Puch Magnum Moped

over 6 months later. the magnum resurfaced on the streets of san francisco in a strange and distorted form. stolen merchandise cover up paint job style. taped on flashlight. jumbo motorcycle buddy seat, golden biturbo, new gilardoni, HPI CDI and a mini bronze lever, they don’t add up. something was amiss. i wish i took a picture of how it looked when i first saw it. i could hardy recognize it. thanks to the little birdies in the sky with the sharp eyes for spotting it. dude who had it had gone on a shopping spree at 1977 mopeds. he got a new gilardoni, with metrakit head, intake and a biturbo! and probably more. he had rigged a way to mount the biturbo without re-welding. and some other things i think. he even bought an HPI CDI from us at treats online!. so i felt bad for the guy if he really did buy it from some guy in civic center. I helped him get his stuff off the bike before i took it back. now i have my frame, wheels, shocks, most of the front forks, my ported E50 bottom end with the rito crank, that i think is completely destroyed on the inside, gears and all, and i got my 21 race carb too. i’m not going to speculate on how it all went down, i dont really care that much. the dude who had it was cool and let me get it back with out any trouble. the whole deal sucks the most for me, and it sucks for him too. but i guess that’s why you don’t buy stolen mopeds in civic center, or you should buy them, and then post them to see who’s it is, so they can get it back.

im just glad to see it back, i had let it go completely. and had no hope of finding it in any form. so this is pretty amazing to get this much back. all im missing is the custom pipe i made, the gilardoni, malossi reed block, E12 malossi air filter, gilardoni intake, flywheel cover, flywheel, stater plate, voltage regulator, taillight, all the wires and fuel line, my crappy seat, and i think that’s it. i guess the guy who had it has some of this stuff in thrashed form, somewhere at his dads house or something? but it’s probably just a pile of junk for the most part.

now i get to start this website all over again. ha. i can build the same moped twice!

here’s the rigged up flashlight headlight, a technique i myself have used in a pinch. the look is completed with that sick little bronzy lever.

my bottom end. the bottom end west coast ben helped me bore out to fit the gilardoni. the bottom end that lasted many a year and many a mile. sad to see it so destroyed. the cases seem to be fine, and rito crank had some play on the cod rod, not sure if it’s salvageable. the clutch and clutch bell are messed up a little, not sure how bad. and the gears were completely locked up, then freed themselves as if there was some piece of something stuck in em. well see.

all the bolts for the clutch cover are completely utterly stripped. they look like round allen bolts, where your allen wrench would be a circle instead of a hex o gram. it’s missing the starting actuator lever thing, and the funny thing is that the previous care taker, meticulously stripped all the black paint off the engine, restoring it to it’s original aluminum color. in fact the whole frame and wheels were stripped of their old paint and repainted red and black. supposedly when dude got it from civic center it was hastily spray painted in some kind of camouflage paint job to try and cover up the original black and green. i did make out with this new 2.5″ gazelle on the that’s on backwards. so i pretty much scored on this deal. ha. more to come

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