PRACTICAL SCOOTERING TECH TIPS
Amid the usual dyno and spanner work the garage entertains each month, it was a pleasing sight to see a couple of cutdowns come through the doors, one being a particularly old-school DTC machine that had been rotting away in someone’s garage for an eternity. I love it when these old-school survivors are revived and put back on the road again. Neither scooter was a hot performer on the dyno, but high bhp wasn’t their beauty, it was their old-school charm. The orange and black Li150 had an unusual rear light and seat unit fabricated into the frame, along with a good old VW Clubman pipe, which I found wasn’t quite as loud as I had remembered them to be, especially compared with some of today’s noisy expansion chambers. The second scooter was Beyond Time, which had been spotted hanging on someone’s garage wall in the background of a for sale advert for a completely different scooter! From the Kawasaki front dampers to the DTC paint job it was a visual delight, and a stark contrast to the complexity of many of
