One For The Scooter Boys

[jasper65 6]

Just been browsing Ebay and came across this! Boy do they look good and the guy looks like he has made a decent job of them, Brings back a few memories when I had a Vespa PX 150 , Some fanny Magnet this was when I was 17 plus , a couple of Mates rode Lambretta LI's which did have a bit more grunt than mine and looked superb.

 

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...&Category=36094

[Guest JOEB]

Cracking

[Stabs 3]

I always fancied an ochre one....saw one for sale at Yarmouth 91 for £2,000 but that was an Innocenti one and not an Indian.

[barraboy 28]

very nice...i had a vespa rally 200 in my youth, lovely lime green. ah the glory days of the early 80s...oh ive come over all whimsical.....lol

[Stabs 3]

I sold my Rally 200 a few years back when I hard up....wish I still had it. It was done as an Eddie Grimstead Hurricane - maroon over white (I know he never did Rally's . Took me years doing that one up. Lovely bike it was too....plenty of grunt

[Guest sushie]

I used to have a vespa 50s,wish i never got rid!

[barraboy 28]

http://www.racinglambrettas.com/howthetdidit/hurricane.html

 

aye they were nice scooters the rally, bit more grunt than most vespas. lot of years since ive sat on a scooter though,,,but well done on the lads who stuck to them

[spade 224]

Brings back memories that does. I saw loads of scoots at the weekend, I don't really keep in touch with the scene now but I reckon there must of been a do at Skeggy at the weekend cos there were loads of scooters coming through Grantham on the A52

[Guest baldie]

Do you remember the rally, "mercury" stabs? my mate owns it now, he,s had it for years, its in its 5th incantation, its still watercooled and still goes like f**k, i think, if i remember right, it was dyno,d at 98 mph.The price of restored, and urestored lammy,s makes me weep, when i think of what i,ve given away, restored li,s are fetching 2 grand, and sx,s, 5 grand

[jasper65 6]

To be Honest I really fancy another one when I think of the fun I had, plus they still look the Bollox when you see a group of lads cruseing down the roads, the problem is I'm now 41 Going on 18 again and would probably look a bit of a pratt on one now , I'm obviousley Married now with Kids!! Boy its a real b*****d having to grow up and watch the years tick by .

[jonathan 0]

there no good you cant take the dog lol

[barraboy 28]

the problem is I'm now 41 Going on 18 again and would probably look a bit of a pratt on one now no.gif, I'm obviousley Married now with Kids!! Boy its a real b*****d having to grow up and watch the years tick by rolleyes.gif.

 

as im 42, i suffer from the same thoughts but your right, whats been has been ...an overweight, bald geezer on a midlife crisis scooter just aint going to cut it

[Guest baldie]

Aye, the old backflips, and splits take a bit of doing at the alnighters now, at 40 year owd......... i feckin wish, couldnt do em at 18 but it didnt hurt as much trying then

[jasper65 6]

Aye, the old backflips, and splits take a bit of doing at the alnighters now, at 40 year owd......... i feckin wish, couldnt do em at 18 but it didnt hurt as much trying then

 

 

 

Wow does that bring back some memories. double splits, snake rolls. could'nt manage a back flip but could manage a few spins before ending up on my arse , I cringe when I think of them fecking great baggy jeans I used to wear with souly badges down the sides and Ox blood Polyveldts, I remember there would be a bundle of scooters all parked outside the lights of the Hall which looked the business, Its was the days Baldie when you could leave a Disco or All dayer/Nighter and always have a different bird on the back :whistle:, Boy was these scooters Fanny Magnets in them days! most birds wanted a lad with a scooter .

 

I still have a box collection of my Souly records up the loft