Puch Green Machine Maxi

Short video of my cousins Green Machine Maxi prior to installing his new 1977 clutch:

Here is the sound of the new clutch:

Soma Rides Again

Our resident Japan rider Soma-san is back at it again. He and his MB5 counter culture continues there meet  this past weekend.  Their last meet was cut short due to a typhoon. He set out for his 100+ mile journey to their meeting spot. Let's join the adventure...

Shelved

Here Lies My Gila ZA50...

SHELVED!!!  The Gila ZA50 set up I used to blast around Japan is currently on the shelf in way of more exciting projects for my bikes. I can't believe THIS motor is my least interesting project right now. I will eventually put it on my FIFTH bike. Probably strip it down and rebuild it first. For now, it will remain in slumber...

Specs:
Puch ZA50

Gilardoni 75cc cylinder

MetraKit head
V Force 8 petal reeds

Tecno Estoril exhaust

Mikuni TM24 Carburetor

Moped Junkyard

Pics of my cousin's place. There are tons of good parts and bikes that his brother-in-law them left. Those stuff are deteriorating fast. What a shame. They used to have some of the best bikes out in Hawaii. Hopefully they will let me buy them out in the near future so I can save what's left. Currently they are reluctant to sell. S.O.P....SAVE OUR PUCHS!!

Puchshop.de

I recently shot an email to the guys at Puchshop.de inquiring about the price of shipping to the United States, in particular Hawaii. To my suprise, they responded really quick. Chris, at Puchshop said they do but the cost is rather expensive. If you visited their site, you probably saw a build on the blog section of that track bike with a custom body kit. Really awesome build! So I asked if they were going to update their blog anytime soon. He said no because they prefer using facebook. But he sent me links of three bikes they built. It's on puchforums.nl site. You gonna need a login and password to view it. Get an account beacause these builds are worth seeing:

Build 1

Build 2

Build 3

So I asked what set ups are they running. He responded with:

We are running all 50cc; mostly the Athena AJH and non reed Athena 50cc tuned to the max.

For example:
50cc AJH cilinder, 19mm Polini CP carb., Rito crank, PVL ignition, PSR Homoet P6 exhaust, PSR cilinder head with O-Ring, HK clutch, all tuned and matched to the max.
Speed 72kmh with 13-48 sprockets at 14.000 rpm:-)

50cc @ 14,000 RPM!!! Damn!!!

Just Another Puch E50 Dio Polini (Part 4: Finishing Up)

In Part 3, I showed my transmission mods. In Part 4, I'll be putting it all together. I won't get into the how to's of putting an E50 back together because there are tons of tutorials on this subject. Check out this one from the Moped Army Wiki site. Here's a cool one I tumbled upon.

Just Another Puch E50 Dio Polini (Part 3: Transmission Work)

In Part 1 and Part 2 I did the port work on the top and bottom ends. In Part 3, I will be showing work on the transmission:

Just Another Puch E50 Dio Polini (Part 2: Intake And Exhaust Matching)

In Part 1, I matched the Polini cylinder to the case.  In Part 2, I will show how I matched the cylinder's intake and exhaust ports with the intake manifold and exhaust header.


PART 2:  INTAKE AND EXHAUST MATCHING