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DougB
9th April 2009, 21:26
I was at a Ulysses club meeting in Hamilton, the 'sherriff' was doing his usual fineing for real or imagined misdemeanors when one incident caught my attention - a member was fined because an old model vespa powered past him while he was doing over 100km per hour. Someone has been doing some effective mods, great stuff.
vifferman
9th April 2009, 21:27
???

What's the big deal? I thought many of the Vespas (especially the 250s) were capable of a decent turn of speed.
Dave Lobster
9th April 2009, 21:40
Isn't 60km/h a decent speed for a coop??
CookMySock
9th April 2009, 21:50
A bloke down the road from us has a 2009 300cc four stroke vespa.

Steve
Ixion
9th April 2009, 21:56
A year or so back my evil cousin that looks just like me , but is not totally lawabiding like me, followed two Vespae down the Southern and considerably more than 100 kph. I'm told. I wasn't there of course.
McJim
9th April 2009, 21:58
A bloke in Pomgolia fitted a RD350 engine into a PX200 back in the early 90s.

That was f'n quick. North of 200kph I believe.
avgas
9th April 2009, 22:34
I've never seen a vespa wipe out faster than 100kph........
The Baron
10th April 2009, 08:18
Thats shamefull. He should have been fined for that.

I bet the Vespa rider loved it. LOL
speedpro
10th April 2009, 23:24
So long ago it is now VERY vague but pretty sure it was a Vic club winter series meeting and some guy turned up with a Kawasaki H2 engine in a scooter frame. Uugly in so many ways
shafty
11th April 2009, 07:05
So long ago it is now VERY vague but pretty sure it was a Vic club winter series meeting and some guy turned up with a Kawasaki H2 engine in a scooter frame. Uugly in so many ways

I have seen the same - infact have (somewhere) pics (remember the old printed out photo's?!!) of the H2 motor in the footwell of a Vespa, as well as one with a Honda 500/4 motor, - taken at the original Cold Kiwi site at Six Cross lol
MisterD
11th April 2009, 09:43
A bloke in Pomgolia fitted a RD350 engine into a PX200 back in the early 90s.

That was f'n quick. North of 200kph I believe.

Don't know how you'd do that in a coop frame - but the old YPVS in a Lammy is pretty common:

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There's plenty of old scoots around NZ that'll top well over 100, after all you only need to put a Sito pipe on a PX200 to get 110. There's a Lammy in Auckland that'll probably do 140+...and once I get Dave Lobster's chamber onto mine I'm hoping for close to 130..
Dave Lobster
11th April 2009, 16:03
This is my mate's Li350. The reg is real.

There's some clips of it on a dyno on youtube somewhere. I'll see if I can dig them out.
UberRhys
14th April 2009, 09:25
I've never seen a vespa wipe out faster than 100kph........

So if a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a noise? teehee... :wacko:


This is my mate's Li350. The reg is real.

There's some clips of it on a dyno on youtube somewhere. I'll see if I can dig them out.

Is this one of the true Yambrettas? :rockon:
Dave Lobster
14th April 2009, 18:19
Is this one of the true Yambrettas? :rockon:

In that it has a Yam engine in.. yeah.. it is.

But.. It's not a Rossa one. I'm pretty sure it was built by Rob Skipsey. The guy that's got it now bought it off him a few years back. I think it's on its third engine rebuild now.. :)
Still on a drum brake too!