#garelli

[mildewdrops]

Fausto Gresini 1985 Garelli 125cc via Didier Bassoulet FB

[frenchcurious]

Garelli 50 VIP 3 1980. - source Ruote da Sogno.

[kissandscry]

“The idea of Adam Parrish on a motorcycle was more than enough birthday present for Ronan; he was senselessly turned on.”

(I don’t know what Maggie envisioned, but it’s my headcanon so it’s a 70s Garelli.)

[styleofthelaw]

GARELLI, Made in Italy🇮🇹

[308ferrari]

Garelli Motorcycle and Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 Monza

[seat-safety-switch]

Being at the end of automotive history isn't always a good thing. The upside is obviously that you avoid buying the humming automatic-transmission coughdrops which only come in high-resale-value white in favour of a lifetime spent fixing 70s and 80s cars. Unfortunately, everyone else is starting to cotton onto the idea that cars now last longer than thirty minutes after purchase, and so I've got more competition than ever before.

In my town, there's a scooter club. I think it started as some sort of ironic joke, but nowadays it's extremely popular. People of all ages have joined, digging out 80s Honda Sprees, Kymcos, and even worryingly-unobtanium Garelli mopeds and scoots from their attics, garages, swamps, ditches and trailer-park estate auctions. Just a few weeks ago, I was waiting at a light downtown when a gang of Genuine Buddies pulled up next to me and started aggressively revving their 50cc thumpers.

It looked like fun, so I decided to go online and see if I could pick up a couple five-hundo screamers for my very own. I still had visions of café-racing my tiny-engined steed along the river as bicyclists screamed at me to stop driving on the bike path. And I still held those dreams until they were dashed by the complete lack of listings. Yes, there still was the “I know what I got” contingent, reposting every week on Kijiji with their eternally-optimistic $10k 80s scooters, but everything else was long gone. I thought up possible reasons that this could be. We’d had a long winter, which - paradoxically - is when people usually buy more scooters to work on over the course of the White Death, but that couldn’t possibly explain why even the eBay single-use scooters were gone as well.

The only conclusion I could come to was that my particular brand of insanity had finally taken root inside the population. Our hills were alive with the sound of two-strokes, and I was unable to participate. There was just one thing left to do.

A Miata is basically the same size as a scooter, and has an engine smaller than most Harleys and Goldwings. And - if you fold in the mirrors - you can drive it right through those little bollards that are supposed to keep cars off the bike path network. The only downside is that it’s a little hard to park at the scooter cafés, but they’ve been pretty respectful about the whole thing. After all, it’s a classic too.

[alexander-landerman]

Turnin’ 30 here any minute, and cause I’m old now I wanted to start some financial planning... so I went out and scooped up a vintage Italian moped. Only had to push her home 3 time now... . . Parts in the mail for @treatland listening to @brapcast and reading through @mopedarmy posts! . . . #garelli #garellimoped #mopedarmy #moped #ped #brapcast #NOI #noiengine #2stroke #orileyautoparts #cafeped #bloomingtonindiana #mopedindiana #pedlife #projectbike #workinprogress (at Bloomington, Indiana)

[swimintheswanepoell]