Post by modernist on Dec 3, 2017 22:56:46 GMT
hello all! hope i didnt miss the introduction page? sorry if i did. feels good already to be a part of this forum thanks for having me. im 37 years old from north london, my brother was a mod in the 80s he had a white px 200 crash bars mirrors the lot! he showed me the film quadrophenia at a very young age also all the mod music you can think of, in particular the who and the specials which made a huge impression on me! i could list a hundred bands but you probably already know them all. my first scoot scoot no1 was a px 200 at the age of 14 haha i was too young to ride it but my old man r.i.p was such a young dad at age 18 that he was a child as much as i was and a bloody good bloke! he would let me burn it around car parks and up and down the street and so would he. sold that scoot at some point for one reason or another? enter scoot no2 lambretta serveta li 125 im age 16 and its in my mums garden and i burn this around now and again, wish i kept this one, it was a looker, white with chrome side panels but it was a bit of a rust bucket really. we ended up literally riding it up my mums stairs to get it in my bedroom so i could have it as an ornament haha poor mum went nuts! (sorry for the life story b.t.w) enter scoot no3 my beloved vepsa 152l2 now this could get long sorry about that. i know its not a mod scooter, i know its not the most desirable, i sure know its not the fastest! but its sentimental value, its just priceless to me. im 18 im working so i have a bit of my own money, me and my old man drove past a pub in crouch end and i said wow out loud cause i saw it in all its d.i.y paint job and rusted holed floorboard absolute glory!!! (i saw a silver sportique in one of my brothers 80s scootering magazines and there was just something about the big frame vespas i loved, always have always will) i know the 152l2 is not a sportique but it was close enough and after all its become more about the bikes than anything else, its more about the shape to me and the 152l2 is a bulbous beauty! anyway we bought this scoot off the guy for 600 quid right there and then and he drove it behind us in the car home. i rode this around for many years until i got it fully nut and bolt restored about 7 years ago after my old man past away at age 49 sort of in honor of him, every single nut and bloody bolt restored! wasnt cheap at all, it nearly ruined me! and may i add this scoot is 100% apart from the new paint job original! even down to the douglas bristol badge on the horn casing and the douglas badge on the seat! (these are like gold dust) engine all original speedo everything is there! i didnt ride it after the restore cause i had a car by this point needed that for work e.t.c so it sat in my mums back living room inside safe from the elements, thats where it has sat to this day. i moved to sweden about 2 years ago with my beautiful life saver of a swedish mod girlfriend and left my scoot in london, which finally brings me to the point and brings me here! ill start a new topic for this but for god sake! the tires went flat a long time ago and its been on its stand so the stand has bent up the floorboards a little bit but enough to ruin the perfect restore! why god!? bloody one bolt stands! i want to bend the floor back out and color match the paint without having to do the whole bike again! thats why im here. help! thanks to all for reading i could go on but i will save your eyeballs. gawd bless you all! im happy to be a part of this forum. wayne
