KY's Mighty P2 Page
"NO MATTER WHO YOU ARE AND WHAT
YOU DO TO LIVE RIDE AND SURVIVE
THERE ARE STILL THINGS THAT MAKE
US ALL THE SAME YOU, ME, THEM,
EVERYBODY... EVERYBODY...
-ELWOOD BLUES
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My name is really Daniel although my friends
call me Ky (it's a long story and it is'nt
what you think). I am relatively new to
the world of scootering. I bought my first
Vespa P200 at the beginning of last summer but
then found another "Belladonna 13" and decided
to sell my first scoot to my mate Dave in Omaha.
I am a senior majoring in Art at Fort Lewis
College in Durango Colorado U.S.A. I dig a lot of
things but twisted art, bottomless cups of coffee,
good music,checkered scooters and my girlfriend
(Alyssa) are definitely in my top ten, though not
necessarily in that order. But this page is only
for the scoot.
This is her story as I know it...
Two Scooter boys, Scott Vermiere and Daniel Reike, were driving
through the desert of northern
New Mexico when they came across an old rusted sign
that said "SCOOTERS". Behind the sign there was an old
shed,and inside there were two white Vespa P200s in
mint condition for sale for $2000 each. Daniel and
Scott spread the word of their discovery to a certain
man known only by the alias "Zelda" from Santa Fe
who bought it for the asking price.
Now "Zelda" had watched Quadrophenia too many
times (if that's possible) and called a certain
mail order scooter shop that wishes to remain
nameless (though the owner is an unpopular subject
in certain circles, which, for matters of security,
will too remain nameless) and exclaimed...
"Give me stuff to make me MOD!"
The afore mentioned but unnamed scooter shop
proceeds in sending him the ten mirrors, crash bars
St. Christopher mud flap, Checkerboard decals,
fly screen.etcetera etcetera....
Zelda then appropriated some blue fog lights
and strips of blue lights for the floorboard from a
Pep Boys Auto parts store. The custom black diamond
seat was commissioned from B&M Upholstery for $75.
She still has all this stuff to this day.
The scooter was once used in a flyer for "Boom," a
Mod night at a Santa Fe club.
The Scoots name, "Belladonna," came from a
Vargas pin-up that was stuck to the fly screen,
which has long since ben replaced with another.
I felt that Belladonna was an appropriate name,
as it means "beautiful lady" in Italian (Vespas are
Italian made). Belladonna is also another name
for the poisonous plant Deadly Nightshade.
Deadly Nightshade is nick-named Belladonna because
Italian women used the poison-plant to dilate their
pupils, which was considered very sexy and in fashion
for the time...
While enjoying a cup of coffee at Fred's Bagels
in Albuquerque, NM, a bad Polaroid of a white scooter
with more mirrors than horse-power attached to a
flyer which stated it's many attributes, low mileage
and price caught my eye.
After a week of playing phone tag I met
"Zelda" and Belladonna in a Santa Fe mall parking
lot. Within twenty minutes we exchanged money and
title and she came home with me.
I added some goodies like chrome grips, tinted turn
signal covers and new tires. I had the engine tuned
with a malossi 210 kit, a slightly larger carb, cut crank,
amd PM evolution exhaust. Scott Vermiere of the Nomads S.C.
did his magic with the matching and porting not to
mention cutting the crank.
Daniel Rieke, of the Young Ones Scooter Society, helped
me stick the monster back together,fine tune the jetting
ect...All that is left is to think
of kick ass paint job.
Some swanky links...
the best Vespa site ever!
the best scooter magazine ever
the best scooter list ever
the official piaggio page
Mad Mod Molly's Lounge
a kick ass SKA band
the specials
good tunes nice guys
and great brews
if I could be any one
in the world I'd be
Sean Connery
e-mail me dewright@f
