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Every product we sell has its own page. As well as the normal title and price, it also includes a full description, it will show what models it fits, how many we have in stock and other such things
Should we be out of stock, you can see an expected restocking date, or choose to be notified when we do re stock.

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We do not produce a catalogue as our prices and range are constantly changing, a printed catalogue would be out of date almost as soon as it was printed. You can view all of our products, the full product descriptions and order all of our range of products on our web site.

Front 18 / 21 - Rear 28 / 30

In the UK, petrol has now increased to 10%. Ethonal is not two stroke friendly, it attracts water, attacks seals and gaskets, and seperates the oil and fuel.
We suggest using Super Unleaded petrol, as this will remain at 0 or 5% ethonal. It is also becoming an increasing good idea to use an Ethonal treatment, we sell a few types :-
Silkolene Pro 1ltr
Putoline Ethonal Fighter
Silkolene One Shot

Use the best quality of oil you can afford to run. Most well known brands such as Rock Oil, Putoline, Silkolene, Castrol will all have a good quality range of mineral oil, semi syntheric, and full synthetic oil

Mineral Oil	Standard scooters	4% for all models except D & LD 6%
Semi Synthetic	As above plus :- Mugello, BGM, GT, Casa, Scootopia, Rapido	3%
Fully Synthetic	As above plus:- Imola, Monza, TS1, Super Imola, Super Monza, and kit mentioned in semi synthetic which as been further tuned.	3%

Great ways to measure the oil you need :-

All early models including A, B, C, LC, D, LD, E & F run SEA30 in their gearbox. one half a litre will be adequate.
All later models run ST90, again a half a litre is sufficient.
Many owners will notice that in the manuals 0.7 litres is advisable, or fill to the level plug, whilst this is fine you tend to find that to much pressure can build up within the crankcase and put pressure on the oil seals, causing premature failure due to the age of machines. One important note is all S1/2/3 engines, the filler plug is also a breather plug, and care should be made to make sure the breather does not become blocked

City riding Short journeys	NGK BR7ES	Denso IW24	Champion N5
Normal Riding	NGK BR8ES	Denso IW27	Champion N4
Long Journeys Fast Race	NGK BR9ES	Denso IW27	Champion N3

We have a great guide of every Lambretta made here :- Lambretta Guide

Early pre 1957 models, the frame number can be found on the right hand side of the frame. It is on the vertical part, just in front of the rear wheel. The engine number is also found on the right hand side, at the front of the engine near the two large filler plugs. On all S1/2/3 models the frame number is found by taking the kick start side panel off. On the main frame tube under the fuel tank, the frame number is found there. On some very early S1 models, the frame number was further forward nearer the tool box. The frame is always prefix with the model type, EG Li150*123456, and contains six digits. The IGM (Italian type approval number) follows this. Engine numbers can be found on the top of the engine, directly in front of the rear shock absorber mounting, but it is partially covered by the gear linkage and cables.

If you wish to return your scooter to original, more often than not, your best place is to look inside the horn casting, as this paint rarely gets removed or subjected to the elements that makes paint fade. If this is so take it along to your local car (auto) paint supplier who will match it up for you. You will need to chat to the person/company who will carry out the re-spray, to find what kind of paint they use, (i.e. 2K cellulose etc.) also asking the type (speak to them for more details).

If you want to paint your scooter to original specification colours, we have compiled a list of colours here

Quick fire settings for adjusting your SIP speedo to the most comon settings
ADJ 1 – MPH for UK, F for farenheight gives highest reading of numbers for accuracy, but this is your choice.
ADJ 2 – INT for speedo cable, or ENT for internal pick up lead or cable sensor
ADJ 3 – 1360-1371.6 tyre circumference
ADJ 4 – Most electronics 1 - Varitronic 2
ADJ 5 – Time 24hr
ADJ 6 – Brightness Max 5.5
ADJ 7 – Just shows mileage no setting required
ADJ 8 – Set mileage from old speedo for continuity

Quick easy wiring questions. The power box has three wires. Red and Black are power in and earth. Brown goes to your lighting circuit as this reads pulses for the Rec counter. Every thing else has its own plug.If your rev counter is not working, make sure you have a resisted spark plug and cap. If you have full CD lights, you will need a specific filter sold seperatly to be able to read from the coil / CDI

Pull the old cable out from the top. Feed the old inner cable from the bottom upwards. Feed the new outer cable over the old inner from the top downwards. When the outer reaches the hole in the forks, it might get stuck. This is why you feed the old inner first, as you can now wiggle the inner from the bottom, and the outer from the top and push it down, it will feed through. Finally take the old outer out, fit new outer off you go!

Drum brakes are not that bad - honest. Most suffer from lack of proper maintenance.
First off de-glaze your drum, years of brake shoes polishing the drum makes it poor.
Fit new quality shoes, adjust and lubricate your cable correctly.
This to remember when upgrading your brakes.

Hydraulic is far superior, almost to good for the Lambretta forks and chassis, With this in mind, your forks need to be upgraded, as the hydraulic can cause a lot of dip in your forks due to how well it works.
So upgrade your forks with progessive uprated springs, new bushes and buffers. You should also fit dampers.
Upside - cheap very effective brakes. Down side almost too effective, so need to upgrade front suspension.

Cable Disc Far East There are two types, exactly as original for use with disc for links, or made for use with original brum links.
We suggest you change the pads, as the factory ones are crap. the mechanism doesn't have as much travel as the original ones, so benefit from packing out the shoes. Because it is from the Far East, the quality is best described as pattern. With careful setting up they will be OK.
Upside - cheap, dont need to change any thing, other then to fit your front wheel rim & tyre, and ride off.
Down side - only marginally more effective then drum.

Disc Italian If you have a drum brake now, you will need to change your fork links. If you are doing that, as above, best to overhaul forks at the same time. The Italian ones come in kit form, so need to be painted, and then built. Couple of things to look out for when building, on the whole better quality control over the Far East, but at twice the price + Upside - original looks - downside for their money they should go together a lot easier then they do.

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