Gran Sport

Vintage Vespas: tuned for speed, restored for beauty. Who says your old scoot has to be slow? Gran Sport Cycles is about the vintage riders experience.

We are constantly looking for premium parts and products to offer up the best 'get up and go' for vintage riders. Gran Sport knows vintage parts and service from years of experience as riders, wrenchers and hours of restoration. We combine the best in vintage good looks, with high performance and reliability - to bring you a true customized, tuned for performance scooter for when you want as good as it gets.

04/08/2026

This TV 200 had sort of become a fixture of the shop. I’m gonna miss her. Treat her right Mike Wolfe . Full engine rebuild, gear oil turned to tar. Kickstart teeth stripped out on 1st gear. 12v electronic ignition. New harness. New cable inners, ect. Tried to keep as much original as possible.

03/25/2026

Happy 50th birthday to my darling wife Heidi. we’ve been together since we were 16. Whenever I hear her car outside or footsteps coming up the stairs coming home, my heart beats a little faster. Every time. Like a sad little puppy. I’m not exactly sure, but I’m pretty sure it was 25 years ago I gave her a GS160 I built for her birthday. 1st scooter I ever built. I had no idea what I was doing. So I guess I can thank her for getting into this mess. All I wanted was a Bonneville…..and a Pepsi.

09/10/2025

Customer is coming to take possession this weekend. I always have a hard time letting them go. Literal blood, literal sweat, literal tears go into each of them. Countless hours spent on things no one will probably notice or care. Yet never complete. Constant fretting. Not entirely sure I’m cut out for this. But i haven’t a clue what else I could possibly do. So I guess I’ll just keep on keeping on.

09/05/2025

Cool shadows out today. I built this bike several years ago. In with a roasted out clutch. Complete engine rebuild and new Cosa clutch so as not to get roasted this time. I always thought 3 speeds are a blast to ride. Revving out 2nd gear to get to third.

08/28/2025

Ommmmmmmm - Radical acceptance meditation.

06/08/2025

Just about done with this one. I’m not entirely sure how many more I have in me. They seem to be taking longer and longer. As I’m sure anyone on my waitlist can attest. I sincerely apologize. I can honestly say, I’m doing my best. 1952 Allstate. Vespa’s econo line. But cool as s**t. I will post some more pictures when I’m all the way done. I mean why not. #1952

05/29/2025

As far as I know there is no kepone in the river, and this river is flowing west not east. And it’s not the James. Being a diehard pessimist, it’s very hard for me to admit, it might, maybe be, a sort of beautiful day. My wife is an art teacher, and it is against the rules to put the sun in the upper corner of the picture. So this is for you

05/16/2025

I painted this scooter quite a few years ago. Before I had a shop. My uncle would let me use his body shop to do my work. One day an old timer local came in the shop and saw me working on this and he said “are you painting that for a gay cowboy?!” I took that as a compliment as A: he was oblivious to what he was looking at. B: if he thought it was uncool, then I’m doing something right. I strive to be the exact opposite of that dude. C: I don’t want him on my team. “Keep it secret, keep it safe”- Gandalf D: I am positive a gay cowboy would have impeccable taste!

04/03/2025

Series 2 1/2 Lambretta built almost 10 years ago. Insane amount of work to make it all work. Back when I had ambition. Series 3 leg shield and mudgaurd. , series 2 horncast, and headset. Pretty much everything had to be cut up into pieces and welded back together for everything to jive. And yes I know the front dampers are on upside down. We were up very late the night before and Dean put them on upside down. We didn’t realize until we got to the rally. Then we just left them that way to f**k with people.

02/13/2025

I could have sold this bike a couple times for an exorbitant amount of money. I walk by it everyday in the front of my shop. I haven’t ridden a scooter of my own in a few years now. Just low morale today. Wanted to look at something pretty.

02/06/2025

I was a little on the fence about switching this one to 12v. But nice hot spark, super bright lights at idle. All modern conveniences. 1950 V14T. Last year of the rod shift. First year no body seams. Complete engine rebuild. 12v V**e ignition. Still probably tops out at 35mph. But will do it in style. And they will see you coming from a mile away with your bright ass light!

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Rock Island, IL
61201

Telephone

+13097987843

Website

http://www.gransportcycle.com/

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