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just reading a few old theads about speed? sit alday at 75mph and tops 80mph? (rt225 with a mb clubman) mugello 225 with a jl3 (75 mph and topped 85 mph) .....really is this lambretta speedo or gp take the piss speed?

Cheap Indian Lambretta speedo at that...............................cloud cuckoo land!

Read a post about an incident that happened on the way to a run a while ago. Writer said it happened at 65/70 mph. Thing is I was going past them when it happened and my S2 struggles to hit 55mph (gps) down hill with a tail wind.

ye to sit at 70+ for long periods you need a good engine and trying to sit at 80+ on the motorway for long periods although possible invariably results in a broken engine... honest

I've been trying desperately to get more top speed out of mine; 50mph max but much higher on gps (64).

Can anyone point me in the direction of a speedo which will get me up to 80mph?

put a 90 mph speedo face on a LI125 50 mph one whooooooooooooosh

Trouble is, all the bull§h!773rs totally devalue the credibility of those who can really do those speeds.
Tarred with the same brush.

...... and I've yet to meet anyone who actually "rode all day".

hullygully wrote:put a 90 mph speedo face on a LI125 50 mph one whooooooooooooosh

As our friends over the pond would say ... "most bang for your buck".

A "friend" who rides with us struggles to do over 55mph, yet when no one is present he manages 75mph and holds it in the high 60's

I will try to find out if it this is some electrical device he has fitted that only allows the scooter to perform when not in the presence of other scooters

I would also point out that when in a pub you can gain a 2mph increase for every pint you drink.........fact !!

corrado wrote:...... and I've yet to meet anyone who actually "rode all day".

Oh yes you have ... or very nearly all day! I've done it twice.

1. Euro Switzerland (the one before last) I got off the ferry at 6:00 in the morning and rode until gone 11:00 that night, covering the whole distance and having to stay in the train station in Langenthal that night because nowhere else was open. This was on a home tuned iron 225 running a GPM piston. It did take me 2 days to get home though as a shattered piston shim took out my rings on the way home (piston replaced with 2nd GPM item and new shims on the motorway near Basel).

2. I made my travelling companions get up at just gone 5:00 at Euro Avignon so that we could ride to Orleans to have dinner and spend the night at a good French pal's home. We didn't get there until well gone 11:00 too but my pal had the table set and the wine 'breathing' for us when we arrived The 3 bikes ridden all day that day were 1 x Avanti TT3, 1 x Harry Barlow iron lined alloy Suzuki 190 and 1 x home tuned iron 175 running 22 Jetex and AF clubman.

It might not be 00:00 to 24:00 but both of these days really were riding 'all day', from dawn until late into the night. One of my 3 on the way home from Avignon said that riding all day was on his bucket list but that he had now crossed it off his list. Other than fuel and a breather occasionally at those fuel stops, the only time we stopped for any length of time was when we stopped at a roadside cafe for lunch and the Jetex was stripped and cleaned to get rid of water from the float bowl.

As far as I'm concerned, this is ticked off my bucket list too!

Adam

corrado wrote:...... and I've yet to meet anyone who actually "rode all day".

Ive rode all day quite often

today I rode from just north of Birmingham to Sunderland had a burger and a poo then rode home, just shy of 400 miles in the fking wind

On the Lambretta for 8 of the 10 hours I was out of my house, that's constitutes all day in my book

And on last years Euro we rode one day from 8:30 am till close to midnight.

Nothing like spending a day riding

ditto Ede, we did the same upto Sunderland (as on most spring/summer/autumn weekends) , but we had 2-lay about seshes, both f**king stators , 1 going nr York & the other on the A19, grrrrrrrrrrr

SIP speedo, fastest off the shelf kit there is available

some footage from a ride all day yesterday often riding at 70+