good thread and stories though folks ,keep em coming
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- Tue Sep 06, 2016 6:06 pm
- Forum: General Scooter Chat
- Topic: Your First scooter /first car ?
- Replies: 53
- Views: 24420
Re: Your First scooter /first car ?
if only we knew then what we know now about what and what wouldn,t be valuable and collectable in the future ?
good thread and stories though folks ,keep em coming
good thread and stories though folks ,keep em coming
- Tue Sep 06, 2016 5:52 pm
- Forum: Vespa Tech
- Topic: Inlet Timing
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6653
Re: Inlet Timing
another thing to consider on this thread is the crankshafts themselves ,and how they are actually modified ! the mazz cranks for eg are just "slashed back " and yes in theory they do extend the inlet timing (by extending the closing time) but because of their shape they are still very rest...
- Mon Sep 05, 2016 7:56 pm
- Forum: Vespa Tech
- Topic: Inlet Timing
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6653
Re: Inlet Timing
just to add that the later the rotary inlet timing is closed ,the higher up in the rev range the power is made ...not always the best thing though as is often the case ..cranks cut that way can make a vespa to peaky !
- Mon Sep 05, 2016 7:37 pm
- Forum: Lambretta Tech
- Topic: clutch drag
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3452
Re: clutch drag
as adam says above ,drag is simply a case of not enough separation/free play .
- Mon Sep 05, 2016 6:52 pm
- Forum: Lambretta Tech
- Topic: 230 Suzuki conversion
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5587
Re: 230 Suzuki conversion
hmmm..pretty good old jap piston /iron conversions in their day ,but doubt they are cost effective to do nowadays ....
- Sun Sep 04, 2016 8:19 pm
- Forum: Vespa Tech
- Topic: Inlet Timing
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6653
Re: Inlet Timing
lol, more like the other way around i reckon ! ...as only by increasing the inlet timing will it rev higher .. anything up to prob a max of 210 degrees can be used ,depending on use and gearing etc . whenever i work out the desired timing ,i always start from the opening time ...usually around the p...
- Fri Sep 02, 2016 5:10 pm
- Forum: General Scooter Chat
- Topic: Your First scooter /first car ?
- Replies: 53
- Views: 24420
Re: Your First scooter /first car ?
hope we get more folk contributing to this little thread ...as its interesting and makes good reading ...
i feel like i know you all a bit better now !
...i feel like i know you all a bit better now !
- Thu Sep 01, 2016 8:20 pm
- Forum: General Scooter Chat
- Topic: Your First scooter /first car ?
- Replies: 53
- Views: 24420
Re: Your First scooter /first car ?
Just before i left school i was a bit of a rockabilly ,i use to go to the youth club and bop away to the Stray cats etc, then in may 1980 at the annual float parade right at the back was a mod band playing (The Argent? ) with a load of scooters following behind , id never seen this sort of thing be...
- Thu Sep 01, 2016 8:16 pm
- Forum: General Scooter Chat
- Topic: Your First scooter /first car ?
- Replies: 53
- Views: 24420
Re: Your First scooter /first car ?
First scooter was a 1974 primavera bought for £75 with my Saturday job money from the drummer of a local Liverpool Mod band ‘The Sound’. It had the biggest ever windscreen with ‘The Sound’ in massive letters across it. I rode it around for a week until someone said to me “how much is your insurance...
- Thu Sep 01, 2016 8:02 pm
- Forum: General Scooter Chat
- Topic: Your First scooter /first car ?
- Replies: 53
- Views: 24420
Re: Your First scooter /first car ?
the yellow and black vespa " the wasp " was my good old faithfull rally ..the green one i was doing wheelies on wasnt mine ..it was kamis ! ...the lammy in the piccys was one me and my mate sort of shared ...we went halves on it tbh and took turns on it ...that piccy was in scarborough 19...