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This is what you need to do
https://youtu.be/3Iz7ZMALaCY?t=55s ____________________ Current Bike: Honda CG125 ES4 // Honda CB600FS Hornet // Triumph Street Triple R |
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I think I'd prefer a Bounty on a Lambretta... or a Flake on a Speed-Fighter... no, no, Caramel.... on a Honda Oddesey! Lol!
If scooters had been meant to go fast... they'd have given them bigger wheels!
Continuing the Bumble-Bee philosophy of the Vespa, though, I do have a couple of acquaintances, who steadfastly refute the notion, and manage rather indiscreet lap-times round Mallory on the things.. but then, when I thought to mention them in the same breath, their names 'Mick' and 'Paddy'... kind of hint at the level of perversion normal for their 'race'!!!!
Paddy though loathes PX's with a passion; Something to do with thier nikasil chrome bores and fan-cooling; he recons they are the hardest to tune and the least reliable when tuned of any scooter engine he has had the displeasure of having on his dyno.
This then is the crux... to go faster you need more power and/or less drag.
Drag is mainly proportional to frontal area. Sticking a barn-door windscreen on the front of a scooter will not help reduce it. Adding a token fly-screen 'spoiler' wont do a lot for aerodynamics, which wont do much under about 60mph anyway, even if they work, and we are talking full tear-drop streamliners.
55mph on a scooter? Sounds good to me! I'd be rather scared to go even that fast on something with such diddy wheels and the stability of a blamange, with all the weight at the back and bog all suspension.
It's about as quick as Snowie's old Chinese Cruiserette thing, and TBH, if you want fast, its just not the place to start... live with it, and enjoy the ecconomy, or in the case of a Vespa the idea of 'Classic-Cool' and fantacies of Audry Hepburn on the back of it in Roman sunshine, whilst dodging British SMISDY's in the rain! ____________________ My Webby'Tef's-tQ, loads of stuff about my bikes, my Land-Rovers, and the stuff I do with them!
Current Bikes:'Honda VF1000F' ;'CB750F2N' ;'CB125TD ( 6 3 of em!)'; 'Montesa Cota 248'. Learner FAQ's:= 'U want to Ride a Motorbike! Where Do U start?' |
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tara1234 Borekit Bruiser
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Posted: 22:08 - 27 Sep 2018 Post subject: |
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If you want to go faster, why not sell the shit slow vespa and get something that's faster?
Plus, you'd then be faster than your mate on their 125 cruiser.
But getting your full license is the best solution. |
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stevo as b4 World Chat Champion
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If OP wants a scooter that goes quick and is scary as well as unstable, then he needs one that when you take off the side panels there's letters on both sides of the engine saying YPVS. |
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If you visit Italy or Spain, you'll find people on scooters with windscreens. They'll be wearing helmets with no visors, and they'll be inches away from the shield to compensate for the lack of wind protection for their eyes.
Try the same thing in Britain and you'll be fine until it rains, whereupon you'll have very little vision unless you're on a motorway or somewhere similar with enough wind blast to clear the droplets.
The right answer is pretty much the same for riding any upright naked bike: your neck muscles will adapt over time.
I've toured on my SH300 through Scotland, Wales and Ireland, and its top speed, where it bounces off the limiter, is almost exactly 130kph per GPS (about 90 mph on speedo, actually more like 80). I can guarantee you I feel more wind blast on my commute than you do going 55 on a Vespa.
A windshield is great for motorway travel. Everywhere else, and especially in wet weather, it's no good at all. ____________________ Bikes: S1000R, SH350; Exes: Vity 125, PS125, YBR125, ER6f, VFR800, Brutale 920, CB600F, SH300x4
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stevo as b4 wrote: | If OP wants a scooter that goes quick and is scary as well as unstable, then he needs one that when you take off the side panels there's letters on both sides of the engine saying YPVS. |
Daftly, that's rather how 'Mick' got into them... he used to race in the LC challenge; after one too many attempts to stay with the quick kids running rather naughty TZ350 barels and such, he took the scooter in PX for the blown up eLCie, in order to at least get his money's worth from the seasons club-dues....
TWO things about these 'ere skooteristi... first, they are delusional, to believe that something with wheel-barrow wheels more suited to carting bricks about a building site, has ANY business on a race track.... unless its filling the pot-holes after the truck racers!!!
Second, they are DELUSIONAL! And like the bumble bee, the damn things seem to work, because NO ONE has told the bumble bee! So they keep trying... and more often succeeding! Mind over matter and common sense! They run on pure optimism, I think!
Mick, actually beat his best eLCie lap-times with the scooter... probably because no one told him till after he'd done them! And, we suggested at the time, because he was too embarrassed to be seen on track on the thing, he didn't want to spend ANY more time out there than he had too!
His excuse, and probably more acute, was that he took the thing in PX, and didn't care if he crashed or burned, it was disposable tackle, that I guess, a bit like my old Seven-Fifty rose to the challenge with the pig-in-it, and refused to give up no matter how daft he was with it!
He did get a VFR400 with the intention of going Super-Sport 400 on it.... it ended up on the road, with him doing shoulder checks under his arm-pits, and muttering that it needed too much work to make it a competitive track bike, whilst his scooter could win races as was...
..... As long as Paddy and his Dyno-Developed iron barel Lambretta wasn't about! EVIL device... I go round just to hear him fire the thing up! If you cant see it in the shed, you'd think it was one of Frank-Sheene's Bultaco's.... awesome sound from an air-cooled, piston-ported to the borrocks two-smoke single, on an open spannie! It's like the John Lyden playing the Italian National anthem, on an electric violin through an amp plugged in by Lemi! ____________________ My Webby'Tef's-tQ, loads of stuff about my bikes, my Land-Rovers, and the stuff I do with them!
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I think you'll find our Tara is of the female persuasion
"Im a woman, 27 years old, no previous driving experience. I havn't bought a bike yet."
Please forgive these neanderthals and their foolish ways my dear
27 eh? close to my own age
Tell me , were you truly wafted here from paradise?
I sense you'd flourish in the hands of a more mature man willing to help you find err....positions of optimum satsfaction
I'm at your beck and call
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not sure whats wrong with your et4 but mine would hit 65 real speed and 70 on the clock
a short screen will help but not one that you look through as as said when it rains you cant see anything
https://i.imgur.com/r3g2NsX.jpg
this was mine on my old one ____________________ gilera runner vxr200 (chavped)
if its spelt wrong its my fat fingers and daft auto correct on my tablet |
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 5 years, 250 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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