alt.scooter expert list

The following list contains people who have volunteered to answer questions regarding scooters and scootering. Some are professionals and some amateurs but they have all been through a lot in the scooter business and are hereby offering to share their experience with you.

Just remember some things before mailing!!

• Tell us where you are located, especially if you are asking about local things like nearest supplier of parts. Remember, this is the Internet and questions (and answers) are coming from all over the world.
• ALWAYS tell what scooter type the questions regard (for example Vespa Rally 200 electronic -74) . Questions like "Can you give me some tips on my vespa?" are impossible to give a good answer to.
• Please be patient, all questions are answered on peoples spare time and as you all know that is a limited resource.
• Unless specifically stated, there is no shop, mail order service or spare parts resource connected with each expert - so do not ask for catalogues, pricelists or shipping rates.

And now, The experts (replace the "AT" with @ in addresses) :

• Henrik Börjeson who maintains this page. My main interests are on Vespas from the 60:s and 70:s. I am not very good at country specific things like shop locations and legislation (unless it concerns SWEDEN, i så fall går det bra :-)
  
• Armando G. bought his first scooter at age 16 (1979 P125X) against his parents wishes. From that first scooter he taught himself how to rebuild the motor and eventually how to tear down and restore the whole bike. He does all of the work except for painting but has not yet worked on Lambretta. Since Armando is in the U.S. where vespas have not been imported since the mid 80:s he can only answer questios regarding earlier models.
  
• Mike who has rebuilt many Ser-III Lambrettas and Servettas, has some Ld experience, and lots of Bajaj and Vespa experience.
  
• Q Myers who worked on Vespa's since he was 5 years old and helped his dad wash parts in his Vespa shop in Portland Oregon. Worked for Piaggio in the 70s as service manager in their factory owned shop "Vespa of San Francisco", as well as other shops. Many long distance tours by Vespa including a 17,000 mile trip to, and tour of, Alaska from San Francisco. http://www.teleport.com/~qmyers
  
• Aboriginal Scooter Club Neu-Ulm (contact Arne) These are the guys who know how to make your Vespa go FAST!!! They know all kinds of things regarding tuning and their specialities are P200 tuning (using malossi, pinasco or polini cylinders, reed valves or not, stock carb or not, clutch probs&solutions etc.), Smallframe 50-125cc tuning, Drop bars, Watercooled conversions, T5 tuning.
  
• Jerry Sommer in Findlay, Ohio U.S.A. Jerry is the expert on Japanese scooters. He has worked in a couple of shops that sold Honda, Kawasaki and Yamaha. He has books on the 80, 125 and 150 model Elite and the 80 Arrow. Mainly he helps people figure out electrical problems on them. He is a College teacher on electrical machinery and electronics. He also has some wiring diagrams for Vespas with battery (as well as a Triumph restoration shop).
  
• Mark Wallace He owns and operates a motorycle and scooter repair shop in ST. PETERSBURG FLORIDA, USA and has been involved with motorcycles and scooters since he was 13 years old. After graduating m/c school in 1982 he went to work for Honda and Kawasaki and has been in the m/c industry ever since.
  
• Igor Sterle at Linde MPA is an expert on belt / variator driven scooters like PIAGGIO, APRILIA, PEUGEOT, MALAGUTI, ITALJET, YAMAHA. They specialise in 50 & 70cc racing and have made great results all over Europe. As Polini representatives they can answer detailed questions on special parts. Visit them at http://www.lindempa.si
  
• Steve Burdette at Speedo King has been restoring scooters for many years. His speciality is speedometer repair and restoration for Vespa and Lambretta. He also does custom speedometers. His work has been featured in Scoot Quarterly and the speedos have been in award winning scooters. He welcomes everybody to share his tips on working with your scooter's speedometer. Visit him at http://www.speedoking.com
  
• Andrea Grimandi , founder and President of the "Maxiscooter Club Italia", the first italian club dedicated to all kinds of scooters from 125 cc. to 400 cc. (at the moment!). Their aims are: promoting tourism in scooter, informing members about all news regarding scooters, organizing meeting and happenings for people who love scooters. He has driven ALL kinds of maxiscooters sold in Italy and is really interested in contributing to a better knowledge of scooter world.