Gorgie greatness Posted March 25, 2023 Share Posted March 25, 2023 It’s getting near that time for the two wheels to get oot the garage. Does P&B have one already ? Would have thought so! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D Angelo Barksdale Posted March 25, 2023 Share Posted March 25, 2023 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richey Edwards Posted March 25, 2023 Share Posted March 25, 2023 My dad had some sort of midlife crisis and purchased a motorcycle. It has been in his garage for about ten years now. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trackdaybob Posted March 25, 2023 Share Posted March 25, 2023 This may be a thread for me It's no a mid life crisis, I've been riding (steady now ) since I was 10. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tight minge Posted March 25, 2023 Share Posted March 25, 2023 (edited) Have a Vespa LXV150 currently in storage in Indonesia, but due to flooding is ruined. Was one of the Vietnam builds and was a great bike but always had a few issues with the engine. Too expensive to have a bike here just now but will invest in, probably a GTS 300 if/when I head back to Indonesia. Owned a Kawasaki in The Philippines and maybe not the nicest, but was a decent bike. Drove a SYM scooter when I lived in Vietnam, it done a job. Considering the year round weather out this way, driving bikes here is wonderful. Have driven one of the Indian Royal Enfield in India and it’s okay. Edited March 25, 2023 by Tight minge 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 25, 2023 Share Posted March 25, 2023 Do NOT buy a BMW G310R/GS. Just buy a lemon from your local greengrocer instead and save £4,500. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mathematics Posted March 25, 2023 Share Posted March 25, 2023 I’ve a Honda VFR750. Went to a garage for a service and MOT in 2019, haven’t been back to pick it up. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alert Mongoose Posted March 25, 2023 Share Posted March 25, 2023 Have one of these but only get out on it about 6 or 7 times a year. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TxRover Posted March 25, 2023 Share Posted March 25, 2023 Sold the customized Harley Davidson Super Glide back in 2000 due to the soon to be wife being unable to tolerate riding on it… …effectively in the middle of selling the wife (lawyers ain’t cheap) right now and looking at bikes again… …we’ll see, but a nice cruiser wouldn’t go amiss. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorgie greatness Posted March 25, 2023 Author Share Posted March 25, 2023 I’m a lambretta man looks like it’s a wee blast down the coast of East Lothian here! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tight minge Posted March 25, 2023 Share Posted March 25, 2023 6 hours ago, Gorgie greatness said: I’m a lambretta man looks like it’s a wee blast down the coast of East Lothian here! What would your opinion be of the new Lambretta? There are a few knocking about here and look okay, but no idea the quality of them. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorgie greatness Posted March 26, 2023 Author Share Posted March 26, 2023 9 hours ago, Tight John McVeigh is a tit said: What would your opinion be of the new Lambretta? There are a few knocking about here and look okay, but no idea the quality of them. My obsession is with the original lambretta. When the scamadi first came about they had a Vespa GTS engine in them so should be reliable to an extent. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tight minge Posted March 26, 2023 Share Posted March 26, 2023 1 hour ago, Gorgie greatness said: My obsession is with the original lambretta. When the scamadi first came about they had a Vespa GTS engine in them so should be reliable to an extent. I didn’t know that. It’s pretty much impossible to get an old Lambretta out here, but plenty of old Vespas. I hadn’t given Lambrettas a second thought for long enough, but recently a few of the Innocenti Lambrettas started popping up and the G and the V look quite nice. The X looks crap. There is a clear difference in the quality of the Italian and Vietnamese built Vespas. Out here is flooded with Japanese bikes which are decent enough machines but ugly as shit. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorgie greatness Posted March 26, 2023 Author Share Posted March 26, 2023 2 hours ago, Tight John McVeigh is a tit said: I didn’t know that. It’s pretty much impossible to get an old Lambretta out here, but plenty of old Vespas. I hadn’t given Lambrettas a second thought for long enough, but recently a few of the Innocenti Lambrettas started popping up and the G and the V look quite nice. The X looks crap. There is a clear difference in the quality of the Italian and Vietnamese built Vespas. Out here is flooded with Japanese bikes which are decent enough machines but ugly as shit. G&V do you mean GP & TV models? wheres “out here”? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tight minge Posted March 26, 2023 Share Posted March 26, 2023 6 hours ago, Gorgie greatness said: G&V do you mean GP & TV models? wheres “out here”? https://lambrettascooters.com/v-special-series/ https://lambrettascooters.com/g350/ I’m based in South East Asia. Motorbike/Scooter Central. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorgie greatness Posted March 27, 2023 Author Share Posted March 27, 2023 20 hours ago, Tight John McVeigh is a tit said: https://lambrettascooters.com/v-special-series/ https://lambrettascooters.com/g350/ I’m based in South East Asia. Motorbike/Scooter Central. Those are not innocenti lambrettas lad. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tight minge Posted March 27, 2023 Share Posted March 27, 2023 4 hours ago, Gorgie greatness said: Those are not innocenti lambrettas lad. That's the sorry state of the Lambretta name, technically they are Innocenti. They are part of the holding company and licenced out the name and of course gain profit from the sales. The whole thing is a mess, and for some like yourself, who is obsessed with the original, you’ll spit at these (and quite rightly). As I see the design is in Austria and the build is with SYM, so either manufactured in Taiwan or China. They are allegedly looking at some production in Italy, which would be purely to keep this tenious link to the originals. The licencing of the Lambretta name has been quite the embarrassing story. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mathematics Posted March 28, 2023 Share Posted March 28, 2023 This thread should be split in two so that motorcyclists don’t read about all these wee tampons you lot call scooters. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorgie greatness Posted March 28, 2023 Author Share Posted March 28, 2023 8 hours ago, mathematics said: This thread should be split in two so that motorcyclists don’t read about all these wee tampons you lot call scooters. In this day & age of CNC you’ll find the days of “hairdryers” are over! feel free to start the P&B cuntorcycle thread if you must 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mathematics Posted March 28, 2023 Share Posted March 28, 2023 1 hour ago, Gorgie greatness said: In this day & age of CNC you’ll find the days of “hairdryers” are over! That video sounds just like a hairdryer! I would, but with my bike being in storage for three years I’d have the brassest of brass necks. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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