Aero on a vespa??

[tara1234]

Hey so my scooter has no windshield and im sitting bolt upright when I ride it. Top speed atm is 55 mph.

Few questions

Would fitting a windshield improve my speed via aerodynamics.

Is there a way to get pegs bolted on a bit back so I can ride in a lower aero position? I looked up a full tuck position on a scooter where the rider has his feet to the side well behind the platform but it doesnt look safe at all.

Are they any techniques to ride aerodynamically in general on scooters?

My bike is a vespa et4 1999

[Nobby the Bastard]

[Riejufixing]

[tara1234]

[Nobby the Bastard]

[rpsmith79]

This is what you need to do

https://youtu.be/3Iz7ZMALaCY?t=55s
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[Teflon-Mike]

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!
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[tara1234]

I positioned my feet to the back of the platform amd slid back to the end of the seat where the pillion would sit if I had one and I kept up with my mates 125 cruiser.

[Ste]

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.

[stevo as b4]

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.

[barrkel]

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.
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[Ste]

[Teflon-Mike]

[pepperami]

[WD Forte]

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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[Riejufixing]

You're......... too sexy for your specs, too sexy for your nose, etc....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5mtclwloEQ

[Nobby the Bastard]

I did warn about the labia sail issue...
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[andyscooter]

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
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