New ride bee-yotches!

[Rogue]

......not as fast as you'd hope.  Which is the problem with all these maxi scoots.  40-50hp pulling 500lbs does that.
Trade off is the effortless handling (super low c.o.g.), auto transmission (if yer into that), large standard luggage compartment.

Can it pull away easily from SoCal suburban traffic?  You know, V8 SUVS, V6 Minivans, 300 bhp sedans?

Boy this site is full of sex-starved guys!  

[Big D]

Boy this site planet is full of sex-starved guys!  

Fixed.

I can't handle the dining room chair seating position, so I make do with my KLR.

[bluepoof]

Woohoo new ride!!

Oh, and yeah, your girlfriend's hot, too.

[OrangeSVS]

Woohoo new ride!!

Oh, and yeah, your girlfriend's hot, too.

Poofy has spoken.      



LMAO

[atadaskew]

Can it pull away easily from SoCal suburban traffic?  You know, V8 SUVS, V6 Minivans, 300 bhp sedans?

Boy this site is full of sex-starved guys!  

Oh, no issues w/ that.  Every scoot over 150cc I've tried can pull away from traffic from a stop light.  If you treat the traffic light like a drag race, and whomever your lined up against doesn't... you win!

[JSharp]

LML Stella 4T

150cc of air cooled 9hp raw tiger's blood powah!
4 speed manual twist grip transmission.

It's been clocked by a radar sign at 60mph, so far is getting 120mpg average.

Mod, please move to the Buell section, and rename that Scooter Section.  At least they still make these things...
 

At the beach:



At Salt's Cure, Hollywood,  for breakfast, with the gf and a Duc MS riding buddy:

I let Denis ride the Stella, I rode the PX.

Um... Great scooters!  Any more pics of the GF?
 

[Rincewind]

Mod, please move to the Buell section, and rename that Scooter Section.  At least they still make these things...
 

Scooter section? Sounds good to me.

At Salt's Cure, Hollywood,  for breakfast, with the gf and a Duc MS riding buddy:

Not to take away from your hot gf (who clearly wants another Ducati in the garage), what are the years and engine sizes on those three Vespas?  Are the manual transmissions optional on the new ones?

[Orson]

Not to take away from your hot gf (who clearly wants another Ducati in the garage), what are the years and engine sizes on those three Vespas?  Are the manual transmissions optional on the new ones?

You're losing him.

Vespa riders don't deal in engine sizes but in how many bottles of chianti can fit in the wicker basket on back.

[Rincewind]

You're losing him.

Vespa riders don't deal in engine sizes but in how many bottles of chianti can fit in the wicker basket on back.

Huh, I would have guessed they are measured in mirror and headlight capacities.  Sorry, it's a whole different world to me.  

[919]

Huh, I would have guessed they are measured in mirror and headlight capacities.  Sorry, it's a whole different world to me.  

AAAAAAH!!!!  Youths!!!!!  

Did they all show up on just 3 scooters?  Impressive.

[Rogue]

Oh, no issues w/ that.  Every scoot over 150cc I've tried can pull away from traffic from a stop light.  If you treat the traffic light like a drag race, and whomever your lined up against doesn't... you win!

Thanks.

[atadaskew]

You're losing him.

Vespa riders don't deal in engine sizes but in how many bottles of chianti can fit in the wicker basket on back.

Wicker basket?  You're thinking of someone in a Ural sidecar or MGB..

Nah, depending on region it's Baby Cham (UK) or , forgive me for saying this, PBR (US).

I'm preeeeety sure Chianti is carried by Guzzi Cali riders..

And just because:

[Mastros2]

Mod, please move to the Buell section, and rename that Scooter Section.  At least they still make these things...
 

Haha!  THAT was funny! Congrats on that kick-ass ride!

[Mastros2]

I have the same helmet, and I'm hot...at least I think so when I'm drunk.

I think you are hot too Craig. I'm sober...

[swingset]

I think you are hot too Craig. I'm sober...

I'll pray for you.

[atadaskew]

 what are the years and engine sizes on those three Vespas?  Are the manual transmissions optional on the new ones?

The one on the left is a 2005 Vespa PX 150 Serie America (500 made - just a cosmetic thing though).  It is an air cooled single cylinder 150cc 2 stroke.  Manual 4 speed shift. Not CA legal per se, butt their are ways to get things registered eg brought into CA by someone who bought it while living out of state, then moved to CA.

Middle bike is a 2007 Vespa 250 GTS.   Single cylinder 4 stroke liquid cooled 250 cc fuel injection w/ auto transmission (CVT).

Bike on right is a 2010 LML Stella -  150cc single cylinder, air cooled 4 stroke.  Manual 4 speed transmission.

It is the only new CA legal manual transmission scoot available.  LML also makes a 2T version for markets outside CA.

Vespa does not offer any new manual transmission scoots in the US.  IN Europe they just re-released the PX150 for 2011, which is near to identical to my 2005 PX.  Except it will be smogged down..

[Rincewind]

Thanks for the details.  I am not that familiar with scooters, and thought the LML was a Vespa.  

I will confess this thread made me look for my nearest Vespa dealer.  

[atadaskew]

Thanks for the details.  I am not that familiar with scooters, and thought the LML was a Vespa.  

I will confess this thread made me look for my nearest Vespa dealer.  

LML was licensed to make Vespas for Piaggio in India for the Asian market until (I think) the early 2000s.
Piaggio then opted out, but LML continued to build them but under their own brand name.

In the US they are sold by the Genuine Scooter company:
http://www.genuinescooters.com/dealers.html