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Inside Indonesia's Extreme Vespa Subculture and the Rebel Riders
Key Takeaways
- Indonesia hosts the world's second-largest Vespa enthusiast community, behind only Italy.
- The Rebel Riders network builds Extreme Vespas from sheet metal, bamboo, rubber, and even tree branches.
- A 98 cc Vespa engine is the only component that makes these machines Vespas.
- Piaggio's Jakarta factory opened in the 1970s and ended production in 2001 after the 1997 Asian financial crisis put new Vespas out of reach.
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