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Triple Trouble: 380 Repsol Lambretta

When a custom scooter is being built, it usually works around a standard set of rules. Frame and component modification, paint, engine, etc. Though there may be some form of engineering required, usually it’s just working around what’s already there. By adding something alien to the format then it requires a completely different way of thinking. So what would that component be, perhaps an engine? That has been done before, the prime example being a Yamaha YVPS engine fitted into a Lambretta, a conversion done several times and with great results. What if it were something completely different though, say, aSuzuki GT 380 triple…

Motorbike mad

“Rather than have one pipe per cylinder Suzuki, in their quest to make things more impressive, decided to make the exhaust for the middle cylinder split into two. This means it exits on both sides and thus takes up more space.”

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