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Is that lead scooter a Vespa? It looks larger than I imagined.

On another odd note, wife saw an 80s movie with an old mo-ped and said she thought that would be right for her. I was shocked cause she never wants to ride. Then I tried to remember the last time I saw one here or on the streets. Never. Google gets you pedal-less China scooters. What ever became of Motobecane?
 
I have a 1973 Motobecane in great shape. All Campy, Reynolds double butted tubing with working pedals only :)
 
Zephyr said:
I have a 1973 Motobecane in great shape. All Campy, Reynolds double butted tubing with working pedals only :)
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Nice! Post some pics, please;. I'd like to see that.
 
Rydah, my apologies for posting that. It's a Motobecane bicycle. Just saying Motobecane also made bicycles.
 
LOL, aww shucks! Had me all excited there :)
 
Rydah said:
... Got any tracks/routes to share?
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No, but after staging in Bunkie, we sorta, but not exactly, followed LA31/182 along the Bayou Teche down from Port Barre to Centerville, stopping to visit the Longfellow-Evangeline State Historic Site and Tobasco/Jungle Gardens on Avery Island. I've found that, once you get off of the "truck routes," most roads in South Central Louisiana are enjoyable.

SL350 said:
Is that lead scooter a Vespa? It looks larger than I imagined....
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The lead scooter is our Vespa GTV300, which is a "large frame" Vespa (the 50/150cc's are "small frame"). The large frame Vespa's are capable traveling scooters.
tex68w said:
What a mixed bag of bikes haha, love it.
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This is an informal sorta-annual ride designed for TW200's and Ural sidecar rigs, joined by other friends. This year's ride included two each TW200 & Ural, plus Monkey, Grom, XT225, 690R, Triumph 900, SupTen and a brand spankin' new HD PanAm. Due to recent heavy rains in the area, we decided to route around the customary unpaved roads, so I left the TW at home and rode the GTV. The best thing about this ride is the camaraderie; we had riders from 17-86 years of age, and, yes, the big bikes tagged along with the little bikes for a good part of the way.
 
SwampFox said:
This is an informal sorta-annual ride designed for TW200's and Ural sidecar rigs, joined by other friends. This year's ride included two each TW200 & Ural, plus Monkey, Grom, XT225, 690R, Triumph 900, SupTen and a brand spankin' new HD PanAm. Due to recent heavy rains in the area, we decided to route around the customary unpaved roads, so I left the TW at home and rode the GTV. The best thing about this ride is the camaraderie; we had riders from 17-86 years of age, and, yes, the big bikes tagged along with the little bikes for a good part of the way.
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@Kingsize Did you know about this TW ride? Sorta in your neck of the woods too.
 
We haven't "advertised" this ride much after we had close to 20 participants a couple of years ago. We actually did good with the dozen riders on this trip (the unseasonably cold weather kept ½ dozen at home) traveling together on the 1st day and splitting into 3 groups along the way on the 2nd day.
 
I've never ridden that area, so if you have a route in mind, please set it up. Schedule (and weather) allowing, we'd be very interested. Thanks, Lee!
 
This would have been a great weekend, since a lot of folks will be off on Friday, but the weather forecast slurps. Other than the end-of-month ride on the 29th, we're open.
 
Re: Acadiana scooter tour: Unfortunately, work & life, along with sidecar/tiddler prep & events have a grip on much of my time thru early June. April 21-23 might be a possibility, but right now I can't commit to it.
 
Yea I’d love to make it over there as well but I’m not free until the second week of June and I might be having my shoulder cut around that time.
 
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