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I think the hing and the seat was the selling point. 

 

So i put it out there if anyone was interested in the fr and my tattooest came over, viewed it, rode it and brought it. 

 

So onto the next challenge. I had been looking at vespas for a while knowingly they are semi easy to mod and parts are rather easy to obtain. Saw a 125 pop up so thought id list the fr and it sold. Also thought i better look else where to see if there where any other deals or better options. 

 

Lack of vespa knowledge i hit up @Poo cause he was the guy with more knowledge and easy to talk to regarding. Sent him the link of the 1st said sweet good. And sent him photos of the 2nd one. Which his response was "bingo thats the one" sweet so its a 1960s 150 super? Poo says its a bigger body which means the 225s fit in easy? 

 

Supposedly it has a 200px already in it. And went well but broke the fuel leaver the other day so couldn't test ride. He kicked it over and almost ran on the gas in the carb. Which i feel great. Anyway on the ute and away laughing. 

 

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I'll get some better photos tomorrow/today. 

 

So much excitement going on. 

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Man this thing goes well. 

 

Cleaned the spark plug and put some gass in it. 

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Temporary petrol tank... 

 

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The best ever. Thanks to @Poo pointing me in the correct direction.

 

Also need a fuel tap. 

 

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This bugger is broken. 

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Fuck yeah. Made it home. 

 

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Need to fiddle with the headlight. Rather glad its a full moon and a clear night as i needed all the help i could get with the lighting situation. 

Goes so good. 

 

Would be ideal to get a bit more speed out of it. 

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15 minutes ago, 64vauxhall said:

Would be ideal to get a bit more speed out of it. 

Awesome! Nice work man. How long is your commute home, and how fast do you reckon it was going?

Cool bikes man. So many wicked things can be done to them. Have you got any ideas on how you want it looking for Eastcape?

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@MopedNZ speed must be around 90kms I'd be picking. The speedo says 70mph but I'll be hard pressed to believe that when I had a car pass me slowly tonight.

 

Ride home is 22kms Ish. Takes like 25 mins in the car. 30mins on the scoot.

 

Will try strap the my phone to it In the morning see what my phone says. 

 

Will talk to the guys at work see what we can do. 

 

Cousin just messaged me about doing the coromandel loop we used to do when I rode my gsxr600 and my r6. 

 

He has a cbr1000 so a little extra speed would be nice to keep up haha. 

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Yea pretty much. @Poo told me not to do skids on it.

I said I appreciate the heads up. 

He then come back with "If you must do a skid dont change gear while skidding. 1st, skid, close throttle and let it come back to idle, 2nd, skid, etc." 

 

Looks like I'll be doing skids. 

Need to sort out a right hand side mirror and a cover for the battery box. 

 

Still trying to get the hang of the changing gears part. Seem to miss 2nd and go to 3rd quite easy 

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That's a good one. 

 

Still dim on the open road at night. Living a bit out of town she's pretty dark.

Would like to go to a led headlight. Maybe something like this. 

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Before I go to something like this 

 

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Need to find some mirrors also. And man takes a good 6 litres of gas as well. Big tank. 

 

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Was thinking just end of the bar mirrors. 

 

Will try visit retro scooter in Auckland I think it was. 

 

Have a look at there mirrors they have for sale. 

 

Who's done led light bulbs before? Need to have a look see what kinda light bulb it is see if I can get a just plug in like so. 

 

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Or like this ordeal. 

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No wofs around here m8 she's a moped..... 

 

Full sealed unit would be rad. Don't know how well it will look on the front of a vespa but will just wait and see i guess. Will price one up through a mate see what he recons be the go. 

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Run LED Bulbs in the Hilux and they are all good, got a wof on Wednesday with them and he was happy said the beam was nice n sharp, mine is an H4 if you want you can borrow it for a test? They are just Aliexpress specials with "Philips" LED in them.

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