Skelly Anyone?

Our body is consisting of Bone and Flesh. The bones support the body and all the organs while the flesh cover the bone and protect it. Skeleton (some people call it skelly) is the term use for the strong framework consist of bone that support the body, therefore if we talk about skelly scooters, it refers to scooters that has been strip off to its minimal and the only thing left is the frame and engine. The question is, what so special about skelly scooters? This is what I found in wikipedia:-

“A cutdown (sometimes known as a skelly) is a customised scooter (usually an Italian Vespa or Lambretta) with parts of the bodywork removed or cut away. Cutdowns were popular amongst skinheads and scooterboys during the mod revival of the 1970s and 1980s. While the style-obsessed British mod youth subculture of the 1960s prized the glamorous, metropolitan image of scooters, many skinheads and scooterboys viewed their bikes as simply a form of transportation.[1][2]
While some scooter enthusiasts have focused on the stripped-down look, with just a bare frame and visible motor and mechanical parts, some scooterboys put back almost as much hardware as they had taken off, by adding customized chrome-plated accessories and racks.” - WIKIPEDIA

The picture above portraying the next step of my Lambretta LI Series 2 restoration process, I’m not going to turn it to skelly scooters but to strip it off so that I can send it to the next process which is the sandblasting process. Many of us are aware that lambretta frame is made of tubular metal and this make lambretta had more parts comparing to Vespa. I found out that the previous owner of this lambretta has weld the double stand of this lambretta and this has make it very difficult to strip it off from the body frame and I have to grind the welded parts to separate them.

Also in the picture is two most prominent figures of RAG, Mr. Pesa and Mr. Pa’din studying the process of striping off the scooters from the book “Spanners Workshop Manual For Lambretta Slimstyle Scooters” wrote by Martin Sticky Round.