Metal Flake Our ‘painting by numbers’ series is here to guide readers through the process of painting a scooter. Parts 1-4 (see previous editions) have
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Scootering classics: Essential Lambretta maintenance – September 2016
Scooter sounding like a bag of spanners on the way back from a rally? This month: fault diagnosis… without taking your Lambretta apart! There are
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Scootering classics – SIL 200 – Bang for buck part 4
How far can we reasonably take a SIL 200 engine, with each step giving the most ‘Bang for Buck’ (more power per pound spent)? Darrell
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Scootering classics: Essential Lambretta maintenance – August 2016
Long journey home, getting dark, lights starting to flicker? It’s no joke if your lights pack up — time to look at the wiring (the
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Scootering classics: Painting by numbers – part 4
Pearls & sparkle pearls Give a scooterist a Vespa or Lambretta and chances are he’ll fit something chrome to it, tune it… or paint it
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Scootering classics: Compression Ratio
MEASURING, BURETTING & CALCULATING Building a decent engine involves a surprising amount of maths. Dull it may be, but the end results certainly are not Darrell
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Scootering classics: SIL 200 Bang for buck tuning: part 3
How far can we reasonably take a SIL 200 engine, using old school tuning, a little bit of knowledge and a lot of experience? Darrell
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Scootering classics: Essential Lambretta maintenance – July 2016
Safety is always paramount; the hub and rims take a lot of force under acceleration and braking, are yours up to scratch? This month: hubs
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Scootering classics: Painting by numbers part 3
Having looked at the extensive process of preparation in Part 1, and following up with colour coats and lacquer in Part 2, we are spending
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Scootering classics: Squish Velocity – Piece 3 of the power puzzle
Darrell Taylor continues his look at the two-stroke top-end, this month delving into squish band width and MSV, and starts to put some of the
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