No Wonder Our Heads Are Pickled

[Bilko]

I'm in need of a rear hub and while I was looking at the rear hub post, I went onto the Cambridge Lambretta Workshops website and looked at the Indian hub they supply, but then remember seeing a warning on Scooter Restorations website about the same hub.

Cambridge Lambretta Workshops

made by Ramp items are fine to use

Scooter Restorations

Warning. Do not to buy pattern rear hubs manufactured by an Indian company called Ramp!

Has anyone else heard anything about these Indian Hubs? £140 is one hell of a price for a rear hub.

[tony]

oh dear. As a racer I realise the need for a decent rear hub for the lammy riders.
I built a grp 4 for my mate Scott with a loan motor (cheers james/tony r) and even with 27hp the hub shattered as it was a series 3 type..
I'll try find out what the score is here and get back to you.

[lammydave]

i had a ramp hub once, the quality was dire... steer well away.....

[byron]

I was working on a scooter with a Ramp hub, the studs weren't screwed in straight, a crack was around one stud hole, the face where the cone sits was uneven and rough. the whole thing was shockingly dangerous. I refused to refit it, so he bought a new SIL one [it was only going on a standard GP150].
AVOID :shocking:

[johnd]

steer well away, i've seen two of these and neither sat true on the cone. Door stops now!

[lamblast]

the£140 hub is a tino hub not the ramp

[ArmandTanzarian]

Ramp hubs are rubbish. I had one and it wasn't even round.

[Arfur]

I had a ramp hub on mine and it failed sheering the stud lugs. I only noticed this during routine inspection of the scoot hate to think what would have happened at speed

[leigh]

s**t just put one on my RB

Leigh

[byron]

s**t just put one on my RB

Leigh

:shocking: seriously, take it off again, it will always be on your mind that it is about to snap, and one day it will