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Going electronic on a 1954 Vespa

As I was waiting for several parts of my Scott to be finished and delivered I decided to take a break and use the time to get one of my Vespa scooters on the road again. Subject is my 1954 Vespa rodmodel that is fitted with a GS150 engine. I have used this scoot very [...]

5th anniversary Maskes Vespa klassiekers

Today I visited the 5t anniversary of Maskes Vespa klassiekers in Rijen. Five years ago Peter Maas started his own business in restoring Vespa scooters. Since then he has been doing well and his business has flourished. I took the Vespa rodmodel after I had worked on it the whole morning. Amongst others I changed [...]

No VMC SterRit for me…

At this moment I am quite pissed. I had really been living towards this weekend as I would have liked to do some serious riding. But after some very stressful hours this morning in the workshop, working on two scooters simultaneously, I finally decided to call it off. I was under a lot of stress [...]

VMC SterRit 2011… 1.200 km on a Vespa

This weekend I hope to do my first classic riding of this season. I will participate in the VMC SterRit 2011. I had hoped to use this little trip to ride in my Squirrel. But as the most vital parts of this bike still are at the other side of the Channel this is not [...]

Vespa parts wear out too…

Today I could not do very much on the Scott. And with a long three day rally coming up next weekend I decided to have a final go at trying to get some machine ready for this event. So I had a go at one of my Vespa scooters. This bike, a 1954 Vespa rodmodel [...]