Another year of general road use and another Euro Lambretta under my TT3's belt. I'm aware that there were a number of TT3s on the Euro again this year and the others (riders) that I spoke with were very happy and confident in their bike's ability/performance. I ended up travelling with Andy Francis and his group of scoots, which was a lot of fun (good bunch of guys and Helen) and meant that I needed to fit in with their cruising speeds on the motorway, which was the same that I'd been doing on the motorways from Hook of Holland anyway (hooking up with them at Koblenz). Andy's group consisted of TS1s and an RT230 reed motor (any other specs?) so it meant that we were not hanging around.
Prior to hooking up with Andy and his group, I had popped in to Scooter Center to have my expansion welded (fantastic reception from Scooter Center and a sturdy repair that is still going strong... for no cost and it isn't even one of their exhausts!!!), I swapped out a stator that the lighting feed had failed on and I replaced a clutch cable on the way home. On the way back from Geiselwind to Venlo (stayed there a night) we were eating up the miles on the motorway, which we'd got back on at Bonn, and the van's sat nav said that we were motorway cruising in the high 60s and dipping in and out of the 70s, which might not sound like much but this was our cruising speed (real world, whereas my speedo saw me touching 90 a couple of times LOL) and we were only stopping for petrol (long range tanks).
Venlo to Hook of Holland was done alone and by 8:30am I had my Tuesday ticket changed for a Monday sailing. Then Harwich to Oxford, around the M25 and up the M40, seemed like a short and pleasant breeze! The Avanti TT3 not missing a beat.
Thanks Ron, great service from the kit once again!