One of the first things my dad said to me after purchasing a Lambretta was: “Do you expect to get far on that old thing?” At the time, the tatty old Li150 Special was celebrating its 20th birthday and had less than 10,000 miles on the clock, so I was pretty confident I would. Perhaps he was referring to the fact it hadn’t turned a wheel in more than a decade, and with two flat tyres and significant rust on its south side, perhaps he had a point. I was armed with the home workshop manual, and though it didn’t tell you how to
