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magnetmaz
10-16-2006, 02:50 PM
I just posted this "For Sale" over on my scooter club forum, but i figured i'd post it here, too, as there was decent interest a few months ago when i sold that other bike.

here's the add:

I've got another bike i'm considering buying, which leaves me needing to thin out my flock a little bit. You all remember i bought that kitted out PK125 from Denver a couple months ago. I haven't touched it since i got it home, due to the fact that the exhaust can needs to be repacked to deaden the noise to some extent and i've just been too busy or lazy to do it yet. I've ridden up and down the road on it, and though it's a sweet ride it's the bike that i probably would ride the LEAST due to the fact i'm a big dude and i look stupid on it.

If you're looking for a smallframe, this is the best one you're going to find for a number of reasons :

1) 12 volt electrics... REALLY bright lights...that includes nice visible turn signal indicators.

2) Non battery, so you don't have to worry about rectifiers or recharging.

3) On the PK the headset splits in half like on a P200, so cable replacement is easy.

4) It has a glovebox in font ( unlike any pre-'80 smallframe ) and the standard one under the seat. The battery compartment on the non-engine side has been hollowed out to make room for the enormous racing pipe .... a brand new looking JL pipe ( which go for $400-450 ).

5) The engine was just rebuilt by ASC, with 136cc malossi kit, full circle crank, 25mm del orto carb, reed block kit, lightened flywheel.

6) The suspension on this bike is phenomenal. It rides smoothly and brakes like a dream - no front end dive. The PK had a really advanced front drum brake and it's really apparent when you are used to the older style brakes and fork. It has much better tracking and ride to it.

7) Rececntly rebuilt engine by ASC, kitted with Malossi 136cc, full circle crank, lightened flywheel, etc. The engine is incredibly fast. ( whoops i wrote this 2x. Oh well, it's important )

8) Original paint ...and in good shape, too. The only part that doesn't look original is the engine side door. Likely ( like with all smallframes ) the door probably fell off and got run over in traffic, so this one is a replacement.

9) The keys are all there - the column lock is also a wired on / off kill switch, and there's keys for the locking sidepanels and the glovebox.

10) Unlike most smallframes, this thing shifts like butter.


The only things that NEED to be done to it, are recover the seat and repack the exhaust can. (with $10 of wadding) If the exhaust is still too loud for y ou then go sell the pipe for 350 bucks on scooterbbs and chelsea has the original stock PK exhaust for $45. The bulb in the brakelight needs replaced as well.

Let me know if you're interested. I don't really want to sell it as the PK is pretty rare, ....in that they never sold them in the states. But with my Lambretta on it's way, and my GS almost finished i suspect it's probably the bike i'd ride the least.

http://scoot.net/scooterist/rider_scoot_pics/small_732-1156353620.jpg

WhiskeyMedic
10-16-2006, 02:57 PM
How much

magnetmaz
10-16-2006, 03:07 PM
well... i suppose that depends on how much i like you. Ideally somewhere around $1800.... but remember that there's about $1000 in engine and exhaust upgrades on this thing.

You could race crotchrockets streetlight to streetlight and win. It's probably about 25 horsepower and weighs about 150-175 pounds :)

WhiskeyMedic
10-16-2006, 03:56 PM
well... i suppose that depends on how much i like you. Ideally somewhere around $1800.... but remember that there's about $1000 in engine and exhaust upgrades on this thing.

You could race crotchrockets streetlight to streetlight and win. It's probably about 25 horsepower and weighs about 150-175 pounds :)

I used to have a P200 with a bit of work done. If I lived in the city and had a way to get it half way across the country, I would bite. Good luck selling it mang. Sounds like a sweet ride.

Blood Red Eagle
10-16-2006, 10:51 PM
you forgot to mention Pk's are ugly as hell mate..

magnetmaz
10-17-2006, 12:29 AM
you forgot to mention Pk's are ugly as hell mate..

I love the way the PK's look. I guess when you first get into vintage scooters, you want them to look as old as they can - trying to rock that vintage style.... but you soon learn that the older they are, the more annoying and unreliable they are. My first bike was a rally 200 that i shaved the turn signals off, put on all older style stuff to make it appear more vintage - more like a 60's bike.... and i could kick myself for doing it because you gotta represent the style of the bike in the context of the era it was released. This thing is ALL ORIGINAL with the exception of a rocket for an engine.

For PK's, it was '82 - '85 ..and i really love the look of them - angular, functional ... stylish in an 80's way.... but i love even more how much more reliable and comfortable they are than the older bikes.

I dunno - i like the looks of the PK way more than the P200 .... comparitively ... and even the P200s you kinda grow to love over time for just being a real tank of a scooter. Aesthetics aren't it's main feature - functionality, comfort, reliability, safety ...etc ( at least more than the older bikes ).

I personally own 2 '74 rally 200's, a '62 GS160 mk1, a '62 lambretta LI150 ser 3, and this bike - an '82 Pk125. ... and have owned about a dozen other scooters over the years.

Skones
10-17-2006, 12:37 AM
This thing is ALL ORIGINAL with the exception of a rocket for an engine.

My lawnmower has a rocket for an engine too...

Wanna race?

magnetmaz
10-17-2006, 12:44 AM
My lawnmower has a rocket for an engine too...

Wanna race?

For pinkslips? I could use a riding mower.

Skones
10-17-2006, 12:48 AM
For pinkslips? I could use a riding mower.

Fuck that, cash only! No less than 2 grand either...

I got one of those mowers with the tramnsmission you engage to have the front wheels pull it along...

Blood Red Eagle
10-17-2006, 03:38 AM
I love the way the PK's look. I guess when you first get into vintage scooters, you want them to look as old as they can - trying to rock that vintage style.... but you soon learn that the older they are, the more annoying and unreliable they are. My first bike was a rally 200 that i shaved the turn signals off, put on all older style stuff to make it appear more vintage - more like a 60's bike.... and i could kick myself for doing it because you gotta represent the style of the bike in the context of the era it was released. This thing is ALL ORIGINAL with the exception of a rocket for an engine.

For PK's, it was '82 - '85 ..and i really love the look of them - angular, functional ... stylish in an 80's way.... but i love even more how much more reliable and comfortable they are than the older bikes.

I dunno - i like the looks of the PK way more than the P200 .... comparitively ... and even the P200s you kinda grow to love over time for just being a real tank of a scooter. Aesthetics aren't it's main feature - functionality, comfort, reliability, safety ...etc ( at least more than the older bikes ).

I personally own 2 '74 rally 200's, a '62 GS160 mk1, a '62 lambretta LI150 ser 3, and this bike - an '82 Pk125. ... and have owned about a dozen other scooters over the years.

gotta disagree there, hate the horncast, hate the headset, hate the side panels. its nothing to do with small frames, just the lines of that bike are horrid...i started out on a px, it wasnt that reliable, and moved to a lambretta LIS w/200 gp, 30mm dellorto phbh, clubman, stage 4, 5 plate clutch... gets problems, but unlike a px it dont heat sieze every year, the problems and way smaller and fiddly, but managable if you're a little mechanically inclined. looks the bees knees too. i mean i didnt mind the lines of the px, they got a look and i dig that, the downside of the pxs is they just dont turn easier after riding lammies for a few years its like steering a train away from its tracks.. i guess you wouldnt get those probs with a small frame though

got a series 2, looks even better, gunna slap an imola on it prolly. just a humble matt black paintjob. engine was easier to build than any vespa i'd ever worked on..

got a few other ones but i wont go into it man, what i'm saying is get a vintage, rebuild with quality parts and pay attention to what you are doing in the build and she'd be fine. vespas (any outside of the plastic fantastics) while they get a good rap and a PX will take an absolute beating, they aint that much better than anything else when you build it right and know the machine...

Blood Red Eagle
10-17-2006, 03:42 AM
PS sorry to be all down on your bike when yer trying to sell it. i just think the PK is an ugmo. i seen dudes kick them over and stomp on them down here, thats about how treasured they are..lol... then again i hear horror stories of people in the USA blowing holes in PX legshields with shotguns to make a rat even rattier..

Blood Red Eagle
10-17-2006, 03:52 AM
I guess when you first get into vintage scooters, you want them to look as old as they can - trying to rock that vintage style.... but you soon learn that the older they are, the more annoying and unreliable they are. .

ahh yeah
not being a knit-picker or nothing, but i been riding and repairing and building them for years.... maybe you thought i jumped on my et4 yestarday and put my xmas tree mirrors all over the shit or somethin'

i know what you mean about rockin vintage style and all, especially when you are fresh, but hell i got a gp frame under my house EXTREMELY cut-back, i dont give a shit about all that origional immaculate vintage cappicino sippin' rubbish. just lines first and speed a close 2nd. after that everything extra is gravy.

magnetmaz
10-17-2006, 08:53 AM
ahh yeah
not being a knit-picker or nothing, but i been riding and repairing and building them for years.... maybe you thought i jumped on my et4 yestarday and put my xmas tree mirrors all over the shit or somethin'

I wasnt' commenting at all on what you ride. In the US, it seems like most people are after original condition bikes ...the way they rolled out of the store. In the UK, everyone wants to paint a fucking airbrush picture on the side of their theme lambretta and chrome or gold plate every accessory on it. I have no idea what they are into in Oz.... but if you're kicking around PK's because you guys don't like the lines of them, then we're either not to that point yet, or we're way past that point ..... people here mostly burn honda elites in campfires at rallies, or make fun of people on the asian twist and gos.

There's too much many plastic scooters coming out of southeast asia for you guys to be hating on the PK, an original italian machine - a fast, well designed scooter.

Can you discuss your personal scooter aesthetics opinions in a thread other than the one i'm trying to sell a bike in? We can talk all day long about how curvy Lambretta Series 2's are.

-Eric

militarymite
10-20-2006, 08:36 PM
Can I kick the tires?