Lambretta wanted for restoration

Sucking his keyboard for inspiration, A.Clews.RemoveThis@DENTURESsussex.ac.uk
typed:
> Thus spake Rich B (richard.NObrookmanSPAM@thanksbtinternet.com) unto
> the assembled multitudes:
>
>>> I tried that with my C15 back in 1975, and failed miserably. I
>>> showed a
>>> pic of it once on the 'net, but I'm not going to inflict it on
>>> anyone a second time. I remember TOG was particularly horrified at
>>> the time.
>
>> A C15 cafe racer! Nearly as abominable as the Jawa 350 I fitted
>> with ace bars in a clumsy and youthful attempt to create one similar.
>
> Yes indeed, but I was only 19 at the time, it was my first "proper
> motorbike" and I had loadsa fun on it, just like I'm sure you did on
> your
> Jawa.

Indeed. Passed the test on a C90, then got the cheapest 350 I could find.
Looking back, I wanted a 350 - *any* 350 - just to show I wasn't a learner
any more. I should have got an older 250 Dream for the same money. Yes, it
was *that* bad. I wanted to modify and personalise it, but there ain't much
you can do to an Eastern-bloc stroker, so a repaint and ace bars it had to
be. They were backbreaking with the curiously forward-set footrests, so I
ended up putting them on upside down for a kind of chopper vibe. It actually
looked quite funky - or so the young lad who bought it said. In my defence,
I was only 19/20 or so, and utterly without clue.

> And I passed my test on it, though heaven knows how, but the test was
> after all a bit of a joke in those days.

You said it, son.

--
Rich B
Bandit 1200S
Take out the obvious to email me.