MOPED ARMY

Motrons, but I'm obsessed with them and I see 9 when I'm in my basement.

Tomas Tomos

Here in MD honda hobbit's are in surplus and a good amount of tomos sprints too

Tomos's and vespa ciao's probably a few dozen a day.

I seem to see a lot a garelli on Craigslist around here, followed by honda express.

When I was a kid in the 70s I remember seeing a lot of puch and (gasp) amf roadmasters.

In the past 9 years or so , I've seen two scooters , an old Vespa and one of the China offerings , and one noped FA50 , not counting my own FA50 .

Considering that we have pretty much traveled border to border and almost coast to coast , 40 some states , 1 noped doesn't speak well of the mo/no ped scene in this country . I should mention that we travel the 'back roads' as much as possible , so we see a lot of the country side and smaller towns .

I get a lot of curiosity from folks when I out and about on the FA50 .

Not much when it's on the trailer . Then my '57 Simplex always takes the show .

Puchs are not as common as everyone says.

I would say tomos.(edited)

honda express... and (i know its not a moped but...) yamaha RAZ.

one time i recived a free express and razz at the same time! literally got like 4 of each on the cheap within 2 years. made me some extra cash

Best recollection personal hoard was -

by model: 13 hobbits > 6 Tomos Sprint > 5 maxis > 4 Sachs Balboas

by engine: 13 hobbit > 11 E50 > 9 Sachs 505 > 8 A35

by make:

19 Honda 13 hobbit, 3 cubs, 1 spee, 1 urban express, 1 express SR

13 Puch 5 maxi, 1 allstate, 1 free spirit, 3 magnum, 2 murray, 1 e50'd Sachs G3

12 Sachs 1 Seville, 1 Sparta, 4 balboa, 3 G3's, 2 Prima, 1 Kamasura

10 Tomos 1 arrow, 6 sprint, 1 (allstate w/ A35), 1 trac w/ A35, 1 TX50

5 Garelli 1 Raid, 2 SSXL, 1 VIP, 1 Avanti VIP clone

4 Vespa 1 Si 1 Grande 2 Ciao

4 Peugeot 2 103's, 2 Vogue

3 Motobecane

2 Morini M1's

2 Jawa 1 210 1 207

and one each

Minarelli Safari

Trac Clipper

Guzi Robin

Flandria Apollo

Lifan lazer copy

Rizzato Califo

Solex

Beta

Batavus m48 and m56

zero derbis. never derbi.

Yes Tomos,

Being in Western reserve area of Ohio all my life, as soon late 80s motorcycle shops/dealers, moped dealers, bike shops sold out all their stock of Murray’s (that were made in ohio), puchs that were no longer being imported/sold, Sears and JCPenney stoped selling mopeds

Tomos became the leader and were available at two moped shops in the Akron area in the 90s one stayed in Business till like 2013 but they would fib about the model because only old models of tomos were on the approved moped list no a35 or a55 engine bikes and the shops had stickers printed up that they would stick on the bike stating it was a old model ha ha.

I had and or worked on over 100 puchs bikes but those included JCPenney pintos, Murray’s sears free spirit bikes and still have More puchs then other brands of bikes because that’s the brand I like and most were on the approved Moped list whereas only A3 models of Tomos were the list like I said so to register a puch was easy.

Most puchs I got from word of mouth, newspaper ads, working on bikes people didn’t want to stick the money in it so I would buy the bike and many times my friend and I would buy a whole pick up truck of bikes and I would keep the puch for that’s the model I prefer to work on and have tools for. Got some puchs from yard sales at farms that closed by me I only got a few from Craigslist,

I’m seeing more 4t China lazer 5s and scooters lately since Ohio got rid of the approved Moped list.

Nah I just don't keep em. Right now I've got 3 sachs balboas, a safari, a moby AV10, a M1, garelli SSXL and a goofy 504 project which is definitely still a lot, plus 2 50shifty and 2 motorcycles. but a home garage and a shared shop space garage, 2 car bays and you're set.

Seeb about 3 puchs today in philly, but usually see tomos for sale one craigs or facebook.

truth be told a broken one...

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honda chappys and tomos here at the jersey shore