MOPED ARMY

I definitely dig it!

this is an awesome build. I gotta know about this royal snowdrift can.

I was looking for a vintage oil can to hide my electronics and found this at an online thriftstore. I liked how it looked so thats why I chose it. Plan is to get a nice leather strap on it to keep it on its place.

This waterpump is a product from VDM. Its an almost cut and dried solution if you run a PVL ignition.

https://www.vdmpuchparts.com/a-57897709/liquidcooling/vdm-waterpump-puch-e50/

Its the waterpump from a Yamaha Aerox (Minarelli vertical I believe)

Yes, more pics please.

Love the choice of leg shield. Great build, I've seen lambrettas with similar radiator mounting but the oil can is where its at for me, that's a really nice touch, devil is in the detail.

Awesome water pump driven off flywheel.

Carb is a bit sideways lol

Go away trash

Cool build. Makes me want to build my watercooled puch agian ;)

Cool carb.

How do you make a corner/lean in corners without the shield dragging on the ground? It looks close to dragging when on the centerstand. Is your bike just a straight line drag bike?

It's by no means a drag bike. If you want speed, a huge piece of sheet metal blocking air is far from ideal.

It can lean pretty wel. Even though it only has 80mm (around 3 inches) of ground clearance, with the shield being the lowest point. But it can still lean around 25 degrees in both directions.

Now, this won't handle like a supermoto or anything, but it will be just fine for occasional riding around.

I wouldn't call it a machine shop haha. I have a welder, an angle grinder and a drill press. And honestly for 95% of the stuff done on this bike, it is enough. The other 5% either gets done by someone I pay for, or I do it at my job.

The car lift is a must since I do have another project vehicle. As seen next to my Puch here.

Currently not allot to update on the Puch.

It has been cold enough in the Netherlands to have water freeze to a point that it will do damage. And since the cooling system hasn't been the best at keeping liquid untill this point, I didn't want to test with cooland.

This made any testing kinda impossible. Comming two weeks look to be a bit warmer, so I can fill the system soon.

Besides the cooling issue, all I need is a small adapter to properly fit the Dellorto to the intake. Then, in theory, I can start testing and tuning the setup. And see if it will run at all.

In the mean while, with the cold weather (and me absolutly not wanting to do anything in my freezing shed) decided to draw something up to be able to drive my mopeds (mostly my KR51/2 Schwalbe) at some more places.

Its a trailer design pretty dedicated to small vehicles. Especialy of the two wheeled kind. Designed it to use axle ends from an Opel Astra (cheap and available) and uses Volvo suspension arms to construct the 4 link setup. Suspension will be taken care of by airshocks. To be supplied trough the airride setup of my Volvo.

Its still only an idea, I'd much rather have a small pick-up truck like my old MK1 Caddy, but the prices of cars like that have not been getting any better either.

But yeah, hopefully bit more on the Puch now that the weather above freezing again.

yes. duh

we do that and clog dancing

Well it's running. Kinda. Running very rich, still leaking a bit of water, but the ignition seems to be set pretty well and the water pump is working like it should.

Also, not on video, it has pulled trough some revs and it sounds pretty healthy.

When the leak is fixed I'll start leaning out the mixture a bit and then it should be good.

The end goal is to have it running like it should for the BromfieTTs event at the TT Assen. Which is in the summer, so should be doable.