Im so pissed.........

...........I thought i'd have a gander in 'ere

Hope you're all well, unless you hurl abuse at me in which case **** off and
happy new year
--
Donegal Paul
Maico Letta 247cc - We have the technology.
Lambretta Li186 - We have some more technology.
Eibar Li186 - aka "The Hamster".
Vespa T5 Mark I
www.thepilgrimssc.co.uk
www.iowcaravans.co.uk
www.ride2006.co.uk

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, Donegal Paul amazed us all with this pearl of
wisdom:

'Ello stranger!

Glad you're not dead

 

Way fucking heh, good to hear from you scooter boi.

Now, about those fucking Volvo roof bars....

--
Dan L (Oldbloke)

My bike 1996 Kawasaki ZR1100 Zephyr
Space in shed where NSR125 used to be
Spare Bike 1990 Suzuki TS50X (Patio Ornament)
BOTAFOT #140 (KotL 2005), X-FOT#000, DIAABTCOD #26, BOMB#18 (slow), OMF#11

 

Allright geeza.

How's the scoot you got off Marcus running?

 

"Whinging Courier" replyeth to Donegal Paul amazed us all with this pearl of

Cheers mate. On that note, I assume the Mondeo's going ok?
--
Donegal Paul
Maico Letta 247cc - We have the technology.
Lambretta Li186 - We have some more technology.
Eibar Li186 - aka "The Hamster".
Vespa T5 Mark I
www.thepilgrimssc.co.uk
www.iowcaravans.co.uk
www.ride2006.co.uk

 

Ummmmmm what aboot them? They's gone as is the volvo mate :-( Don't tell me
you were after them?

If you do, ill save you the bother of calling me a **** and go flagilate
myself in front of the mirror for at least a half hour?
--
Donegal Paul
Maico Letta 247cc - We have the technology.
Lambretta Li186 - We have some more technology.
Eibar Li186 - aka "The Hamster".
Vespa T5 Mark I
www.thepilgrimssc.co.uk
www.iowcaravans.co.uk
www.ride2006.co.uk

 

Just remembered... did you ever get that tie I sent you?

Big doh. Still, at least you found him a nice engine he could sell. How
about that strange looking scooter you had? You back on the road with
anything now?

 

Aye

AFAIK, fine.
Ended up selling it once i got it running, (3 fucking engines later), only
to find the bloke that bought it was going ot change the engine to a bigger
one anyway:-(
--
Donegal Paul
Maico Letta 247cc - We have the technology.
Lambretta Li186 - We have some more technology.
Eibar Li186 - aka "The Hamster".
Vespa T5 Mark I
www.thepilgrimssc.co.uk
www.iowcaravans.co.uk
www.ride2006.co.uk

 

Where've you been, you loopy ****?

 

The message
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I thought that was legal these days?

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, Donegal Paul amazed us all with this pearl of
wisdom:

The Mondeo's just peachy.

It's done about 10,000 miles since I bought it; it's had 4 new tyres, a
new drivers door mirror and a big ding in the OSR passenger door. It's
bloody thirsty but it's a gem.

 

I did, Petrolcan finally got it to me

The odd one is the maicoletta, looks like this
http://www.scootculture.org/cs/csp04/cs4_20001pboro_maicoletta.jpg but is a
pile of bits at the moment :-(
The Lambretta that I crashed over 18 months ago, well the engines in my
other lambretta while that crankcase is having some alloy welding round the
crank mouth so i can get going with some fun porting for my new top end.
That second lambretta needs a new light switch fitting ( hours work) then i
can get on with jetting the carb on it, finally theres a Vespa Mark I T5
(German import) that is totally standard but on a B plate and showing signs
of needing more than the odd tweak
--
Donegal Paul
Maico Letta 247cc - We have the technology.
Lambretta Li186 - We have some more technology.
Eibar Li186 - aka "The Hamster".
Vespa T5 Mark I
www.thepilgrimssc.co.uk
www.iowcaravans.co.uk
www.ride2006.co.uk

 

Good question, and the answer is I'm not sure
--
Donegal Paul
Maico Letta 247cc - We have the technology.
Lambretta Li186 - We have some more technology.
Eibar Li186 - aka "The Hamster".
Vespa T5 Mark I
www.thepilgrimssc.co.uk
www.iowcaravans.co.uk
www.ride2006.co.uk

 

"Whinging Courier" replyeth to Donegal Paul amazed us all with this pearl
of

2 litre ford petrol lump innit?

I'm driving a feckin' Daewoo these days :-/
--
Donegal Paul
Maico Letta 247cc - We have the technology.
Lambretta Li186 - We have some more technology.
Eibar Li186 - aka "The Hamster".
Vespa T5 Mark I
www.thepilgrimssc.co.uk
www.iowcaravans.co.uk
www.ride2006.co.uk

 

"Nidge" replied to Mark sed:

**** yea. Well not very exciting, the witness that i was relying on who said
he saw her stop in front of me changed his statement on the stand!
That was the rug being pulled out from under my feet right there. Ended up
with 5 points and a £635 fine including costs.

Ah well, you live and learn eh?
--
Donegal Paul
Maico Letta 247cc - We have the technology.
Lambretta Li186 - We have some more technology.
Eibar Li186 - aka "The Hamster".
Vespa T5 Mark I
www.thepilgrimssc.co.uk
www.iowcaravans.co.uk
www.ride2006.co.uk

 

Heh.. excellent. More up your street than mine. My mum bought it for me
when I had a plastic twist and go scoot for a few months, then sold it
and bought an XBR500.

My... that's an odd looking thing. A very odd thing.

Still an air cooled top end, no water cooling? Some of these tweaked
scooters look like a right laugh to ride, but anything with small wheels
is going to want to swap ends at speed surely?

The T5, that's the 5 port one isn't it? Hence the 5?

 

CoughIhada277cconeofthosetogotoschoolonCough.

The electric start is quite a bag of tricks. I had to remake the
contacts in the change over box using bits of silver sixpence's as
everything else burnt out.

 

So now youre tie sports lots of XBR's ?

Certainly is, also had a Zundapp Bella, one had to go and i only kept the
'letta as it was a 250 as opposed to a 200

No water cooling at all. As for wanting to swap ends? Only above 80

Thats the one
--
Donegal Paul
Maico Letta 247cc - We have the technology.
Lambretta Li186 - We have some more technology.
Eibar Li186 - aka "The Hamster".
Vespa T5 Mark I
www.thepilgrimssc.co.uk
www.iowcaravans.co.uk
www.ride2006.co.uk

 

No spares lying about perchance
The 277 was essentially the same Ive been told other than because of the way
the torques delivered was ideal for a sidecar

Thankfully, Ive been able to source a mint one Mind you not at the stage
of making sure it works yet so still could be fecked
--
Donegal Paul
Maico Letta 247cc - We have the technology.
Lambretta Li186 - We have some more technology.
Eibar Li186 - aka "The Hamster".
Vespa T5 Mark I
www.thepilgrimssc.co.uk
www.iowcaravans.co.uk
www.ride2006.co.uk

 

No chance it was when I was 16 and that was .........
a long time ago!

I might have a photo or two

For a scooter it went like a rocket. It was the one photographed in MCN
towing a motorcycle combination out of a ditch on the Dragon Rally in
1962. That was before I got it.