strangeangel

If you stand outside your gaff right now and listen carefully you'll probably hear me applauding... using a redundant fire extinguisher to seat a tubeless tyre - if that isn't the Autoshite way then I don't know what is 😎

If you stand outside your gaff right now and listen carefully you'll probably hear me applauding... using a redundant fire extinguisher to seat a tubeless tyre - if that isn't the Autoshite way then I don't know what is 😎

If you stand outside your gaff right now and listen carefully you'll probably hear me applauding... using a redundant fire extinguisher to seat a tubeless tyre - if that isn't the Autoshite way then I don't know what is 😎

Valve was out, I wasn't using a ratchet strap, I don't have a compressor any more (did have until recently but sold as it was in the shed never used.)
I was thinking about going out and buying a compressor earlier but instead scored some free fire extinguishers, emptied out this one and bodged a valve in the hose.
80psi with my track pump in the fire extinguisher and on she popped. 

Still a lot of work to pump the bastard up to pressure so will be keeping an eye out for a compressor in the long term I think.

Not arsed really... in the 21st century we should be doing away with the lot of them, both the privileged by birth and 14th rate actresses/Jerry Springer escapees alike.
 

Have you got a compressor? You're welcome to borrow mine if not.
 

@UltraWomble here's my Velosolex, it's a 1964 2200 model. Original paint and everything!
 

 

Quite agree. We should be a republic in this day and age. Royals are an outdated anachronism. That House of bloody Lords can get in the sea as well.

Not arsed really... in the 21st century we should be doing away with the lot of them, both the privileged by birth and 14th rate actresses/Jerry Springer escapees alike.
 

My money's on either of the Kents; they have a rep for being well up their own arses; not naming is bollocks, she's doing exactly what she's moaning at the shitrags for, peddling gossip.

Between you and me, I think someone's pissed in it.
 
https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/3727870717291295
 

Bit more on the no spark 125. 
Dug out the immo box from behind the glovebox.
The wiring to it wasn't looking too clever:

On further inspection/prodding, one of them has turned to dust. 

I am giving up on the immobiliser as all the wiring between the cdi and immo checks out with a multimeter, it's got +12v in all the right places and with everything connected including that broken wire it's still giving a flash code that says no communication so maybe the immo box is dead?
You can get an aftermarket cdi with no immobiliser but they're about £70 so would blow my theoretical budget of ≈£0, luckily Piaggio also did this engine in other models without an immobiliser so I have a CDI from a pre-leader Beverley 125 on the way for £20.

So what did I win?



The big one is a Vespa GTS 250ie and the small one is an ET4 125. 
To be honest, I wasn't really looking for 2 bikes, but the 125 came up as a suggested item on the finshed item page for the two fiddy, and was located not far away from it so after some back and forth with the seller a suitably derisory offer was accepted. 
The 250 seems in decent mechanical order but has a lot of dents, scratches, repainted bits etc. 
The guy used to commute on it but it's been sat for about a year. Only things I could see to stop it getting an MOT were a sticky throttle and a non working brake light switch. I've fixed those now so I'll take it for test tomorrow.
The 244cc fuel injected powerhaus seems fine:

The chap was at pains to point out to me that the topbox fitting was something he'd done himself and not factory, tbh I might have figured that out myself.

The 125 is much more familiar RANK MOPED territory, having been sat for 5 years. It also has a pretty impressive compliment of dents and even the rare moss option. 


A quick attempt with a jump pack shows it turns over but seems to have neither spark or fuel. The carb rubber thing doesn't look great either from an initial inspection.

If I can get it going fairly easily I will try and get it MOT'd and either sell it on or offer it to my wife who has shown some interest in a rank moped of her very own.
Thanks very much to @Rave for inspecting the 250 for me.

More later.

Yeah the tyre is for the GTS250, I put some pictures in my thread.

ECP are the new MFI, they'd have a sale for the patron saint of fucking bus tickets.

Whoever originally said that the camera never lies clearly hadn't met an estate agent.

Possibly also a Court Order to get YouTube to help reveal the identity of "the bearded explorer" might be of assistance. After all, trespassers can be sued....

One can only hope that while these people are "testing the waters" that they either drown or are eaten by a shark.
I'd never answer an ad that says that. One of the many hallmarks of an idiot.

Between you and me, I think someone's pissed in it.
 
https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/3727870717291295
 

Between you and me, I think someone's pissed in it.
 
https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/3727870717291295
 

https://www.donedeal.ie/vintagecars-for-sale/bedford-cf250/27477813



How nice is this?
Up for auction next month 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1962-vauxhall-Victor-fb/284212036299?hash=item422c5b82cb:g:Wr4AAOSwZpJgRkHT

On the prowl for a people carrier of some description and stumbled across this, not practical enough for my purposes but dear god, if only I had balls.
Cant imagine you’d even lose money hoofing around in this for six months and moving it in.
Appreciating classic, etc, etc.
https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202102088843889
 

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/430517298038957/?ref=facebook_story_share