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Vespa & Lambretta gold rush atmosphere in Milan

Who doesn't know the stories of Vespa and Lambretta spare parts dealers who unfortunately went bankrupt at some point?
In their halls, NOS (New Old Stock) treasures are said to be piled up to the ceiling. And these parts are just waiting to be discovered by us! We thought.

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So we contacted our old friend Claudio and at short notice we managed to get access to one forgotten warehouse full of Vespa and Lambretta parts, outside of Milan, too.

 

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Tons of old scooter parts in Milan

When we entered the halls, we caught our breath! Tons of NOS parts piled up over 2 floors to the ceiling and were just waiting to be discovered by us.

 

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Vespa and Lambretta treasures

After our initial enthusiasm came disillusionment. How should we find the real Vespa and Lambretta treasures between all the APE and Piaggio Caio, SI and Bravo moped parts? Together with Claudio we studied old, dusty lists and tried the inventory management of the 60s - an index card system. And lo and behold, there they were, the old treasures of old new parts for Vespa and Lambretta.

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Looking for rare Vespa and Lambretta parts

The search with the "merchandise management" turned out to be a bit difficult. So we grabbed an old trolley and walked the aisles shelf by shelf. Compartment by compartment fought our way through layers of dust that were centimeter thick.

 

 

 

With oily hands and full of dust, but happy, we loaded our VW bus full of rare Vespa and Lambretta parts and made our way home.

This is the most beautiful Vespa in the world

With the most beautiful Vespa in the world on Lake Garda

What is meant is ours Scooter Center Demonstrator, Generation XI - a Vespa Primavera ET3, technical and thanks Arrow design from Austria also optically at the highest level. The Vespa has already won many awards at various international custom shows. Great work from our old friend Pfeili.

The most beautiful Vespa in the world - this statement also comes from Dean Orton - and if that's what a die-hard Lambrettista says, then it must be true. So we just take it and say thank you.

 

Mission two of our trip to Italy:

The guys and gals from Kerresinhios are lovingly designed for their Quartets known with classic scooters. Edition Eins is already a coveted collector's item.

For the new Kerresinhios As a scooter scene quartet, we want to find a great location here on Lake Garda with our demonstrator Vespa "Generation XI".

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Scooter Center and Lake Garda

Why on Lake Garda? Lake Garda is very important in the history of Scooter Centers, In addition, the Generation XI a very special one Scooter Center- scooter, the one with a lot of passion, Sweat, brainpower and love for technical and optical details was built.

It seems too unimaginative and simple to us, this custom Spring ET3 simply to push in front of our shop or the Cologne Cathedral and take photos there. We were also for one other mission just around the corner anyway, so the shoot, 1.000km from home, on Lago di Garda was just the right thing to do. You will soon see the result in the newest Kerresinhio Quartet.

Greetings from Lago di Garda :-)

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With the bgm Lambretta to Verona

Mission one this trip to Italy: Our bgm test bike is technically with the finest bgm PRO- and Casa Lambretta parts fitted. Technically a Lambretta at the highest level.

Design follows function

Dean Orton's opinion (Rimini Lambretta Center) to the look of the bgm demonstrator Lambretta kennst You already do She's the one according to Dean Orton ugliest Lambretta in the universe.

Lambretta test bike

The design wasn't superficial for Construction of this Lambretta. All bgm PRO parte were on our test bike before series production Heart and kidney tested. In addition, this bike was available for our customers at various meetings test drives to disposal. It goes without saying that an easy-care paintwork had to be found here. Aside from that:

Tuning quotes

  • Design follows function
  • Chrome won't bring you home
  • Rust is lighter than carbon

Dean, please MODify our Lambretta

Still, “ugliest Lambretta” - we didn't want to let that sit on us! But since Dean is not entirely wrong, we did not hesitate when he offered us to rebuild the Lambretta optically. The Rimini Lambretta Center is ours bgm dealer for Italy. Dean, a mod as it stands in the book, wants to build a bgm demonstrator for the Italian market anyway, if he then sits on it ...

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La Dolce Vita

So we drove the Lambretta DL to Verona today and parked it there with a friend. We were received very warmly and so the handover of one or the other glass took longer than planned. We love Italian hospitality.

Dean will later pick up the scooter and return it to the sacred halls of the RLC Rimini Lambretta Center rebuild. We keep you here in the Scooter Center Blog informed about the development of the new bgm PRO demonstrator Lambretta.

For the casual reader of our blogs: not that you think: What kind of shop is this ??! With the ugliest Lambretta... first of all we are in the process of changing that and secondly we are proud of them too nicest Vespa to have in the world ... Look here

Scooter Center Italy

With Vespa and Lambretta to the promised scooter land

We love Italy and are back in Bella Italia right now. Italy is of course the country of origin of Vespa and Lambretta.

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And how could it be otherwise: the way it is for you real Scooter shop should belong here, on Lake Garda in Italy, over 23 years ago history of Scooter Centers began.

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In Malcesine in the middle of wonderful olive groves, on the east bank of Lake Garda, Oliver Kluger had the very first scooter (a Vespa Rally TS 125) for the Scooter Center bought and later sold to "Mod-Volker" from Cologne. Volker drives this wonderful Vespa still today, he is our very first customer and of course has remained loyal to us to this day.

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Scooter Center - Spare parts accessories and tuning parts for scooters

Even if we focus more on that today Spare parts, accessories and tuning parts for scooters focus: even today we still have used Vespas on offer.

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Used Vespa

We just got a big shipment used Vespa scooter to get. We first have to get an overview.

Here we will keep you up to date. Info about used Vespas

 

This time two superlative missions take us to Italy:

  1. The ugliest Lambretta in the universe
  2. The most beautiful Vespa in the world

 

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Lambretta, Lambretta, Lambretta ...

This is the fourth and last part of our trip to Italy:

1. Rimini Lambretta Center 20th Anniversary Open Day / Rimini
2. Try Cromate Scooter Club Ride Out / Rimini
3. Polini factory tour / Bergamo
4. Casa Lambretta and Lambretta Museum visit / Milan

After the morning for the Vespa driver at Polini, there was the compensation program at Casa Lambretta in the afternoon.

Spare parts, accessories and tuning parts for all Lambretta scooters

 

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With Casa Lambretta we deliver all of them to you Lambretta restoration parts. The Casa Lambretta range extends from the parts for the very old Lambretta cardan models m (A) to F, to the Lambretta Smallframe Parts for the Junior and Lui models through to spare parts for the Li family. Next Spare parts “Made In Italy” offers Victor Tessera Auch Accessories and Tuning parts for all Lambretta scooters.

The whole Casa business is very fixated on Vittorio and he is the linchpin for all reproductions. In the recent past have become Dean Orton and that Rimini Lambretta Center offered as an external quality control for Casa. This is how the Casa products are made continuously improved. The latest example is that Toolbox lock for series 3that has got a new lock cylinder and now finally no longer attracts attention by rattling noises.

In addition to the need for restoration, Vittorio Tessera has quite a few Books on the Lambretta and written about scooters in general. With the book Innocenti The Definitive history does Vittorio have that Standard work on the Lambretta created. The book was later expanded to include the Restoration Guide. All the details on the restoration of the various Lambretta models are explained here:

  • Particularities,
  • Paint colors,
  • galvanic process
  • and what else there is to consider

Lambretta Museum

 

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As if that wasn't enough, there is also the museum. Milestones in the development of scooter history can be found here; these have been collected worldwide and, if necessary, also restored. The focus is clearly on the Lambretta and there is a lot to admire here, from the oldest Lambretta to the prototypes, which are also dealt with in Innocenti The Definitive History.

Lambretta Museum Museo Italy Milano Vittorio Tessera: world's oldest Lambretta 😯

Info, pictures, history and virtual tour: www.museoscooter.it/

 

Casa Lambretta store and warehouse

After a intensive and extensive guidance through the Roller Museum, it goes one floor down to the Casa Lambretta Shop and warehouse.

Here Vittorio shows us all the new ones Lambretta partsthat he has launched since our last visit or that are in the pipeline.

For example:

  • all spare parts for the SH carburettors including the mixing tubes,
  • all gear parts,
  • all springs for the headlights,
  • Gas and switching rollers in brass,
  • Series 2 switching tube

... are just some of the new Casa Lambretta parts that Vittorio will soon be supplying us with.

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Inside Polini Bergamo

Inside Polini

Part 3 of our trip to Italy takes place in Bergamo near Polini.

1. Rimini Lambretta Center 20th Anniversary Open Day / Rimini
2. Try Cromate Scooter Club Ride Out / Rimini
3. Polini factory tour / Bergamo
4. Casa Lambretta and Lambretta Museum visit / Milan

 

We still completely flashed from the Rimini weekend on the fourth day of our trip to Italy two more highlights on the program:

  • Visit to POLINI in Bergamo
  • Visit of the Lambretta Museum by Vittorio Tessera followed by a quick check of the new CASA LAMBRETTA parts

Scooter Center visits POLINI in Bergamo

Polini headquarters in Bergamo

Polini is known for Vespa tuning parts as well as scooter and motorcycle motorsport. The high-performance, high-quality tuning products are available from Scooter Center at a great price / performance ratio: POLINI scooter shop

The roots of the Family business lie in a small one Bicycle manufacture in Bologna. After World War II, Polini Battista originally built bicycles. During our visit we got to know his sons and grandchildren who run the company today very successful continue.

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A real Picture book family business. We meet at least three generations of the family who work in a wide variety of positions in the company. We were introduced to a different family member at almost every corner. You are working in the company as Engineers and designers, photographers, designers and managers.

Today only the plaque and a few old pictures at the entrance to the Polini headquarters remind of this origin. Today Polini has nothing to do with bicycles. Almost nothing, because Polini wouldn't be Polini if ​​she wasn't even one Would tune e-bikes...
A tuning kit for e-bike motors such as Bosch or Panasonic with a remarkable performance from 25 to 50 km / h has recently been available.
But now back to real motorsport.

Cup handover Customshow

We were really looking forward to the meeting because Polini is one of ours main suppliers and one of the oldest business partner. Polini supports us in ours Scooter Center custom show SCOOTERSHOW from the beginning. So it was high time, now for the 8th year, to finally be there, personally and with a current one Customshow Cup thank you for that.

Polini Cup Winner Custopmshow Sponsor

The family showed us the entire sacred halls, from development to laboratories with stress tests, several performance test benches, workshop, assembly halls to warehouse and logistics.
We were very impressed with the size and above all about the very open and warm, sympathetic nature with which we were received.

But you know us, the long way has to be worth it, that's how it came about the business Not too short:

In the future we will expand our Polini product range even more, for example:

Polini CP - carburetor

We have had them in our range for a long time: The Polini CP carburettors.

Polini CP carburetor carburetor

Word has already got around here that this very easy to tune carburetor on too Vespa Smallframe and Lambretta excellent The range of application is limited, however, as only the following sizes are available: 17,5 / 19/21/23/24 (Evolution).

Polini in-house development, MADE in ITALY. PWK - nozzles fit!

Polini brake pads

The brake pads are used in the Polini Cup races and other racing companies and the drivers are enthusiastic.
Polini brake pads suitable for your scooter you will get from yours soon Scooter Center Scooter shop

Polini brake brakes

Polini Modern Vespa exhaust

It's brand new Polini exhaust for the new Vespa models. VESPA GTS125 / GT200 / GTS250 / GTS and GTV300 4Str. SUPER GT.

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Great lookwhich has been specially adapted to the line of the Vespa body. The workmanship and the finish are great! And as you can hear in the video, there are also nen rich sound on this.

 

With and without throttle / homologation in short Scooter Center Modern Vespa shop .

Thank you POLINI

At this point, too, many thanks again to Roberta and the Polini family, we know that they check our blog from time to time :-)

 

Pictures POLINI

The photos from our visit to POLINI

Scooter Ccenter Italy 2 Lambretta Rally

Part 2 Test Cromate Scooter Club Ride Out / Rimini

1. Rimini Lambretta Center 20th Anniversary Open Day / Rimini
2. Try Cromate Scooter Club Ride Out / Rimini
3. Polini factory tour / Bergamo
4. Casa Lambretta and Lambretta Museum visit / Milan

Lambretta Rally

The local Lambretta Club Teste Cromate SC organized as a supporting program for Rimini Lambretta Center Open Day on Sunday a great ride through the rolling hills of Emilia Romagna.

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Complete video

Here is the video of the entire exit from the stopover at Europlastsucci GPS speed indicator, have fun:

 

Delicious stopover

After a few kilometers in one routinely organized corso with about fifty lambrettas, we reach the first stage destination: Europlastsucci. Long-standing customer and manufacturer of GRP frame parts and others Lambretta specialties.

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There is one here to strengthen yourself for the onward journey and as a mental preparation for the upcoming lunch Aperitif. After adjusting the idle gas with Prosecco and other fortifications in non-liquid form, we leave the city and it goes on a great route in and through the mountains.

Lambretta BSG Corse with 45 HP and 305 cc

Of course we already had the opportunity to ride a lot of extreme scooters. But what Philip was allowed to drive on the Corso the hammer:

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The BSG Corse Lambretta with a displacement of 305 cc and an output of over 50 hp. The most violent thing we've ever driven. CNC - engine block milled from one piece, 305 cc BSG Corse cylinder, Cyclone5 five-speed transmission and bgm PRO Superstrong clutch. This monster has over 50 hp. For the RLC Open Day, the demonstrator was unfortunately throttled from 51 HP to 45 HP via the ignition.

The first impression:

The beast hangs on the gas, with the blink of an eye you are beyond 100 km / h. The switching operations are thanks bgm PRO SUPERSTRONG clutch clean, simple and soft as butter, the gearbox with 5 gears is great. Endless power and pressure in every gear.
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Lambretta with a lot of steam

Im CNC motor runs a nice wide crankshaft with two huge bearings. But in spite of that 305 cc runs the engine thanks to the bgm silent blocks äextremely low vibration. The bgm PRO Lambretta chassis brings the power safely and confidently to the road. Despite the rather massive belly of the exhaust, there are no bumps or similar ground contact in the switchbacks in the mountains. the MMW brake ensures the appropriate delay.

The engine has an insane power. The frame reaches its limits due to the power that the engine makes available. Not entirely unexpected when you consider that this engine is the five times the power of the original engine has.

Many thanks to Dean Orton for this great experience with this scooter!
Thanks to the Try Cromate SC for this beautiful day!

 

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All pictures from the Lambretta Rally in Rimini:

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Scooter Center Italy Trip - Part 1 Rimini Lambretta Center

The Scooter Center-Team on tour of Italy: Oliver, Philipp and Heiko made their way to Italy at the weekend. The program was pretty full, the long way had to be worth it: over 3.000 km more have been on the clock since the weekend.

 

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The stations of the Italy tour:

  1. Rimini Lambretta Center 20th Anniversary Open Day / Rimini
  2. Try Cromate Scooter Club Ride Out / Rimini
  3. Polini factory tour / Bergamo
  4. Casa Lambretta and Lambretta Museum visit / Milan

Part 1

Rimini Lambretta Center
20th Anniversary Open Day / Rimini

In the footsteps of the Scooter Center History on Lake Garda

 

The video for the first stage

The first stage destination was Lake Garda. Here we visited old friends, enjoyed Italy and remembered the old stories with joy. Lake Garda plays an important role in the 23-year-old history of Scooter Centers .

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In Malcesine, Oliver Kluger had it back then very first scooter for the Scooter Center bought and transferred to Germany - it was one Vespa Rally TS 125. The Vespa was later refurbished and sold in Cologne. Volker bought it back then and still drives it today. He is our very first customer and of course still loyal to us today. While we are better known for our fast delivery of scooter spare, tuning and spare parts, we have a momentum at the moment used Vespa scooters on offer.

After a short night, it starts very early on Saturday to Rimini. The route sounds like music to your ears: “Verona, Mantova, Modena, Bologna, Imola, Rimini” and the closer we get to the goal, the greater the anticipation.

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The Rimini Lambretta Center and Dean Orton

The Rimini Lambretta Center has been a good customer for years and supplies us with the CYCLONE 5 speed Lambretta transmission, the Maxi Flusso Lambretta intake manifold and the new one Casa Lambretta Performance cylinders.

Rimini Lambretta Center

That this Lambretta 5 speed gearbox is more than just a scooter part for Dean, you can also tell by that CYCLONE 5 Tattoo on his forearm. We mainly supply Rimini with ours bgm products, which they also use for their restorations. The Lambretta restorations are also the main business of the team around Dean Orton. The RLC loves and lives Lambretta. Spectacular Lambretta scooters are created in the impressive workshop. So the anticipation and our expectations were great and we should not be disappointed ...

Rimini in Emilia Romagna

“Rimini: Adriatic Sea, center of bathing tourism - a bathing resort with a long tradition, sand, sun, beach, sea“. But there are more important things to us! And that is in the Zona Industriale: The 20th birthday and OpenDay of the Rimini Lambretta Center.
After a warm welcome from many old friends, it is time to set up the stand. Which is done very quickly because Philipp sent the goods for the stand to the wrong address ... :-) Fortunately, we were able to help ourselves from the RLC warehouse and equip the stand.

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Rimini Lambretta Center OpenDay

The area around the RLC quickly fills up with mostly Italian and English Lambrettisti. It was about 500 visitors on site with about 120 lambrettas and just a handful of Vespas.

Dean has to XNUMXth anniversary of the RLC quite turned up. When you enter the shop, you are first met by one Lambretta world record car Received: The fully disguised Lambretta that died on August 8th, 1951 200 km/h Broke mark over the flying kilometer. Romolo Ferri has the world record drove out on the closed autobahn between Ingolstadt and Munich. The mechanically charged one 125 cc engine should have around 21 hp have had.

A huge mobile pizzeria supplied the visitors with the finest specialties from the region, there was also plenty of vino, aqua, beer and a café.

Spectacular Lambretta test drive

The RLC had closed a circuit for public transport so that the scooters could be tested - once around the industrial park.

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In addition to the scooters built by the RLC, it is mainly scooters from the Casa Lambretta collection that can be driven here. The two are in the focus of those present Lambretta Innocenti two-cylinder prototypes. This has Victor Tessera have the RLC processed in the last few months. In the June issue of scootering the reconditioning down to the innards of the engine will be presented. We also tested the original Innocenti two-cylinder prototypes. And here you can only say: it's a shame that it didn't make it into series production.

Lambretta with 305cc and 50PS

305cc and over 50PS - the hardest we have ever ridden: the BSG CasaPerformance 305cc prototypes. CNC engine block with 305cc BSG cylinder, Cyclone5 five-speed gearbox and bgm PRO Superstrong clutch. This monster brings about 50 PS. For the test drives, the Lambretta was castrated to 45 hp via the programmable ignition. At the exit on Sunday we had the opportunity to test it extensively, the video of the exit follows in the second part. Watch this space!

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BSG Corse had scooters with impressive performance. Especially the Vespa Smallframes raced across the course at dizzying speeds. They were later joined by the legendary Signor Angelo Zirri and almost the entire Italian Smallframe Tuning scene was on site.

Unfortunately, since even the most beautiful events come to an end, at some point it will be dismantling!
Fortunately, there is still the joint dinner and the nighter with a great view over the mountains!

Nighter in the mountains of Emilia Romagna

 

The common meal and the allnighter took place in an osteria in the mountains. Fantastic location with a view of the lights of Rimini and San Marino in the distance.

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Lots of nice conversations, lots of Italian snacks and a few vinos later we fell into bed sometime in the early morning. The rest was only brief and the recovery little, because the next highlight was already a few hours. On the exit we had the opportunity to test the 305cc prototype, especially with regard to the built-in bgm parts.

All photos from the first stage of our trip to Italy:

Scooter Center at the eicma 2013

Scooter Center at Eicma 2013

Early in the morning, after a short night, we went to Milan by plane. EICMA 2013 - the world's largest motorcycle fair - took place here.
We were greeted by rays of sunshine and 20 degrees, which made us forget the nasty weather in Germany. We were very curious what news EICMA 2013 had in store for us,

This year there were 4 halls that were bursting at the seams. Everything of rank and name was gathered. But in order:

ITALKIT

The focus at Italkit was on Big Bore cylinders for four-stroke engines and also 140mm kits for Rotax Kart and Aprilia 125cc. For the scooter sector, 70s and 80s kits for the water-cooled Piaggio engines were shown, but they were not really technically revolutionary.

AKRAPOVIC

Akrapovic showed the new exhaust for the Piaggio MP3, which was 5kg lighter than the original and promised 1HP more at 7950 rpm and 1 NM more torque at 6500 rpm

BUZZETTI

Buzzetti showed new footrests and side stands for the LML Star 4-stroke models and side stands for the Vespa GTS.

NOLAN

Nolan primarily showed beautiful skin ;-)

Nolan Girls

DELLORTO

Dellorto also remembered its roots and showed a section through the history of carburetors with MA19, SH20 and ... carburetors

Dellorto carburetor history

POLINI

At Polini, we particularly liked the new ignition for the Vespa PX (also Elestart!) Analogous to Vespatronic etc.
Polini has reintroduced primary kits for the Vespa Smallframes. Poliuni has also expanded the range of Polini CP carburettors and kits.

Unfortunately, Polini did not have good news regarding delivery times for the Vespa PX 200 aluminum cylinder kits. Gilardoni, the manufacturer, is overloaded with orders due to the bankruptcy of a competitor and cannot deliver the desired quantities. Fortunately, we have a good supply of kits for standard hub:
Cylinder -POLINI 210 cc aluminum- Vespa PX200, Rally200 -

In the 60s Polini long stroke kits for the Vespa PX 200 unfortunately you bought us empty.
A large, universal air box could be very interesting, but we'll try that first. We'll keep you up to date here!
In the automatic scooter sector, Polini's focus was also more on CP carburettors and varios for maxi scooters and injection systems for the Yamaha T Max. The new BMW scooter was already on site as a Polini variant and will certainly not only be used as a decoration have served.

Pinasco

What we especially liked about Pinasco was that they were on one new 213 cylinder kit work. The cylinder head is screwed eight times. The design of the boost ports and overflows appear a bit old-school in direct comparison to the older layout, Pinasco finally expects more performance.

Furthermore, Pinasco shows crankshafts (which unfortunately have not only proven themselves in the past) and a Smallframe Fir tree with 10/14/18/20 teeth, probably for the original gearbox of the Vespa Smallframe.
Pinasco also jumped on the Vespatronic ignition train and presented his own variant of a Vespa ignition.

NUOVA MAZZUCHELLI

Nuova Mazzuchelli presented the tried and tested long-stroke shaft made from the material of the full-cheek shaft. You are hoping for more security against twisting, we are curious!

Nuova Mazzuchelli PX200 long stroke shaft imp

VESPA

Vespa: the shooting star was the new one Vespa Primavera. Appealing look on 11 inches with a revolutionary front wheel guidance. We are curious to see when the first fork will be implanted in a classic Vespa scooter and how it will then work!
We really liked that Piaggio remembered its origins - Vespa - and gave a small overview of the Vespa 98, a U-model, SS90, Primavera, ET3 and PK.

MALOSSI

... unfortunately nothing captivated us. New Varios for maxi scooters such as BMW 650 are not quite our business. Otherwise primarily news for 4 strokes and product maintenance in the classic area without setting accents.

MONEY

Quattrini: This “madman” can't help but show off his new engine case and cylinder. I think the pictures say it all ...

CLASSIC VESPAS

Most of all, we were pleased with the steadily improving supply of original spare parts for classic Vespas. Many spare parts that are no longer available, especially for PK, are being reissued (dead people live longer ;-))
The presentation of the sheet metal parts for Vespa was total madness: COMPLETE SMALLFRAME BODIES are no longer a foreign word:

  • the left part of the Smallframe Stern,
  • the sheet metal part above the rear wheel,
  • everything will be relaunched!

PEUGEOT

Peugeot presented its new scooter DJANGO. Another retro scooter with the well-known engines. At first glance we found it too bulky, but over time it became more pleasing as a single-seater in particular.

Peugeot Django scooter

Our summary:
Another nice trip to the promised land, where it all began with Vespa and Lmbretta!

New Vespa shock absorbers with TÜV

What was the nicest thing: parallel to our trip to Milan, Italy, are the new ones bgm PRO SC shock absorber for the Vespa GS160 & Vespa SS180 arrived.

Vespa shock absorber in front -BGM PRO SC / F16- Vespa GS160 / GS4 (VSB1T), SS180 (VSC1T)

And of course like all bgm PRO SC shock absorbers with TÜV / ABE!

The BGM PRO SC / F16 is the first sport shock absorber specifically for the swing arm the Vespa GS160 / GS4 / SS180 models was developed! During development, attention was paid to the special requirements of the large models with their high possible payload and top speed, and the damper was designed accordingly.
So it's not just a converted damper for 50cc models!

Shock absorbers from the bgm PRO SC series are quality suspension for the Vespa with TÜV!
The chassis developed by BGM in Germany is equipped with a ABE available for almost all Vespa scooters.
The shock absorbers are fully adjustable and offer an incomparable driving experience that was previously unknown from a scooter.

  • with ABE
  • specially developed for the GS160 / SS180
  • Available individually or as a set
  • athletic
  • comfortable
  • fully adjustable
  • very durable
  • massive CNC body, anodized
  • high-strength aluminum for low weight
  • large expansion tank directly on the housing
  • Rebound damping 12/16-fold adjustable
  • massive 13,5 mm piston rod
  • stepless adjustment of the spring preload
  • bgm quality assured

From very comfortable to sporty and firm, the BGM PRO SC dampers can! Well-known racing drivers confirm the excellent functionality and superb quality of these struts in numerous races.

The SCOOTER CENTER Team at the EICMA 2010 - scooter and motorbike fair in MilanYesterday morning at 4 o'clock the alarm clock rang. Departure to Cologne Airport and then on the plane to Milan. After the very motorbike-heavy trade fair in Cologne in October, a fireworks display of new scooter parts was set off in Italy.

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screenThe SCOOTER CENTER was at the 1st Italian Customshow in Riva on Lake Garda.

“Gardasee” sounds great - but unfortunately we only saw the lake when we drove past on arrival and departure. But the long way and the work were worth it.

The custom show took place together with the “Motorissma” car and motorcycle fair and had its own large hall. What is new and unusual for a custom show is that the show lasted 2 days. Around 60 customizers exhibited their Lambretta and Vespa scooters. Incidentally, the proportion and quality of the Lambrettas was clearly superior here.

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