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by DigDug
Fri Mar 10, 2017 5:30 pm
Forum: Lambretta Tech
Topic: Cable Disc Brake Spongey
Replies: 7
Views: 2727

Re: Cable Disc Brake Spongey

Is the big circlip that holds the actuator staying in the groove?
by DigDug
Mon Feb 27, 2017 7:55 am
Forum: Lambretta Tech
Topic: Spanish s2 turning mudguard
Replies: 5
Views: 2104

Re: Spanish s2 turning mudguard

shocky wrote:Does the mudguard bolt on with bolts passing through from the outside ( bolt heads visible)
I only ask as I'm doing some bgm damper conversions for them and I've seen pics of the mudguard fitted and no bolt heads visible
Yes they do Steve.

Someone has done some work on the one in pictures....
by DigDug
Wed Feb 22, 2017 4:33 pm
Forum: General Scooter Chat
Topic: 70th anniversary Monza
Replies: 11
Views: 5351

Re: 70th anniversary Monza

eden wrote:Why bother taking scoots in a van? You may as well fly out.
Will they take scoots by air? ;)
by DigDug
Sun Feb 19, 2017 7:10 am
Forum: General Scooter Chat
Topic: SX150
Replies: 21
Views: 5848

Re: SX150

I don't think it's raised. But it still doesn't look at all right to me. Look at the two different style 5's for a start. The 5 on the sx150 and the 5 on the rest of the numbers are different , ive just check a li125 and tv175 and they are also different on both frame and engine stampings so looks ...
by DigDug
Tue Feb 14, 2017 9:22 pm
Forum: Lambretta Tech
Topic: Paint marks on fork stem?
Replies: 2
Views: 1303

Re: Paint marks on fork stem?

I don't know but I have a couple of NOS pairs with similar markings...
by DigDug
Wed Feb 08, 2017 4:17 pm
Forum: Lambretta Tech
Topic: disc links????
Replies: 9
Views: 3046

Re: disc links????

The Winter Model TV2 had a disc brake.... (Just saying)...
by DigDug
Fri Feb 03, 2017 7:45 pm
Forum: Lambretta Tech
Topic: TV175 barrels
Replies: 50
Views: 13232

Re: TV175 barrels

The blue looks just like the colour of the one I had - a 1963 with fibre glass front mudguard. The seat I'm not sure about, but I do remember when I bought it it had a fluffy leopard skin cover and a "matching" PVC shopping bag behind the legshields. Possibly a tiger tail hanging out from...
by DigDug
Thu Feb 02, 2017 4:10 pm
Forum: Lambretta Tech
Topic: TV175 barrels
Replies: 50
Views: 13232

Re: TV175 barrels

hey digdug have you got a Tv175 / or ridden one ? What are they like in camparison with a typical series 3 Li150 . I'm dying to know what they are really like to ride the gearing ratios are quite a bit different . Does that give the TV175 a slower acceleration but less gear changing ie longer in ea...
by DigDug
Wed Feb 01, 2017 4:07 pm
Forum: Lambretta Tech
Topic: TV175 barrels
Replies: 50
Views: 13232

Re: TV175 barrels

apologies I thought that I had said but to be fair all i was asking for was for someone to tell me which 175cc cylinders were small block spacing and which were big block spacing . Anyway what I am aiming for is to build a TV175 engine ;) If I had just wanted to have a 175cc upgrade I would buy a 1...
by DigDug
Mon Jan 30, 2017 6:24 am
Forum: General Scooter Chat
Topic: Spanish v Italian
Replies: 12
Views: 9161

Re: Spanish v Italian

The only difference that I can see between an Italian and Spanish Lambretta is that the Spanish has usually spent most of its life on the treadmill and not in a garage or shed.

Italian frame numbers are much neater though. ;)

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