We here in the US are an industrious folk. Give us a lot of spare time, and a lot of spare beer, and we will take a beautiful piece of engineering, and hack it into an unspeakable horror. I pointed out this farm-engineered mini-bike made from the unholy union of a Lambretta and a hacksaw a few weeks ago. Now, I see on my local Craigslist that someone else had the same bright idea to somehow stuff a Lambretta motor into a Honda trail motorcycle. Huh? Why?
Take a close look at the photos. I'm not really sure what is going on there. Clearly, they attached a pulley on the end of the crank where the flywheel fan is supposed to go. However, note that a whole portion of the normal Lambretta motor case is missing. They just cut the motor on the kickstart side just behind the crank. Wow. That is just something I would have never thought to do, even at my drunkest.
Kudos to you crazy drunk guy, kudos to you...
Full text of the seller's description of this motor below the jump
Well here's something that you don't see everyday. We had this Lambretta 150cc engine in a mini-bike back in the early 60's and it ran strong. It has been modified to be a pull-start and has a centrugal force clutch, single speed automatic. We came across a Honda SL90 engine with a hand clutch & 4 speeds so we swapped out this engine. I have pictures of the mini-bike with both engines in it that I dug up. This Lambretta engine turns over freely, has the coil still attached with a kill switch as it came out of the mini-bike. As stated earlier, it ran great back then, it has been sitting so it may need freshening up. $175.00
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