This one is my favourite Piaggio, the Piaggio P180 Avanti, twin P&W turboprop engines, 460 mph:
Brexit, for once some facts.
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How not to arrive at a climate summit
With a reputation that precedes you
With a reputation that precedes you
There'll be a press release or somesuch about tree planting to offset the emissions of that journey, any moment...How not to arrive at a climate summit
With a reputation that precedes you
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Horse and cart hire is cheaper where I live, maybe for next time...
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Famously Piaggo who were aircraft manufacturers found themselve at the end of the Second World war with lots of aircraft tailwheels they needed to put to some use.
At that time personal transport was all but none existent in Italy and someone in the company put their inventing hat on, and using a
Aircraft construction techniques created the Vespa scooter (Because it sounded like a wasp)
This is what it looked like in 1946
Fortunately they soon improved the looks!
This was the model I bought second hand in 1960
The only weak point was the clutch , which was driven through a single tooth
Plate running in slots in a bell housing and in use cut slots into the metal at the side of the slots it was supposed to move up and down in.
This jammed the clutch completely and needed the engine out to fix, which I did twice in the 32,000 miles I drove it.
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I finished rebuilding this recently..
Bought it in 1972...had it ever since.
Its a 1967 Cotton 250 Trials.
I know the problems from when I was working n the Vespas in the 1950s. I would never have bought one, preferring the slighly later Lambretta. The only scooter I ever bought was a Rumi Formichino twin cylinder 125:Famously Piaggo who were aircraft manufacturers found themselve at the end of the Second World war with lots of aircraft tailwheels they needed to put to some use.
At that time personal transport was all but none existent in Italy and someone in the company put their inventing hat on, and using a
Aircraft construction techniques created the Vespa scooter (Because it sounded like a wasp)
This is what it looked like in 1946
Fortunately they soon improved the looks!
This was the model I bought second hand in 1960
The only weak point was the clutch , which was driven through a single tooth
Plate running in slots in a bell housing and in use cut slots into the metal at the side of the slots it was supposed to move up and down in.
This jammed the clutch completely and needed the engine out to fix, which I did twice in the 32,000 miles I drove it.
So where was ZZ336, especially after we paid £900,000 to have it painted like a circus float?How not to arrive at a climate summit
With a reputation that precedes you
Tell 'em what you could do with a threepeny bit and one of these Rumi's , flecc!I know the problems from when I was working n the Vespas in the 1950s. I would never have bought one, preferring the slighly later Lambretta. The only scooter I ever bought was a Rumi Formichino twin cylinder 125:
The scooter I lusted after was this one
The Heikel Tourist
You have the roll the wrong way round. Well, it's the right way round but in brexit Britain, it would be undershot not overshot.Brexit Britain portrayed
Had a 200 at uni - frugal, but unstable past 60mph (I thought because of small wheels, but may just have been my battered example)Famously Piaggo who were aircraft manufacturers found themselve at the end of the Second World war with lots of aircraft tailwheels they needed to put to some use.
At that time personal transport was all but none existent in Italy and someone in the company put their inventing hat on, and using a
Aircraft construction techniques created the Vespa scooter (Because it sounded like a wasp)
This is what it looked like in 1946
Fortunately they soon improved the looks!
This was the model I bought second hand in 1960
The only weak point was the clutch , which was driven through a single tooth
Plate running in slots in a bell housing and in use cut slots into the metal at the side of the slots it was supposed to move up and down in.
This jammed the clutch completely and needed the engine out to fix, which I did twice in the 32,000 miles I drove it.
Spiegelhalter thinks there is not much to choose when it comes to protection between vaccination and prior infection details in link below.
Which protects you more against Covid – vaccination or prior infection? | David Spiegelhalter and Anthony Masters | The Guardian
Which protects you more against Covid – vaccination or prior infection? | David Spiegelhalter and Anthony Masters | The Guardian
Nice bike, they use them a lot on the Tour de France I guess they are not selling too well hence the massive discount on the price.
My neighbour is resisting getting a road legal mobility scooter, though he really needs one - it's better than getting Cabin Fever. I'm sure he'd feel less depressed, if he could get out a bit. Are fully enclosed mobility scooters allowed inside hospitals? Mine could have it's own oxygen tank... I'd have briefly to exit my Covid-free, atmosphere-controlled, positive air pressure spaceship for blood pressure tests and injections (I always carry my own alcohol swabs, for a thorough clean), which is when I'd break out the full face scuba gear.
My uncle had the right idea:
www.smartscooters.co.uk
I'd burn it after use - can't be too careful... or perhaps a light roasting with a flamethrower will suffice?
They let pretty much anyone use them, it seems. Drug dealers love the things. Tinted windows, dubstep and bling hubs give the game away...
My uncle had the right idea:
Cabin Car Mk2 Mobility Scooter
Cabin Car Mk2 mobility scooter brings all of the comfort and technology from the auto industry into your road legal mobility scooter
www.smartscooters.co.uk
I'd burn it after use - can't be too careful... or perhaps a light roasting with a flamethrower will suffice?
They let pretty much anyone use them, it seems. Drug dealers love the things. Tinted windows, dubstep and bling hubs give the game away...
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You would think so but no...most punctures on a motorbike are on the rear because the front wheel throws the nail or screw into the rear tyre. Because my front and rear tyres are not in line this shouldn't happen.
.....hopefully.