Lambretta LN125

Kev - thanks for the review of the new Lambretta, which makes pretty interesting reading. As the years go by I am becoming more and more interested in scooters and having been lucky enough to test quite a few recently, I find them to be surprisingly good bits of kit. I am very seriously considering getting a second hand one for the winter daily commute.

I note your comment about the steel panels on the new Lambretta and this is a point of note as, I believe, this endears the scooter a bit more to some of those who lean towards the purist side. I tested one of the Indian made LML machines, which to all intents and purposes is a modern made version of the original Vespa. Are they being imported into the UK yet? The Indian bike is also all steel and has the added advantage of also incorporating the left hand twist gear change. The bike is a little bit rough and ready compared to other options but I found it to have quite a charm. The down sidebeing that it is not that cheap compared to other offerings.

Getting back to the new Lambretta, I feel that it is a big oversight to have made the fuel tank so small. To be filling up every sixty or seventy miles would be enough to remove the machine from my list of potential rides straight from the off.

The combination of the Sym engine is a good one and the fact that the unit is assembled in Taiwan is no bad thing either given what they are doing in not only there but also the likes of Kymco. Is the machine itself assembled by Sym or do they have their own operation out East?

It is all too common for many of us more traditional style bikers to dismiss scooters but I feel that we really need to embrace them as they very well may form a significant sector of the market that we all desperately need for powered two wheeling to continue.