Lambrettas seemed more popular at the time.

^ No. Was offered one to buy at school. General observation of what was being ridden. I also used to see the scooter crowd turning at Wembley Triangle for 'Ready, Steady, Go' at the TV studio on my way back from school on Friday.

On my Lambretta today, had an early start and the weather was ideal. Me and my lady headed out to Greenwich yesterday, didn't make it, half way the traffic was chaos, so headed down the southbank instead, it was busy, but the roads were ok getting there. Love my scoot as does the missus, it's not fast, but looks great and often get asked about it, when we walked back from SB there was a crowd of people taking pictures. I had the chance to ride her without a helmet doing extras work last year, but riding around London is dangerous enough without no helmet!!

After moving into my new flat, i discovered there is a whole group of us out in the East End with Vespas and Lambrettas, not had a ride out for a while as i had to replace my crank, but after a few weekends in the garage, i got her rebuilt.

Last edited by Tomiskinky (2010-07-19 08:12:16)

Got it.  Very nice, too.

Fair enough, I was surprised by the number of older guys doing their DA Test when I did mine last year, i'm 37, so not a youth, but these chaps were easily in their 60s, had a good chat with them in the test centre, guess it was do it now and have a last bust of youth before they really are to old for it?

That's a really nice bike mate...

Patrick Uden got a new Vespa GT200 on his website:

http://www.uden-media.com/

photography #17 in the gallery... there's also a nice vintage Moto Guzzi!

I'd rather push a Vespa than.. Nice scooter Tom, saw it on MC before. I've got a few smallframes. My working horse is a Special, I ride it alomost every day to work. )I love classic scooters, although I prefer Vespas. An old GS would be fantastic.

I may be wrong, but I think to have seen a pic from something like 2Take Ivy" with a red Vespa in the background.

whether theyre made in italy or the far east( and im pretty sure its taiwan/china), innocenti has been shut down for years-how many i forget. thats actually their new (i think it only came out this year) crack at the "traditional styling" market-all of lambretta due's models up until now have looked like hillbilly crotch rocket/ninja bikes but with floorboards and little tires.

what a waste of a trademark.

apparently the innocenti trademarks are owned by fiat but the lambretta name and merch. rights are owned by an indian company (since 1972) which in turn licenses a seattle company to rebadge taiwanese Adly brand scooters in the US. wikipedia is unclear on what "trademarks" they own, if not the actual lambretta name. also unclear on whats being sold in italy under the name.

you can now get a "new" vintage-style lambretta made of a hodgepodge of deadstock and license-made parts in india. they are apparently decent overall, as far as the components (high-quality license-built vespas  were also made in india until they disassociated the companies and renamed them "bajaj") but suffer from typical random third world quality-control issues and shady electronics.