Her birthday was coming up and I thought I would just build a S1 for her using a startup base of an S2 spanish frame (we aren't as lucky as you boys, who have S1's available at hand.) Also, it needed to be a 125 cause of her license not being apt for over 125cc. So after having a talk wtih ArKatXu from the forum, he pointed me into a mate of his who had a completely run down S2 125 frame. This is the basketcase:
I thought it was suicidal but I went balls first for it. I didn't have a choice as 125s are very very rare in Widey form. So I had it shipped to me and realized how bad the crest was. The inner frame tube was ok, but the rest needed a donor frame. Luckly Donlambretto had aquired not too long ago an S2 winter that had its number frame scratched so it could not be registered in spain. He was generous enough to let me have the frame and sell the bitza off of it to Soullad, so I could use the ridge from it as a donor:
After I took it apart. I set up both frames and sent them to Norfolk, so Soullad could take them to Sausage from Sausagespeed in Great Yarmouth. Sausage would do the transplant from one frame to the other.
Meanwhile I needed bitza. The Italian bitza to complete this project. So I called Donlambretto and we set up an attack blitzkrieg visit to Novego swap market in November. This took place in a small town outside Milan. Lovely place. You can see that Donlambretto was trying to engineer a way to bolt that S1 basketcase ontop of an Airbus whilst I was making sure I was covered from the rain using that huge Italian mudguard.
I got back to Barcelona and the frame arrived a month later. Sausage had done a fantastic work. Soullad had done well too cause he took the frame to the powdercoaters. Time to the reconstruction needed to start quick as the DVLA had already received the paperwork to start the reconstruction of the documents. A lot of red tape!!!!!!
Rebuilding project begun. What a nightmare was to set up the electricity.The rest was quite easy, since Donlambretto had rebuilt the engine with me months before and it was ready to bolt on:
Yeh, I know the small S2 airscoop just didn't work with that big indian airbox. I hadto feddle it to dust until it fit. Then the scoot started smoking like crazy so I had to source a bigger airscoop.
Donlambretto again, "the Joan of Arc of Lambrettas" helped me with the horncasting. I found one that was broken and needed some welding. He lives in Northern Spain where the metal work industry is fantastic. He took it to a mate of his who did a great job with it. It was ready to bolt on!!!
The great MOT morning arrived:
SUCCESS!!! Everybody called to find out if it passed or not. Soullad, Donlambretto... My big grin after I got the MOT stamp, I cannot describe it. I ran into the DVLA just to find out that they had not included the frame number, still managed to convince the woman in the DVLA to give it a miss, I would go personally to the MOT and figure it all out.
There she is on her much promised scooter. Still so much work to do on it.....
