In the early 80's my father bought home a blue Puch Maxi from a salvage yard. It had a seized engine. He intended to get it running again but was not that mechanically minded. He ended up removing the engine and I used it as a bicycle. I was always getting stopped by the police, who fortunately agreed that without its engine it wasn't a moped.
I had a Puch Maxi one time with a 3,5 hp kit on it (15mm carb, 50cc cylinder, bigger front sprocket and a exhaust like the orig but with a larger downtube and damper insert). It pulled like crazy uphill but the topspeed was only 55km/h. I was told it was the orig setup from the Austrian model. Later I tried several 70cc kits, larger carbs and expansion exhausts etc. But the little 3,5 kit was the beauty of them all. 🙂
Oh yeah me too....I wanted a Maxi as a winter project this year, but got a IntraMotor Gloria Scout real cheap so redoing that one. Always looking for a nice maxi though.
The 12mm round bowl Bing. I run a 15mm round Bing, (authentic, not clone) with a 78 jet, on my Kromag. it's a 70cc cylinder tho... One of these days you should take the camera along on a big moped adventure. 😁
@@SeasideGarage it's just moderately tuned. it's also got a little Jamarcol Fuego pipe, simplified 12v regulated 3-wire internal HT points system, with nos Bosch German-made points, an Effe condenser, then a Rito crank, with sterling caged needle bearings in the small end of the rod, Nachi bearings, Viton seals, stock two shoe clutch, but tuned for a little higher rpm before grabbing, and a slight gearing change, from 14x45 to 16x42 😁
Leally limited to slow speeds, but does anyone actually follow the rules? Even here in the UK people de-restrict and modify small engined bikes to make them go faster, even if the rider's only on a provisional license (meaning they're limited to 50cc and I think 28mph maximum)... :P
We used to run faster, but the Police here in Denmark will now confiscate the moped second time you get pulled over with a maximum speed over 43km/h (there is a tollerence). They carring dyno's in thier cars to measure the speed of the mopeds. So that's pretty f**ked.
Electric bikes are one of the things that cause annoyance for some over here, cos you can convert an average bike to electric and not have to bother with things like road tax, insurance, MOT, safety upgrades, etc., but if you do the same using one of them "gasbike" kits, the law smashes you down stating you need an MOT (which is virtually impossible!), tax, insurance, speed limiting, etc., despite the electric one being just as, if not more, powerful... :S
30 km/h max? It's a joke. That is a very stupid rule, unfortunatelly. Here in Hungary mopeds/scooters can go at 45 km/h max legally, and even that is a joke. They go faster and nobody really cares. Sometimes kids put bigger engine in them (70 cm3 instead of 50cm3 )
Denmark is the worst country for fast mopeds. But we have always tuned like crazy, until the police were able to confiscate the moped second time you get pulled over on a tuned moped.
@@EnergyXyz Wow! They confiscate the moped??? Unbelievable! In Hungary even the Police knows that it's dangerous if you can't keep up with the traffic, especially in big cities (speed limit: 50 km/h). 30 km/h is just simply not enough nowadays...
As Mic writes the mopeds gets confiscated the second time you get pulled over... Still people tend to make them go faster anyway, and then try to out run the police... :P I like my mopeds, so I stay at 30... ;)
