Scooterists' opinions required - head or heart?
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[QUOTE 4763172, member: 45"]I think the grey colour is too modern.
You're right, the cream is beige. It's like the coffee colour you get modern Fiat 500s in. It's nice.
The white looks great with extra chrome on, but the burgundy one is the touring model and comes with front and rear racks and the screen. It's a bit more than the others, but cheaper than buying the racks and screen separately.
I like the screen.[/QUOTE]
Real cream would look great, I know the beige colour you mean on the Fiat 500 and don't like it at all. Can't you have the screen/racks put on any of them? I think the front one ruins the looks but it looks quickly removable so is a very useful thing to have. I've not seen the burgundy one on the road, the pic makes it look drab to me, sorry. The green is growing on me but I really like the white ones, its shows off the lines great, I always stop & look at those.
BTW all Vespas were grey originally.
Please get some pics up when you get it home, I am so excited.
This would look nice on it.
You're right, the cream is beige. It's like the coffee colour you get modern Fiat 500s in. It's nice.
The white looks great with extra chrome on, but the burgundy one is the touring model and comes with front and rear racks and the screen. It's a bit more than the others, but cheaper than buying the racks and screen separately.
I like the screen.[/QUOTE]
Real cream would look great, I know the beige colour you mean on the Fiat 500 and don't like it at all. Can't you have the screen/racks put on any of them? I think the front one ruins the looks but it looks quickly removable so is a very useful thing to have. I've not seen the burgundy one on the road, the pic makes it look drab to me, sorry. The green is growing on me but I really like the white ones, its shows off the lines great, I always stop & look at those.
BTW all Vespas were grey originally.
Please get some pics up when you get it home, I am so excited.
This would look nice on it.
wheresthetorch
Dreaming of Celeste
- Location
- West Sussex
When I said I liked the one in cream, I meant the third one down in the picture. If my cream looked like the second one down, I'd pour it down the sink.
jonny jeez
Legendary Member
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- Chislehurst, Kent, UK
I ride a125 vespa gt. It tops out at 60mph. Around town (30miles a day) if I ride every day I fill it up about twice a month, so £18 a month.
I've ridden the 300 and didn't find it any faster around town at all. But it was more stable at higher speeds and road well on the motorway. I didn't get to test its fuel economy.
A pal had a Honda and loved it too, I felt the vespa was a bit better. Looking, felt like it had more storage ...marginally and felt a lot bigger (as a gt model).
It costs around £150 a year in servicing and mot. Insurance is super low (tens of pounds for me).
My money would be the Vespa.
Plus with a vespa, you can buy a momo helmet and look the part.
My question would be do you need the 300.
I've ridden the 300 and didn't find it any faster around town at all. But it was more stable at higher speeds and road well on the motorway. I didn't get to test its fuel economy.
A pal had a Honda and loved it too, I felt the vespa was a bit better. Looking, felt like it had more storage ...marginally and felt a lot bigger (as a gt model).
It costs around £150 a year in servicing and mot. Insurance is super low (tens of pounds for me).
My money would be the Vespa.
Plus with a vespa, you can buy a momo helmet and look the part.
My question would be do you need the 300.
A trip to Birmingham for Paul won't turn into a chore on a 300cc, a chore where you have to avoid many roads as 60mph just won't keep up with the other traffic, I know I have this problem with the Van Van out of the city. I am considering getting a 250cc but it might well be the 125cc as city traffic clogged roads are all I commute through.
Yes, helmets are important on the Vespa!
I am using a open face Caberg at the moment with inbuilt "Top Gun" shades, similar to this.
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jonny jeez
Legendary Member
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yep, its a fair point. Not sure how often that trip will be though.A trip to Birmingham for Paul won't turn into a chore on a 300cc, a chore where you have to avoid many roads as 60mph just won't keep up with the other traffic, I know I have this problem with the Van Van out of the city. I am considering getting a 250cc but it might well be the 125cc as city traffic clogged roads are all I commute through.
Yes, helmets are important on the Vespa!
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As a side note, I'm constantly bemused by motorcycle fuel economy. My wife's 7 seater MPV runs at an average of 40 MPG. 66MPG on motorways! Its a 2.0 litre engine, with a roll cage, AC, 7 seats, roof, windows, four wheels, Radio, and acres of heavy plastic.
My old triumph Sprint delivered 37MPG at BEST!. Its a 1050 cc engine, with two wheels a clock, small seat and a set of bars.
How?
apparently today, we should all be delighted that the Honda NC range delivers over 60MPG, or that the new Triumph Street Twin has fuel economy "sorted" with over 50 MPG.
surely a 650 engine with that small a load should deliver way over 100 MPG...like 200 MPG
GRRR
Levo-Lon
Guru
The triumph was probably having it's neck wrung @jonny jeez ..and big bikes do spin at very high rpm..
I never worried about mpg on bikes..my SP2 was a greedy sod.
Imagine running a old H2 750 2 stroke nowdays...kin el
I never worried about mpg on bikes..my SP2 was a greedy sod.
Imagine running a old H2 750 2 stroke nowdays...kin el
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GrumpyGregry
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Red. It will feel at least 5hp more powerful.
Yes, my favourite bike, a Honda Dominator 650cc single used to do about 35mpg! It was always on my mind as the tank range was so short yet the Royal Enfield dealer in Shipley tells me they expect 70+mpg out of their big singles. The Van Van does about 110mpg and my monthly commuting costs (5 days x 12 miles) are about £12. But now the Vespa GL only comes out on sunny days, I just miss riding a Vespa, even on the commute.
They used to do a lovely bright block red GTS.
They used to do a lovely bright block red GTS.
Dec66
A gentlemanly pootler, these days
- Location
- West Wickham
Vespa. No contest.
keithmac
Guru
The 300's do around 90mph flat out, better proposition for dual carriageway and motorway riding really.
I would agree round town there is nothing really in it but doind long distances the 300 would be far better.
Over 40mph the 300 gets up to speed quicker, handy when merging onto 60/70 mph roads. Plus it's nice to have some power in reserve.
jonny jeez
Legendary Member
- Location
- Chislehurst, Kent, UK
really wasn't. it went from Chislehurst to Hammersmith...not many opportunities on that commute for more than 40MPH. Higher revs sure but why?
