Front Dampers

Remembering all the potholes in Ireland at Eurolambretta ´98 made me thinking about an improvement on the front forks since I would like to use the Cometa next June to go to Killarney.

Some time ago I purchased an old stock of Lambretta parts from a dealer in Swizzerland, including some strange (at least to me) brackets - but now I think I know what to use them for:




Have you seen these before?

i agree some extra buffering is required on the front end.

not seen them before, and i dont like the look of the outside nut, it has a shouldered edge, where it should fit into the fork link.
use it by all means, but i'll be sticking to the other damper set up.

The pics show just the "beta" setup for aligment of the upper fixings.
The brackets have a welded in ring fitting into the forklink (where the nut used to fix in).
Seems I have to use a longer spindle as well. Will Post a pic of the brackets alone later.

You need one of Daz's super dooper extended front spindles with screw in damper studs. There the best way forward

Suuper Doooper sounds brilliant - pictures please!
Here's my swiss version:

this was what thackers is on about.
i dont have any left now, i will have some more in the new year.

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Here's my swiss version:
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they look like the jaison's damper brackets like I had'em on my DL

hi, have you got any of the super dooper axles left. cheers.

daz.h wrote:this was what thackers is on about.
i dont have any left now, i will have some more in the new year.

They look just like the ones fitted to my Lui

daz.h wrote:this was what thackers is on about.
i dont have any left now, i will have some more in the new year.

Are these still available please?

none left, sorry pal.
daz

I suspected as much after all this time, Daz.

Am I correct in assuming that the distance pieces are standard Vega front hub, and that the spindle is just extended and tapped at the end? If so, can you recall how long your extended spindle is?

Thanks for any help

Paul

spindle was standard length, just internally drilled and chamfered to accept the damper studs

Thanks. That's easy enough to get sorted then.

I'm thinking that this may be a better idea:

Nothing wrong with those Paul .................. Been used on this race vega for years without issue

Did you get those made up yourself, mate?

No they were on it when it was in Karslakes  ................... Jem did some copies a few years ago and im guessing they were copied from similar "original" ones used on early damper conversions.

Should add that they have been recently re-galvanised alongside much of the original bare metal parts

I've just ordered some hexagon bar, 20.8mm diameter, to get something made up to accommodate the generic bottom damper stud. I'll keep you posted.