MOPED ARMY

You could spoke up a car wheel if it had enough holes in it.

Coincidence... I was looking at KX80 rims on ebay and thinking they might do the trick. Let me know if that works out for you. Was also thinking maybe I could get a kx80 front disc brake setup to fit on the Maxi. Wonder what that would involve?

I'm using the KX front fork tubes and a General 5-Star tree with disk and a front wheel for the rear with a sprotor sprocket/brake setup . Basically a semi-solid rear sprocket with a 125 front brake caliper on the sprocket instead of a disk. The 125 grabs the sprocket towards the hub and doesn't touch the greasy teeth .Custom choppers been doing it for years , Oh and my brakes will have a cable to the hidden master cylinders for full hydraulics without the master cylinders on the bars (F/R) Go late 90's KX,YZ,CR 80's they all use the disk and a 17'' rim .

Yep !

The chrome swing arm you are right mainly for looks is actually very weak and tends twist. The Puch design

limits tire wid therefore I have seen on a dutch performance site the Honda swing arm adaption. I try to find it been a long time.

When using the term weak, are we talking street riding or off-road i.e. on a magnum? Seems like you don't need too much strength on road, even with a kitted out motor pushing, say, 4 horsepower maybe?

Of course there's some weight considerations from a wider wheel, but it's not that big of a deal for me. If I end up with a 70cc motor, pipe, carb, sprockets and so forth that'll give me good acceleration and a top end of 40mph I'd still be happy, as long as I can also fit a set of smooth sexy looking Bridgestone Spitfire tires on it and get rid of the skinny-ass Huffy look!!!!