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Now let’s go to the Vespa Alp Days

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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

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Team campTeam camp

The Colombian representation!

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Super Sport 180 of Franz

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

 

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Auf der Couch beim Scooter Center. Ein Interview Julia Spitznas

In the couch of Scooter Center | Interview Julia Spitznas – Marketing SC

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Being part of the Scooter Center team means to work with great people. Better than working is riding!

On my left and right side at the office, I have passionate Lambretta aficionados. Therefore, it probably was only a matter of time before I ride with one of them. In this case with her, but she is not just any girl, she is Yoleila (at Facebook) or Julia.

She is the president of the Lambretta Club Germany, scooter racer, almost a collector, crazy for the original scooters and parts, graphic designer and I could keep going…

That is, why, we interview her, to listen to those stories that we love to hear.

As a result, a very exciting project is to be started,

stay tuned until the end to find out where it is all about ;)

Auf der Couch beim Scooter Center | Interview Julia Spitznas - Marketing SC
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7 Project Platónika – On the road

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7 On the Road - Vespa bgm Platónika project by Scooter Center

How we would say in Colombia: now I’m on my Salsa“ (what means I am in my element). I received Platónika with 18 km on the clock and exactly 15 days later, she had thousand kilometers more.

Excited because the spring is arriving, I started to ride, and even prepare a Moto Nostra Kit for better touring:

Flyscreen with black brackets

MN2514BB

Rear rack

TW3223B

But with this German weather you never know.. Indeed the following week it started to snow… But that wouldn’t stop me, so I protect myself against the nasty cold and go on.

Photos and videos come and go, but still, I think, I am beginning to miss something, the reason of why I fell in love of with this scene: That’s right! The Vespisti.

Without any meeting in sight, „I will roll with my team mates“ I thought, so I turn my head around in the marketing office, where I am, and I only saw two Lambretta people…

And well… why not?

 

Did you miss a chapter? here you find the complete Story:

Platónika Projekt - die komplette Geschichte - Vespa PX bgm 177 by Scooter Center

 

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CHAPTER 6 Project Platónika – Ready to Roll

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Excitement is unstoppable when the final result is just small step away. Especially, if it is a bureaucratic step… Even I have a Colombian driver’s license for more than 10 years; Germany requires a theoretical and practical test. So as soon we started the project, I began to study all the 800 questions for the theoretical test. After I mastered that, it was about time for the practical test. This happened at the same time, when Platónika was ready for the TÜV (German type approval) to sort out the paperwork. Both (she and I) are very happy with the paperwork.

On her side, she registered the replacement of her old, rusty PX frame (pictures) along with her performance upgrades, but the license plate was still missing and one day before my test, she looked like this:

So my hopes of driving her right away were gone.

However, Alex and the work team surprise me, fixing the last details and doing the paperwork on their own, picking me up once I passed the test.

Building Platónika took almost a year, record every single step, the pandemic, among others, delayed the project, but the long-awaited day arrived.

6 Ready to roll Vespa bgm Platónika project by Scooter Center

The truth is that this story does not end here the next thing will be to know the European scene in her company, testing all the top components that she got. All kind of tests and adventures will be recorded and told.

Let us hope that these strange times of social distancing will end soon and we regain lost hugs, the shared routes and the contact with the asphalt, which is what fuels this passion.

See you on the Road!

Maryzabel & Platónika

 

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CHAPTER 4 / Project Platónika – Perfection is in the details

Once the essentials are ready, it’ time for the visuals, where each details let us see, what will be soon one of the few Vespas made with absolutely all new parts, which didn’t come from a factory.

But words are unnecessary, when we can see the work and the result, of hours in the workshop, where the good mood has always been there‚ ’cause building it has been almost as fun, as will be to ride it.

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For now, the moment when Platónika stands on her own two feet is getting Closer.

Details such:

Glove box  LML– 5050038L

Grips-PIAGGIO – CM08380KT

Footboard stripes set – 5821017

Cable set -BGM ORIGINAL – bgm6412n

Mud flap – 15769690090

Side panel rubber trim set –BGM –  7676534

Fuel tank -PIAGGIO- Vespa PX (since 1984) – autolube Version – Ref.: 5250011

Fuel tap wrench BGM – BGM3035

Mounting kit for handlebar base – 3333483

Brake and clutch lever set -BGM PRO CNC- disc brake (GRIMECA)- Vespa PX (1998-2003), LML Star, Stella – matt black  – BGM4551KT

Platónika Details

Music:

Artist: DJ Freedem

Title: Cutting It Close

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What and above all who is behind the Platónika project?

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Who, What, How PLATÓNIKA?

We know that our Platónika project is taking a little longer than we thought.

But we continue to work hard behind the scenes. And we used the project to make some SC tutorials for you.

Due to various inquiries about who Maryzabel is and how she came to us, Alex asked Lanz for an interview on the couch at the Scooter Center.

Just like every Vespa has its history, every female Vespa rider and of course the male counterparts have their history too. And one thing is always interesting, how did you get to the Vespa. And why of all things to ride a scooter. And just then it becomes clear that maybe it is the Vespa that brings us together. And that this is more important and stronger than the things that could separate us.

Although those who follow us here in the blog or on other channels already know something about me, we have fulfilled the wish to tell a little bit more about me and the Vespa and also Colombia. A country that many people surely only know from the media and the Platónika project. But that is also a country that beats in 2-stroke.

Interview

Auf der Couch beim Scooter Center | Interview - Alex & Maryzabel Vespa Platónika

Vespertine

Let me introduce you to Vespertine. My first love, the first scooter I bought and will keep for all my life. After her came “la pelada” another PX from 1994, but I am not a collector, so my ambition is to have no more. Although here in Germany it is very good for me to have something to drive. So now we will build up a platonic love and with time we will see what comes..

 

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