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Why would anyone buy a Royal Alloy when they could have the real thing? Horses for courses, I suppose! Since 1982 I’ve spent a lot of time and money restoring, tuning, repairing and upgrading Lambretta scooters. Like many riders, the journey has been about more power and reliability, so I was always very interested in the projects that were coming out of Lambretta Innovation in Preston. I was on the list for one of the limited batch of Scomadi 300s in 2011, when a back injury meant I had to wait another 12 months to get back in the saddle. Fast forward nine years and the Royal

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