Well if you only have those three to work with the Guzzi, it’ll be littered with Ducati’s dare to be different. You could buy a Lambretta between now and then though so my call could still be valid…
For me as always when in London I’d worry about some infringement of being in the wrong lane or zone. Happened to me B’Ham few weeks ago in my lads Mazda. Left turn into the ULEZ £8.00, luckily I realised and paid there and then I usually forget such things and they become £25 or more. Pet peeve is the Dartford crossing so much so if I need to get to the other side of the river I go anti clockwise these days.
totally agree, it's become stress city for most commuters and they can pedestrianise the lot now for all I care. I know this is an impractical and un-achievable solution, but with more and more roads dropping to 20 mph it's becoming a total farce and I really pity all the traders and people that have no choice but to venture in. Sorry for the ranty off-topic, i've been to the show several times but the journey takes the fun out of it for me now.
The B’Ham version isn’t much better, it takes in some of the less affluent parts of the City Centre. Who going to want to pay £8 to get their car serviced in centre of the city.
I think perhaps that Pete is too old to be pushing a Lambretta to the Ace. I say 'pushing' from experience gathered over the years of owning probably at least 30 of them. Too many cameras etc round that way, which is why I avoid it like the plague.
Probably the best option to avoid speed cameras, bus lanes, the thieves that lurk around the Ace and of course an obligatory May downpour!
There was me thinking that Mods were a real sociable bunch at the side of the road, didn’t realise they were waiting for the AA……..
AA to get you there, RAC to get you home. Not all scooterists are Mods. Most are just scooterists. TBH, most scooter riders back in the day were just scooterists. Mods were a small clique and there were various scales of Mod. Most of us started out as Mods tbh, but the scoots took over and its hard to remain clean when you are cutting a coke can up to make a head gasket on side of road, or when your fixing mateys PRange's cruciform. So we quickly evolved and anyway Quadrophenia says to follow your own path not follow the Bell Boy. Towards the latter period even Mods were laughed at by scooterists. They considered themselves elitist due to their clothing. Most of us scooterists in oily combats and wacky hair thought they were nobs.
I worked with a guy years ago that ended up on the front page of the Mirror in the Bank Holiday Fights in Brighton, he was a knob. He had it framed above his work bench.
