How Green is this Holiday

[nightshade]

Just a bit of fun but is this likely to become the transport of the future?

YouTube - Scooter caravan,Lambretta

[tufftie]

Guess that's what you call cosy! If the scooter runs on chocolate - guess it's pretty green!

[PMG]

Originally Posted by tufftie

Guess that's what you call cosy! If the scooter runs on chocolate - guess it's pretty green!

The scooter (if I remember right?) ran on a mixture of petrol and oil.... I remember dad had to carry a little bottle of measured oil around ready for the next fuel up!

Did you notice the weather? Blue, calm and beautiful - now tell me I remember everything with rose coloured specs and that the weather wasn't better in days of yore Yes I know - I remember the winter of 1962/3 perfectly well.............

Also did you see how little traffic there was on the road.............. say no more

Pauline

[naturelover]

those were the days,but i wouldnt fancy sleeping in that with those skinny feet on sand,they would sink,so would the woman in stiletoes,did we realy go to the beach in shoes like that ?

[ron1863]

Originally Posted by naturelover

those were the days,but i wouldnt fancy sleeping in that with those skinny feet on sand,they would sink,so would the woman in stiletoes,did we realy go to the beach in shoes like that ?

You sure did. I remember the stiletto days well from my biking days. Up in Scotland we had a name for women wearing the white ones, which I couldn't put into print - ".... me shoes"

[naturelover]

ron were you a rocker by any chance,i was with all my leathers on the back of the boys bikes,also wore trycell dresses and stilettos,no crash helmet just the wind blowing in your hair,i will say it again,those were the days.

[PMG]

Originally Posted by ron1863

You sure did. I remember the stiletto days well from my biking days. Up in Scotland we had a name for women wearing the white ones, which I couldn't put into print - ".... me shoes"

Pauline

[Paul mabbott]

2-stroke fuel - it used to come ready-measured from its own pump in my day. When did scooters start running on ordinary petrol?

My own Lambretta had a job taking two people up a hill and would never have survived with that load - notice that it was only filmed on the flat! Good job they didn't want to do a mountain holiday

Good job there wasn't much traffic on the road since they were driving all over it ....

Originally Posted by PMG

The scooter (if I remember right?) ran on a mixture of petrol and oil.... I remember dad had to carry a little bottle of measured oil around ready for the next fuel up!

Did you notice the weather? Blue, calm and beautiful - now tell me I remember everything with rose coloured specs and that the weather wasn't better in days of yore Yes I know - I remember the winter of 1962/3 perfectly well.............

Also did you see how little traffic there was on the road.............. say no more

Pauline

[PMG]

Originally Posted by Paul mabbott

2-stroke fuel - it used to come ready-measured from its own pump in my day. When did scooters start running on ordinary petrol?

My own Lambretta had a job taking two people up a hill and would never have survived with that load - notice that it was only filmed on the flat! Good job they didn't want to do a mountain holiday

Good job there wasn't much traffic on the road since they were driving all over it ....

Yes - thats it 2-stroke - I'd forgotten thats what its called - you'd think I'd remember that as we use it in the strimmers etc (not that I've done any strimming for a while!) I don't know when or which bike - it might have been the Vespa - and I don't know why he carried his own - but I do remember him unwrapping it from its oily rag and pouring it in - I would have been 11 - 13 ish so that would be 1964/5 time .............

Pauline