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Liquid

It was the summer of 2011 and lying on the workshop floor was a full TS1 engine just extracted from a Lambretta frame. Now surplus to requirements it lay idle, looking for a new home. By pure chance or maybe fate, paying a visit that day was one Rob Johnson. Upon closer inspection of the engine, he enquired what was happening with it. Informed it was now for sale, his reply was straight to the point. “I will have it, I’m building a new custom scooter and that’s ideal for what I need.” The story then moves forward to 2017 and various pictures of the said TS1 engine, some huge bike wheels and bits of tube resembling a chassis. “There you go, it’s started, Liquid is finally being built.” Just what exactly this meant was anyone’s guess and, for now, the whole concept

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