Scooter rallies go soft!
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Vapin' Joe
Formerly known as Smokin Joe
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Scooter boys were always soft.
Rockers rule!!!
Rockers rule!!!
raleighnut
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Plus roadside breakdowns as riders realised the points needed adjusting every 50 miles which was why they had to check em every Saturday morning.
Electronic ignition kits spoiled all the fun.
Mind the carbs still drop off occasionally for that retro feeling.
Electronic ignition kits spoiled all the fun.
Mind the carbs still drop off occasionally for that retro feeling.
Exactly, I don't do rallies because everybody reminds me of me. Motorcycling is worse, if I pull up at a meet in the Dales, I am often the youngest there, at 52! Scooters will always have a market but I have no idea where UK motorbike sales are going to come from in 20 years.
Plus roadside breakdowns as riders realised the points needed adjusting every 50 miles which was why they had to check em every Saturday morning.
Electronic ignition kits spoiled all the fun.
Everybody told me I was stupid to restore with 6 volts and points but I wanted the 1962 Vespa to be like it left the factory, 3 years later and I haven't touched the points, it's a miracle!
welsh dragon
Thanks but no thanks. I think I'll pass.
Only a wuss rode a scooter. Real bikers were rockers like my brothers who had bits of BSA bantoms, and tiger cubs in the front room, and spray cans of paint, and oil leaked everywhere from the engines, and the bikes spent more time in bits than Intact.
Vapin' Joe
Formerly known as Smokin Joe
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You're right there, the expense and effort involved in getting a licence now is off putting for anyone wanting a bike. Like most I got into motorcycling because it was cheap and easy, buy a bike up to 250cc, stick a pair of L plates on and ride for as long as you liked before taking the test, a couple of trips round the block with the examiner watching. Insurance was peanuts too. I don't think I could be bothered today with CBTs and multi stage tests plus astonomical insurance premiums.
raleighnut
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raleighnut
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A Mod would never be seen in DMs, Italian loafers and silver Mohair (maybe a parka in the rain/cold)I can picture you now Maggers, DMS, DPM, topped off with a Parka.
Charge of the donkey wallopers.
Profpointy
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Although I've never owned a scooter, and have owned a motorbike, I was immensely impressed by the toughness of the scooter boys on a journey back from Scotland. It was sleeting, and we were in a car, and kept passing & repassing the scooterists at various points on the long drive south. Initially I thought they'd all be returning from Glencoe to Glasgow (say) but no, all the way south to below Birmigham, February, dressed in Parkas, sleet or rain all the way
