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Blood, toil, tears and sweat: Nervesa Tv Scooter Garage

“… it’s one thing to almost gain a podium position with two pistons, but an even better achievement with only one!”

spied the familiar silhouette of a Lambretta beneath this ‘camouflage’ sheet, confined and hidden away in the corner. Iwas trying to imagine the reason for such secrecy, while removing with my finger a slight layer of dust on the front mudguard. It was a lazy Friday and just like many workshops all over Europe, customers were arriving, as if the best and most interesting activity to do was to go and talk with their personal and beloved mechanics. Fabio pushed me inside Tv Scooter Garage office, a small, white and windowed 2 x 3

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