Tag: vespa

4 posts

Mopeds

Coming out of moped retirement

July 2, 2018

It's been a while but I figured I'd be coming back so I kept most of my moped stuff. I drove to Eau Claire over the weekend and picked up another Vespa Grande. I'm pretty excited to be wrenching again. My plan is to fix…

Mopeds

Mylo at the junkyard

October 27, 2015

I brought my son Mylo with me to Sport Wheels, he loves it there. I got lucky and scored some plastic the new vespa was missing

Mopeds

Grande Teardown

October 25, 2015

I started going through the Grande I acquired recently. Overall its in pretty good shape, but it sat for a while the crank bearings didn't sound the when i tried turning the engine over and the carb most certainly needed to be cleaned. Subframe off…

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Got A Grande!

October 2, 2015

Local Vespa aficionado Tyler Augustine like to go on and on about how amazing and awesome Vespas are. He built a pretty fast Grande for our raffle bike this year. I took it for a spin and thought it was a blast. So it seems…