Lambretta
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Nov 2, 2026
LizaHOST
I don't know.
LizaHOST
For me, I've seen videos of a dude on a Lambretta two-stroke just ripping.
LizaHOST
That would be intimidating to me.
ScottyPANELIST
I got to ride Alvin's electric thing today.
Jacqui FurneauxGUEST
And I hadn't seen anyone all day.
Jacqui FurneauxGUEST
And all of a sudden, a couple on a Lambretta come up riding through the river.
Jacqui FurneauxGUEST
And help me up.
Jacqui FurneauxGUEST
And it's things like that happen over and over again.
BagelPANELIST
And even today, there are more options than ever for tuning two-stroke motors.
BagelPANELIST
There are entire new engine cases that are being made in Europe for vintage Lambretta and Vespa engines that will allow you to use even larger displacement cylinders than you ever could in the past, like 300, 400cc engines in a Vespa, like vintage Vespa.
BagelPANELIST
It's wild.
Jerry BurakGUEST
Well, when you take a racing Vespa, and I remember, I think one of the guys went 138 top end, and he went like 98 and a quarter mile.
Alun CochraneHOST
It might be a bit.
Alun CochraneHOST
I dreamt that I was riding, um, a Lambretta scooter with my daughter in the footwell of it.
Emily DeanHOST
[laughs]
Alun CochraneHOST
And, uh-
David BrayHOST
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Dave KennerGUEST
Well, I've started off with a Lambretta, which doesn't make me a mod any more than anything else.
Dave KennerGUEST
But I've still got the old trail bike.
Dave KennerGUEST
Yeah.
Paul TarseyHOST
And, of course, the Italian policemen was all in white, with a white helmet and a white uniform, with a whistle.
Paul TarseyHOST
and the opening parade every day for Friday, Saturday and Sunday was a parade of 200 motor scooters, Vespas and Lambrettas.
Paul TarseyHOST
So they do that so, so very well.
Paul TarseyHOST
Yeah, they're looking to change things around a bit.
MotoGPeteHOST
First gear being 3.7 and it going up to 1.3, I would expect first gear on...
MotoGPeteHOST
Well, just so you know, on my weak-ass 15-horsepower Lambretta, the final drive ratio is 4.94. For something making the torque of a one-liter V-twin... you would maybe expect first gear to start out somewhere like that.
MotoGPeteHOST
But we're already at 3.7 to 1.
MotoGPeteHOST
So less than four rotations of the crank for one rotation of the wheel.
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MotoGPeteHOST
And it's just riveted together.
MotoGPeteHOST
And over time, the shit in old bikes fails.
MotoGPeteHOST
And if the bike has been tuned, this is a big Lambretta thing, like if it has been tuned in any fucking way, right, because the springs are just meant for a certain amount of torque that it's going to hold.
MotoGPeteHOST
And just over time and over everything, like this shit fails, but it also fails at the rivets and whatever.