Gutted for ya. Same thing happened to me in the desert, ran the tank dry and holed the piston. I’ve just got mine back together, doing a more careful running in, too.
Holed the piston about £140 for a wossner one, much better piston. Then do a thorough leak down test, because you have an air leak to cause the holes piston.
me and mate of mine took the a64 to whitby back in march for the national rally, looked like a scooter graveyard every mile or so there was someone broken down especially leading up to pickering
Back around 1970 a lot of my mates had Lambrettas they looked like Xmas trees overloaded with a multitude of mirrors & stolen spot lights clip on car headrests & loads of other ironmongery . Then they wondered why their paraffin pisser’s were struggling to hit a genuine 50 to 60 mph ,handled like pigs on roller skates & were always conking out or seizing up .. Seeing this I decided to use my head & buy a Honda motorcycle never had one break down on me yet in over 50 years . My brother also a biker has lost the plot in the last 10 years & has owed a Indian LML cloned Vespa & now a Classic 200cc proper genuine old school Vespa . Hope the damage isn’t too bad & you get her spannered & back on the road soon . 👍
Oh shite…Yep, yep, yep…Hope the piston rings ain’t gone on a sight seeing tour of the engine.. When it cut out it bought back a couple of memories. You handled it well though. Could of been a lot worse..I blame Neil Diamond !. She’ll be alright.. All the best from North London
yes, I could read the rear lights flashing Morse code: Get a Vespa! lol. joking aside - that's a neat looking bike. sorry you had troubles. hope you can fix it.
Weve all been there. That heartwrenching pull of the clutch when you feel it run too sweet,too smooth, too lean and the engine note whine. Did i catch it in time? Has it just pinched up? Will it start after it cools a bit? Then you got that phone call to make where you have to sound like its an everyday occourance and water off a ducks back, but inside you are hollow
It's got a hand built AF RAYSPEED crank in it..... so I hope not 🙈 I did get the clutch in before it fully locked the back wheel up.... but not quick enough
@guccilover2632 hi mate, one of the studs holding the barrel on had let go... causing an air leak..... another Ts1 kit fitted today, and changed the gearing to give her a faster top end.... theoretically 85mph +..... so will stop me thrashing her 🙈
Often, on a 2 stroke, too much oil in the petrol will cause weak mixture and hole the piston. This was very common in the 1960s when there were many 2 strokes running around and riders thought more oil gave better protection for the piston.
