The joys of a 2 stroke! . Always riding with one hand on the clutch 😮

Hairdryers were never very reliable. Push them hard and they are going to break.. Never mind , its all repairable.

Gutted for ya. Same thing happened to me in the desert, ran the tank dry and holed the piston. I’ve just got mine back together, doing a more careful running in, too.

Sounded lovely up until that ! Lovely bike Pam

Holed the piston about £140 for a wossner one, much better piston. Then do a thorough leak down test, because you have an air leak to cause the holes piston.

Know those roads. Hope you fix it. Got to keep a few 2-strokes on the road. Lucky with that junction 👍👍

Thank God you got off safely.

Replayed that last part around 5 times to try to learn the sound, and hopefully avoid the same situation 🙂 Hope you get it running again...

Back around 1970 a lot of my mates had Lambrettas they looked like Xmas trees overloaded with a multitude of mirrors & stolen spot lights clip on car headrests & loads of other ironmongery . Then they wondered why their paraffin pisser’s were struggling to hit a genuine 50 to 60 mph ,handled like pigs on roller skates & were always conking out or seizing up .. Seeing this I decided to use my head & buy a Honda motorcycle never had one break down on me yet in over 50 years . My brother also a biker has lost the plot in the last 10 years & has owed a Indian LML cloned Vespa & now a Classic 200cc proper genuine old school Vespa . Hope the damage isn’t too bad & you get her spannered & back on the road soon . 👍

The irony of the engine blowing to the tune of "beautiful noise"

Feel your pain mate. Locked my RT195 up solid, on the A64, last year! Not good on any road, but on a busy major road, pretty hair raising!

Oh shite…Yep, yep, yep…Hope the piston rings ain’t gone on a sight seeing tour of the engine.. When it cut out it bought back a couple of memories. You handled it well though. Could of been a lot worse..I blame Neil Diamond !. She’ll be alright.. All the best from North London

Two up. Coming bk from a run in the 80s on my gp200 rs stage 6 blew the big ends on m6

yes, I could read the rear lights flashing Morse code: Get a Vespa! lol. joking aside - that's a neat looking bike. sorry you had troubles. hope you can fix it.

I DONT KNOW IF ITS JUST ME BUT IT SOUNDED RATHER RATTLEY FROM THE OFF HOPE YOU GET IT SORTED MATE

Heat seizure, used to happen regularly to my fs1e.

Real sad, was running lovely 😢

Been there & got the T-shirt 😊

Weve all been there. That heartwrenching pull of the clutch when you feel it run too sweet,too smooth, too lean and the engine note whine. Did i catch it in time? Has it just pinched up? Will it start after it cools a bit? Then you got that phone call to make where you have to sound like its an everyday occourance and water off a ducks back, but inside you are hollow

Dammit! ...and some other choice curse words.

That's why you shouldn't keep the throttle pinned open on a 2 stroke for to long. Gutted for ya.😢

Did this happen because the fuel run out that had the oil?

Hope you sorted the squeaky shoe out Gary?????

Not the best of days mate 😢

ya crank snapped in half i think gary

ooooops

Oh bugger! Hole in the piston = hole in the wallet!! Hope you get it sorted ok🥲

Often, on a 2 stroke, too much oil in the petrol will cause weak mixture and hole the piston. This was very common in the 1960s when there were many 2 strokes running around and riders thought more oil gave better protection for the piston.