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RideApart has featured a high-speed racing scooter that Vespa once built. With a streamlined body reminiscent of a World War II bomb, the unusual machine tells the story of a sharper, speed-focused chapter in the history of a brand best known for practical everyday transport.
Vespa once built a bomb-shaped racer — even a scooter fanatic like me can't help but grin at that. The idea that a bike that's basically synonymous with easy convenience once had an era when it bet everything on pure speed — that's romance. There's nowhere a scooter can't take you — that spirit has its roots in this kind of edgy history.
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Contemporaries like Lambretta might have built similar racing machines too.
A speed rivalry between competing brands is a topic I'd love to see compared side by side.
Had no idea Vespa ever had a racing era.
Don't know the exact speed record, but it was definitely an unusual challenge for the time.
A practical scooter maker building a race machine was probably driven heavily by promotional motives at the time.
There was probably a marketing angle to it, but the engineers' seriousness back then was undoubtedly the real deal.
Would love to see the actual top speed and records in numbers.
A bomb-like streamlined body — just picturing it stirs up some real romance in the design.
A history so far removed from its everyday-practical image — really shows how deep Vespa's story goes.
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