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Best leave it to the ‘experts’...

the early days of scooter ownership everyone started from the same place when it came to mechanics. We were all of a similar age so there was no one older with years of knowledge and experience who knew better. For those of us that owned a Lambretta, the steep learning curve wasn’t helped by the lack of resources of where to learn from. There was the odd shop here and there with some old dinosaur mechanic left over from the 1960s. Most of them were too miserable, having spent their life doing the same thing, to show you how to

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