Good evening, welcome to Cambridge Lambretta.
Preserving classic Lambrettas since 1989.We are open from Tuesdays to Fridays from 9am to 5pm, and Saturdays 9am to 2pm.
We welcome visitors to our shop, where you can see our range of scooters for sale, and choose from our vast selection of Lambretta parts.
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Parts & Accessories
Cambridge Lambretta was the first shop in the UK for offer full online shopping, opening up the world to mail order Lambretta parts 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. From the comfort of your own home (or garage) you can quickly and easily choose the parts you need for your Lambretta and have them delivered to your door step ready to restore, repair, tune or customise your Lambretta. We also accept telephone and e-mail orders as well as personal callers, all of whom can choose from over 2000 lines of parts we have carefully chosen to stock based on our experience. We stock parts from Imola Racing, Casa Lambretta, Cuppini, Scootoipa, Dellorto, FAG, Rolf, MEC and many other quality parts suppliers. Remember we only stock what we have tried and tested and know to work, well tell you what you are buying and what we think of it, as well as standing by what we sell we guarantee all parts we sell
Technical Help & Advice
We get calls and emails from all over the world, asking for help. Over the years we have written many help and advice articles, all of which have been reproduced on this web site. At the very top of each page you can see our sticky menu. The help and information is all there for you to browse. Gear charts, suggested set ups for kits, jetting advice, screen savers and more
We have a mini guide on the history of the Innocenti factory, as well as the scooters and three wheeled vehicles it produced. Dont forget to visit our fun page as well, for downloads and interesting items. Dont forget if you can not find what you are looking for, or just want some simple help, contact us here
Performance
The world of Lambretta tuning has moved on from simple cubic conversion, and some port changes, using modern technology and manufacturing process we have helped to develop new exciting performance products. From Italy comes the Imola, Monza and Mugello range of alloy cylinder kits as well as the ground breaking Varitronic kits. We stock the BGM kits. GT from Richard Taylor and more. To back these up we also carry items from DellOrto carbs, including a new range of power jet models, JL performance expansion exhaust and much more. For modern speed, whilst still retaining total reliability we have a product to suit your scooter, what ever your needs. Workshop
We have a fully equiped modern workshop to work on vintage and classic Lambrettas. With years of experience of repairing, restoring and tuning Lambrettas for modern reliabilty, we can undertake any work you require.Our most popular products
Petrol is changing
Worried about the new E10 fuel, not sure which petrol to use?
What Fuel
Standard Unleaded fuel is now E10. Either use Super Unleaded - which gives better running and performance any how - as this is remaining at E5, and or use any of the Ethanol treatments we sell
More and more each day we are spending a good deal of time on the phone with people who are reporting running issues with their Lambretta (or Vespa).
In most cases when we quiz and probe, a common theme is not using your Lambretta often enough to keep the fuel fresh and new. With more and more ethanol being added to modern fuels this is causing us two strokers more issues.
IF you are experiencing poor starting, poor running and over heating issues, and you fuel is one to two months older, considering flushing your fuel system and putting fresh fuel in. If it is even older then this, chances are you need to clean your carb out as well.
Adding a good quality fuel treatment is at present becoming a necessity for us, especially as we dont tend to use our pride and joys every day. The more casual rider popping down to the club meeting once a week or month, may not cover many miles and thus fill up a lot less. Adding this fuel treatment will help no end to prolonging the life of your fuel, engine as well as you suffering less running problems.
If you want a more in depth look into the issues of modern fuel, read on..........
Three major facts on why Ethanol affects us:-
1) Ethanol attracts water : This has many issues for us, because ethanol is a hygroscopic, it will absorb water into our petrol tanks, carbs etc. Thus the older your fuel the more of an issue this is. Back firing, running high, poor starting, over heating can be caused, and when we look further a field, rusting of the petrol tank internally will not be helped with the presence of water.
2) Ethanol has a different octane rating : This can give a few differing issues, but if you have a higher compression head, your timing is too advanced, or you run higher tuned engines it will affect you more. If your engine is set up to compensate for these issues, and the fuel does go off and your octane rating drops, then again the same running issues we have mentioned before can occur. On the other side of the coin, if your engine has not been built with the higher octane ratings in consideration, you might find over heating (usually shown by blowing a hole in the piston, blowing a gasket, things coming loose through extra heat expansion, can affect you and your scooter.
3) Ethanol is a solvent: Being a solvent can have many affects. We need oil in our two stroke engines for lubrication, oils protects our moving parts. Ethanol can flush and wash this out, while most modern oil manufactures have compensated for this, some older or lower quality oils offer less resistance. Oil seals, gaskets, seals, and rubber can all be affected by ethanol. Again most modern materials have been manufactured with this in mind, but some parts can be affected.
As Ethanol is a solvent, it can breakdown sludge and deposits in the fuel system, releasing them to flow throughout the engine, but a bigger effect is inside the carburettor. Our carbs have very small holes in jets that become clogged and harm engine performance.
New Products For May
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