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Merry christmas and a happy new year all round.

get it booked in at your dealer and get those switches changed, they are a nuisance.

As said, needs to be sat ticking over for a while to work, they are so sketchy, i just use my good old manual dipstick.............there again, not checked mine for at least 6 months but i know mine doesnt use a drop. The more gimmicks, the more to play on your mind and go wrong.

thats exactly how i feel about my scoot and as you say, others just don't get the scooter thing. working for a bike shop i can use demo's as and when i like, very exciting for a day then you think about owning any of them and no.....just not practical enough. i can and have riden round so many...

over unlit roads in the dark, i still flick my OBC mode button instead of high beam!!

i absolutely love my 600 Sport, although i am running about on my little vespa at the moment ( and really enjoying this but for other reasons ) and have SORN it off the road for winter, i know when the days draw out and get warmer the Sport will be back out and i will reel in the miles again. it...

the style of our switches are terrible for failing, have been the same sinse they changed from the old, l/h amd r/h indicator paddles...............thats what everyone wanted when they changed over from their jap bikes, lol i carry a spare start switch and torq driver under my seat!!!!!

takes only minutes to fit the socket under the seat, GT takes a little longer but the Sport no time at all. as already stated, the wiring amd plug are already there on the loom, i charge through this with no problems at all.

the power sockets on our scoots will charge through to the battery, the can-bus does'nt shut them down. you have the standard cigarette lighter point in the L/H glove box. wiring and a blank for a BMW socket in the underseat bucket amd a sat-nav point under the handlebar plastic, only the last...

dash will be fine, the switchgear might be an issue though, over here we have a product called ACF50 and it is a spray on anti corrosion solution, quite messy and smelly but works well. if you are just riding through rain all will be ok, again over here, our road maintainance people spread...

I recon i could have stretched to 8000 miles on my rear pirelli but because it had squared off i rwplaced it at 3500 with my front. It will come in as a spare if i get stuck with a nasty puncture.

the left hand ones don't fit very well at all, i fitted 3 to a GT and they all looked the wrong shape.

Unreliable is a word. I carry a spare right hand switch just in case the start button fails on me.

i like the MIVV silencers, i had one in mind for my sport if i could'nt have raised the cash for my akra. i fitted a full MIVV system to a friends multistrada some years ago and it was well made and fitted perfectly. i agree with the black looking good, would look amazing on my black sport.

they are 8500 quid over here!!!!! makes our BM's look like value for money. i do have to admit tho, they look very, very nice.

this was'nt my first choise of scoot, lol. actually, ive kinda fallen for it, it's such an evil handling little thing it keeps you on your toes. as it is only a 125 the m.p.g. is around 80 to the gallon which is great but...........60mph, flat to the knocker, lol

you would instantly notice the noise, i would also expect the noise to happen on startup too.

now that surprises me, i had to remove a motor from a GT this summer with around 2600 miles on it and when i drained the chain case oil it was very clean. i would expect the gearbox oil to be dirty.

love it, very impressive. normally with a scoot i would by now have tuned and modded but every time i take it out i still love the performance it has and over here in the UK with more and more 30mph turning to 20mph and 60mph turning to 40mph limit's, you gotta watch your licence.

I did put a post on modern vespa but not the first post on there and no replies, just thought id give it a try here.