Este es un extracto de un relato sacado del foro scooterotica. Se que es en ingles, pero es demasiado largo para traducirlo. Da gusto leer estas historias de los 60. Continuará.
The Scene
I was born in 1948.....that makes me old!.....60 in fact, just got my free bus pass. So therefore in 1964, i was 16 yrs of age, and just ripe for the mod scene and scooters.
There was not much traffic then and no speed cameras.... in the Medway Towns there used to be two motorcycle cops which you had to look out for and that is all, the cop cars were few and far between and had better fish to fry.....so we were lucky ...nearly flat out every where with no prob`s. the M2 in Kent was only recently fully opened .....and was handy for racing the bikes and using as a test track.....the M2 was about 1 mile away. There used to be striped post`s in the ground, about 2 ft high, and at exactly 1/2 mile intervals, they used these for checking the speedo`s on cop cars...nobody knew what GPS was then..... so i did the same for my speedo .....i then knew how far wrong it was .....not all Lambo speedos are crap. The new speed limit had just come in and as you all know it is 70 mph but nothing to worry about on a standard Lambretta......Petrol was 7/6 for a tankfull of 2 stroke mix....pull up at the pump...set the lever to 20% or 25% and pull the lever to and fro and it all mixed it self up .....easy.
Margate, Southend and Hastings were all the rage in the summer months but you all have heard about that as well. But they did have there advantages as you could meet mods and talk about there bikes and what they had done to them.....Being in Medway 28 miles from London, we were always going there to see the latest scooter shops where they were mostly brand new Series 3 including the fairly new GT200. We also bought our clothes from Carnaby Street and Pettycoat Lane.
My GT200
I was mad on my mates GT200 in the summer of 1963 so mad in fact i decided to save up for one. By July 1964 I had my first scooter the green and white model GT200......I then could go to Brands Hatch as it was only about 10 miles up the road. My mate who had a series 2 1960 TV175 also used to go with me. We were saloon car racing mad. Before long we were getting all this knowledge of how to make an engine go faster..... it wasn`t long before i knew that the hemi-spherical combustion chamber was one of keys to BHP....the famous Jaguar XK engine and also the Aston Martin had this..... So of course i eventually took my engine to bits and lo and behold it had a hemi head....with a spark plug in the wrong place.....I was lucky to work at the Medway College Of Technology,Fort Horsted in Chatham. I was a Junior Technician in woodwork, but our worshop also had the engineering department as well, there were the old Colchester lathes and everything.....so yes you can imagine me putting the plug in the right place in the cylinder head, the old one remained as well as i could not weld the hole and not many had the ability then,to weld with alloy......This made a big improvement to the performance and together with smoothing and flowing all the ports. Of course all the joints where different parts were bolted on were matched as well,especially the exhaust manifold where the gasket fitted,always had to reshape the gasket to be a nice smooth flow for the gases. We never had Dremels then so i used and knackered my Dads old heavy Black and Decker drill, i had all the wire brushes ,emery cloth on sticks you name it to clean all the ports up. On assembly i left off the head gasket it is only 0.6mm, the compression ratio was 8 to 1 so i was on the plus of that .......wasn`t really interested exactly what it was so long as it worked properly and it did. ....Didn`t worry about what you call squish as we never knew of those things. If it did not knock you were fine if it did you put the gasket back. ......I used to cut the exhaust box in half every dinner time and weld it back up until i had it right. In the end it was a standard box but of course the GT one with no cluster of a baffle just inside the opening.....took all the glass fibre out.....but left the baffles in for the back pressure ...noise did not matter then...and added a 1" copper exhaust pipe to the end of the box....also just by there we drilled two 1/8th holes which also help adjust the back pressure, got this dodge from a magazine and it did help....and of course made a bigger clamp for the bottom bolt.......It sounded ace and the bike went as good as it sounded--------------to be continued
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