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Platónika test drives after more than 7,000 km is more than completed, so here we go!

Together with Scooter Center to Zell am See from 10th to 12th September 2021

Enough of mile munching going and leaving work from day to day. It is about time for those epic trips, meeting other Vespisti and collecting memories for a lifetime. The Vespa Alp Das will be the perfect start for new adventures!
In my personal ranking of events, VAD have a special place:

  • It was the second biggest event that I took part in. The biggest were the Vespa World Days in Celle, both in 2017. At the VAD I celebrated together with 1.000 Vespistas from 20 different nations.
  • It was the first meeting after I set foot on European soil.
  • It was the first time to see so many Vespas together, including the 60 oldest Vespas on the continent at the Faro Basso race.
  • It was also the longest event I have participated in, 8 days non-stop fun.
  • The oldest Vespa I’ve ever ridden, the beautiful Vespa Super Sport 180 from Franz, which he nicely lent me.
  • The most beautiful landscapes that my eyes have seen.
  • In addition, it was the beginning of beautiful friendships, of which I have been able to continue reinforcing.

Back to the future

Now the reasons are others, I‘m going to work there! As part of Scooter Center, which is the official sponsor of the event. The plan -for certain- is riding Platónika there. I‘m getting ready to show you first-hand all this adventure, by now here are some good memories from 2017:

 

the good friends that I made

The Colombian representation!

Super Sport 180 of Franz

 

See you there!
https://www.the-alp-days.at/

 

Vespa Alp Days 2020 Zell am See

Photos and Videos Vespa Alp Days 2020 Reloaded

One thing in advance: we are already looking forward to next year’s Vespa Alp Days 2021 in Zell am See(June 01-08, 2021) and are confident that we will be able to celebrate “normal” Alp Days with you again. Registration and information you will find soon here: https://www.the-alp-days.at/

 

Everything is different this year. Corona makes it possible. The date in June was cancelled, like many other events. Most of the scooter meetings fell victim to the epidemic. But then the Vespa Alp Days, under these difficult conditions, fortunately took place in the Alp Days Reloaded Edition.

We from the Scooter Center have been following this super Vespa meeting in Zell am See since the World Vespa Days 2009, when we were already the main sponsor and represented with a large stand and team. This huge international Vespa meeting was the birth of the following AlpDays event, which should take place for the 11th time this year. The Scooter Center is again the main sponsor and once again we were on site, albeit in this special situation with a mini team. What the two of us were able to experience in this short time was simply amazing: We started at 9:00 am in the morning with the Großglockner Bergpreis, I have never seen so many Vespa Rally 180 / 200 in one place before. Have a look here:

Videos Zell am See 2020

The result is 2 videos.
Tip: for the Großglockner exit Full Movie
you should take 30 minutes. It’s worth it! The course of the road in connection with the breathtaking mountain scenery at 2,500 meters above sea level make the scenery and the video simply epic.

I don’t know how Nicole and Franz always do it with the weather, but see for yourself!

Alp Days Reloaded Video

Vespa Alp Days 2020 - Alp Days Vespatreffen Zell am See - Großglockner

 

Großglockner Exit Full Movie

Epic Vespa Tour Großglockner FULL MOVIE 4K (HD) - AlpDays Vespa Abenteuer Alpen

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BGM PRO Vespa shock absorbers successful in ASCC race!

Just as we do for our Scooter Customshow, Austrians also cooperate: ASCC – Austrian Scooter Challenge Cup – is Austria’s racing series for classic scooters, automatic scooters and electric scooters.

Every season consists of seven races with two runs each. At the end the 2 worst race day results are subtracted.ascc-vespa-racing-oesterreich

Successful with products of Scooter Center and BGM

Lukas Schossmann is the big surprise of this season. As member of the sQooter racing team he already won 4 races. The team bets on many tuning parts by Scooter Center Cologne. Quattrini engine with M1L-60 cylinder and crankshaft with 51mm stroke. Suspension: BGM Pro shock absorber for Vespa PK front and rear. The braking system with a radial brake master cylinder in front is also made by BGM.

bgm Pro Vespa Stossdampfer Vespa-Rennen Motorsport

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ASCC – innovative and modern scooter racing series in Austria

ASCC supports trying well known and new products during training. Thus enabeling the drivers to rent and try suspension for instance. Many racers, however, also install these products in their street scooters and recommend these products to friends and family.

The organisation team of ASCC did not spare any efforts and heavily invested in season 2015. They now own a timekeeping device and from race day #2 (25th of April in Greinbach) onwards all races will be documented via MyLaps Live-Timing. This is the next generation of timekeeping with live-app on smart-phone and tablet, live-timing online and on screens at site, as well as offering various information to displays of the drivers. You can find racing results on www.ascc.at or on www.mylaps.com (choose Austria in “all countries”).

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1st race day in Tulln. A raging success

Waiting has an end on the 11th of April 2015: the first race of the new season was about to start. So were 23 scooterists and several thousand spectators and fans who could not wait to see the start of the first race in 2015. At the same time, a motorbike fair (the largest in Austria in 2015) offers the possibility to present ASCC, the teams and oneself to an interested audience. What happened?

Many spectators were there on Saturday morning to see the qualifying. The weather was perfect. Drivers were motivated. And the perfect surprise: Newcomer Lukas Schossmann of team sQooter.com won the pole position with a lap time of 22.8sec. Thomas Lukaseder of GP-one started from position 2 and Thomas Prasch, the overall winner of 2014 of the Horny-Hornets, started from 3.

The first race started at 2 pm and took, like any other ASCC race, 15min + 2 laps. The track turned out to be rather slow, narrow and highly selective. Therefore many drivers fell and there were many defects, luckily, nothing was really bad though. Lukas Schossmann, the surprise, didn’t have any difficulty and celebrated his first win. Thomas Prasch finished 2nd and Christoph Lafer 3rd. Organizer Ron: “We knew in advance about the narrow and slow track. But all the racers were fair.”

Race 2 saw an even larger audience, which witnessed more race-action and exciting fights for the lead. Lap times were tight, the lead changed, drivers were lapped. All the drivers were convinced: “Tull was awesome. And a large audience, cool.” Schossmann and his BGM PRO Vespa suspension also finished first in race 2, in front if Prasch and Kirchhofer.

ASCC Vespa Racing Österreich Austria

Race day 2: Greinbach All or nothing!

All the racers of ASCC agree: “All or nothing!” is the slogan for the track of PS-Racing Center in Greinbach. Either you pull through the long high speed bend (more than 100km/h), don’t care about the bumps at its end and perfectly meet all the load alterations or you loose.

And this happened on race day #2 on April, 25th 2015: only those racers without fears and with the most experience reached for the podium. Gerhard Konrad, local hero and member of HG-Racingteam, was forced to quit early (damage on a cylinder during training). This paved the way for the 3 best racers of the season: Lukas Schossmann, Thomas Prasch and Rainer Kirchhofer. Christopf Lafer of the VorResoSchalter team surprisingly put pressure on them and even finished third in the second run.

Schossmann and Prasch battled for the lead for some rounds, which were the most exciting scenes of the day. Due to a badly adjusted clutch, Schossmann lost his pole-position right away. But he won the race in front of Prasch and Kirchhofer. Schossmann and his BGM shock absorbers gained another full 25 points, in front of Prasch on two and Christoph Lafer on three.

ASCC pictures / photos

Here you can find many great pictures of the races:

ascc vespa racing bilder fotos

ASCC results / table

Current overall table:

ASCC Rollerrennen Punkte Ergebniss