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Babetta 210 and I don't know if you know it, maybe neither my age group knows, but the 10 years older people know it that at the
beginning of the 80's and at the end of the 70's the Babetta 207 – what is an older version than this – was considered as a miracle
with electric ignition and automatic clutch, whats point is that even an average housewife can easily use the motorbike, she wound it,
the better ones just kicked it in and after then she just had to pull the gas. Nowadays when scooters exist and just a button,
I push it, it starts up and I just have to pull the gas, cause these have automatic change gear, it's not a big deal, but at the beginning
of the 80's, at the end of the 70's a Babetta was considered as a fantastic, great machine. The 210 that you see here, it's a little
bit improved version of the 207. Well I tell you honestly that they didn't improve what they should have, cause the tank of these motors
rot from the inside just like in the 207s. But we washed the inside of this motorbike with a few bolts and nuts and a little bit of
Coca-Cola for this test and so that if we want to sell it, it won't be a tank with rotting inside. Anyway we repaired it so much that our
last Babetta, what Attila tuned up... And in theory, if I am lucky... This is what I'm talking about. If it's finely tuned in then it
starts up after one kick in, thanks to the electric ignition and that it's not overdriven and it has a good compression. The endspeed
of a Babetta like this otherwise around 40-44-45 km/h. It has a speedometer, its needle was unfortunately just broken down. But it still
shows the speed, it's just not visible well. I show it a little bit during operation, then we go for a testdrive here, on the pot house track.
Well, we race. It goes around 40. It's the allowed maximal speed in the Highway Code, but it's still accelerating. 45. Here you can see it.
So this is a very-very good motor, I try to stop. I turn around and then I go back. I won't leave poor Attila alone.
We wait for the cars. Oh, it's so bad to do it with one hand.
There is a bus.
See the lighting, there is the front lamp. Well you won't see too much about it. And it doesn't have real voltage regulator.
So it lights as much as you pull the gas. Poor rear-lamp gave it up. And you can shut it off electronic, you see it.
So this is our Babetta 210.