HOW TO FIX YOUR APE

Piaggio Ape 175, service manual, Italy, 60's

LITTLE BEES #2

Piaggio Ape's shot on Sardinia, Italy

TT ASSEN 2010

TT Assen Postcards, Holland, 70's
This weekend in Assen, Holland, the yearly Tourist Trophy.
Drive yoursélf with your own machine for a virtual tour over the circuit here. !Watch the corners on this semi-streetbuild track!

DETAILED VESPA

Pics from a Vespa PX 125 E, Sardinia Italy, 2010

SHOPPING CENTRE APE

In a shopping center in Italian Carbonia I spotted this paperboard made Piaggio Ape, as a promotion display for cold tee.

SERVICE & REPAIR

Alles over uw motor, Everything About Your Motorbike, Holland, 50s

SPETTERS

Spetters, Holland, 1980
Dutch film Spetters was released in 1980, directed by Paul Verhoeven. The movie, which is violent and sexually graphic, is a high-speed coming of age story, centers on three young men dreaming of an escape from their provincial surroundings and are dreaming of a motorcross career. The movie led to many protests in Holland about the caricatural manner in which Verhoeven portrayed gays, Christians, the police, and the press, but was a big commercial succes.
I' ve put the intro of the movie on YouTube:

COOL ANTONIO

Antonio on his Vespa Piaggio PK 50S who I met in Santu Lussúrgiu, Sardinia, Italy

VESPA PK50 MANUAL

Vespa PK 50 service manual, Italy

LITTLE BEES

These funny little 3-wheelers are Ape's, which is italian for Bee, because of the buzzing noise they make. They are used for loads of different jobs as they can come and park anywhere in the narrow streets. Ape's are provided with a two-stroke 50 cc to a max 400cc engine and steer with a scooter-style handlebar. I shot these pics in several villages all over the island.

APE IN PARTS

Piaggio Ape manual, Italy, 60s

SCOOTER TAG

The walls and viaducts near the town Carbonia in the southwest of Sardinia are covered with this 'Scooter Tag'.

SCOOTER MANUAL

Haynes Vespa PX125, 150 & 200 workshop manual, UK, 1991

ITALY: THE PAST & TODAY

Back from a 3 weeks holiday on brilliant Sardinia, Italy. I' ve roamed the little streets looking for motorismo. The island is mostly provided with 90s and 00s 'Tupperware' machines, but now and then my heart opened up as an old school wheeler showed up!