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Snoozing 244 Street Sleeper

Likewise upgrades, improvements and enhancements to braking, damping, handling of scooters has been developed over time. The pursuit of producing vastly improved power from motors that were at best (the flagship 200cc models of both Innocenti and Piaggio) producing a modest 12bhp has been a quest for two-stroke tuning gurus of all levels of expertise. Ever since scooters began to be mass-produced at the tail end of the 1940s by the big two Italian manufacturers (as with probably every other type of motorised vehicle), there’s been aspirations and intentions to increase the

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