Like all of us, Dan was scooter mad and was the proud owner of a Lambretta that he cherished. The problem was that his technical skills didn’t go much further than operating a can opener, which meant that there was potential trouble on the horizon when it came to his Lambretta. You needed some mechanical skills if you owned one because, by the 1980s, they were unreliable. It wasn’t that they were built poorly, quite the opposite, they were a mechanical marvel; but the majority had been lying idle for more than a decade. It was great news that
