Took my Chetak down to NoHo scooters today. NoHo scooters is in North Hollywood, California. NoHo is short for North Hollywood these days in Southern California. Sort of rhymes with SoHo I guess.

My Chetak has about 600 miles on it now so I figured it was time for another servicing and I figured this time I would let NoHo service the scooter since the valves might need adjusting.

After Mike Frankovich wrote up the paperwork, we went outside to wheel the Chetak inside. We were both looking at the Chetak and he goes "have you seen those seats we have on the wall inside?" They have like fifteen or twenty different styled scooter seats on the wall in there - nice collection.

Went back inside and Mike pulled down one of the Vespa PX98 seats. To me it pretty much looks like the seat on a Vespa ET2 or 4. Have always liked the shape of those seats.

I asked mike if I could take the Vespa PX98 seat outside to see how it would look on the Chetak. We went back outside, raised up the stock Bajaj seat, and put the PX98 seat in. By then Mike's mechanic (I forget his name) came out to see what was going on. Mike and the mechanic (no pun intended) started suggesting ideas to me.

What I decided on:

1) remove the stock Chetak seat
2) remove the spare tire and mounting hardware
3) re-mount the tail light up a little higher on the fender.

Mike and his mechanic had a point - the stock Chetak seat hides the nice curve of the fender.

Back inside the shop, they took me in "the back room" to show me an example of a scooter with a Vespa PX98 seat. One of the scooters in the back room had a nice little fly screen that looks something like the "GS/Sportique" on this web page

http://www.velocity-scooters.com/fly_screen.htm

I like the way these look on vintage scooters. Don't like those super TALL windshields, but I think these short ones are cool, so one of those is going on my Chetak this week too.

Will post some pics on www.Bajajrider.org when it's all done.