Three Wheel Motorcycle

Mention the word scooter to a UK person of a certain age and they get misty eyed.  The Lambretta scooter was the transport of choice of many a young man back in the early to mid 1960s.  This was at the peak of the Mods vs Rockers era.  The Mods listened to soul records, dressed in smart suits and drove scooters covered in mirrors.  This was so they could check on their perfectly groomed hair.  The rockers, on the other hand, rode motorbikes, listened to rock ‘n roll and wore leathers or denim.  Some of them were in Hell’s Angel chapters.  Unfortunately these 2 groups would often clash.  Vacations became [...]

The Lambretta SX scooter has always been close to my heart, ever since the mid to late sixties when you had to be either a Mod or a Rocker. At that time I was just too young to ride a motorcycle or scooter but loved the whole Mod fashion thing.
 

My friends were in the main older than me by a couple of years which meant they were allowed to own those beautifully polished Vespa’s with chromed bubbles, which are great scooters, but better than that a couple of them had the stunning Lambretta 200 SX. The thing I liked most about the SX was that it seemed longer than the [...]