Model: SX200
Engine size: 225ccs
Base colour: White
Contrast: Aubergine
Others: Orange
| Interstellar Aubergine was named from the Pink Floyd track 'Interstellar Overdrive'. I twisted the name a bit because I fancied a Pink Floyd name, but wanted to personalise the bike with a reference to its colour. The deep mauve was similar to the colour of an aubergine, although in the sunlight it was much more radiant. |
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This photograph shows Interstellar with the side panel removed. To combat side panel theft it was common amongst my friends to remove them whenever we were going anywhere 'iffy'. This included outside concert halls and anywhere around town centres at night. |
| To make my scooters as attractive as possible with the sidepanels removed I used to spray some of the internal parts in a contrasting colour. Orange was used on this bike for the toolbox, air filter housing, petrol tank and mudguard. These photographs do not do this bike justice - the colour was a deep, rich, mauve, which is why I called it Aubergine. The paint was Valentine cellulose and I believe it was called Aubergine. |
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Here the side panels have been attached. My bikes were being adapted on a day-to-day basis and at times this bike has had up to 12 mirrors, but I usually used one pair on each side. Often these took the form of two attached low down on the front crash bars - in this case they were called 'skirt' mirrors, for obvious reasons if you had a girl on the back. |
| Interstellar was an SX200 which I had rebored to 225ccs. The addition of a few tuning tweeks made it pretty quick. You will see that during the rebuild I used a GP200 front mudguard - you can tell this because it is slimmer than the real SX mudguard. The dampers on the front wheels were only found on the bigger model Lambrettas at the time. |
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