Approx 70 or so motorcycles of all shapes, sizes and ages were entered into the Oliver’s Mount Race Circuit Hillclimb on Sunday 8th October. Vintage bikes, classic bikes, modern sports bikes and a few supermoto/motocross bikes thrown in for good measure make for a good spectacle!
But those of us with good taste really turned up to cheer on the four Lambretta riders competing. They were all flying the flag and helping to promote the ‘Scooters on the Mount’ side of the hillclimb events.
The competitors race up part of Scarborough’s legendary Oliver’s Mount road race circuit. It is an anticlockwise track, which is very rare in racing. The bit the hillclimb sprint uses, starts in the area normally used for the pits and finishes at the top of the main hill – the highest point on the track.
The riders go up one at a time with a 30 second or so delay, which makes for constant flowing action. The bikes go in category order – classic, then modern and in different capacity limits too.
At Scooter Center’s rather fine custom show in Koln last weekend Patrick Adam from Pinasco’s northern European distributors showed us a couple of really interesting new products.
The first was the 30mm SI (standard style) carb for the Vespa PX range. In this video tells us afew more details than we revealed in our quick news item on Saturday.
The second revelation was a new version prototype of Pinasco’s 9-(transfer) port 225cc cylinder kit for the Vespa 200 casings with Direct Induction (D.I.). This has a separate cylinder-mounted inlet which can either be blanked off with a supplied pate on crankcase inlet engines or it will accept a reed-vale inlet for larger carb sizes via a reed-block based on the Yamaha YPVS dimensions. Direct Induction opens possibilities for fitting this kit to earlier Vespa engines like the GS and 180SS.
So far there is no work on price or release dates for either product, though Patrick is hoping to have both on sale by the summer this year.
Pinasco are in the development phase of many new products mentioned in our exclusive feature on the company.
by Sticky
