Smoking two-strokes

Filling up your scooter at the petrol station always required one important task. One that if you didn't adhere to signalled trouble for the engine, filling up with oil. For those that owned a Vespa, certainly one of the new fandangled ones, this didn't matter so much. They had a fancy auto lube system that mixed the oil for you from a separate tank. For hardcore Lambretta riders it was different though, requiring you to doit yourself. The problem came with getting the measurement exactly right.

The Lambretta petrol tank didn't hold that much,