Does German engineering fused with Japanese engineering bring out the best of both? Can I even keep the seat on long enough to find out? Everybody Needs A Craig shirts still available thebeardedmechanic.shop/
You van tell Craig is a good person as when the bit flew in Dan's eye he genuinely looked concerned. Most "modern" content creators would have laughed and made fun of it
The unit of measure between the legs of the center stand is called a cubit. I really like the videos and your desire to get almost anything on two wheels running again.
Awesome video as always. One suggestion, if we could get more time with the completed bikes even if it's a once every few months special where we get to see the finished products that would be great. The restores are fantastic but the endings are so short. Just a tiny bit more would be great! Thanks for all the amazing videos!
19:40 Thanks for including stuff like this. Makes me feel not so bad about all the time I spend crawling on the floor looking for small parts. It's a great reason to keep a clean shop!
As a kid I saw these scooters around (in Austria). Sachs was kind of the 'higher end'. Us 'poorer' kids rode Puch and Kreidler mopeds and scooters. I would LOVE to have that scooter as my daily run-around! I agree, there should be a part 2 with that lovely scooter put together properly and made road-legal. Well done to Dan for his German!
I've rode all different makes and types of bikes. I don't care what anyone says,,, some of those scooters are pretty enjoyable to ride. Just for zipping around town in the summer can be lots of fun. Riding bikes is suppose to be fun right ? Never worry about what other people think. Enjoy every minute you are on two wheels.
Great scooter! Thank you for bringing it back to life! Wonderfully entertaining video, Love the adventure, knowledge and just great fun! Happy New Year Craig and Dan, hope to see lots more in 2024!🍻
As someone who has bought and sold motorcycles and scooters and done my own work, these videos are invaluable and hit home when you actually do this stuff, Craig is the type of guy you just want to hang out all day in the shop with, he may be the best guy I have seen on youtube and his personality matches, great channel
Love the channel Craig ! Thank you for all your efforts in creating such interesting content. The best of seasonal greeting and have a wonderful new year Craig ! 🙏
This is actually a Progress 200 that had a Sachs engine in it and was produced in West Germany. The IWL Berlin looks similar but was produced in the GDR. I am happy to see some German kontent on this channel. 😄
Excellent content mate loving the bikes and scooters you repair, by far the best channel around at the minute, All the best lads, Chris from the UK 🇬🇧 ❤❤
Love the Art Dco aesthetic and design. Seems to me it's really a motorcycle at it's core, as it's got a fair size engine, big wheels, sprockets and chain, and geared transmission. The main scooter-like thing is the convenient step through floor. Hope you blokes turn this into a project 👍🏻
Top tip: Modify side cutters (aka dikes) to keep what has been cut from flying across the shop and potentially into an eye. Clean side cutter jaws with alcohol. On hollow cutting side with jaws closed, fill with rtv sealant. Let it dry overnight, then slice with a razor blade along (beside, parallel) the cutting edge. Now you have rubber jaws that hold onto what was cut. Old aircraft mechanic trick. Cannot have small chunks of steel, etc floating around in an aircraft.
Aye man I'm new to this channel. I just want to thank you for getting thru my rough break up. I have a Harley sitting at my parents for 3 years. Not once I've gotten the chance to repair it. I put my kids and their mother first. Right now I'm going thru it. After a harsh break up. Your channel reminded me what used to make me happy. Is to ride and repair. Thank you for your channel to give me the courage to go back to what I love doing and getting my sportster back on the road
Hi! I've watched all your content since you've created your own channel. I've fallen in love with wrenching on bikes myself and fixed up a bunch including a few vintage ones like a Kawasaki F11 and Suzuki TS125. Your videos act as inspiration not only to keep folks like me interested in the hobby and learning new tricks, but also getting newcomers interested and excited about 2 wheel machinery. Keep doing what your doing, I absolutely love when I see a new video from you on my feed! PS - I'm a PA native living in western PA, if you ever do a fan event i'll be sure to be there!
What a heap! But this was fun to watch, and I love the look of that engine - like a small racing engine from the 50s. The frame looks beefy too (well, German!) but I’m not sure they belong together, TBH… Happy New Year Craig! Les in UK 🇬🇧
I love the smell of the engine warming up after working on it. All the different fluids (Oil, WD40, antifreeze, etc) heating and evaporating..... The smell of success!
Some useless trivia incoming: Even though I'm German, I'd never heard of the brand - possibly because they stopped production well before I was born.. :) Reading up on the scooter on German wikipedia, it seems this one was conceived because a doctor told the eventual designer/producer that he'd love to buy an Italian scooter for his office but didn't think he'd be able to tolerate the small wheels on those things which would vanish into every pothole on the road. So the designer went about creating a scooter based around 16-inch wheels. Initially they had to produce a version with only 14-inchers because they couldn't source any larger wheels (production started in 1950, so only five years after WW2 had ended). This early one was called "Strolch" (= rascal) and used a 60cc engine, which was later upgraded to a 100, then 150 and finally to a 175cc engine. Apparently, this earlier model only had rubber bushings at the front and coil-springs at the back. When the 200cc Sachs-engine became available, they brought out an improved model called the Progress 200 (the one in the video, I guess) in 1953. The chassis was also upgraded and now included both springs and dampeners. The scooter was praised for its sophisticated suspension setup and "grown up" handling characteristics - but all the upgrades made it more expensive to produce. The Strolch was intended as a cheap scooter, an idea that couldn't be sustained with the more elaborate Progress. Cheapest version of the Progress, in 1955, was 1,765 Marks - I can't find an inflation-calculator that goes back far enough, but that amount in 1965 would be EUR ~4,400 or USD 4,700 today. So... probably more like 5,000 to 5,500 EUR in today's money.
As a german, I could understand the numbers, but I didn´t understand, what u said for the kicks... anyway, I like ur channel and the the one of the other bearded guy. Tank you, I learned alot with ur help. Greetings from germany.
I am really loving your channel. Thanks for what you do. One thing I thought of, with this video, what about gaskets, for the carbs? Do you just happen to have every carb gasket laying around? Do you reuse the ones that are on it? Or do you make your own?
What a beaut ,reminds me a bit of a Zundapp Bella or Simson KR? Check out what the guys in Germany are still doing to these kinda bikes!! ...Quickly becoming my favorite yt channel here👍 shoutout from the Irish in Portugal 😎👍
