Post by roxxo on Dec 26, 2006 21:26:19 GMT
Greetings everybody.
Hope you are enjoying the festivities and haven't broken everything that Santa brought you yesterday.
Don't have a Vespa yet. Got so many questions to ask once I find my way around the forum.
Right, this is a long one (ooer,missus)
Continuous motorbike owner for the last 33 years. Had 32 bikes but never a scooter but my sister did have a 10 year old LI150 in 1974. Currently have an R1. Had a Honda Blackbird for 7 years. My wife Carol and I have toured France, Germany, Czecho & Denmark. Done trackdays on my SP1 and accumulated 9 good boy stars in the last 3 years.
SO...Cut the sh*te and get on with it I hear you cry...
Well, getting totally fed up with doing 100+. For the past 4 years I have used a Honda XR250 during winter and I am getting to appreciate that you can have fun at slower speeds.
Really love the look of 50/60s Vespas. I have just finished reading Peter Moore's, Vroom with a view. Excellent.
www.petermoore.net/vroom/vroom.htm
Anyway, gonna swap one of my bikes for an old Vespa. Not one that needs doing up. I have had enough of cold, dark garages, skinned knuckles and oily fingerprints on cold cups of tea. I fancy one that's already been done. Seen a few websites that seem to have what I'm looking for. I have seen some of the warnings on this forum , thanks and it is well to bear in mind the phrase "caveat emptor".
Right that's enough waffle.
Looking forward to you guys answering some of my questions. Please forgive me in advance for the blindingly obvious and just plain dumb.
Hope you are enjoying the festivities and haven't broken everything that Santa brought you yesterday.
Don't have a Vespa yet. Got so many questions to ask once I find my way around the forum.
Right, this is a long one (ooer,missus)
Continuous motorbike owner for the last 33 years. Had 32 bikes but never a scooter but my sister did have a 10 year old LI150 in 1974. Currently have an R1. Had a Honda Blackbird for 7 years. My wife Carol and I have toured France, Germany, Czecho & Denmark. Done trackdays on my SP1 and accumulated 9 good boy stars in the last 3 years.
SO...Cut the sh*te and get on with it I hear you cry...
Well, getting totally fed up with doing 100+. For the past 4 years I have used a Honda XR250 during winter and I am getting to appreciate that you can have fun at slower speeds.
Really love the look of 50/60s Vespas. I have just finished reading Peter Moore's, Vroom with a view. Excellent.
www.petermoore.net/vroom/vroom.htm
Anyway, gonna swap one of my bikes for an old Vespa. Not one that needs doing up. I have had enough of cold, dark garages, skinned knuckles and oily fingerprints on cold cups of tea. I fancy one that's already been done. Seen a few websites that seem to have what I'm looking for. I have seen some of the warnings on this forum , thanks and it is well to bear in mind the phrase "caveat emptor".
Right that's enough waffle.
Looking forward to you guys answering some of my questions. Please forgive me in advance for the blindingly obvious and just plain dumb.
