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Vedere La Differenza!

Mark Brown’s Barn Find

The First Time Shane Saw a Vespa

Wayne’s Hexagon

Motorcycling as Therapy

A Few Miles in the Summer of 2010/11

The (Club Manuals) Handover

April 2011 Issue of NZ Classic Scooter Club Magazine

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I got a phone call one day from a friend forwhom I recently completed an Iso Milanoscooter restoration.

I had asked him to keep an eye out for anotherIso project for me, as I had come to admire hisscooter immensely after a nut and boltrestoration. He informed me there was an Isolocated in Kerikeri advertised in a magazine. Isaid great, and almost as a footnote hementioned that the same advertiser had aDucati Cruiser scooter!

“Yeah Right !” was my response, thinking he’strying to wind me up. But no, he was insistentthat was what the ad said. So this ad, how oldis it? Oh, only a month or two. Well hurry upand give me the phone number!!

My heart was now racing so much that the veinsin my forehead must have been close tobursting! I hastily phoned the number. I was

Barn Findhardly able to contain my excitement, andanxiety because the ad was so old (why didn’the phone me earlier?!). Anyway, the nice ladythat answered the phone assured me that thescooter was still there and it was definitely aCruiser, as the badges were still on thebodywork! At this stage I was almost ablithering idiot lying on the floor trying toremain conscious and coherent. With the phonefirmly stuck to my ear I asked how much, notcaring what she was going to say next, as I wouldhave borrowed money to buy it! $600 for theDucati and the Iso was $400. I said sold. I willhave my brother pick it up tomorrow!

As you can see from the photos the scooterswere a mess, but that’s the way they alwaysare when they’ve been thrashed and left in abarn for decades! She told me the Ducati was

The restored Ducati The restored Iso

Continued on page 4 and see also photo onpage 13

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her late father’s and she could remember 30years ago riding around the farm on the backwith Dad!

It was a nut and bolt restoration, with a fewparts needing to be made from scratch. Ringgear for the flywheel and pinion for the startermotor, pillion seat, sidecover latches, etc. Theengine was a straightforward single cylinder 4stroke pushrod job to re-ring, bearings and sealsoff the shelf, new valve guides made from

scratch, all surfaces planed, and ports openedout and blueprinted. I wanted this puppy tobark! It does. The automatic transmission wasanother matter, as there is no workshopmanual for these scooters. Not even fromDucati in Italy! The local transmissionspecialists were too frightened to look at it, soI stripped it myself, taking lots of photos alongthe way. Rebuilding was easier than I imagined!It goes really great for a 1950 Italian scooter.

Mark Brown

Barn Find (continued)

Editor’s RamblingsAs many of you will know our formermembership secretary and scooter luminaryJess Corbett is one of the chosen on thegovernment’s Motorcycle Levy Advisory Council.These are the people who are going to advisethe government about what can be done toreduce the accident rate for motorists on twowheels.

As it stands $30 of each and every scooter ormotorcycle registration fee (about $3m to$3.5m per year) will be directed at accidentreduction initiatives. Whether you ride a 50ccscooter or a 1.2 liter racing bike, the cost isthe same. One can imagine that a singlesurcharge is not all that evenhanded. After all,surely most serious accidents involve noviceson high powered bikes, or is that older guystrying to regain their youth by buying a powerfulbike after a break of 20years or more fromriding, or is that commuters riding their 50ccscooter on the motorway, or young fellas withbare feet doing crazy things on mopeds?

One of the basic items of information currentlymissing is the break down in the accident rateby type of scooter or motorbike, the experienceand age of the motorist involved in the accident, or for that matter if the fault behind theaccident was with the scooterist/biker or withthe other party involved. While the longer termaim should be to beef up the data recorded bythe police accident investigators, someinformation, albeit anecdotal must be availableand I would urge that this is sought by way ofinterviewing current accident investigators.

Another source of information would beinsurance companies, who cover their risk bycharging according to the risk their actuariesassess it to be. Given the big range ofinsurance quotes ($900 to $2,800) I recently gotfor car insurance for one of my sons (20 yearold with a clean driver’s licence, five year old1.3litre hatchback parked off road in theAuckland suburb of Parnell) this latter line ofenquiry may not be all that useful.

Here’s my perspective on the issue of injuriesto riders of two wheeled vehicles in the eventof a crash. In an accident a rider of a twowheeled vehicle is more likely to be injured (ascompared with the driver of a car) and theseverity of the injury is likely to be greater ifthe accident occurs when travelling at a fasterspeed. The trick is to provide the scooter ormotorcycle rider with protection in the event ofa crash appropriate to the severity of the crash.

As many of you will have observed 50kph canand is achieved by many cyclist without motorpower when going downhill. And the injuriesare just as likely to be as serious if they comeoff or bump into something at that speed as ifthey were on a scooter or motorcycle. As manyof you will also know a moped is currentlydefined under NZ traffic regulations as havingan engine with max power of 2kW and amaximum design speed of no greater than50kph – no longer are mopeds required to havepedals as the name suggests. Currently a cyclehelmet is deemed to provide a cyclist withsufficient protection against head injuries in the


event of a crash. Following the logic of injuryseverity being related to the speed beingtravelled at the time of a crash, would not itmake sense to insist that the minimum headprotection for both cyclists and moped ridersshould be the same, namely a cycle helmet.

At higher speed more protection is needed, andmany scooter riders as well as motorcycleriders wear protective leathers or otherspecially designed bike gear, as well as themandatory motorcycle helmet. Perhaps itshould be mandatory to wear such gear onscooters or bikes that are capable of more thansay 80kph to minimise back injury and extensivelacerations to the body in the event of a crashat this speed. Most riders of fast scooters ormotorcycles opt for full face helmets for similarsafety reasons. Now, any low powered scooteror motorcycle is capable of speeds greater than80kph if driven down a long enough steep road,but the probability of a two wheeled vehicle witha rated power output of less than 10bhpexceeding 80kph most of the time whentravelling on open roads is relatively low. (Atleast that is true for me on my 1964 TriumphTigress).

So here is how the recommendation from meto the Advisory Board is shaping up onmandatory protective riding gear:

Moped ridersMoped ridersMoped ridersMoped ridersMoped riders (and cyclists) – cycle helmets andhi-vis vests

ScScScScScootootootootootererererers and mots and mots and mots and mots and motorororororcycycycycyclclclclcle ridere ridere ridere ridere riders when thes when thes when thes when thes when themotive power is less than 10bhpmotive power is less than 10bhpmotive power is less than 10bhpmotive power is less than 10bhpmotive power is less than 10bhp – open facemotorcycle helmet, shoes and leather gloves

ScScScScScootootootootootererererers and mots and mots and mots and mots and motorororororcycycycycyclclclclcle ridere ridere ridere ridere riders when thes when thes when thes when thes when themotivmotivmotivmotivmotive poe poe poe poe powwwwwer is grer is grer is grer is grer is greateateateateater than 10bhper than 10bhper than 10bhper than 10bhper than 10bhp – full facemotorcycle helmet, armoured motorcycle suit,boots and gloves

Of course a cyclist wearing a full face helmetand racing leathers is likely to be betterprotected when he or she runs into some clownwho has opened a car door in their path, butthey are still likely to survive without horrendousinjury if their protective gear consists of a cyclehelmet only. Similarly, moped riders would bebetter protected in the event of a crash if theychoose to dress up. However my contention isthat the above listing provides a similar level ofprotection in the event of a crash over the range

of two wheeled riders. Is that of any interest toyour Advisory Council Jess?

Another difference between mopeds andmotorcycles is that WOFs are not required. Formopeds this is no different from push bikescapable of similar speed (when going downhill)as cycles are not required to have safety checksbefore being used on the road.

Earlier definitions of mopeds focused on theirengine size, but as is fairly well known manynew 50cc scooters are capable of producingmore than 2kW (about 2.7bhp) and some “50cc”scooters distributed in New Zealand even comeequipped with engines of greater engine cubiccapacity, and hence greater potential power. Itis my strongly held view that the traffic regswith regard to mopeds sold in this country needto be enforced to a much greater degree thanat present and that only scooters with a provenpower of 2kW or less should be allowed to beregistered as mopeds. There’s another thoughtfor the Advisory Council.

DavidEditor

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The First Time I Saw a Vespaby Shane O’Learyby Shane O’Learyby Shane O’Learyby Shane O’Learyby Shane O’Leary

(This is the start of a story about Shane’songoing love affair with the Vespa marque, thediscovery of a gritty Douglas Vespa and his wifeending up with a small frame 90

......to be continued, Ed)

Even though it was nearly a quarter of a centuryago, I still recall the first time I became awareof such a thing as a Vespa. It was 1986. I was18 and had just left home in Napier to becomea student in Palmerston North.

There leaning against the outside wall of thelocal Super Liquorman was what I now knowto be small frame Vespa. It had some kind ofpresence about it that slowed my walking paceand I clearly remember thinking “that’s cool”. Ithought nothing further of it as I tried to decidebetween a dozen bottles of Joseph Khutze orRheineck as the companies producing thesebeers were involved in a price war and a dozenwas down to $11.99. I just couldn’t do it andspent $15 on a dozen cans of Tui and gave nota second glance to the scooter.

A few days later I dashed across the busyPioneer Highway for more of the sociallubricant. The lights changed half way across

so I had to wait on the traffic island in the middleof the road. Feeling a bit vulnerable to theoncoming traffic, I moved in behind the polesupporting the traffic lights. The pole alsoprovided me with a means of support.

I heard it first. Looking up I saw this beardeddude with an open face helmet on that samewhite scoot. He was leaning hard into the cornerand I was so close I could have kicked him withmy Nomads. Turned out he was known asGraeme the Bastard. He worked in thebottlestore and I thought he and the scoot wereas cool as fuck.

My only ride at the time was an old split screenKombi with so much rust it was called TheCheese Grater. It was prone to battery failure.After getting help to push start it yet again onemorning I mentally resolved to get a Vespa.Actually I had got quite good at push starting itmyself. I usually backed it up on arrival homeand parked on a flat bit just above a slight risein the driveway. In the morning I would turnthe key to the first click, push the Kombi to getit rolling down the slope then nip around theside and jump in the driver’s seat and quicklyslam it into second gear. There was no roomfor error...but I digress.

About two weeks after mydecision to get a scoot Isomehow ended up in thedriveway of a guy calledCameron Miller in Te AweAwe Ave, Palmerston Northlooking at a red 150 Super.(plate 103QD). He was firm on$600 stating it had a newpiston and rings. As I ummedand ahhhed I saw Graeme theBastard walking up the driveso I quickly sealed the dealwith a handshake. Later on Iwithdrew cash for the very firsttime using an EFTPOS card.Prior to that I used the old Post

Make me an offer


Office savings account that was set up when Iwas at school. Man I sound old.

Into the Kombi it went. First ride was to pickup some beers. Graeme deflated mesomewhat saying it was only worth $450. Ismiled inside as my young mind reasoned if hethought it was worth buying (price aside) thenit must be cool.

I met a girl (now my wife) about the same timeas this purchase and still have both. It was shewho brought me the Haynes manual...somethingelse I had never seen. (I’ve still got thattoo...with grease marks all over the Brakessection).

I‘m now 43 and after a few total engine rebuildsI’m not too shabby about the internal workingsof a Vespa, but at the time I didn’t even knowhow to fix my first problem...a brokenaccelerator cable. In my ignorance I didn’t seethe cut away area specially designed forremoval purpose. I forced (bent) apart the twopieces of metal inside the headset... the bit thatholds the brass barrel end of thecable...installed the cable and then used vicegrips to close it up again! The bodging hadbegun.

Luckily that cable lasted nearly ten years andby then my munting methods had gone and mybeer choice had matured (Macs Gold).

Scooter number two arrivedabout ten years ago. It wasevery vintage scooterist’sdream....the fabled ‘barn find’.I was on the hunt for a rearwindow for a Ford Ecconovanafter a cyclist had gonethrough it whilst it was parkedoutside my house...but that’sanother story

Checking out a wreck inEdgecumbe I had a nosey inthe hay barn. All I could seesticking out was a grey handgrip. Hmmmm...that lookslike a Vespa handle. Pullingthe bales revealed a complete1958 152L2 Douglas Vespa.

“How much for the scooter”...”make me anoffer”...”$20"...done.

The piston ported motor was seized hard...theclutch basket had exploded ...and the caseswere cracked. I refuse to restore this scoot asit shows every battle scar and is pure NZ scoothistory. A rebuilt 150 super motor sees thisscoot to every Classic meet possible.

Scoot number three was purchased (ahem) “formy wife”. I had heard rumour of a guy just outof Napier who had a shed full of scoots. Havinggrown up in Napier I did fair bit of sleuthingfrom Whakatane where I now live. Bit by bitinfo built. “He owns a tyre shop” was a constantlead from various sources. “He lives out atWhirinaki” said others. The closest I got to aname was “Ritchie”. I phoned all the tyre placespossible. No Ritchies anywhere...he may aswell be on Mars!

Giving up, I decided to do the four hour driveback home. I kid you not but I got a flat tyre inthe Ecconovan right out side the Frank AllenTyres (F.A.T) place in Napier at about 4.30 pm.(I’d tried them on the phone earlier that day).A short dumpy dude served me and his nametag said “Lionel”.

Lionel... as in Lionel Ritchie, lead singer of theCommodores thought I??? Nahhhh couldn’tbe...but yes...I’d found my man...and ultimatelya shed full of scoots.

Me with Lambretta and Vespa mates


I followed him to his house and we arrived juston dark. He opened the big double doors of anunpowered outside shed. In the dim light I couldsee twenty scoots or more.

“You can have any one of them for $500”...andthis bit still freaks me out to this day. All Vespaswere the same to me then. I had no idea therewere different models, likeSS90s...GS160s...Rally 200s...which thinkingback probably were in that shed! I just grabbedthe one closest to the door, having no real choicebecause Lionel wanted his dinner and it wasgetting late.

So far away from home

I’m not sure about Lionel...but those scootsmust be still around. I tried to find him abouttwo years ago. The beach road he lived on waspretty typical - 70s built, double story housesall looking the same and since I had followedhim there in dim light, I had no idea which houseit was.

So that’s how I (sorry, my wife) ended up with asmall frame 90, now with a Polini 115 top end,a Malossii up gear kit and a Leo Vince exhaust).

A trip to the snow


Wayne’s HexagonSome information from Wayne Davison abouthis Hexagon:

I’m always getting asked how big the engineis. It’s a 150 cc water cooled two stroke unit.On full throttle the temperature gauge nevergoes above 60°C. Motul 710 two stroke oil andPrestone coolant are used. The suspension isa bit like a Vespa with the suspension on theleft hand side of the wheels. The frontsuspension has a trailing arm while at the rearthere is a shock connected to the transmissiontunnel. The boot is big enough for a weekend’strip away.

At the moment the tyres are Continental Zippysbut these are no longer made in 10 inch. I havea new Zippy front tyre in store. The rear tyrehas been on for about 3,600km and I have aused Cheng Shin rear tyre that may have to goon one day. The Hexagon has a front disc brakeand a drum brake at the rear. The brakes areadequate but not all that good. Thetransmission is via an auto belt drive. When Iturn the indicators on there is a peeping noise.I could turn it off if I wanted to, but I haven’t.

On a recent ride with the Ulysses, one of theboys went past me on his Ninja at about 180km/h. Mostly bikers just go by me at about 120to130 against my 110.

In January I visited a friend on the Hexagon.As I started up to leave Steve said he could seea puddle under the scooter. I didn’t worry aboutit but as I was coming up the Kamo bypass Inoticed the fuel gauge was reading a lot lowerthan it should. As I went downhill the petrolwarning light came on. I diverted to KamoShell, decided to chance it, put some petrol inand rode home. I looked at the bike the nextmorning and found the hose has cracked whereit goes onto the carburettor. When I went toremove it, it just fell apart in my hands. A jobfor the Enzed hose doctor methinks.

The other day as I was ambling through theInternet I can across this amazing scooter – withan all powerful 75 HP, 90° V-twin, 839 ccengine, 4 valves per cylinder, a double cradlesteel frame, a motorcycling type of swing-armand chain final drive. These are the specialingredients for the most powerful and fastestscooter in the world. Top speed 120 mph! It’sa Gilera 2010 GP 800. Apparently it’s beenaround since 2007. This scooter is similar instyle to John West’s Gilera photographed in thelast mag. To my mind it looks more like amotorbike with its external alloy spar frame,and 16" wheel at the front and 15" at the rear.

Scooter ExtraordinaireJust think of the number of motorcycle youcould beat up on.


G’day. The other day I finally got around toattending the local Wellington scooter group whomeet at Fidels Cafe, Cuba St, on the firstWednesday of the month 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm. Itwas a warm night, a shorts type of night. So Irode in lightly clad and parked my bike next tohalf a dozen other scooters, thinking well here’sa reasonable turnout1. Anyway, I got to introducemyself to a couple of fellow scooterist, one ofwhom I presumably met at our Classic Rally (notthat either of us recall). A few days later(Sunday), I’m reliably told that a large group ofscooterist were seen heading off into the blueyonder.

Following our last newsletter call fornominations for the position of MembershipSecretary, I’m pleased to say we now have IanTolerton of Nelson (a Vespa owner) as our newMembership Secretary. Our former membershipsecretary Jess Corbett has been always full ofideas, well connected and with a great sense oforganisation. She is now able to retire at thetender age of - never you mind. Actually, we arenot loosing her services as she is now our‘Special Envoy’. It has no official recognitionwithin the club but she is on the ACC M/C LevyAdvisory Council and there’s nothing like havinga sympathetic ear on a Government appointedcommittee concerning scooterist (andmotorcyclists).

The last issue of the newsletter was in gloriouscolour which of course looked fantastic (thanksto Brian Spooner of Colour Copy and Print Ltdup in Auckland). We’ve had a bit of a think aboutthis, and would like to move to full colour.However, as always there’s a ‘fly in the ointment’and this costs a bit more than the previous greencover, black and white editions so we willprobably run with an outside colour sheet onlyin the short term.

Given our financial year is January to DecemberI’ve prepared a simple budget which shows thatbased on our current 90 members at $15 permember the Club will generate around $1,350over the next 12 months. The January full colour

newsletter cost $523 to produce and distribute.So three newsletters at $525 per issue equals$1,575, a loss of $225 and no room for otherexpenditure related to the website, or for thatmatter, anything else (e.g., calling cards for ourarea reps). Even if the Club was to remain withthe green cover, black and white print, the Clubwould still be pushed to met its basic expenditure.(Indeed we will be dipping into our savings ofaround $1,000 to pay for this edition of thenewsletter as we only have $162 in ready cash).

So what are the alternatives? Increasing ourmembership numbers will help but only over thelonger term. In the short term there is no gainand even possibly a loss for each newsletter costsaround $5 to 6 dollars per scooterist (given thesmall numbers I’ve not split our newsletter costsinto fixed and variable). So, it seems to me weneed to increase our subs.

If subs increased to $20 pa (free membershipfor committee as at present) then incomebecomes $1,720. If newsletters cost $1,600 pluswebsite domain names cost of $180 (which weare looking to reduce) we are still faced with aloss of around $60 let alone any another coststhat might be incurred.

It seems to me we need to increase our fees to$25 per member. Thus over a 12 month periodincome would be $2,150 (assuming no drop inmember numbers) and with expenditure of

President’s Rave

1

We did a bit better at the scoot meeting at Fidels on 6 April – a complement of seven turned up – Ed)


around $1,800 (newsletter, plus domain names,plus say $70 for miscellaneous expenditure) wewill have the chance of a small surplus of around$300 (which could be used to pay for callingcards).

So over the next few weeks I’ll be talking to ourcommittee and any of you who let me know whatyour thoughts are. (Note. The fees were lastincreased on 30 June 2003 some 8 years ago).

In late January, three of us (myself, Jess Corbett,and David Edmonds) got together to discuss theClassic Club. Some matters were operational(day-to-day stuff e.g. the Editor should beresponsible for all adverts - member adverts andtrade adverts). We need to find out how to havethe Club’s bank account requiring two ‘signatures’before funds are electronically release (currentlyany signatory can transfer funds). Other ideaswere more strategic, requiring discussion by thenew Committee. If you have any thoughts on thefollowing please let me know as the newCommittee will be making a decision soon onthese items (and any others that arise):

Membership subs. (See above from mydiscussion)

Next Rally - where, when and who will runthe rally

Calling (business) cards for our regional reps(and possibly anyone else who might wantthem)

Website/blog - who is to look after this(currently Jess, but is this a Membership Sec.role?)

Rally. Currently non-members have paid asmall fee of $5 - $10 dollars. Perhaps thisshould be increased to the same fee as the

membership fee so as to make it worth theirwhile to join the Club

New members. Should there be a joining fee.If so then perhaps an information pack couldbe sent to them containing?

So are there any hands going up to hold our nextrally this summer? Labour Weekend or maybelater in the summer period? After all, no handno rally!

Anyone interested in maintaining the content onthe blog website. It’s fairly easy (adding contentis similar to using Word) and Jess will help youdiscover how much fun it can be. Just give her aring on 04 389 9421 or email her [email protected] (Note you’ll needsome experience with the Internet - this isessential. If you were familiar with a continentmanagement system such as Wordpress thatwould a bonus but not essential as Jess will helpyou understand how it all works).

Phil Mansford (Area Rep, Wellington) has beenbeavering away on the question of scooterinsurance. He has had a response from SwanInsurance who provide motorcycle insurance formoderns and classics. Anyway, of particularinterest is this paragraph “Should your club wishto have an association with Swann Insurance, anyclub member who insures with Swann will receivea discounted premium as well as the clubreceiving a commission on all new business andrenewal business placed with us”. There is nominimum on how many club members insuringwith Swann. So watch this space. Once theCommittee has had a chance to read theassociated documentation we might decide topursue the matter.

PierreIl Presidente

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by Des Molloyby Des Molloyby Des Molloyby Des Molloyby Des Molloy

“Thank God they haven’t found a cure formotorcycling!” This is a refrain that I have oftrepeated. Non-motorcyclists just think you arebeing a bit melodramatic and giving a bit ofhype to your passion. Not so … motorcycling isone of the most wonderful medicines for thesoul ever discovered.

Recently I found a new hero, yet another to holdup as an inspiration. One single emotive photohas inspired me. I know nothing about the man… I don’t need to. 81 year old John Wilkinson iscaptured riding his 1914 AJS around theMcNamara Park racetrack at Mount Gambierin Australia. He is slightly hunched, eyes lookingwell ahead as he peels into a bend. I sense theemotions, as anyone who has punted amotorbike around a racetrack would. I knowthe bike won’t be very fast, but that doesn’tmatter. I feel the excitement, the intensity, Isense the competency and skill and I love thestyle and sheer panache of the moment.

I love also the imagined brotherhood behind theimage. I know the wonderful feelings he willbe experiencing. He is no longer a decrepitsenior citizen in his final twilight years, a figureto be helped through the days. No, he is ridingan old race bike around a racetrack … his heartwill be pounding and his spirits soaring, thecrowds cheering. He’ll be able to hear theunsilenced roar the single cylinder engine willbe throwing out behind him, the bike will beshuddering and twitching, he’ll be euphoric. Intwenty years time, I want to be that man,shooing the caregivers away, dropping theclutch and smoking off.

Motorcycling is a tactile, almost sensualexperience that is both active and passive. Yourinput and skill immeasurably contributes to theenjoyment. You participate in so many smallways. You put the bike exactly where you wantit in a corner by a series of tiny manoeuvres ofyour body. The moving of a buttock, a knee putout, a dropped shoulder, a weight transfer fromone foot peg to another, a twitch of the throttlehand, all affect where and how the bike tracks.It is your individual skill that does it. Youcounter-steer by pushing your right bar away

to turn right quickly. The bike starts to fall tothe right and without realizing it, you catch itwith a reactive adjustment, and together youglide and swish around bends. It is like balletwith a machine. With competence gained, it isuplifting. It is an extension of your body, not avehicle to be guided by remote controls ofsteering through a transfer box of worm gearand racks, pinions and the like. You thinkthrough bends, and the motorcycle listens tothose thoughts and movements reactively.

The passive component of motorcycling is theenvironment you ride through. You are in it, forbetter or for worse, be it wet, cold, miserable,hot, smelly or windy. There is an immediateconsciousness that you are in contact with. Youare not viewing through a TV-like window. Thisis part of what makes the whole experienceuplifting and sometimes joyous. Every ride isan adventure to be savoured, leaving behind theconstraints of the repetitiousness of oureveryday life. Some people think thatadventures are only done by adventurers, whichis so sad and inaccurate. Adventurers tend tobe elite athletes who drag husky dogs acrossfrozen wastelands (snacking on them whenhungry) or row tiny boats across large, openoceans. But reflect ... life is an adventure.Watch children as they discover in life, they rushto the next stage, corner, hill, whatever, withexcitement and eagerness ... because they havenever been there. They run ahead because theywant to find out what is around that next corner.Sadly we seem to lose that eagerness and thrillas we mature into the plateau that is so oftenour ‘grown-up’ state ... and then it is time toease up, and prepare for our own demise andtransfer to the next world.

After 45 years of riding these wondrousmachines across more than 50 countries, I stillthrill to the anticipation of a ride. TheresaWallach (In 1934 the first person to ride acrossthe Sahara Desert) says it beautifully.”When Ifirst saw a motorcycle, I got a message from it.It was a feeling - the kind of thing that makes aperson burst into tears hearing a piece of musicor standing awestruck in front of a fine work ofart. Motorcycling is a tool with which you canaccomplish something meaningful in your life.It is an art.”

Motorcycling as Therapy


There’s be a bit of loose talk at the last coupleof coffee meets I’ve been to about doing anoverseas excursion, so I’ve done a bit ofresearch and this is what I’ve come up with.Australia is closest. There’s the NationalScooter Rally held in Spring each year. Thisyear it’s in Perth, next year – 2012 – it’s inBrisbane. It’s probably too close to organiseanything this year and too far away for next year.The other con is they’re apparently quite snobbyabout what constitutes a scooter. It’s beensuggested an auto or having been assembledby someone called Raj doesn’t count …

Then there’s the Stanthorpe Rally ( http://barrelofapples.org/ ). It’s been held inStanthorpe in Queensland (220km south ofBrisbane) for the last couple of years in mid-March and has been hugely successful, withscooterists coming from the US even. I’ve beenin touch with one of the organisers and he’skeen to have some NZers – so keen in fact he’swilling to consult on dates for next year. I thinkthat might be an option.

About getting there… I spoke last year to a blokewho runs a company called Get Routed thatspecialises in shipping bikes and scootersacross the Tasman. He has purpose built racksthat fit inside standard shipping containers buthe’ll only move bikes/scooters in multiples of

10 (that’s how many fit in a container). Hequoted me $1500AUD per bike returnChristchurch to Brisbane. We’d have to get thescooters to Christchurch ourselves and get themready for the container – I assume that meansdraining fuel and steam cleaning all the weedsoff so Australian border control people don’thave hissy fits. It could be quite costly gettingscoot and rider there and back (although if youbooked now on Air NZ it would cost $500 return)but then it might be a lot of fun. Apart from theAustralian beer.

Des Molloy, a lifetime motorcyclist andauthor of the well reviewed traveladventure “The Last Hurrah” was oncedescribed as a peregrinator. He prefersdreamer and schemer … or perhaps mostaccurately, muse. His dream job wouldbe a position as an evangelist bringingtwo-wheeled enlightenment into non-motorcyclists lives.

Doug has been having some thoughtsabout joining in with an AustralianScooter Rally:

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A biker gang roared into Dunedin yesterday.Well, actually, it was more of a putter than aroar. Vespa-straddling Wellingtonians ThorntonPeck, Aaron Gill, Laura Feasey and Sarah deWattignar arrived in Dunedin yesterday on a tourof the South Island. The riders are all membersof the New Zealand Classic Scooter Club andWellington Scootwell Club.

“Last year we went up to Cape Reinga, so wethought we’d do a South Island tour this year,”human resources officer Laura Feasey said.

The 4000km trip started in Wellington and tookthe quartet down the West Coast to MilfordSound and to the Catlins before arriving inDunedin yesterday.

“We’ve done about 2400km so far, to Dunedin,”teacher Sarah de Wattignar said. “The rain atMilford was fantastic. All the waterfalls andstreams were going off.”

There had been plenty of drama along the way,analyst Aaron Gill said. “We got stuck in GoldenBay when the Waitapu River came up and wehad to wait till it came back down. There was afoot of water on the road.”

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“We’ve had a few flat tyres and some electricalissues and some loose wheel nuts, but that’sabout it,” sign language interpreter ThorntonPeck said. “And the splines on my kick startstripped, so I’ve been having to crash start it.”The quartet also wear earplugs against the loudbuzz of the Italian two-stroke engines.

“Scooters are just so much fun. It’s a great wayto travel, because you feel connected withthings,” Mr Peck said. “They’re veryapproachable and friendly vehicles. Not somany people come up and talk to you whenyou’re sitting on a Harley-Davidson.”

“They’re aesthetically pleasing, as well. You canmake them very individual and original,” Ms deWattignar said. “We’ve met four or five randomgroups of Italians who went `Oh, Vespas’!”

Flat tyres and electrical issues permitting, theriders plan to be back in Wellington on January16.

PS The return trip was unfortunately marredby a crash, due I understand to a bumble bee -Ed


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With the restoring bug underway on the BSABantam, I realised that if I wanted to get thebike back to “as new” condition, it was goingto take more of my time than I had anticipatedas I did not know where or even if it waspossible to obtain replacement parts. Bikes hadlong ago ceased to feature in my hobbies. Oneday, at work, I had a visit, from a salesrepresentative and we got to talking about myBantam project. He nipped out to his car andreturned, not with sales brochures but with backcopies of “The Old Bike Mart” monthly paper.Wow! This opened Pandora’s Box for me andas I poured over every article and advert, seeingold machines that had once, many years ago,been my envy and desire, now available wholeor as bits and from many sources.

Armed with the latest OBM paper together witha list of the nearest shops to me I started ajourney, which happily is still continuing,discovering various Aladdin’s caves of obsoletebikes and bits. Then the many auto jumbles andeventually the shows, culminating with thewonderful and inspiring Stafford Classics Show.

During this re-entry to the old bike repair job Ibecame aware of just how much prices hadrocketed for even the smallest bits, that’s if youcould find them. So the Bantam job was slowlyput on the back burner whilst I evaluated allthe parts I either need to replace, or to savemoney, restore some way or another.

Looking back at this early period of myrestoration hobby I recall the many visits we,my long suffering wife, alongside, made to lotsof premises and the great help and often longstanding friendships we struck up.Oh and thesales representative who started this trail, wellhe, Keith Walker became a life time friend, orshould I say adversary, taunter, micky taker, youknow the type always telling you what you’vedone wrong after you have done it! A great pal,riding and drinking companion and long timeNACC member.

This brings me into the moped stages of mybikes, for Keith also told me about the NationalAutocycle and Cyclemotor Club,( NACC) which

I joined. As mentioned previously Mopeds andother low powered machines had never beenof any interest to me in my youthful days butthen looking through the pages of my firstissues of Buzzing magazine (the NACC housemag) tempted me to explore this mode of twowheel fun, after all they should be cheap, easyto find and spares must be in abundance,mustn’t they?

I remembered seeing such a bike leaningagainst a shed in the back garden of a Velocettecollector, who lives in the same village as I do.I enquired if he still had it and if so could I buy itoff him. How stupid was this as I had no idea ofthe make, model, year or most important, thecondition. I just wanted something running andquickly. How wrong was this to be.

A couple of days later the chap delivered thisrusting, sad looking Norman Nippy Mark 1 tomy house on the back of his pick up truck

“You can have it for free” he told me, “but I thinkit’s been lying around for too long to do anythingwith” he added as He and I lifted the hulk ontothe driveway.

I stood looking in amazement at the thing thatstood there, on the rusted stand.

Then, as if in a cartoon, whilst we both watched,it very slowly, with a soft sigh collapsed until itsat on the engine casing and the wheel hubcentres, everything below that level,i.e, thebottom halve of the wheels, mudguards, stand,exhaust system, turned to rust dust!!

“Well that’s that” he said, “give me a lift backonto the truck and I will take it to the tip”.

I pondered for a few minutes and boldlydeclared that he should leave it and I would“Restore it!” He gave me one of those looks,followed by the question that we NACCmembers get used to,

“Why” he asked

I could not think of a suitable answer.

He was still laughing and shaking his head ashe headed away from me and my heap of rust.

The Moped Collection Connection

Continued on page 17


A Few Miles in the Summer of 2010/11by Pierre Woolridge

Summer. Humph. It started OK with ourNational Classic Scooter Rally, followed amonth later with the National ClassicMotorcycle Rally - at the same place (Howcreepy is that?). Then some indifferent weather,very wet in places. Taranaki lost interest inbeing declared a drought zone, and we didn’thear much more from the Waikato about beinga drought zone, and as for Northland I thinksquish, squish was probably herd (sic) more than‘slip, slop, slap’ (to quote a certain suntanadvertisement).

Vespa

Vespa at the classic scooter rally

Anyway by the time late February came thingswere on the up and up. Friday the 18th saw mecrack the whip and I was off on my stead. On,on on, past all those cars caught up in the usualFriday afternoon exodus (there’s no way thatyou can call it a ‘run’) to escape the city life.Through Sanson, past the spot where my Tigressdied (still in disgrace - l’ll rip it apart later, sayjust before summer) without missing a beat,on to Wanganui (founded in 1840) to mymother’s place for tea and a bed - no need forsympathy this time.

Next day up the Parapara’s, which are nice andtwisty. (The road was completed in 1917running from Wanganui to Raetihi). Oh yes, amate from Marton came up with me on hismodern (sniff). After many years of whizzingpast the turn-off we turned right into Field’sTrack (named after H. C. Field, who exploredand surveyed the district between 1869 and the1880s. Aren’t I a mine of historical information?

Actually I stumbled across this website http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/whanganui-places/4).

Well, anyway, we turned right - bump, bump,bump. Yes, a rather rough road despite beingtar-sealed, but still worth the detour, up anddown, left and right, narrow but not a car insight - but unless you’re a masochist not a roadfor ‘speedies’. Eventually, we pop-out nearishto Ohakune in time for lunch. Which remindsme, as we were whizzing through the Parapara’swe passed some 19 cruisers (you know thoseghastly looking low-slung motorcycles withacres of chrome) blasting along at all of 40 mphon the flat. Well, we soon left them behind.Talking of blasting along, I did have a moment- I had no idea I was leaning over so far. Justslight scrap noise, no wobble.

After a leisurely lunch (two pies, a filled breadroll, a bowl of chips and - hang on this is fortwo of us - and a cup of tea each) we carried ontowards Cambridge. No rush, as we weren’tdue at our friend’s place until later in theafternoon. As we were filling up for petrol (the

Map of the Paraparas


price of which now equals what it use to costto fill the car despite being a much smallerpetrol tank) a late 1970’s or early 1980’sLaverda pulls up and fuel goes in at the front ofthe faring. Most odd - according to the ownerthe lack of a fuel cap on the petrol tank confusespeople.

Our friend lives in a large house complete witha few sheep and a BBQ, and apart from thepesky natives (sandflies) we had a great tea withhis family and friends on the deck overlookingthe swimming pool.

The next day, being the Sunday, we had aleisurely start (there are now 4 of us), headingoff to the motorcycle races at Paeroa (20th ofFebruary). I’d never been to the races herebefore so it was all new for me. No scooterracing but plenty of motorcycles and sidecars.What intrigued me was that half the motorcycleracing was for classics (in the broadest senseof the word)!

Sidecar - Paeroa Races

The next major trip that I completed was downto… But first I had to check my toy. Tyre pressure- OK (after a wee bit of air was added), oil levelsOK, tappets OK (actually I only set them 2,000miles ago). Yep everything is fine. Oh yes, I’dbetter get a WOF and a registration sticker -no problems. D day arrives. Off to the ferry. Imanage to ride on fairly soon after riding alongwith around say 30 - 40 others! The largestcontingent of motorcycles that I’d seen on theferry for a long time, and only a few of themwere riding with me to the Jampot Rally atMurchison (a bike rally for Matchless & AJSmotorcycles).

I had a great time down there. The weatherwas just right for riding. The five of us rode viathe Queen Charlotte Sounds, through Nelsonand onto Murchison. On the Saturday there werea couple of rides partly on the tarsal and partly,if you chose to do so, on gravel. (Naturally Ichose the gravel, I mean to say, these bikeswere made for it!). The photograph is takenon the Braeburn Track - could that be aBraeburn Apple tree? After all Braeburn’s werediscovered in 1952 as a chance seedling inMotueka.

Pierre’s 1957 Matchless on theBraeburn Track

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“Oh no” my wife exclaimed, from her stance atthe front door, “Just what are you going to dowith that rubbish, hope you are not planning onkeeping it here” But before I had chance to lie,the door slammed shut.

Don’t think she is very impressed” came a voicefrom over my shoulder, it was Eddy, my nextdoor neighbour, “Was watching you get that offthe truck, wondered what you had got, still don’tknow” he sneered.

Eddy was a cheque book restorer and he had inhis spotless garage a pair of pristine NortonDominator 500 cc twins, a 1955 and 1957, theynever went anywhere.

“Well it’s a, Its called a….”, but at this time Ihad no idea what the bike was but I was notgoing to admit this to him, “It’s a Challenge,yes that’s it. A Challenge”

“Sure is” Eddy mused, “Biggest challenge I haveever seen! “


Most members like me read the latest issue ofour mag in one sitting from front to back. Iusually do this at work in between jobs. Wecontinually read that it needs input frommembers to be successful and interesting. Sobe it I thought when I read that we needed anew caretaker of the club manuals. Send afew e-mails to Brian Spooner to find out if Icould be of any help. Made contact and madeplan to collect or have them delivered. The nextfew months of communication saw Briantravelling down to the Bay the same weekendsI was heading to Auckland, both to collect newbikes found in each other’s back yards. Finallywe struck a common date and so it was thatBrian and Jill plus their friends from Papamoaarrived for the ‘hand over’.

So now I have three or four large boxes ofmanuals to trawl thru and sort into some sortof order, to enable easy access.

I myself have quite a large collection of manualscovering cycle motors – autocycles, mopeds andscooters so to keep things above board andensure correct ownership of each other’s stuffI will photograph and record all the club sendme. A quick look thru has found lots ofphotocopies together with a few originals.

The idea I favour will be to create a list of allmodels available which could be published inan upcoming issue of the scooter mag or sentby e-mail to interested parties. With Googleand other search engines on the net, findinginformation has never being easier, with newstuff turning up on the likes of Trade Me all thetime. (Guess there will be a few people likeme who are new to computers and have only abasic understanding of their capability).

My interest has mainly been with cycle motorswhich of course lead on to autocycles, mopeds,and then scooters. I fall into the 45 plus agegroup and it all started for me back in 1980when I was recovering from failing to get my1979 Honda CBX 1000 around a corner over TePoi. After some hospital time in the Waikato itneeded lots of visits to our local physio to getthe right leg bending back the normal way. NowI was bikeless and didn’t think much of cars

then, so was more than interested to be told ofa bicycle that had a motor attached. So it was Itravelled everywhere on this front wheel rollerdrive machine.

Front wheel drive by roller was only undertakenby a few manufactures of which Solex-GYS-Berini spring to mind, and so it was I thoughtthat my little motor was a Berini. As I foundout out some years later it was in fact a TrojanMini Motor which normally drives the rearwheel. It was in a homemade frame, lawnmower gas tank and a cigar shaped exhaustblowing straight up into the face of the rider.

This machine was death to tyres as thecarborundum roller jumped up and down,tearing out scallops of rubber. So like any Kiwilad I came up with a solution. It involved cuttingolder tires and wrapping them around the newones, wiring them back together-this workedahhhh quite well, albeit the ends didn’t matchcausing a roll-thump-roll-thump.

Some months later at a swap meeting inMatamata I spotted a gentleman riding roundon a hand painted blue BSA with what appearedto be the complete motor unit in the rear. Thisjust had to come home with me, and it did. Thiswas the very successful Cyclemaster (madeapprox 181,000 units). Well, now I was hooked.

Twenty plus years in the firewood trade gaveme access to lots of barns/sheds, resulting inlots of simple ‘wood for bike’ exchangeskeeping my truck back loaded with newtreasures. I am a member of the Cyclaidregister which has been set up as a databaseby Geoffrey and Brenda Clark and I currentlyhave three running models. Two more are inthe rebuild stage and I would be looking to sellthese two in the near future (any interest?). Thisregister has more than 57 known machines andis growing all the time. Geoffrey and Brendahave invested a large amount of time and moneyto source and reproduce many hard to find partsfor these very smooth V-belt drive units. Arecent move from Auckland to Napier has alsoresulted in a new purpose built facility to displaysome of their large collection, which may beclose to opening by the time this goes to print.

The Hand Over


Napier has got some of the best set out cycleways I have ridden, tracking the coastline formany miles on a smooth, wide path, very muchlike New Plymouth’s board walk which alsorates as a must do. I would describe myself asa refurbisher rather than a restorer and followthe three Rs principle - Repair-Remake orReplace. This keeps the cost down and makesthe machines more useable without worryingtoo much when they fall over, lose paint duringtransporting etc. This of course may soonchange as I have been setting up a good sized

sand blasting cabinet and can see lots of rustingscooter panel work [Hobbys-Rabbits-Puchs]hiding back there in the shed awaiting myattention. So will work my way thru the pile ofmanuals and familiarise myself with the makesand models and stand by and see if I can be ofany help to others.

Keep a Wheel In the Air

Kelven MartinNZCSC Manuals Curator

‘’THE BEGINNING’’-Trojan Mini Motordriving front wheel.

‘’NOW I WAS HOOKED’’-Cyclemaster

1913 WALL AUTO WHEEL1918 SMITHS MOTOR WHEEL

‘’A Well Ridden Cyclaid’’


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