Coffee, Espresso, Vespa and Italy are terms that simply belong together like the beach and the sea.
A wonderful gift idea for any Vespa- or Italy fan are the original Vespa retro cups, eg Forme of espresso cups from Italy.
Schedule vespa world days 2017.
We had already reported that the Vespa World Days 2017 will take place in Germany again. The information was still so hot that there were no further details.
The Vespa Club Celle had applied to this year’s Vespa World Days 2013 in Hasselt, Belgium, and awarded the contract for this great event in 2017. Top!
Meanwhile, the VC Celle has given more details: Date Vespa World Days 2017 is:
The exact venue has to be confirmed of course, but until then is still time. We will keep you informed here.
The Scooter Center wishes the VC Celle to date Vespa World Days 2017 now:
Drivers who want to make a picture of the VC Celle just visit the legenday Heidetreffen. The Vespa meeting will take place from 23-25th August 2013 already for the 17th time instead, i.e. a year before the Vespa World Days 2016, it could be a dress rehearsal with the 20gsten anniversary of the Celle Heath meeting.
FYI for those interested who can not imagine anything under Vespa Wolrd Days. The Vespa World Days are the successors of the Euro Vespa, the world’s largest Vespa meeting. A list of venues and the year of the event we have put together here.
So: Date Vespa World Days is 22 – 25 June 2017. Until then, we look forward to the next meeting:
2014. – Mantova, Italy
2015. – Biograd, Croatia
2016. – Arcachon, France
Another Vespa was stolen – now was a Portuguese Vespa Rally stolen.
Also this case especially tragic: after arrival of more than 2,000 km from Portugal to Belgium this valuable Vespa Rally 200 was stolen. Here the request of the Vespisti:
Share please: After a great weekend spent in the environment vespista Belgium VWD2013, the end of the event is not so good. We had the infortune to park of the gala dinner, and a Vespa Rally 200 was stolen. this vespa belongs to Antonio Rocha Vespista, one member of the Portuguese VESPINGA, we ask the cooperation of all Vespistas to see this photo, and please communicate if you have some information to tell us.
Thank You
info@vespaclubeportugal.pt
Our Vespa Seat “SCOOTER” – is an extremely slim, sporty yet comfortable seat.
The Sport Vespa seat is thanks to the sporty low seating position also used in the ESC (European Scooter Challenge).
The Scooter Center offers this this Seat from just 69.90 Euros exkl. shipping.
Die Sitzbank 7671780 für die Vespa V50 passt auf
Die Vespa Sitzbank 7671781 für die Vespa PK passt auf folgende Modelle:
Die Sitzbank 7675084 für Vespa PX passt auch auf folgende Vespa-Roller:
This Vespa Seat is extremely flat and very cheap at Scooter Center Scootershop!
Recently, reports of piling “stolen Vespa / scooter theft.”
The thieves seem to care more for the old Vespa scooter.
In the recent case 8 scooter from Vespa Club Frankfurt were stolen in Maastricht, the Netherlands.
A new Vespa was disregarded. Overall, 8 of the 17 scooters that even standing on two different places, were stolen with heavy equipment. On damaged scooters you found clear traces of an angle grinder, Flex. Aaccording to first estimates a loss of € 40,000 – in addition to the tears flowed, anger and rage.
Collector’s items are not usually replace with some money. Anyone who has ever restored an old Vespa, knows how much money, work and time you can spend in a good restoration. If you then have a great, reliable scooter, with many wonderful experiences, eg Vespa meeting, vacation, great trips with friends, etc. – then it is a scooter theft very difficult to digest.
Around the same time a white Vespa T5 Classic with Micron exhaust system was stolen in Frankfurt.
Just a few days earlier a gray Vespa PX 200 was stolen in Kaarst / Neuss …
If you follow Google and the News, messages are becoming increasingly common reports of stolen Vespa scooters. Scooter thefts has always been there – at present, the scooter theft seems to pile up. A disturbing trend.
Tip: Use social networks and groups on Vespa stolen eg “find my stolen T5” on Facebook
We also recommend next to a working steering lock, the high quality Abus locks for your Vespa. The Abus – locks are available in various designs in our Vespa Scooter Store. Here’s a little video about the chain lock ABUS CityChain:
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Take good care of your scooter, always lock well and for emergencies: havegood insurance.
You decided! The user of the oldest and largest forum for classic Vespa and Lambretta scooters (GSF) have elected Scooter Center to the dealer of the year 2012:
Scooter Center with its store in Bergheim – Glessen (Cologne) and the online shop www.scooter-center.com, according to GSF again the best scooter shop.
So that we could defend the title from the previous year and maintain our position.
We are thrilled about this honor!
Success does not come by chance -it is hard work. Precisely for this reason we are pleased this important award of the GSF:
Rate Scooter Center at Trustpilot:
http://www.trustpilot.de/review/www.scooter-center.com
Here the nice Cup Best Scootershop
“Dealer of the Year award German Scooter Forum 2012”
Fully CNC machined anti warp head made from billet alloy with recess into bore and four additional fixing screws (8 fixings in total). Made in Germany.
[youtube]qtDrX9PXhY0[/youtube]This Lambretta cylinder head is available for 225cc TS1 and for bgm PRO / MB Racetour cylinder .
Pictures from racetour cylinder head:
Our exhaust manufacturer has delivered the first samples made after the sample developed by Mark Broadhurst. We received samples for the P2 as well as for the 125 and 150 P-range engines.
First sight: Well done! Optics and machining as desired. Thick, massive made, shape of the U-bend spot on and the measurements of the exhaust bushing is right too.
If it proofs itself at the dyno, the manufacturer could start. An a delivery date within this year could easily been done.
For testing we had this engines:
All dyno runs were done on proper warmed up engines. The comparsion is against the exhausts already fitted to each scooter and against SIP Road exhaust.
Nearly all scooters were used on the road afterwards to see the changes done to the power characteristics in the real world too. And all the riders were happy how the engines transformed and were much faster and easier to ride.
Upshot: Production can be started!
The requests for the delivery date for our bgm PRO MRB RaceTour cylinder kits get more and more. We are very happy to announce a fixed delivery date for the Mark Broadhurst developed kits. This will be mid of June.
All the info about the kits you’ll find at your Scooter Center Shop:
For all early birds how pre-order their kit untill the 15th of June 2013, we offer a 5 % discount*. Simply drop an email to: lambretta[at]scooter-center.com.
*Only for retail customers,
Thats the Ending scren of this video from France. Very cool animationen mit perfect sound. We love Vespa too – and we love this video!
VESPALOGY from Supercarburant on Vimeo.
Have fun watching this Vespa video.
Animation: Nomoon
Music: Supercarburant
The 24-hour race in Zuera, organized by Team Vespa Barcelona (TVB):
As the two years before the GSF / SCOOTER CENTER Racing team with some of the best Euro Scooter Challenge (ESC) drivers arrived at the hardest Vespa race of the year.
In light of the victory of the previous year, in parallel with the fastest lap of the class win and the overall victory could be won in the, the bar was very high. To meet this requirement, the preparations started very early. As the 2012 racing scooter died in a crash in long distance races at Magny Cours in October just as a sheet metal balls to Germany, was started in November with the rebuilding. Here, the scooter has been built taking into account the lessons learned from the previous year according to the principle of form follows function, because proper preparation Prevents poor performance. Or something like that.
Brief Features Overview of the scooter:
The engine setup was designed for absolute durability:
Friday: after setting up the scooter to the climate conditions in Zuera and the suspension was tuned to a compromise of the various requirements of the pilots.
Saturday morning: qualifying.
Since the start position for a 24-hour race is of subordinate importance and the scooter should be a maximum spared, the scooter was after reaching the second place prematurely brought back to the pits for the final inspection before the race. Here is a slight leak at the brake caliper piston was found, prompting a precaution the prepared replacement brake system (brake pump, brake caliper incl line pre-deaerated) was installed.
By 12 clock started the race on Saturday, with the GSF / SCOOTER CENTER racing team was in the first two hours on court. Defended in the first place this time, the “Laranja Team Racing” very successful, which was traveling with a 24hp Yamaha RD80 100cm cylinder with water cooling and perceived permanent 13000 rev / min. Maximum Respect at this point for this engine concept!
With the driver change to Andreas Putz came in the early afternoon and the first place that this already was able to expand to two laps to the end of his stint. During the afternoon was set up by Andreas Putz and Maik Perschmann twice a lap record, which had to be given back to John but tile (brother of Team Germany member Christian tile) of Team Heives the evening. Nonetheless, the leadership was not given from the hand even after a maintenance stop at 19 clock, even if the projection at this time due to the strong competition was only one round (two Laranja place, third place Heives).
By 23 clock there was a big turning point in the race: A scooter had distributed its entire stock of gear oil on the track, which led to a mass departure in the fast right-hander after the start / finish straight. Maik Persch, who was at that time on the track, the GSF / SCOOTER CENTER scooter racing could just hold still on the track through the years of racing routine. As a result, there was a one-hour break from racing, in which the track was cleaned from oil. The team used this time to get back to the scooter equipped with the now repaired main brake system and put on fresh tires.
The guide has been expanded under the guidance of Jens Wolters after restart at midnight continuously so that you could have well over 30 laps, not least by the continued strong performance of tile and Jens Christian Fischer on the beginning of the last stint at 11 clock.
At 11:20 clock the race and thus the class and overall victory already won by this projection was unaufholbar … but the fastest lap of the race was still in the hands of team Heives. Around this time, got driver Michael Betz, like in previous years, drove the final stint of team manager Jens Wolters a pit board with the inscription “P1, PUSH” to see. The order was clear, as it should again be the complete package as the year before brought home: classes, total victory ….. and also set the fastest race lap. In the comfortable position to win not to jeopardize the hunt was opened in the coming laps in the fastest lap time … and successfully. The counter was a little later in 1:21:74, half a second as a team Heives that underpowered due to engine failure were traveling faster and no longer able to parry.
TRIPLE WON!
The GSF / SCOOTER CENTER racing scooter had the race without a single defect survived 920 laps and 1564 kilometers so that in race trim.
By 12 clock noon, the race was flagged as planned, final rankings overall are:
1st place: Team Germany – powered by GSF / SCK
2nd place: Laranja Team Racing
3rd place: Rolando Motoroledo Racing
Team Germany like to say THANK YOU to
– his team manager Jens Wolters for 28 hours of continuous top performance,
– the other German teams (Heives, Darts Racing, pussy power) for the best cooperation and nice atmosphere! It was like getting a hard to drive with you!
Big Thanks to the local Spanish / Catalan, Portuguese and French teams who have so kindly received us in their midst! Rarely such hospitality and honest sympathetic joy seen.
And of course last but not least, the incredible team of TVB Team Vespa Barcelona who unselfishly worked tirelessly organizing the race and pull through with an insane professionalism!
Without exaggeration, this race is THE highlight of every season … we’ll see you back next year again!
It seems that the bargain are still there. With lots of luck a bidder got one Vespa for 20 € at a public auction.
In the southern village of Neuenburg this happened:
http://www.badische-zeitung.de/neuenburg/die-vespa-des-amtsboten-aufpolieren–72446009.html
No matter what vEspa it was. At 20 € every Vespa is a bargain.
For all Vespa afficinados we highly recommend our Vespa catalogues:
Our Scooter Center Vespa-catalogue gives a comprehensive overview of the Vespa modell history as well as handy tipps & tricks and for sure all the spare parts, wear and tear parts as well as accessories and tuning goodies. :
Vespa catalogue
And these are the updates for 2010 and 2011 with all newly arrived parts. Up to date info you’ll find in our ecommerce Vespa shop.
2011
2010
Lots of luck at bargain hunting!
This is a M1L Quattrini Smallframe racing – Vespa from France without any carburetor.
M1L Quattrini means, this Vespa engine is tuned with this cylinder kit: Quattrini M1L.
“without any carburetor”? YES!
The guys from SPRT Racing put a elctronic 2-stroke direct injection
CORRECTION: Julien mailed us: “Direct injection” means that the injector is on the cylinder head. This is not our case.
indirect injection on the Smallframe Vespa from Julien Desnuelle.
In addition:
The cylinder is an old M1L 2008, the one with the tiny reeds. It is associated to full circle Mazu crank for ETS, Vespatronic ignition and Franz exhaust : that’s a really small set-up for a K2!
The carb has been changed for a 28mm throttle body with butterfly.
Watch the racing scooter with the M1L Quattrini in action on the Scootentole Mirecourt track.
Driver: Olivier Doussot, SPRT Team.
Get M1L Quattrini Vespa – Zylinder her: Scooter Center
Nice video of a Vespa: Supermoto vs racing – Vespa.
Recorded on the Pannonia Ring:
The clutch bush is not just an underestimated part of the engine, it is a part as well where we found the aftermarket parts and even OEM parts not capable for doing the job properly.
The bushes made from sinter metal are not the best choice for tuned engines with ore power available on the tap, gear changing at higher revs
Leistung, Schaltpunkte bei höheren Drehzahlen und leichte Schwungmassen bringen die einfachen, am Markt erhältlichen Sintermetallbuchsen* an ihre Belastungsgrenze. Rupfende Kupplungen oder Bockspringen beim Anfahren sind häufig die Symptome für eine eingelaufene oder schadhafte Buchse.
Besondere Anforderungen verlangen nach vernünftigen Lösungen. Die bgm PRO Kupplungsbuchse ist “Made in Germany” und aus Vollmaterial gefertigt. Der Werkstoff wiedersteht den hohen Momentkräften und ist speziell für Gleitlagerungen mit wenig Schmierstoff ausgelegt.
Die umlaufende Schmiernut verteilt das Öl gleichmäßig auf die Tragfläche der Buchse, so dass beim betätigen der Kupplung sofort Schmierstoff zur Verfügung steht.
Unsere BGM PRO Kupplungsbuchse eignet sich für fast alle Kupplungsnaben der Vespa Largeframe Modelle. Durch die recht enge Toleranz bei der Fertigung (wir erlauben 0.03mm), lassen sich selbst leicht eingelaufenen Naben mit unserer Buchse reparieren.
Für Reparaturzwecke sollte die Nabe nochüber einen Durchmesser im Bereich von 24,02mm – 24,06mm verfügen.
For sure all the bgm PRO SUPERSTRONG clutches are equipped with the new Made in Germany bush.
This is the Scooter Center store and warehouse.
At the store you get advice from scooterists for scooterists.
There are always some nice scooters on display:
You can have a look att all the Tuning & spare parts as well as accessories and what else you are after. Carbs, expansion chambers, exhausts, cylinder kits, seats, gear boxes, simply anything.
All the orders that are placed at our Scooter Center Shop will be put together in the warehouse.
Before your goods are packed they will double checked that everything is spot on.
We do have more than 30.000 items for all scooters, from Vespa to Lambretta, from 2-stroke to 4-stroke Automatics.
Not without reason we have one the GSF dealer award once again.
(GSF= German Scooter Forum “Leasing forum in German language for 10 inch wheeled scooters with gear shift.”.)
It was the fourth time that the season was opened with the Springrace. The event took place at the ÖAMTC testing area on the 27th of April 2013. We the DART RACINF TEAM were happy to attend once again.
The 1200 meter long circuit has some full throttle head down arse up areas, but some more complicated to handle areas as well.
The start/finish area is a specially nice part of the track. After 200 meters down hill ther comes a cumber and after this the downward slope is even deeper. If you are fast enough the contact between the tyres and tarmac is lost. Pure perfection!
This is the profile of the circuit.
Before the race was started at 6:15 h there was the chancce to do some short testing for 40 minutes. Luckily the weather forecast came true and it was dry and sunny.
At 7:00 h the starters took their position.
Starting was done in classic LeMans style.
The day before where we prepared the pit stop.
The startting places were given by the lot.
Welll, who knows what this can mean….
The first 90 minutes of the race were complete free of problems or anything to worry about. Untill the moment where the engine bolt cracked while Robert raced the bike.
The repair work of changing the engine bolt throw us back from place 10 to 38.
With this bad position we had to race very steady to get back near to the top grid.
But with a long distance race we were optimistic that this wasn’t the end of all days. And other riders had their problems as well. Near us…
Beside us…
And opposite us…
But 8 hours on the track later we had to fix the bike aagain.
New brake pads were needed because of the slope on the circuit.
The remaining 4 hours were nearly without problems. Expect for one broken flywheel cover.
The Polini Evo chraged with the BigBertha and breathed by the 33 mm Keihin were faultlessly working and the perfect choice. The Sawa tyres have resisted the 12 h race very well and will be the weapon of chioce for the upcoming 24 hour race in Spain.
Especially up hill the torque low down was the right choice. The small dip at the dyno sheet is the price you have to pay for the broad power band and good power delivery. This gives a very trackable engine where you nearly always find the right gear and can accelerate like hell out of the corners.
We were chuffed after 12 hours of racing, but satisfied with the 8th overall position.
We, the DART RACING TEAM, would like to thank the organizers and all attendends. It was a Mords Gaudi (Austrian for murder jamboree) and we hope to be back 2014!
Cheers everyone
Legendary exhaust for the Vespa PX and T5 models, in Taffspeed’s known premium quality!
Vespa Auspuffanlage in der ungeschlagenen Taffspeed Qualität:
This fine piece comes with the exclusive “Scooter Center” imprint, plus it features the engraving found in the “TÜV” certificates for all PX 200 GS (9 kW) models until 1996.
With an exchanged manifold, you can use this expansion chamber on all PX 80-150, PX and T5s.
The fantastic workmanship makes the MK4 the most durable exhaust. Fortunately, the muffler can be additionally insulated without sawing and drilling holes. Just remove the retaining ring and you’re good to go.
In addition, the MK4 can be used with a spare wheel, if the latter is shimmed sufficiently to provide enough clearance from the frame.
Conclusion: Perfect all-rounder with loads of torque and a very nice muffeled sound!
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Not long till the first ESC- races are started. Good for the ones who have their racing machines already sorted out and are waiting now. True to the motto: “Racing is life anything that happens before or after is just waiting.”
If you haven’t your preparation done yet, it is time to start things for the racing series everywhere.
We too have to build an engine. This will be used for the Klasse 2 of the ESC. This is the the cream of the crop class at the Euro Scooter Challenge. Nothing is forbidden here and most things are allowed as well. All info about it can be found here: www.eurochallenge.de. The only restrictions that can be found is no larger capacity than 150 cc, while the top notch engines have a power output of 35 – 38 hp at the rear wheel.
On most of these engines you’ll find the stroke of 53 mm combined with a 60 mm bore what gives 149.85 cc. This formula for power and success is used on our engine as well. The Falc cylinder kit with 60 mm bore and a special made 53 mm stroke crank will be put onto the Quattrini engine casing.
We don’t want to keep back this awesome panorama of all the parts that make such a nice engine…
…and we did a nice shopping list for recreating this view in your living or sleeping room. Wherever you like it more. This is the download file CSV-Datei that you can upload to your shopping basket in the online shop.
Before we are even think about putting all the parts together, everysingle one gets a closer inspection. With such high power outputs even small mistakes can cause big trouble. If it happens while racing the trouble gets even bigger. Because Racing is life, anything else is just waiting to bring this saying. Because we have used parts that are going to the engine, we take double care.
At the casings we start with checking the gasket surfaces and bearing seatings. The Xmas tree is not really free running…
And fitting like it is would cause problems. Latest if the bearing is been fitted. One more to watch: If you are on the race track and have to change the gear ratio a larger gear wheel would cause real problems. And this is nothing that will cure itself during running.
The clearance needs to be milled much larger to easily get the Xmas tree out and to fit taller gearing when this is needed.
At least we are so lucky that there are no further surprises in bottom end.
The small casings half gives some nice little perfidy though. Normally you fit the stator plate of the ignition kit, take the cables put it thru the hole for the cable. But…wait…
This is special, maybe this construction is for one of those WIFI ignitions. Where you no longer need wiring loom for the stator plates. Who knows? Anyway we opt for taken out the drill and get this sorted. The design of the original engine casings gives a good indication where to drill the hole makes sense.
As a protection for the stator wiring loom we take the rubber of the V50.
The right size for this is 12.5 mm. For bore holes of more than 10 mm a good practice is to use a smaller drill to get the things done step by step.
…and then you can work your way up to the desired size.
Chamfering done and then a quick try on.
Everything is spot on. Now the dirty work on the small half of the casing is done.
Next we check the area of the top end for any design faults or imperfections that need to be sorted out.
While the Falc cylinder kits are manufactured with a diameter of 66.5 mm, the Quattrini engine casings are machined to a diameter of 65.2 mm suited to the Quattrini cylinder kits. Standardisation on these thing would be to nice. Why isn’t it simply done in a way that items that were on the market earlier also fit?
So know it is up to us what we do. There are two options that need to be considered:
1. The neck of the casing can be machined to the diameter of the casings.
2. The cylinder can be machined down to a new smaller diameter.
We opt for the second one.
If one wants to any other cylinder kit in future times, this can easily be done. The thickness of the spigot is more than enough.
After the barrel is machined down we check that it really fits and everything is spot on. that is the case and we can now see what needs to grind out at the transfers.
Very close to perfection! Just the cylinder needs to be matched very slighthly to the surface are at the casings. The casings leaves at it is for the moment and we check port timings before anything else is done to the casings.
The engine casing comes bare without any silent bushings fitted. There are lots of solutions for this on the market. Some make more sense, other not so much. If the rubber is to stiff it is nice for going on fast and long straights. But as soon as you need to take some fast cornering those hard rubbers are no longer suited for the job. For the rubber it is the same as for the suspension: “As hard as necessary, as soft as possible.”
Because this is done for the circuit we use the silent rubbersof the V50/Primavera with roughly 50 50 Shore hardness.
Even on a quick look it comes clear that the bed stop for the rubbers is not dimensioned right. With high side forces put on the rubber these could be pressed deeper into the casings. To prevent this we fit the stops of the PK range models additionally.
Here you see the too small bed stop:
The stop of the PK range is simply put into place and prevents the rubber getting forced deeper into the bore.
The relatively soft rubbers can be easily put into place using a little bit of Talkum or mounting paste.
For the rear shocker support we use our own rubber together with the original bushing.
Compared to the original Piaggio rubber ours are a little bit wider…
…and they match better to the casings. This gives a better side support.
The next episode will show how we fit the bearings and how to level up the crankshaft. Watch this space!
