My 1966 Vespa Sprint and tent…
My 1966 Vespa Sprint again…
The Sea
The tree
…so please talk amongst yourselves for a few days while I fight the elements as my tent blows away with the expected gale. I will probably have to hug a skinhead for warmth…records will also keep me warm, dancing at the sound systems on the camp site:
Andy And Joey – Your Wondering Now
Joey Flames Coxson Allstars – Version
Roland Alphonso – The President
The West Indians – Right On Time
The West Indians – Hokey Pokey
The West Indians 7″ single is Eric Donaldson’s (of ‘Cherry O Baby’ fame) first release by the way.
alistairliv
September 5, 2008 at 11:51 amHope you get good weather. It has turned a bit ‘parka’ ish up here.
Penguin • Post Author •
September 5, 2008 at 12:08 pmWeather is going to be piss poor scooting from North London (with all the crap I will have to take on the back like tents and clothes etc getting wet) to the coast and even worse tomorrow supposedly Al.
Might as well live in bloody Scotland!
Carl
September 5, 2008 at 3:35 pmWell, I wish you good luck…The North West of UK is under water at the moment !!
luggy
September 5, 2008 at 3:53 pmHave a good one, that tent doesn’t look very weatherproof though!
Carl
September 5, 2008 at 4:04 pmWith the weather as wild as it is, it may well be missing the roof by the time he gets there !!
Nuzz
September 5, 2008 at 6:25 pmstill Penguins are used to extreme conditions, so he should be OK, have a good time and take care.
Val
September 6, 2008 at 12:22 pmOh dear the weather is really against you this weekend. My boy went off to Bestival last night with nowt but a clean pair of socks and a mac – got a text this morning saying its “just awful”.
John No Last Name
September 6, 2008 at 4:25 pmHi Val, you really ought to make him at least wear trousers in the future.
John Liedown
September 6, 2008 at 10:53 pmHope you & your lovely Vespa come back in one piece. Lovely looking ride by the way, mines more like the two battered bastards in the middle these days. Enjoy the endless Northern Soul. If your lucky…. Bad Manners will be playing. Have a good one.
Stewart
September 7, 2008 at 7:55 pmPenguin – I get the strong impression this whole ‘tent’ thing is just to fool the wife – what you’re really doing is getting a hotel room for you and your Vespa, aren’t you?
Johnnolastname – lol 🙂
Penguin • Post Author •
September 7, 2008 at 8:04 pmNo I really struggled on in a tent Stewey. Honest.
Got a nice upgrade with a huge tent (4 people) left at the site this morning, brand new…lovely. Even all the pegbags and all that were there.
Took that down and gave my tent (which I got from Mersea last year, cos it was better than my own one) to some other scooterist.
Funny that after these events folk just go on the scoots and leave the tents cos they can not be bothered to take them down. There were about 50 of them left, some in poor nick, but others looking brand new…next year I will probably end up with a marquee.
Stewart
September 7, 2008 at 8:23 pmPenguin – I think that’s enough about tents, now… Go and lie down. 😉
jules
September 8, 2008 at 5:52 pmgreat weekend, pissed down all the way there
loved the beer and bananas game (and the beer)
i quite fancied the coasters tent but dont think my px could have managed to take it home
we will all be back next year
could have stayed at home and seen bad manners, but never mind
Penguin • Post Author •
September 8, 2008 at 6:50 pmDon’t get Stewey off with the ‘bananas’ Jules. He will be naughty and make something up which will be x rated and not for our eyes to view.
I bought Garry Bushell a drink cos I was bolloxed and he was behind me in the marquee bar…only trouble is he walked me over to watch the Gonads, one band I promised myself in 1982 to avoid like the plague for the rest of my life. Rotten bit of luck, I witnessed half the set then went to my normal spot in the ska room. Bit blustery wern’t it? My Vespa behaved all weekend. I went up on Friday at 15.00 when the rain was the worst all the way round north circ and the up the A12.
Nic
September 8, 2008 at 7:54 pmGetting Stewey off with a ‘banana’?
This thread gets filthier by the moment…
Stewart
September 8, 2008 at 9:00 pmWell, I’m up for it… Seems like a healthier option than four leeks, a tin of VapoRub and a pair of Marigolds anyway…
Penguin • Post Author •
September 8, 2008 at 9:06 pmOh no, Stewey got started and is very excitable. I got all this stuff round the house, if you go to our meet up later in the month in North London then I will bring them along. What you think?
Stewart
September 8, 2008 at 9:16 pmI’m not getting fucked with a banana in public, if that’s what you’re suggesting?!?! 🙁
Penguin • Post Author •
September 8, 2008 at 9:21 pmNO of course not, with the leeks in public is what I meant dear…
Nic
September 8, 2008 at 10:03 pmA Sprint? Are you saving up for a GS?
😉
pantherin
August 6, 2010 at 3:57 pmGoing through KYPP is a feast for any self-respecting alternative…
And this takes me back to camping in the sunshine, scooter louts and my own dear Bajaj Chetak and two PXes.
Living in Germany, I got out their excretably commercial Goff scene and pursued something I could relate to. Scootering is brilliant!
There’s nothing like taking a PX or better yet, a sprint and travelling to some far off Rallye or Run.
I went to the Eurovespa 2002 with me Girlfriend at that time and it was 27hrs straight ride and no sleep and 800miles… Brilliant! I think, sometimes you only learn to live through complete excertion and exhaustion. There is nothing like getting lost in the countryside in the middle of nowhere . Some fog over windmill in what I suspect was the Champagne area of France and you stand there, shivvering whillst the first rays of the sun highlight the scene… No some things are too good to convey!
Cheers then