silverclaws
Senior Retro Guru
Oh dear a Lambretta, I have bad memories of a last road taxed '71 machine me and my mates were given for something to play with in our early teens.
The most worst aspect of that thing was the bloody kick start as it ran into the back of the calf when pushing the thing, it makes mountain bike pedal strike no problem, all of us had the same bruise in the same place.
Then there was the day we were pushing it along the cycle track of the A580 as it headed to a new location, (a friend's place who had a garage), well pushing that thing, it was fuelled, but it had a stuck clutch and as none of us were licensed to drive it had to be pushed, well, we got it going in a panic as passing a known rough estate, we were descended upon by target backed green coats, so we ran pushing the scooter as fast as we can and it started going, crap, we had been pushing it in gear, so we all jumped on, three of us, no helmets nothing to get away from the mods.
Pity a side cover fell off and ended up under a car as the miffed idiots behind tossed it on the dual carriageway and that was the end of my interest in scooters, top heavy lumps of unwieldy junk as a new project came along, a Suzuki GP100. I never did take to the roads on motorised two wheels as along came four wheels as my father lent me a two year old MK2 cavalier just after I passed my test.
Although I now have a slightly customised four year old QuingQi 125 I have to finish and get rid of this year, four k on the clock and fully restored and in this country it as known as the Pulse Adrenaline, my bike at the time, a Quingqi rep actually wanted to do a feature on for a Chinese bike magazine.
The most worst aspect of that thing was the bloody kick start as it ran into the back of the calf when pushing the thing, it makes mountain bike pedal strike no problem, all of us had the same bruise in the same place.
Then there was the day we were pushing it along the cycle track of the A580 as it headed to a new location, (a friend's place who had a garage), well pushing that thing, it was fuelled, but it had a stuck clutch and as none of us were licensed to drive it had to be pushed, well, we got it going in a panic as passing a known rough estate, we were descended upon by target backed green coats, so we ran pushing the scooter as fast as we can and it started going, crap, we had been pushing it in gear, so we all jumped on, three of us, no helmets nothing to get away from the mods.
Pity a side cover fell off and ended up under a car as the miffed idiots behind tossed it on the dual carriageway and that was the end of my interest in scooters, top heavy lumps of unwieldy junk as a new project came along, a Suzuki GP100. I never did take to the roads on motorised two wheels as along came four wheels as my father lent me a two year old MK2 cavalier just after I passed my test.
Although I now have a slightly customised four year old QuingQi 125 I have to finish and get rid of this year, four k on the clock and fully restored and in this country it as known as the Pulse Adrenaline, my bike at the time, a Quingqi rep actually wanted to do a feature on for a Chinese bike magazine.
