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Scooters / Motor Bike Tips - Brake Dancing

2008-11-20T15:42:00.000-08:00

Anyone can twist a throttle to the stop, but not so many know the principles behind safe and effective braking.

If you engage in the former often but aren't so hot on the latter, you're just playing a waiting game before push comes to shove, and end up going down the road next to your bike, instead of on it.

Braking skills should be mastered to a competent degree from the outset of anyone's riding career, and then refined as time goes by, but what's the best way to brake anyway?

Set up, squeeze, ease - as in set up your brakes by applying them gently, but enough to get the front forks to compress a little; squeeze the lever with progressive force to achieve the desired deceleration; and then ease them off smoothly once your speed has been set to the required level.

It's only through constant practice that you can develop a sense of how close you are to your front and rear tyres' limits of adhesion, so make a conscious effort to practice your braking, and in particular your emergency braking, often.

Instructional ride schools can be a huge help here with scooters, road bikes or sportsbikes; with training ranges and trained experts on hand to get you braking harder and more safely than ever before, in the controlled environment of a training range.

Ideally, you should be able to develop your braking to a point where you can nearly reach the limit of adhesion, when the tyres start to 'chirp', but not exceed it - this isn't easy, even before you throw in bumps, potholes and greasy surfaces, which more often than not are the reality on Aussie roads.

Bear in mind that in wet weather your grip is around half of what it is in the dry, and dirt and gravel roads should also be treated with extreme care. Similarly, keep an eye out for spilled petrol or diesel, which will be a rainbow colour if it's wet, and greasy areas in general - like white painted road markings, or when you're approaching an intersection or a set of traffic lights.

The type of motor bike you ride can also affect how you approach your braking. Most standard road bikes, including sportsbikes, commuters and tourers, derive around 80 per cent of their braking force from the front brake, and 20 per cent from the rear. Jump on a cruiser however, with its greater rake, longer wheelbase and different weight distribution, and you'll find the rear brake plays a larger role.

Scooters can be somewhere between the two.

Whatever you ride, eye direction is vitally important - keep looking ahead of you when braking, and don't let your eyes drop. The moment you do you've got much less chance of saving a locked front end, as without the horizon as a point of reference it's easier to lose your balance.

On the road, try and get all your braking out of the way before you enter a turn. Racers may brake deep into a corner, but they're on the absolute limit - and that's no place for road rider who wants to stick around.

Finally, your braking performance will also be adversely affected if your tyres are worn out, or you're running the wrong pressures in them - you've only got two small contact patches the size of the palm of your hand between you and the road, so make sure both these areas are in top shape.

By: Ted Brumby

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Restoration tips - Vespa, Lambretta or any other motor scooter!

2008-11-16T05:49:00.000-08:00

By Delrond in July 20th 2007
1. Take lots of photos!
When stripping your scoot for restoration, take lots of photos of the machine before you lay a spanner to it. This will help later when you need to run the cables, wiring loom and fitting funny shaped items. There is nothing worse than having to re-run cables because the steering snags the cables. Besides, before and after photos really impresses your relatives and is good fodder for your blog
2. Need a woodruff key?
Stuck for a woodruff key for the Lambretta? Use one from a Honda small engine bike. (i.e. CB250) They fit perfectly and no-one will ever know.
3. Upjetting?
Upjetting the carby on a Lambretta? Delorto jets are very expensive, especially when you need several to choose from. Kawasaki Z900 jets look like the real thing and are much cheaper. They start from about size 120.
4. Wheel Rim tips
When you take apart the wheel rims and you find that the thread is rooted/stripped, you can fix this by replacing it with an allen bolt that has the hex bit ground off. Get your local mechanic with an oxy-acetylene welder to braze it on for you.
5. Bags, bags and more bags
Still stripping the scoot? Put the nuts, bolts and bits in separate bags ( lunch bags or those resealable ones that you buy your drugs in) relating to areas on your bike (i.e. headset or engine) While the frame is getting painted, take your bag collection to a bolt shop and buy new ones to replace those ones that are looking a little daggy. Where possible, get ones that are the same size as the original. Use zinc plated or stainless steel, never buy plain steel - they start rusting before you put them on.
6. Rememeber to spray!
When you are fitting new tyres, spray a bit of WD-40 or RP7 onto the wheel rim bolts, this will lessen the chance of the nuts rusting on.

Why do people do restoration of their vespa scooters?

2008-10-21T18:07:00.000-07:00

Restoration of a vespa scooters has been done anywhere by vespa lovers. They have many reasons behind their decision to restore their vespa scooters.
Most of them said that they would like to make their vespa scooters back to the original vintage condition, They would be satisfied, happy and would escort their nostalgia after finishing their scooters restoration..
Other communities prefer go to restoration center to make their vespa scooter up for their life style. By having restored vespa scooters, it would be looking good and it would become a confort scooter again. For this group, accessories would become their favorite to dress up their scooters.
While we can see from businessman perspective, restoration has to be done to reflate their vespa scooters to the first condition. In business paradigm, quality of restoration would be the main point to be controlled.

Vespa Scooters A Good Choce in Crisis

2008-10-18T06:04:00.000-07:00

Vespa scooters is getting famous not only due to her easy and fun vehicle but also due to her economical fuel consumption. Especially today, in economic crisis situation, vespa scooters has been started as a good family vehicle choice. In the difficult economic situation, most of people getting panic to manage their transportation expenditures.
Vespa scooters with her strong enough power, economical gas utilization has become good price of money to be purchased. By one gallon of the gas, you would be able to walk around town easier and more economic than using SUV.
In addition to these, you would be surprised that resale value of vespa scooters is really good. Even, you could sale with better price for the vintage vespa models. We realize that the 60th vespa scooters are really rare righ now, while on the other hand the demand of these items is getting higher. So, it would be make sense for us that vintage vespa price would be getting higher as well.
When you are thinking to buy a vintage of classic vespa, it is time to take a decision to purchase the small vehicle like vespa scooters, but it has strong power, reliable engine and economical gas consumption.

Joyful of Riding Vespa Scooters

2008-10-15T20:51:00.000-07:00

Riding vespa scooters is really an enjoying experience. We could feel how smooth the wind blow on our face during the jurney. We could feel how close of the vespa lovers each other. When they are riding their vespa scooters, they are feeling true life situation.
Some vespa lovers mention that riding vespa scooters is look like social outlet. The rider could socialize them selves while riding. Most of the vespa scooters riders have strong social mentality. They always communicate each other while they are riding vespa scooters by waving their hand, by turning on the light and by pushing the horn knob. They are helping each other. When we are riding a vespa scooters and suddenly we have problem. You don't have to worry about it, other vespa scooters lovers will see you and offer any help to you sooner.
Riding scooters is also fun, We don't need a motorist dress like leather. We can use colorful and trendy fashion while riding vespa scooters.
When we join a scooter club gathering, the situation is getting fun. Some of club members bring their family together. Situation would be very friendly and joyful. We can go and move anywhere together.

Vespa Scooters (II)

2008-10-14T17:10:00.000-07:00

By: Mitch Johnson

The parent company of Vespa scooters is Paggio who, in 2000, certified several Vespa Vintage Restoration Shops. These restoration locations where certified because Paggio saw that each shop had a keen and familiar understanding of mechanically working with old or vintage Vespa scooters as well as with the newer models. There are unique servicing methods and requirements for Vespa scooters, along with old designs of parts that need special attention. The certified Vespa Vintage shops are where the company recommends you take your vintage scooter to ensure quality service.
Through the Vespa scooters catalog you can order Vespa Vintage parts for remodeling old Vespas. The parts are certified original because they are made from the original drawings used to design the first Vespa scooters. Parts for other Vespa scooters can be purchased through the Vespa catalog or from scooter parts retailers online. For extreme advocates of Vespa scooters, new or vintage, there are Vespa clubs in some cities that help bring together those with common interests.

Online Vespa scooter sites provide a medium to contribute your thoughts or questions about Vespa scooters. These
sites offer all varieties of information about Vespa, such as events involving the Vespa brand of scooters, releases of the newest models and books or other publications with Vespa scooter information. Beginner and experienced information can be found at the numerous Vespa scooter sites to help Vespa owners keep up with the latest.

Vespa Scooters (I)

2008-10-08T19:45:00.000-07:00

By: Mitch Johnson
Vespa is one of the oldest known names in scooters, partly because of their long run in the industry. For nearly 60 years Vespa scooters have been manufactured and used as a primary or secondary from of transportation. Originally an Italian company, Vespa scooters were designed to replace bicycles for a better means of transportation.
The name Vespa is translated into “wasp” in English, which was what the original body style resembled. Several Vespa scooter models still made have similarities to the original body design, but still many other designs have been made through the company.The smallest and least powerful Vespa scooters have 50 cc engines while the largest and most powerful engines from Vespa are 200 cc. Vespa scooter engines of all sizes in between are also made to accommodate every type of driver. Since the beginning of Vespa scooters their popularity has spread across the world. Other companies have bought licenses to manufacturer and distribute Vespa scooters in nearly every country. Their popularity grew in part because of the convenient transportation alternative Vespa scooters originally created in cities and countries that greatly needed them to continue growth.Though new models of Vespa scooters are still being designed and sold, the older, original models have become a valued possession, now considered vintage. Vintage Vespas are yypically those that have the first designed body style.Long-time supporters of Vespa scooters look to purchase older Vespa models so they can refurbish them and show off their new looking vintage Vespa. Vintage Vespas are not only valuable because of likeness; they are valuable monetarily as well, which is the main appeal to some collectors.

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2008-10-08T08:25:00.001-07:00

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