Lets all just take a moment to take our hats off and marvel at the genius of Enrico Piaggio and his head design engineer, Corrandino D'Ascanio. If it wasnt for the Allied Peace agreement of the Second World War, Piaggio might still have been making airplanes. Instead they had to find something else to do with their factories, and as Italy was in such ruin, both financially and socially, it came to them that the people of their country needed cheap transport, and after a couple of strange designs, in 1945 D'Ascanio delivered (after only 3 months of development) what became, there and then, known as "Vespa".Details have changed a little over time, but in essence thier design remains, after more than 60 years, pure genius. Just take a look at this one peice engine/transmission/suspension unit.
I love this bike :-)
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