Lambretta Or Vespa

[micko]

Been searching everywhere and cannot seem to find a decent one anywhere. There's plenty of half built projects but I'm not looking to do that. A lambretta would be the one I'd choose but a vespa would also do.
Anyone have any idea as to where else I could look? I'd be needing it to be in Northern Ireland, possibly the republic or Scotland, Wales, England if it was a really good price and condition.

I'm only really after one because our kids are getting older and this is the only bikes they are interested in, they don't want a scrambler style bike which looks the part but doesn't go fast and sounds like a hair drier.

 

[dayzofspeed]

, they don't want a scrambler style bike which looks the part but doesn't go fast and sounds like a hair drier.

and vespa/lambretta dont? seriousley tho have you tried exchange and mart or autotrader, i don't know if there are scooter specialist magazines (sure there are) as i am more of a rocker than a mod

 

[micko]

Have you heard some of them 125's an under? They sound horrid. I think I know what they're on about. Some of them look like they'll go fast, when they don't. A lambretta/vespa looks like it would go slow, and it does. I like them myself. Although I've seen the film quadrophenia (correct spelling?) I don't have a clue about mods or rockers.

Oh and thanks for your advice, I will check it out. I've so far looked at N.I auto trader, the local papers, sales papers, gumtree and ebay. Some on gumtree looked good but were either sold or asking too much.

 

[dayzofspeed]

i think unless you are lucky vespas and lambrettas will be quite costly as they are almost a "specialist" bike especially the older ones, and there will be a lot of scooter enthusiasts looking for renovation projects etc. i dont know how much biking experience you have and this may be very obvious to you, but the tinny sound of those small bikes is generally because they are 2 strokes, a 4 stroke engine will sound better, honda used to make pretty good 4 stroke smaller bikes the cg125 is a single cylinder 4 stroke which wont do much above 60 and thats downhill with a following wind and is a good 1st time bike & would be cheap as chips. Also as i dont know a sodding thing about scooters i'm not sure they do any 125's but i may be wrong, the ones i remember started at 150cc

 

[micko]

I know a wee bit about bikes but not small ones. I couldn't take one apart, repair and put it all back together like a few friends can. I wouldn't know much about mechanics at all. My girlfriend knows more about that stuff than I do. Oh the shame!
I've got a 1098 sitting in the garage and haven't been allowed to ride it since I got it. I got this as the last one was wrecked. It was about a month old and a woman pulled out of a hospital straight onto the main road. So I've been banned from bikes even though it wasn't my fault. I see from your avatar you like bikes, what do you have?

 

[dayzofspeed]

i dont have one any longer, cant afford one due to the sodding recession, the avatar is of my old 600cc yamaha Thundercat, which i part ex'd to get a suzuki gsx 1400, now the suzuki has gone too

 

[micko]

I was thinking of selling mine as its never been rode. Just laying there which is a shame. I'm "allowed" to get it made into a trike and a friend of mine makes trikes but I think it would be an awful shame to do that to a brand new bike.
Never been on anything bigger than the 1098.

 

[raptorrex]

i find that the GHD hair-dryers are amongst the best!