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Barry

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Re: Interesting scooters for sale
« Reply #1 on: November 28, 2012, 01:31:05 PM »
Crikey Bob.  Don't go telling everyone about the Piatti.................................The Binz is interesting but 50cc!

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Re: Interesting scooters for sale
« Reply #2 on: November 28, 2012, 01:56:01 PM »
Oooops! Sorry, I have been associating to much with Mike Plant! Do you want me to delete it? Of course I could be the seller. ;)

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Re: Interesting scooters for sale
« Reply #3 on: November 28, 2012, 02:44:52 PM »
Don't worry about deleting it Bob, most people know that the Piatti was a terrible scooter and hardly anyone has any interest in them. A snap shot of history that is best forgotten.  Scrap metal value really.

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Re: Interesting scooters for sale
« Reply #4 on: November 28, 2012, 08:47:34 PM »
50cc but not a moped though, or it would be a pedal Binz. Nice little chap.

Mike Dann used to ride his Piatti from Bristol to Plymouth, down the A38, to see his girl friend, apparently. I assume that was before he bought a Schmitt as he was very much in evidence in early pictures of activities. In those days Schmitting the A38 was probably reasonably fun.
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Re: Interesting scooters for sale
« Reply #5 on: November 29, 2012, 05:33:38 PM »
Very Bubbly rear light on the Binz.

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Re: Interesting scooters for sale
« Reply #6 on: December 07, 2012, 07:35:18 AM »
I do have a Piatti - it is certainliy more to show then to ride...

Anyone of you guys bought it ?



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Re: Interesting scooters for sale
« Reply #7 on: December 07, 2012, 08:34:29 AM »
So do you still own this or did you sell it?

I was watching it with interest but the £1800 was just too much.

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Re: Interesting scooters for sale
« Reply #8 on: December 07, 2012, 08:41:00 AM »
The one on eBay is not mine.

I own this one: http://www.flickr.com/photos/19867693@N03/sets/72157603257046758/

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Re: Interesting scooters for sale
« Reply #9 on: December 07, 2012, 09:51:00 AM »
Very nice.  Thanks for the link.  More than £1800???

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Re: Interesting scooters for sale
« Reply #10 on: December 07, 2012, 10:03:24 AM »
well I paid 700.- for the wreck you see next to the kr175 (btw, the kr175 is offered @ RM in Madison). I guess this is one of maybe a dozen Piattis in running condition.



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Re: Interesting scooters for sale
« Reply #11 on: December 08, 2012, 04:30:33 PM »
omg  :o
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« Reply #12 on: December 23, 2012, 09:03:25 PM »
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Re: Interesting scooters for sale
« Reply #13 on: December 24, 2012, 10:27:58 AM »
"Piatti -The New British Scooter" was kinda hedging their marketing bets, wasn't it? 

Piatti to catch the (then) fashionable who knew that an Italian scooter was the 'real thing', but then mentioning British so you knew it was made by the right side in the recent war?