rollershop resurrected
Cast your mind back to the late 1980s and advertisements in this very magazine for PM Tuning. A full page each month offered performance products to enhance both the Lambretta and Vespa. Irresistible reading for those who wanted to go faster. Then it happened: one month a small section of PM Tuning’s advert was dedicated to a new kit by Zirri. This offered unbelievable performance for the smallframe Vespa, with potential speeds of more than 100mph. What or who Zirri was no one really knew but the name certainly had scooterists talking. This wasn’t long after the TS1 had transformed Lambretta ownership and it seemed that Zirri had achieved a similar leap forward for Vespa owners.
Sadly, the kit’s £600 retail price meant it was out of the reach of most scooterists and this, combined with the fact that it was unsuitable for the PX, meant that sales were slow. A couple of tasty demonstrators built by PM Tuning were featured in Scootering magazine but even they couldn’t lure in customers.
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