When in 1986 I was able to get on on 1 motorcycle in my life, a Hello Piaggio, had just been introduced mandatory helmet, safety accessory that I was very helpful when I flew to the ground after they cut the road to Dingo Moto Guzzi 3V inherited from his maternal grandfather, still in excellent condition and then given to my father to a colleague Africa, when I stopped to take a walk midst of the Japanese and Korean scooters that invaded Italy in the early 90s. Throughout the nineties was always great fun to rent or borrow on the Greek islands, and without a helmet, all sorts of Vespa Piaggio had miraculously landed in Corfu, Rhodes, Paros, Paleocastriza (that of "Mediterranean"), Crete, Zante ... In addition to a great round red beacon 50 which ended on the steps of entering a bar with a friend, as a route past the brake the top of a steep hill, a PK 50, a grippatissima What a PX 80 from Germany fast but noisy due to a broken exhaust pipe somewhere. The last time I was in Greece, having regard to the maintenance of local and non-existent Piaggio scooter, I thought to rent a scooter horrible Japanese direct drive, but certainly more reliable if you wanted to turn around an entire island in two. Until 2005, the year plasticone fleeting use of an Italian company, my experience on two wheels, small and medium-high was all here. Then one day leafing photos of this Guzzi Dingo's maternal grandfather, and I find I find him on a Lambretta 125 D of the early fifties, helmet and leather jacket, sunglasses vintage aviator shoes and riding pants, elegant and proud of this valuable means of transportation for herself, my grandmother and their six children who had composed the family. The following year found a 50 and a Junior Vespa 50 Special inziai painstakingly restored it and then sell the J given the poor performance in speed ', and support the Special home of my father (the enthusiastic use for work- never owned one) and replace it with a LI 125 series 3 1962 and Lis 150 Special, the first radiata office and then restored with IMF gold plaque inscription, the second with modern techniques such as hydraulic disc brake, electronic ignition 12 volt and of course a lot of extra chrome. I knew as a boy these scooters were half of the Mods, but the Clarks brought her kindergarten already, of rhythm and blues, Style Council, Rod Stewart, then Oasis, Blur, Kula Shaker had already abused the mid-'80s until the end of '90. Only when I got through DJ sets, parties, gatherings and Beppe, Mod of the Morane, to appreciate the '79 "weight" of the various Lambrettas, Secret Affair, etc. ... I married an identity so precise and definite. That kind almost forced me in Lambretta and stuck on the target, joined to my natural interest in all the Made in Italy and Borned too easily dismissed and drowned by the mass media, mass consumerism. The '79 just did not know him, but there was not over in my ears before. Now I enjoy more than thirty years from the listener that trip in 2009, and when it is cold in winter, when it rains and my hands are frozen under the gloves, Time for action always makes me home and reminds me that apart from the sleep, I never stop ...
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