Mopeds-Had the first Cazenave in the UK,awful machine when one bulb blew the lot went,happened to me one night coming back home,then had a Raleigh Wisp,followed by the Runabout,then a Raleigh Supermatic which had a vari-belt tensioner and would climb hills.
That two stroke oil was rubbish,it would form beads on the spark plugs,I used to use Molyideum Disulphide,a black oil that coated the bore,it used to shine,a decoke was the norm every month,used to leave the carbon to seal the piston edge and just scrape the crown with a lolly stick,silencers were dunked in caustic soda bath had two in rotation,used to drill one hole just aft of the baffle,performance was increased with a tad of extra noise but who cared back then ? after the mopeds I needed to upgrade to scooters,no I was not a mod or a rocker ! used to buy old scooters from a motorcyclke shop where I worked for a bit of cash part time whilst working with aircraft which was awful pay,strip them down,buy cheapo parts from my employer,the highlight was my Bambi sidecar attached to a Lambretta 175,the most fun machine that I ever owned,loved it and would ride in wind,rain,snow the lot,the wheel spline went whilst coming down a hill and I lost the sidecar wheel,should have seen the sparks flying,shades of Wallis & Grommet !! survived to live and tell the tale, traded that for a Morris Traveller as wanted something to drive the girlfriend around in,several Morris later purchased my first real car a Vauxhall Estate and that was the start of so many that have now lost track of them.
Did thousands of miles on those mopeds,do they still make them ? 49 cc even had the bits for a 29cc Cyclemaster but that never got put together due to lack of spares,told you we were the last of the 'roll the sleeves up' brigade ?