Autisa Puch Near Complete

Switched out the white walls with stars. Installed pedals. Just the front turn signals left to do:

Japan Street Fighter Update

Decided to go the rat rod route with my Japan Street Fighter:

Honda Elite Japan Parts Update

A few fit up pictures of the parts I brought back from Japan for my Elite.

Puch No. 5

Finally got to my final bike. My FIFTH Puch out of seven total mopeds!! It's a Pinto I scored of Moped Army Buy & Sell forums while I was in Japan. I didn't have my garage back then so I wrapped it up until I returned home to Hawaii. Now its time to unwrapped it!!...

Finally It's Autisa Time

70cc Autisa Kit

After 20+ years in the Puch game, I can finally build a Puch 70cc Autisa set up to call my own. Back in the early 90s when I got into this Puch business, kits were very hard to come by in Hawaii. Either they were all gone, too expensive for a high school kid to afford, or people who had them were reluctant to give them up. Even today, the people who have them still don't want to part ways with their beloved kits. I remember it was one of two kits (the other being the 65cc Zeta kit) that I knew of. I rode several Puchs with this kit on. And I remember them as being super fast and fun.

For the sake of nostalgia, I set out to build my first Puch Autisa kitted bike...

A Homage To The Old School

This is a homage to the old school. An introduction to the newbies on how to tune the old school way. Proof that you don't need big bore kits or fancy pipes to go fast. All you need is some 50cc stock parts and a whole lot of two-stroke know how.

ZA50 Big Port Metra Kit Redux

Before I left for Japan, I was in the middle of building my black Magnum. I built a ZA50 big port MetraKit for it. But in the rush of moving, I just slapped this motor together in order to mount it on the bike for storage. I never ran it. It sat at my wife's grandmother's house for the past 5 years. Now I can correct some of the mistakes I made. This is the Redux of my ZA50 Big Port MetraKit for my Magnum...

Giant!! But it wants more!!

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!!!