Lambretta Museum, Weston-Super-Mare, UK

I've been working near Falmouth in UK this week, driving a rental car from Heathrow. On the way over to Falmouth, I got the chance to visit Stonehenge. And on my way back to Heathrow, I got the opportunity to visit the largest collection of Lambrettas in UK, possibly in the world: The Lambretta Museum in Weston-Super-Mare (near Bristol).


I first became aware of the Lambretta Museum in a DVD called "In search of Lambretta" (mentioned in an earlier post). And it just happened to be on my route today. Yes. Lucky me.

The Lambretta Museum also houses Scooterproducts.co.uk, check out their collection of scooter memorabilia. Tip: Check out the Pewter scooter models in cast metal, they were absolutely stunning!

The Lambretta Museum in its glory

Carlo was more than happy to give me a guided tour. For the rest of you: Enjoy the pictures!

PK50XL2 for the missus & courtesy visit to Rivals Kristiansand

Since the previous PK was beyond salvage, and a buddy of mine was in need of some transportation of a newly procured Smallframe from Kristiansand to Stavanger, I felt obligated to help.

It takes 3 hours by car to drive to Kristiansand, but hey; this was a great opportunity to visit some old scooter buddys from the Rivals. And, if I was lucky I might just find a scooter of my own to transport home.

And yes. I found a 1994 PK50XL2 in pretty good shape, perfect object for tricking the missus into scootering. More of that later.

This is what it looked like at Svein's from Rivals:

Chicken anyone?

Understatement...

Piece of rust - eh correction - ART!

Spectacular details on this Lammy...

Somebody's collecting scooters...

You can't even take a pee at Svein's without hitting a Lammy...

Work in Progress...

And. This piece of work is going to become the WORST Lammy EVER.

This is a Monster. "I eat Harleys for breakfast!"

We can't wait to see this on the road!

So. The red smallie is for a buddy of mine, Torleiv, and the white PK is for my missus.

But wait, there's more! A late order: A 90 Racer for Øyvind.

Thanks for the Smallies & a great roadtrip!

As every scooter of mine, the PK50XL2 has got it's own blog. Follow the upgrades and status of this here. (And if you wonder why I have separate blogs for the scooters: The blog follows the scooter when sold. Thats why. )



PK50

Acquired my first PK50XL some days ago. The scooter was advertised for spare parts, without a pink slip. Color? It just happened to be RED. It's a curse.

Borrowed the Transporter from work, excellent for hauling scooters...

got the scooter back home.

I added some fuel and kick started the scooter. Voila. Liftoff, for a few seconds.

Desireable XL fork.

The scooter was dismanteled for parts as the scooter was beyond salvage.

Courtesy visit CSCB in Bergen July 2011

Going to Bergen for a summer party, I managed to squeeze in a courtesy visit with some guys from CSCB, Classic Scooter Club Bergen. Brede on the left was so kind to provide me with a gearbox for my Ferdinand smallframeproject, and Harald put on the coffee and showed us around his garage. 

 

 Brede & Harald & a collection of scooters...

A nice classic Mercedes and have a closer look in the garage... 

A classic Fiat 500 undergoing restauration. Go Harald! 

Thanks for the gearbox Brede & thanks for the coffee Harald!

 See you both in Lysebotn for Roughnecks first late summer meeting!