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streetsleeper:
This isn't my scooter. I've had one helluva lotta Lambrettas in my lifetime. I used to tune and race them back in the UK. But this in in another league.

I wouldn't do this to the one I bought a while back, but it wouldn't be a problem picking up another KX500 engine in the UK. The problem is the guy built this back in about 2012. He fitted an alternator to it (since there was room) to run the lights. He also fitted a decompressor I've mentioned in "How to Start the Hundie 500" thread. The other thing that wasn't available back then was a starter, so he welded a 1/2" Snap-on extension bar to the kickstart, and ran it through the running board, with a support bracket. A truly terrible idea and perhaps one of the reasons there don't seem to have been any updates on the scooter in recent years, because it just wasn't very practical.

A friend of mine built an RD350LC engine Lambretta GP, but he's suffering from a neurological disorder and had to sell it. Other conversions include a Yamaha RD500LC YPVS Lambretta, as well as a Suzuki RG500 and a Kawasaki GPZ 500 powered Lambrettas.

Brute:
That is AWESOME!

Foxx4Beaver:
That is quite the "sleeper"....I could have fun at stop lights pullin up next to rice rockets, and jumpin em off the line  :mrgreen:

umberto:

--- Quote from: Foxx4Beaver on February 04, 2019, 09:26:32 AM ---That is quite the "sleeper"....I could have fun at stop lights pullin up next to rice rockets, and jumpin em off the line  :mrgreen:

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I'll bet you could get out of tickets with it too.  No sir, I wasn't racing.  It's just a scooter, they won't go very fast...

Foxx4Beaver:
It'd have to be an awfully dumb cop to believe that, that is, if he actually witnessed it.

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