beep beep! (Piaggio Vespa PX125)

Member Name: Collywobs

Product:	Piaggio Vespa PX125
Date:	04/08/00 (3626 review reads)
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Advantages: easy to drive, cheap to run, lots of freedom

Disadvantages: other drivers ignorance

I saw this section and it just brought back many happy scootering memories, made me think about the lovely px125 I had.
At least 13 years ago I was mad about vespa scooters, my first was a little pk50 which did nothing but give me grief, probably due to it being old when I bought it for £30
It did last me a few years until I was old enough to upgrade to a 125.
Upgrade I did, there was no way I could afford a brand new scooter, so hunting for a decent second hand one was a task in itself. Eventually I found one that I just had to have. It was a Vespa PX125cc and customised with a gorgeous gold respray, upholstered seat, backrest, chrome crash bars, and a built in radio cassette, this was buit in to the butty box at the front. So the deal had to be done, I parted with £250 got a cover note and drove home on it. Pure joy and freedom.
The scooter took me everywhere, it was so cheap to run, and not very hard to maintain, I learnt how to change and clean the spark plugs, do the oil filters and change the oil.
The vespa is a very easy scooter to drive, the gears and clutch are on the handlebars and you have one brake on the floor panel and one on the other handle bar.
Sadly my scootering days were not to last, after having a pretty nasty accident the scooter was wrote off, I just never got another one. How I wish I did.

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