Vespa under the snow. NY2013

This morning I jumped on the scooter. Met up with a gang of fifteen scooter riders and headed out through north London to Epping Forrest for the Saint George’s day ride out.
Sporting my new Hedon helmet, we spent the day cruising with 250+ other Vespa’s and Lambretta’s along fields and down winding roads. After splitting from the pack, we came back through into London and stopped by Gods Own Junkyard. Here’s to more of these sorts of days.

1970.

Back in the day, the easiest way to “customise” your Lammie, was to take the side panels off, and unbolt anything you could… to create a “skelly”. This, along with bolting on a big bore exhaust was also sone in pursuit of an elusive extra couple of miles per hour…

As with all these things, there are different levels of “getting it right” and this skinhead style skelly has plenty of authentic 70’s style touches… the megaphone exhaust, sidewinder seat and wooden running boards all giving it a the proper skin/suedehead feel.

The TS1 225 lump should give it plenty of poke, with a hydraulic front break to bring it to a safe stop.

Here’s the eBay link

To be honest, I’d never even heard of a “ridgeback” Lambretta before. Luckily it has nothing to do with hard-as-nails Rhodesian dogs, but it’s a rare early TV2. A TV2 that has a weld, or ridge, running down both sides of the frame tube. Apparently this was removed after frame numbers *108… so they’re as rare as the proverbial rocking horse excrement.

This one comes fully loaded with authentic period accessories, and a five digit number plate. It’s just had a grand knocked off the price, hence the headline. And you can buy it on eBay here.

Here’s that eBay link again.