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Lambretta Kit Book Review

Any prospective speed-freak who is turning the first page of a performance-based book will have high expectations of being met with appetite-whetting images of cylinder kits, dyno read outs, port-maps, and accompanying text to get their tuning juices ramped to the max… right before they take out a second mortgage to pay for all the new tuning items they’re subsequently compelled to buy! Author, Martin ‘Sticky’ Round, however, takes a much-needed cautionary approach in the opening section of his book, and admirably tries to save us

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