every once in a while someone hits my site looking for manuals for their Stella by Genuine Scooter Company. i feel for you owners manual seekers, since my first owners manual was destroyed by a fatal combination of leaky gloveboxes and torrential downpours.

so here ya go: a pdf copy of the Genuine Stella Owners Manual, and a (really big) pdf of the Genuine Stella Service Station Manual...

do me a favor and save the service station manual on your computer instead of downloading it from my server every time you need it, kthx? happy scootering!

i really like the lines of the vespa/stella/bajaj scooters. they're clean and uninterrupted by cables. unfortunately these cables have to go somewhere to get from the handlebars to the engine where they'll actually do some good. that means they've gotta go through the frame. this can make replacing the cables a bit of a pain...

when i was in seattle last summer i had to do an emergency cable housing repair. luckily, my amazing scooter mechanic Dave had some great advice on how to pull the new housing through the frame. it's actually quite slick:

instructions after the jump.