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Thank you, I am fine, did not complete the journey to the end because of time and budget reasons but I did ride through: germany, austria, hungary, romania, bulgaria, turkey, georgia, azerbaijan, turkmenistan, oezbekistan, tajikistan and kirgistan. It has been a hell of a ride...

Home sweet home again... Now it is time for a decent trip report... To be continued...

Hmm I have tried the Koso spannungsregler but it gave weird values <12 volt and thus my light was not very bright at all.. I am going to take another look at it.

But can I do this if I have no battery?

Where is the luggage?? We haven't started yet, just wait and see ;) Yes I have a navigation system, it is a garmin zumo 220, and it works fine (waterproof and you can use it with your gloves on), I only have to find out whether I can charge it with my ignition or not.

Almost done 500kms already:

Exactly my thoughts andreasnagy, I even swapped my original paint GS for a GS that had to be rebuild in order to be able to do this trip with a GS. An all original GS would have even been better, but in my current financial and time circumstances not realistic.

True story, though things are a bit more complicated than it might seem.

Dont like it either, but after the trip I will get it out. And this one was for free, the repro would have cost me another 100 euros or so.

Thanks!

Unfortunately the engine has to be taken apart again because of a production error in the kickstart-thing.... I did finish the build and will split the engine after having driven some miles with it. So, technically it is pretty much finished, now I can run it in and test it and make it 'travel-ready'.

Casings are sandblasted and put together again, engine almost done. I used a special tool to mount the bearing for the crank: Seal clutchside: Casings ready to be put back together: Always a nice view: Engine back together only the clutch and ignition left to be mounted:

Haha, I wish!

The front is back in... This week my casings are coming back from the sandblaster so I can start with the build of my engine... Three steps in the restoration of a GS160...:

It is a GS160 seat right? I had the same on my misa GS.

Fur die Teile die man sucht, email oder rufe Maskes an, Maskes hat warscheinlich dass groste stock (gebrauchte) Misa teile...

I have just put one on my GS160... (misa)

Vespa schriftzuge fur MISA Vespa GS/GL usw kauft man bij www.maskes.nl! Sie haben die im stock... (Und viele andere Misa teile...)

The place is even better in real life, the building is very big and there is a lot to see... If you are near the Breda area in the Netherlands sometime you should visit Maskes Vespa Klassiekers in Rijen (www.maskes.nl).

I worked on the GS again today. I mounted the glove box cover and rear light: Polished the brake pedal, mounted the brakelight switch and brake cable: I am using a Sprint wiring loom because this is easer to connect with the P200 engine: Because I will be using a 12v horn I gave a 12v horn a 6V look by switching the covers: Unfortunately I had to use bigger screws for the horn because I had forgot to weld them. At the moment I have some company from a GS160 MK2: Last thin I did today was mounting the logo:

@andreasnagy I will keep you posted... ;)

I made some progress last weeks. I polished some stuff, mounted the floor strips, put the steer back together, mounted the bearing cups and today I revised the rear shock and put the wiring loom and cables in. In the meanwhile also the parts for my engine are coming in. Today I received some nice original piaggio parts: cilinder, crankshaft, gaskets and dellorto carburetor. Here some pics:

I was indeed thinking about that :) But maybe I like travelling with the vespa so much that I will also take it to cape south...

Yes you are right. But you can get a transit visa, which will last for seven days I believe, enough to get you through te country. However, you can also contact a travel agency who can hook you up with a tourist visa and who will sort the trip for Turkmenistan out. Than you will get a guide and your hotels are booked... We have contact with an agency but we are not sure what to chose yet, but we will start the visa procedure this week or so... I hope the GS will not be stolen and gets back with a nice travel patina and lots of cool stickers... The GS will be put in a crate and shipped back to Germany! So after the trip I will have to pick it up in Germany... @schmando, sounds like a good party, I will see if it fits the schedule!