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Thought you might like to see my 1971 GP125. It's got a quite interesting history. Bought from Eddy Grimstead in 1971, used until 1974 and then stuck in the back of a dry garage until 1999. It was then cosmetically restored by a scooter dealer who used it as a display piece for another 12 years.

I bought it in 2011 and it had just 8000 miles on the clock. Since then I have (slowly) been sorting it out mechanically whilst trying to keep it looking fairly standard. It now has:

Casa 185 kit
Polini CP23 carb
BGM crank
MB Clubman exhaust
Electronic ignition with Chiselspeed M-Tech advance/retard
AF tubeless alloy wheels
19/46 gearing
Pro Tec shock

It now produces a heady 10.64bhp with a stump pulling 11.59ft/lbs of torque!

Apart from the above, the scooter is almost all as Innocenti made it. The nice thing is that the paint (being 15 years old) has a bit of patina and doesn't look freshly sprayed which suits the look perfectly.

What a lovely looking scooter and you know the history as well bonus , great job well done

Toddy wrote:What a lovely looking scooter and you know the history as well bonus , great job well done

Have to agree, cracking looking scooter

That's a lovely looking scooter - however some bugger has undone your HT, and pinched your spark plug!!

Just paranoid about checking mixture - the plug spends more time out than in!

Thanks for the comments. It wasn't exactly a tough job, but I'm pretty pleased with the way it's worked out. When I got it, it looked nice but was struggling to get to 50. Now it runs great at 55-65 which is just right for the roads round here.

Hell Yeah !! Like that Get some front dampeners on it and it should ride tighter G.

Superb scooter,

Rich'

very tasty... well done...

Bloody nice, well done.

Very nice.

like that, nice

beautiful

Love it!

How do you find the polini cp23 carb ? My brother had one on a siver special with 175 top end and he removed it because he could only get about 25 to 30 mpg from it.

very nice gp that is love white gps

HxPaul wrote:How do you find the polini cp23 carb ? My brother had one on a siver special with 175 top end and he removed it because he could only get about 25 to 30 mpg from it.

I haven't had chance to check out the fuel consumption properly as yet. From memory I think it did about 50 miles on 2/3rds of a tank so that's about 45mpg.
Starts and runs pretty well though and the carb really is tiny so you'd never know it was different unless you really looked.
I wanted to keep the airbox so it limited my choices.

I'll do a proper check soon and post the result.

nice one fella.....just started my project after 30yrs....not having one, so got my self bombay gp150.
total strip in paint at moment....got a new sil200 eng....thats totally stripped, changing all bearing/seals
new mek crank....hopefully be ready for next year.

garynonnah wrote:nice one fella.....just started my project after 30yrs....not having one, so got my self bombay gp150.
total strip in paint at moment....got a new sil200 eng....thats totally stripped, changing all bearing/seals
new mek crank....hopefully be ready for next year.

Thanks and I hope your rebuild goes well. As I said, I only had to finish this one off so it was pretty easy but I am currently eyeing up a Series 2 for restoration so may well be up to my neck in bits soon!

thats a really nice scoot , interesting carb though, any idea what jetting spec it is.