all around my hometown in HS on a little Honda Spree when my motorcycle was broke. Super Fun, matter of fact Im going to start saving for a scooter starting...........now!

I was just on the CoC blog and saw their scooter chop. cool looking bike, like Zero style.

Originally Posted by atomrotten

I cut my teeth on old Vespa and Lambrettas in the 80s and 90s. I had a knack for making them go fast and nothing was more exciting then chopping them up. I sill get the random one through BeerBreed for repair or rebuild for old friends that haven't figured out they arent 140lbs anymore and at 230lbs they look like a circus show riding the pile down the road.

I've been listening to AtomRotten talk about Vespas and Lambrettas for a dozen years now. So happy to see he finally has a place to share his knowledge on this subject with people who will appreciate it.

Hater lolz..... life's golden have the big bore generator shovel or my series3 li125 lambretta LOL. You never complain riding on back of the lambretta Ellis lol

just ordered new bearings, seal rings and gaskets to rebuild my PX 80 block with 139ccm cylinder.
gonna be fun when the sun comes out again and degrees start to rise.

Just got mine up and running again, 1959 Vespa GL 150.
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tomorrow we'll have a "seasons" opening run with usualy around 100 scooters from 50-210ccm. I'll try to shoot some pictures

my old Vespa Chop P200 with a Pinasco 213 and 18" extended Lambretta forks.

Oh and here is ashot of the wife's Ruckus. God they look cool but are slow as shit.

Rust in Pieces. Gone to Vespa Heaven..

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My Ruckus..

i use to have a 77 px150 till it got stolen that shit was fun

I've had a couple of p200's, a 64 v90, I think a 74 primavera, a 74 rally 200, a 64 tv175 with imola kit, mikuni tm28 and taffspeed pipe and a 70 dl125 with imola, phbh 28, clubman exhaust, gp200 primary gearing, vietnamese front disc conversion. That was my last scoot, it was a blast but I wanted more. Vespas don't cut it anymore and you start finding out which Indian replacement parts are the weak link when you start kitting lambrettas

I remember reading scootering magazine when i was in school,and there was a lambretta chopper called Exile,a year or so later there was Exile II,guy who built em,Russell Mitchell!!

Spent much of the early eighties through the early nineties riding Lambrettas and Vespas, and was a founding member of the Checkered Demons SC. Someone posted this pic of me on Facebook not too long ago. It's one of a pair of Lambretta SX 200s I owned back then. One of these days I'll need to scan the tons of pics I have lying around from all the rallies.



Still collecting dust in my garage are a pair of disassembled Lambrettas: a Series 2 150, and a Series 3 125 (seen on the top shelf).

I dig my scoot, but I think I'd be happier trading it for an old ironhead. Or better, a shovel

I do like scooters myself, a couple of years back i had a nice Lambretta series 2 LI 150,
I just wanted somethig differant at the time inbetween other bikes.
Scouser