SBF Classic Vespa's Cafe 2009 / 2010

[Sharpey]

Whisky.... never leave home without an emercency supply. Never fix anything on a vespa without alcohol....

 

ps. don't take this post seriously... drink riding is very very very bad.

 

Just that I'm a little merry at the moment

 

 

Good Tips guys.

[machine k]

i have blutack with me...always good to have something to fill holes with and to dampen vibration of certain stuff...

 

Rae should know my style.. hee

[itsonfire]

hey guys, just asking.. How much is a firsthand px 200 headlight? Mines an excel. Can it be changed to px's headlight? Btw any idea where to find second hands?

[Sharpey]

If you want to change to a px headlight, you'll need a new handle bar.... Buy both top and bottom and speedo and headlight.... You should be able to find second hand at Ah Joo's place in Ubi.... New I know that a halogen headlight is around 50, the headset top around 35... the metal bottom not sure...

[planescape]

great info for the essential items to bring.... though i sux totally at technical wiring / welding / screwing stuff. LOL

 

The only spares i got on my bike is spark plugs....

[Gweester]

you need to have more than spark plugs to keep your daily ride smooth...

if possible, you need those stuff that we mentioned just in case something crop up during your ride....you can save the towing fee and get it down on the spot...

For the tire change, clutch or gear cable, you can get the info online or thru looking at the mechanic when changing to pick up the skill...try it out yourself!!

for classico, it's fun to fix up your scoots urself....though i am still learning on the internal stuff thingy...

 

my 0.002cents worth...

 

Ride safe scooterist...it is raining CATS & DOGS....sianz!

[rae07]

planescape>> as much as i list down the stuff above, no better from u... have only spark plug + remover and screwdriver. raincoat's a new addition these days...got wet almost everyday. *!"#

 

btw...how's outing gonna be? here's the list.

 

Classic Vespa Meet-up

Date: Early Jan

Venue: (undecided)

- Starbucks @ orchard parade hotel

- KTM (tanjong pagar railway station)

- Colbar (portsdown) >> cool place!!

- Sunset Bar & Grill (Seleter east camp) >>chief challenge chicken wings!! HOT!!

- Pizza place on Greenwood Ave (Bukit Timah)

- Holland V

- Arab Street

- SAMAR on the corner of Bhagdhad street >> Lovley coffee and even Shisha

- Fong Seng near NUS (nasi lemak place)

- Kallang KFC or West Coast Mac

- Little Bali

- "Mr Prata" near botanical garden & opposite NIE

 

Who's Going

1) rae07 - 9423 4461

2) machine k - 9183 9381

3) planescape

4) Sharpey

5) gweester - 98731112 (hopefully by then i got my scoots!!!)

6) reddy (tentative hehe)

7)

8)

9)

[Gweester]

rae07, i agree with the raincoat thingy...!@$%!@%....it is currently still raining....

 

As for the meetup, anyone any ideas on the time, place and date?

Is a weekday fine for you guys?

 

I am proposing the "Mr Prata" near botanical garden & opposite NIE....

[JbAtRaCeR]

Helow guys,i dunno whether i'm posting this at the correct forum since my vespa is not a classic model...

 

Anyone here riding a cosa II 150?..I have a problem.A few days back i send my bike for a front end spindle replacement and fuel connection carburator.

 

 

http://www.sip-scootershop.com/pages/detai...D=19989&index=0

 

After i got my bike,i found out that while cruising at 5.5krpm,my speed is at 60km/h only but before sending my bike,at 5.5krpm its at 80km/h...So cosa riders..whats ur speed at 5.5krpm?...

[un-sith]

able to gatecrash? =)

[Gweester]

un-sith, gate crash?? sure!! will let you know the details once it's firm....

 

JbAtRaCeR, at 5.5rpm....would love to help you but my scoots does not have rpm meter....

anyone on cosa who like to share?

[planescape]

Classic Vespa Meet-up

Date: Early Jan....

Venue: (undecided)

1) Colbar (portsdown) >> cool place!!

2) Sunset Bar & Grill (Seleter east camp) >>chief challenge chicken wings!! HOT!!

3) Pizza place on Greenwood Ave (Bukit Timah)

4) "Mr Prata" near botanical garden & opposite NIE

 

Who's Going

1) rae07 - 9423 4461

2) machine k - 9183 9381

3) planescape - 91053866

4) Sharpey

5) gweester - 98731112 (hopefully by then i got my scoots!!!)

6) reddy (tentative hehe)

7)

8)

9)

 

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Alright guys, i reduced the places to the following 4.... haha

I'm definitely more interested in the 1st 2 choices; Colbar & Sunset Bar n Grill.

Simply because its more unique n slightly out of the way.... i'm a sucker for new food places

 

Well, we can plan early or mid Jan. Hopefully all of us have a scoot by then?

I fine with nearly all days, as long as we planned in advance. Still i think a Fri evening would be the best for everyone probably? Let's start deciding on a date k!

 

Un-sith: of course can come... u were once a classic rider. hah

[planescape]

JBatRacer : unfortunately most of us scoots have no RPM meter so ur question is out of our league.... hopefully we have a COSA rider around that might be able to ans ur enquiry....!

 

Rae: I'm resigned to not going out much these days. Too wet too cold too messy. Think i be stickin to pubic transport

[Sharpey]

Good cull there planescape....

 

I reckon the Colbar might be a good mix of

1) quite central, nr buena vista mrt

2) Lots of parking space

3) good food

4) pretty cheap....

 

Food stops being served at 8pm though... might be a problem....

 

Other than that I'm with Gweester on Prata Cafe.

 

As far as the weather is concerned... whilst I dislike riding in the rain, I really can't stand taking the bus (with it being the bumpy illness infested squeeze fest that it is).....

 

So... It seems I'll be breaking the Pinasco kit in in nasty weather.... oh well, at least I won't be temted to go fast

[Gweester]

planescape, the meetup is in january....not this month...so hopefully the rain wont be falling as often as these 2 days in jan....

 

here it goes again....it is starting to rain AGAIN!!!!

on with the rain coat, rain shoes day in day out....sianz big time!

All classicos, ride safe yah....

 

Sharpey, so u installed the pinasco kit already?

how is ur research on the SCORPIAN exhaust???

yah...that reminds me to go surf and check it out....

[Sharpey]

It seems the scooter gods are happy this morning.... sunny skies

 

The scorpion exhaust.... well...l know that SIP sell them (and will be able to provide LTA required docs) but shipping is painfully expensive.... It's be interesting to find out if shipping two would make this more economical...

 

Anyhow, the pipe is on hold for me... have spent rather enough on scootering recently...

 

The shop that always advertises in Scootering magazine, Two Wheeled Eneneering (http://www.twescootershop.co.uk) charges 200 quid for both the 150 and 200 pipes and offers free shipping within the UK....

 

One good tip... remember to ask for any VAT (GST) charges to be removed when ordering... in Germany its 16%, in the UK 17.5% .... alot of money!

 

As far as the Pinasco is concerned, yep its on the scoot.

 

The night before last I had tried to install it myself.... turns out that the previous owner hadn't grinded it enough, which meant that the flywheell would scrape against it!!! This took me 4-6 hours beneath my condo sheltered from the rain to find out! At about 11pm I gave up.... Called the bikebulance yesterday morning and went to TA to get it installed. 1.5 hours later (after waiting a bit) it was on.... All for a total of $70 (including $25 tow fee)....not too bad I guess....

 

The amount of extra torque there now is large to the point of being scary... will let rip soon.... can't wait luckily these nicasil lined kits require hardly any break-in period (unlike stock iron kits which need 800km or so)

 

If you're putting a kit on people please make sure you change your jetting... JET RICH. Rich Kits Don't Seize.

 

Now there's a moto for the day fingers crossed that a 130main is enough!

[Gweester]

FINALLY the RAIN has STOPPED!!!

 

good stuff on the exhaust...for me...it is also on hold cos of my restoration work on my scoots...

 

need to get my hands or butt on my scoots before i decide on other stuff....

yeah...for the pinasco kit, you got it!! hardly any run-in period....

ENJOY Sharpey!!! woohoo!!

[apachezulu]

Classic Vespa Meet-up

Date: Early Jan....

Venue: (undecided)

1) Colbar (portsdown) >> cool place!!

2) Sunset Bar & Grill (Seleter east camp) >>chief challenge chicken wings!! HOT!!

3) Pizza place on Greenwood Ave (Bukit Timah)

4) "Mr Prata" near botanical garden & opposite NIE

 

Who's Going

1) rae07 - 9423 4461

2) machine k - 9183 9381

3) planescape - 91053866

4) Sharpey

5) gweester - 98731112 (hopefully by then i got my scoots!!!)

6) reddy (tentative hehe)

7) Apachezulu - 92763038 (Rainer)

8)

9)

 

I have a tendency to forget on the actual day..seldom bother which day of the month is today....heeee

 

If it's Colbar I can be there in 10 minutes from my workplace!

[Sharpey]

Cheers Dude!

[Gweester]

I am cool on colbar as well....but as Sharpey mentioned....last order is at 8pm....

[Gweester]

a VBB150 is for sale!! lovely bike....

Some PX/Sprint stuff are for sale too so if you are keen on some old stuff......

check out the stuff in the garage thread....

 

Have a good day scootermaniacs!!!

[reddy]

Originally posted by Sharpey@Dec 20 2006, 08:30 AM

It seems the scooter gods are happy this morning.... sunny skies

 

The scorpion exhaust.... well...l know that SIP sell them (and will be able to provide LTA required docs) but shipping is painfully expensive.... It's be interesting to find out if shipping two would make this more economical...

 

Anyhow, the pipe is on hold for me... have spent rather enough on scootering recently...

 

The shop that always advertises in Scootering magazine, Two Wheeled Eneneering (http://www.twescootershop.co.uk) charges 200 quid for both the 150 and 200 pipes and offers free shipping within the UK....

 

One good tip... remember to ask for any VAT (GST) charges to be removed when ordering... in Germany its 16%, in the UK 17.5% .... alot of money!

 

As far as the Pinasco is concerned, yep its on the scoot.

 

The night before last I had tried to install it myself.... turns out that the previous owner hadn't grinded it enough, which meant that the flywheell would scrape against it!!! This took me 4-6 hours beneath my condo sheltered from the rain to find out! At about 11pm I gave up.... Called the bikebulance yesterday morning and went to TA to get it installed. 1.5 hours later (after waiting a bit) it was on.... All for a total of $70 (including $25 tow fee)....not too bad I guess....

 

The amount of extra torque there now is large to the point of being scary... will let rip soon.... can't wait luckily these nicasil lined kits require hardly any break-in period (unlike stock iron kits which need 800km or so)

 

If you're putting a kit on people please make sure you change your jetting... JET RICH. Rich Kits Don't Seize.

 

Now there's a moto for the day fingers crossed that a 130main is enough!

130 jetting? woah that is huge... i can just fantasize about the torque :sweat:

[Gweester]

Hi Scooterist...

here is a pix of a cool exhaust for our vintage scoots...sprint150, px150...

 

http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p253/edgwee/scorpion_exhaust_sprint.jpg

[Sharpey]

Reddy.... its awesome glad I got it setup properly before installing! Now will soon reap the benefits.

 

Gweester is that a Scorpion 150 then? If so, I'm quite confident that LTA will approve... as long as you can give them the required documentation!

 

The prospect of a proper expansion chamber for our scoots just rocks!

[Gweester]

Sharpey, you are spot on....that is a scorpion 150 exhaust....

will try to find out more....especially on those documents that needs LTS approval....