Vespa Geek

So, the Scooter Cannonball Run kicks off today in San Francisco. The ride is from San Francisco to Ocean City, Maryland, all on scooters. Unfortunately, there are only 5 (now 4) vintage, shifter scooters involved, but hey - at least it’s a showing. I can’t imagine riding my VBB across the entire country. Amazing effort.
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So, in my last post, I mentioned that I was about to remove the flywheel for the purpose of replacing the condenser. Well, it’s turned out not so well. The circlip that is described in the Haynes manual as being on the shaft as a way to sort of self-extract the flywheel from the tapered [...]

So, I drove down to Motorsport this morning, intending to get a new condenser and points for the Vespa, and maybe a new carb. I’m at my wit’s end at this point, and I’m planning to just start replacing things in order of likelihood of being the root cause of the problem, cost, and ease [...]

Veeeery interesting. I remembered the other day when I adjusted the points gap and checked the timing that I replaced the spark plug on the VBB at the same time that I made the gap adjustment. The gap was off, by the way. I think it was well over .050mm, and should be (according to [...]

I was catching up on reading the International Scooterist BBS this morning and came across a thread requesting that people stop referring to their scooters as “she”. One response struck me as particularly funny, in which the author explains why he will continue defining his scooter as female.
“She’s curvy, kinda beat up, and smokes too [...]