I just agreed to a deal with my neighbour to become a co-owner of his Piaggio Vespa 200cc scoot. Actually, with the arrival of his wife and kid, he barely has time for it. They’re off on five weeks travel and it’s mine, ali mine, to fix and enjoy.
He’s leaving HK soon, and then I have a 100% stake,
Not bad, eh?
How best to treat a real Vespa? No extra mirrors or Union Jack helmet advice accepted.
HG
HG wrote: [quote]How best to treat a real Vespa? [/quote]
Treat it like you would your woman.
Ride it at least once a week to keep it from seizing up.
Remember to use lots of lubracunt.
Leave it at home when you go out boozing with the lads.
You lucky bastard!
That’s a sweet sweet looking one too.
All the trendbuckets are buying those things up here, restoring them and selling them for big bucks.
I’ve often wondered what it would cost to completely restore an old rusted Vespa.
There are lots of them around.
Anyone know, offhand?
I can’t see the photo, but I love those things! When I baught my first scooter in Taiwan, I asked if I could buy my husband’s grandfather’s old one, but they thought I’d lost my mind!
Now you should start popping blue pills, listening to the early Who, and fighting Rockers on Brighton Rock!
Treat it like you would your woman.
Ride it at least once a week to keep it from seizing up.
Remember to use lots of lubracunt.
Leave it at home when you go out boozing with the lads.[/quote]
All fine points, - I’m calling it the san da jilu, yi xiang zhuyi*. The women in my life have always tended to self-lubricate, I must remember to add some two stroke mix to my new little darling, she is after all in essence a post-op Italian lady boy, and thus lacking some natural functions.
How is it possible that a damned cad such as I always manages to land on his feet in matters of ladydom? I don’t understand, but I do appreciate it
HG
[quote=“Huang Guang Chen”]I just agreed to a deal with my neighbour to become a co-owner of his Piaggio Vespa 200cc scoot. Actually, with the arrival of his wife and kid, he barely has time for it. They’re off on five weeks travel and it’s mine, ali mine, to fix and enjoy.
He’s leaving HK soon, and then I have a 100% stake,
Not bad, eh?
How best to treat a real Vespa? No extra mirrors or Union Jack helmet advice accepted.
HG[/quote]
First-off repaint the “Puerto Rican Pimp Blue” a solid color. Only Miltownkid could pull off that color.
Windscreen to prevent wind from going into your upturned nose and blowing you of the scoot or exstinguishing your joint.
ps. Remember HGC your a “Mocker” —Mod+Rocker=Mocker
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[quote=“Bubba 2 Guns”]ps. Remember HGC your a “Mocker” —Mod+Rocker=Mocker
That certainly looks like me on the left of that snap, in an earlier day, of course.
HG
[quote=“Huang Guang Chen”]How best to treat a real Vespa? No extra mirrors or Union Jack helmet advice accepted.
[/quote] Are you sure that is a 200. That looks like a PX 125 or PX 150. Did they make those as 200CC? From the looks at that picture. He has already pimped that ride to the max. He changed a lot, especially the fenders. that is a load of custom work on that bike in terms of accessories. Anyway, it is not an antique, it just looks like one, put as many mirrors and union jacks as you want on it.
No, no, no! Apologies! That’s not my scooter, but it looks like it.
I’ll provide the model details later - that’s how madly busy I am these days, by the way!
Sorry for the confusion! 
HG
mate, you really need to ‘pimp your ride’ a bit more than that.
expansion chamber exhaust, weber down draught carby (30mm should do it), Wiseco lightened pistons with high compression and squish band, twin plugs with Bosch HiTen coils, total loss electronics, lightened and balanced crank, bored out 5mm, ported and flowed, uprated fuel pump, massive pressurised airbox, etc etc.
then you can start on the cosmetics: 22 inch rims with twelve spoke wheels, chroem the entire bike, including the frame and panels, add every gauge you can think of including air pressure, oil pressure and temp, mirrors coming out of everywhere, streamers, a huge roundel target thingie, flags of the monkees, etc etc, maybe a camp roll hung on the front, a spare wheel or three, and laser spinning hubs that keep spinning when the bike is stopped…
or just polish it and ride it well every day…
PS make sure its not celeste blue (like the pic you have) but RED. must be red, or maybe that pale baby vomit yellow. cool vespa colours.
Geez! 
I don’t know if I’m even going to get the time to ride the damned thing!
HG
obviously the 22 inch rims are a bit of a giveaway that that whole idea is a bit OTT.
nice bike, BTW. about the only scooter worth having, most collectors would say. what year is it? always good to see someone riding an italian bike. especially if it is in pretty good original condition… and no flags, please. maybe whitewall tyres, though.
Oh shit! It really is only 3 years old. Looking at the licence papers it says it’s a VX200E Piaggio Vespa manufactured in Italy and first registered in Jan 2004. Bought brand new for HK$17,303.
HG
[quote=“Huang Guang Chen”]Oh shit! It really is only 3 years old. Looking at the licence papers it says it’s a VX200E Piaggio Vespa manufactured in Italy and first registered in Jan 2004. Bought brand new for HK$17,303.
HG[/quote]So what? Still a nice machine, and still has some cred with the scooter boys, if the “trad” scooter magazine my sister sent me is anything to go by.
I wouldn’t do much more souping-up on that, if I were you. Looks nice as it is. Not all the modification jobs end up with mirrors and lights sprouting all over the place. There are some very tasteful and even understated ones too.
Just to clarify, and sorry Joesax for screaming this all over your threads, that wasn’t the actual bike in that pic, it just was the closest looking one I could google image.
I don’t plan on doing anything but keeping it running sweet, at this point.
Thing is in HK, or rather where I live - south Lantau - you need permits to get to town. Alternatively you can throw it on a slow ferry for NT$80 and ship it to HK Central.
I know it would be an absolute nightmare to pull this off, but I will do my damndest to get it registered so I can ride it into China on the weekends.
HG
[quote=“Huang Guang Chen”]Just to clarify, and sorry Joesax for screaming this all over your threads, that wasn’t the actual bike in that pic, it just was the closest looking one I could google image.[/quote]Sorry HGC. My mind was on other things and I hadn’t read the thread properly.
Nice machines, those. My dad was thinking of getting one but the price put him off. Sounds like you should be able to get a good price on that one, though.
i rode my buddys 200cc vespa back in the day at shihmen dam and if you go fast enough? the bikes front wheels lift up because of the airflow under it !!! 
:) pretty fun
I was playing around racing my friend. My friend has a new Yamaha 250 and I have my Vespa 125cc ET8 (named ET4 in Italy and elsewhere). From what I could tell, he could jut keep up with me, but not pass and I think I almost pulled away. We can do a real race the next time he comes over. I look at it in terms of engineering. Many small engine Porsche and Ferrari’s can beat almost every big engine US muscle car with much larger displacements. My Vespa 125cc ET8 is a very quick for little scooter. Its not a Ducati but I believe it is faster than all other 125/150 CC Taiwanese Japanese scooters and mabe faster than 200/250 cc ones too? Mine is the Made in Italy real deal, not the made in Taiwan version of the Vespa ET4. That is only the 1998 model year sold inside Taiwan. There is a few ways to tell if it is a real '98 year too. Some of the Taiwan kids, make some changes to the outside to make it look like a '98 in the same way they change the outside of their Mercedes to look like AMGs.