Then when I was 16 in '83 I bought a new PK50 (as well as a ridiculously large p155 pot lid) from York Suzuki Centre it cost £475. I nipped it about 6 months later and my local motorbike shop charged me £400 to repair it (mmmm!).
I then bought a really sweet dark blue & chrome LI150 S3 cutdown off a lad at York college for about £300 around '84 - no photos though. While I was at York I bought a Spanish SX200 in lots of boxes off a mate's brother from Pickering cost something like £150 but was very incomplete. I kept this for years then around '94 I took it to Street Beat and had it painted & rebuilt, standard 200 at the time then later had a Honda 205 fitted at Chis.
I had GP headset & panels fitted as I preferred the look but frame & leggies were standard Spanish.
This was written off about 2 years later when some old boy cut across me at traffic lights near home and I smashed into side of him, wrote bike off, snapped bars and burst & broke me hand.
This was then reframed and rebuilt into SX200 style Orange & White. Also had a TS225 fitted at same time as insurance were paying, ahem.
Sold this and then in '98 I bought a new PX200 from MSC on tick about £1900 at time. I had them fit a semi hydraulic front end before I picked it up. This was just before they brought the disc model out.
Kept that for a while then sold on to a mate and bought a GP150 and set about rebuilding it around '00/'01. A car sprayer mate sprayed it metallic BRG and I put a TS225 engine in, "Cum on Feel the Noize" - no photos. Great bike but the taxman caught up with me and I had to sell to pay him, gutted. Bit later I bought a turquoise GP200 with TS225 and rode that for a while - no photos before building a Vespa cutdown "Menace".
Lovely looking thing but I could never get it to run right nor could a well known professional scooter mechanic/builder who shall remain nameless. Eventually broke it up and sold on, shame as it looked the nuts imo.
Then had a couple of Vespas but around '03/'04 drifted out of the scene. In '07 I bought MotoGp but never really rode it much as such will be putting it up for sale shortly, just put 12m ticket on it.
Then a few months ago after chatting with a mate I've known 40 years who was looking to buy his first Vespa I got the bug again and decided to give it all another go. Managed to buy this last week and had it couriered up from Devon.
I know this lot won't be everyone's cuppa but at the time they were what I was in to and these two I own now are how I like scooters to look, cheers for watching, see you on the road sometime maybe.
