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Just out of curiosity is this scooters theme to do with the late great George Dukes track?

Psychedelicropcircle wrote:Just out of curiosity is this scooters theme to do with the late great George Dukes track?

Yep exactly that!

Never heard of George Duke before so spent an hour on the Turbo Trainer listening to him... I have been enlightened!

Nobby wrote:

Psychedelicropcircle wrote:Just out of curiosity is this scooters theme to do with the late great George Dukes track?

Yep exactly that!

Sometimes it pays off to read the thread rather than just look at the pictures


Hope to see this somewhere this season (no pressure)

jonw wrote:Never heard of George Duke before so spent an hour on the Turbo Trainer listening to him... I have been enlightened!

'Duly schooled' I think the kids call that!

Psychedelicropcircle wrote:

Nobby wrote:

Psychedelicropcircle wrote:Just out of curiosity is this scooters theme to do with the late great George Dukes track?

Yep exactly that!

Sometimes it pays off to read the thread rather than just look at the pictures


Hope to see this somewhere this season (no pressure)

It's a trait all man suffer don't worry!

I'm a binge builder!... Some Times i have quiet stages but then others I'll plough into it remorselessly.., sometime only having a couple of hours sleep a night, my goal is defo the iow at the latest... But really want her finished at the end of spring/start of the summer...
Start building the engine next week....
Forks and front hub nearly done-

Bit more done this week...

Top and bottom end done, squish, tbc etc, I would take a photo of the other side but there's no gearbox or anything in there! ...waiting on a few parts..
Tbh the Indian casing is abit pants!... Had loads o welding repairs done on studs etc but when I put the main and hub bearings in they just pushed in by hand!!... Had to use stud and bearing fit on them! ... Still it was a casing I already had and I'd spent money welding any getting it blasted so ...




Like I said earlier in thread it's a very early (no32, 1985) mb tuned st6 225 (retuned , I sent it back to broady to have a look at to see if he could bring it up to date and tame it!- exhaust is very high!) old skool asso piston , innocenti gp200 barrel, Indian head, no head gasket, exhaust and inlet matched (of course!) (inlet had I massive 'step' in it I had to grind off?!), original 80s Ducati lighterened flywheel , bgm stator, Italian gp200 gearbox and Sil sprockets with 400x10s , 4 plate clutch with mb springs

jonw wrote:Never heard of George Duke before so spent an hour on the Turbo Trainer listening to him... I have been enlightened!

An hour! Half hour intervals is my max......I take my hat off to you sir !!

3hrs at 182 Watts is the long session (Ironman training) so always looking for good and unheard music... If you've got any more tunes Nobby I'd be happy to give em a listen?

Absolutely Fantastic build by the way, just oozes history. Keep it coming!

Some more 80s pics of bla...

No panels....

































































And tight at the very far right in red before she was painted by maca!

Progress ...
Sorry about the crap iPhone pics ....in a dirty workshop....
At night!

Engine is completely built now








And she's coming together! Boom!

Just like most of us Lambretta riders keep our left hand hoverring over the clutch lever, I'd like to see a bit of rag stuffed down that inlet some time soon......

Are you using an original Dell'Orto VHB?

Mk2 Amal pj...
carbs off while I fitted engine then went back on...

Great 80's pics Mark some familiar faces on there , re builds looks to be coming on well

A premature mock up!....got all excited because the recovered snett turn up today and I wanted to see how it worked with the paintwork ....

Lovely

Any update on this significant resurrection project Nobby or has Zika taken its toll?

Come on Nobby is it going to be ready for IOW ????

Ar yeah sorry lads... I hate it when people don't post in a build thread for ages to!!.... But the truth is Iv done fuck all since that last post , very frustrating for me because Iv done the hard bits and it's just the glory bits- tinware and chrome stuff left to do, A couple of days work a reckon because I have everything from cables and loop to engraved brass panel plates, dtc horncast badge and afew other little touches all sitting there , I haven't run out of steam- I'm still really excited about getting her finished and seeing at rally's again...but life's got in the way since a last posted- I firstly put bla aside to finish my pacemaker ( see another thread of mine on here!) for a scootering photo shoot (in last months - julys scootering) and then.........
I now have a son!! and took 5 weeks off of everything parental leave!...
And then I lost my workshop !- so Iv had to put bla in storage (she's actually in 2 different places at the mo!- rolling chassis in one place and tinware in another! till I find another workshop
Can't see her being finished for the iow .....even if she was finished I don't think I could go at the mo, I'm prob looking at getting her ready for next years season now fffffffff

Hope everything pans out and congrats on your new arrival.
Gaz