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Living with a Casa SST265 Lambretta

Watching racers on the track at Cadwell Park back in the day, I was amazed at some of the skill and speeds that race legends like Dave Webster, Norrie Kerr and the Frankland brothers were reaching, especially from the perspective of a young Scooterboy on my standard Li150.

Many things have been produced to improve Lambretta scooter engines over the decades since the first racers took to the tracks in the early days of the 1950s. Bespoke designed exhausts; porting and tuning of the top end kits; then a leap in performance by the TS1 alloy kits of the 1980s.

Over the past few years, many kits, clutches, five-speed gearboxes, advance/ retard ignitions have raised the bar to unbelievable levels with Lambrettas reaching the heady heights of 28, 30, even 35bhp – which for some

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