Kill me now...

"MouseFitzgerald" (MouseFitzgerald) 09/23/2014 at 06:34 • Filed to: None

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WITH COFFEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!

IN A VAN!!!

Seriously though, if I had a mobile coffee van lounge I would be so happy.
Time to start shopping.

#boolabreports

Jobjoris > MouseFitzgerald 09/23/2014 at 06:44

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Nice! But I prefer the Italian Vespa for my espresso:

Leon711 > Jobjoris 09/23/2014 at 06:48

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That my friend is an Ape (ah-pay) not a vespa.

Wurrwulf > Jobjoris 09/23/2014 at 07:08

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I'll take Brigade Coffee in NOLA, please!

Jobjoris > Leon711 09/23/2014 at 07:12

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That my friend is a Piaggio Ape, often reffered to as a Vespacar, Apecar and other names...

Leon711 > Jobjoris 09/23/2014 at 07:17

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So, it's an Ape.

Not a Vespa.

Jobjoris > Wurrwulf 09/23/2014 at 07:17

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One wonders why the corrugated iron-style completely vanished in nowadays traffic. Love me some Type H!!!

Bluecold > MouseFitzgerald 09/23/2014 at 07:28

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I actually worked a few times on a mobile coffee bar. It was a flat-rate operation, so you were hired to serve free espresso and cappuccino for everyone.

It's weird how some people are ungrateful for stuff they don't pay for. I wonder if those people would be more grateful/polite if they had to pay for it, or even more blunt since they already payed for it.

In any case, a two group commercial machine runs about $300-500 second hand, but figure in quite a bit of CLA. The pictured Mazzer SJ does about $300-400, but will need new disks ($40) and a cleanup. Secondhand espresso equipment is cheap compared to new, but nobody seems to properly clean and maintain those things because they're leased a lot of times. What you _actually_ want for a mobile operation is a gas-fired lever machine. Like this

via http://www.home-barista.com/levers/levers-…

Jobjoris > Leon711 09/23/2014 at 07:29

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So, it's like you want to make a point. Good luck with that .

Leon711 > Jobjoris 09/23/2014 at 07:40

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No, not at all. you said Vespa which to a gentleman like myself residing in the United Kingdom, where due to the immense popularity of the vespa scooter in the 1960's meant that when someone said Vespa they meant the scooter, I had one myself a 1988 PK50. The Ape Truck only appears in very small quantities in the UK. Hence the confusion of designations. Though historically the case may have been that Vespa was a over-arching name covering scooters and trucks, in the UK at least the Scooter is Marketed as Vespa and Truck as Ape.

http://www.uk.vespa.com/uk/index.html

http://www.piaggiocommercialuk.com/

Cé hé sin > MouseFitzgerald 09/23/2014 at 07:49

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This seems to be a thing:

Cé hé sin > Leon711 09/23/2014 at 07:51

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Indeed, it's a bee rather than a wasp.

Cé hé sin > Jobjoris 09/23/2014 at 07:52

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The passage of time hasn't been kind to them I'm afraid.

Jobjoris > Leon711 09/23/2014 at 08:38

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Well, as a Vespa afficiniado, you probably know that the very first Ape model and the mark immediately following it were mechanically a Vespa with two wheels added to the rear, with a flat-bed structure on top of the rear axle. That's probably why some of us (including me, having owned an orange Piaggio Ape P50 Van - it's official name - for quite some time), accidentally or not, refer it to as a 'Vespa Apecar'. And that's what I - in fewer words - stated in my initial reply to you, in which I even - partially - agreed with you. No need to correct it again, explained by pictures, referring to your local UK-situation.

Jobjoris > Cé hé sin 09/23/2014 at 08:40

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The fact it couldn't keep up with nowadays traffic (80 km/h!!!) didn't help preserving them!