Friday 9 September 2011

What's what?!

So, what exactly is the point of this blog? Well is is basically a Yamaha Passola fan site. In the following posts I will post all types of things that have to do with this incredible noped. I will also predominantly focus on posting about my own scooter and what I am doing to restore it.

The Passola was introduced during the early 1980's. I recently bought one of these beautiful machines for the ridiculously low price of R800.00. I was actually looking to buy a Honda Express, but I couldn't get my hands on one. I am not disappointed though. What I stumbled upon was in fact a fantastic find. It is not in great condition but it runs, and it sure runs fast. On a straight road I got it up to 55km/h, and on a down-hill it reached 60km/h. Since then my housemate and I have fiddled with it a little and now it isn't reaching those speeds easily.

Here are some pictures I took of it after giving it a clean...