This is the final batch of entrants for the SIP T5 speedo competition (you can catch up on the other entrants here) and we’ll reveal the winner later today.
SIP won’t have these speedos available for customers until the end of February but if you’re the lucky winner you’ll be getting yours before Christmas!
ENTRIES NOW CLOSED!
Entry #24
Entry #25
Hi SLUK, here’s my 1989 Motovespa T5 mk1. I’ve owned it for almost 3 years now & it’s still in original condition not bad for 30-odd years old. Just short of 19000 km on the clock. I’ve a few working speedos but think the new one would be more accurate & reliable. I’ve recently upgraded to a Mallossi 172- wow what a difference performance-wise! It just needs a good expansion to give full performance, as you know, ya can’t beat a MK1 T5 lol.
Cheers Nak🙂
Entry #26
Here is my MK1 T5 painted in BMW M6 blue. It’s a 125 with a 28mm dellorto and soon to have a BGM big box exhaust. I’ve owned the scooter since 2016, it was originally silver and had been off the road for three years previously.
Entry #27
- The strongest 125cc street legal two-stroke engine built till then by Piaggio having 9kw @6700rpm
- The cockpit, which is so different to all produced Vespas before – the cockpit features a big rectangular headlight, a fuel level gauge and a digital rev display (with two digits), also indicator lights for reserve fuel, flasher and light
Entry #28
I originally bought my MK1 T5 brand new from Mikeck in 1987. I kept it until 1993 when due to other commitments I sold it. I regretted selling it straight away. Roll on to May this year and I managed to buy the bare frame back. I am now in the process of a rebuild, hoping to get it back on the road next year sometime.
Alan Stevenet
Entry #29
I have owned my 1990 Mark One T5 since 2010 after wanting one for many years.
I have resprayed it in a deep candy red and fitted a 172 Mallossi kit. I ride the T5 from Feb to November every year and cover many miles. Over the years I have ridden it all over the UK, Dublin, Holland and Belfast.
It was in Belfast in 2018 at Vespa World Days that I met the owners of SIP and actually told them it was about time that they developed a digital speedo for the T5 like they had done for the PX. Ralf said that he would consider it but it may be expensive as there would be a limited market for it – I said that I would definitely like one!
I also ride to Mersea Island every year and also take part in the VCB regional riders competition so would definitely put the new digital speedo through its paces and test it thoroughly should I be the lucky winner. I would be more than willing to test it to the max and do a review/write-up with pictures. Here’s hoping that I am the lucky winner 😉
Kevin Allsopp
Entry #30
I’d like to tell you the story of my T5…
I’ll take you back to 1989 where a 16-year-old me had a boyfriend who owned a T5, he wouldn’t let me have a go so quickly became my ex-boyfriend. I desperately wanted my own scooter though, cue one of the local scooter boys taking it upon himself to teach me how to ride a scooter – which just so happened to be in a T5. Thank you Jamie Davis (still a scooter boy himself).
Fast forward to 1990 and after a year on a PK50 and one hell of a crash involving a drunk driver writing off my scooter and nearly me, my dad agreed to financing another bigger engined Vespa.
So we took a little trip to the local scooter shop which happened to be the legendary Albion Scooters in Exmouth. I was like a kid in a sweet shop and instantly set my heart on a black P200 with a PM exhaust but my dad the ex-copper and superbike rider was having none of it. To be fair neither was Gary at Albion, stating I couldn’t buy it without a full license. I wasn’t impressed but my attention then turned to the metallic blue T5 sat sparkling in the showroom. How hadn’t I noticed it (probably because my then-boyfriend had owned the previously mentioned P2 and it was fast as….., well a fast thing).
So my dad bought it for me, the T5 that is, don’t think mum was impressed but having both parents been scooter owners in London in the 60s she couldn’t say much, plus she was used to my dad’s impulse purchases of superbikes.
When it came time to collect my T5 it was a family outing and my dad insisted on riding it home, he was impressed with how fast ‘modern’ scooters went, although he was really a Lammy man at heart. It wasn’t the last time he rode my T5 either, any excuse!
I could tell you stories of so many rallies I did in the 90s and 00s on my beloved T5, I could tell you the story of when the legends that were Ian & Terry at Taffspeed rebuilt my engine with a Malossi 172 kit and had a slight mishap with my scooter jumping into gear. 34 years on that T5, my T5, is still sat in my garage, albeit a different colour (it’s had 2 paint jobs since new) with the original engine plus the barrel Taffspeed did, it’s had to have a new piston recently but he’s still going strong and has total pride of place in the garage. So that’s the story of how I got my T5 the best & favourite scooter I own, and I own a few.
Louise Groves
Entry #31
I first owned my T5 in 1989, travelling extensively around parts of Europe with the destination being Kreuzlingen in Switzerland for the Vespa club rally. I sold it on about a year later as I was more into cut downs and low riders, mine being the one in Sticky’s book “Scooterboys – The Lost Tribe” being matt blacked by fellow club members.
Skip forward nearly 30 years and I tracked it down to a fallen down shed in Nuneaton, it being in a very bad state. I bought it back and did a full nut and bolt refurb as documented in Classic Scooterist magazine in a storyline by Chris Wainwright. (June 2021)
It is without a doubt the best Vespa I have owned by far, now running with a Mallossi 172 kit and a Sip Road 2 exhaust and taking me up and down the country doing various rallies and scooter club weekends since I got it back about 6 years ago.
Regards Baz Matthews, Bad Company Scooter Club, Chapel End, Nuneaton.
Entry #32
Entry #33
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