thenofortune
New Member
I'm not sure if this is the exact right place to put this, but it's as near as to what I'm planning as anything else.
I'll let the pictures speak for themselves:
It's a 1980 Puch Magnum II, with a 50cc 2-stroke 2-speed ZA50 engine. This is my first bike, and my first bike build. I've been toying around with bicycles for the past five/six years, and this just seemed like the most logical step up. Not to mention, the dude who sold it to me let me ride his tricked out 'ped and I was hooked on 2-strokes instantly.
I bought it about two months ago, was running okay at the time. rode it around for a week or so, fell in love with it, but had to make some dates and meet some folks. After a month of vagabonding, I'm back at the parent's house for a little bit, working at my dad's office and cleaning up my act, deciding what I'd like to do in the near future. It seems that this little moped is in the immediate future, as i need a project to keep myself busy and progressing. It started acting up a little, partly due to my fiddling, exchanging heads/rejetting/2stroke majik.
I plan to ditch the clubmans and stock seat, put some smaller motocross, 1 or 2 inch risers on, not too tall, build a seat (see next post) and eventually repaint. It's the only bike I have, so any bonus dough I'm not saving will probably end up somewhere inside it or coming out of the tailpipe. Right now, some jets, some hardware, some cables and a fat little expansion chamber are whistling their way towards my house on a ups truck ; phase II of the master plan happens tomorrow.
This is my bike, and I am so pumped to get it running right and get riding. I need some motorized transportation, I need a project...
Plus I need some thunder under my buns.
I'll let the pictures speak for themselves:
It's a 1980 Puch Magnum II, with a 50cc 2-stroke 2-speed ZA50 engine. This is my first bike, and my first bike build. I've been toying around with bicycles for the past five/six years, and this just seemed like the most logical step up. Not to mention, the dude who sold it to me let me ride his tricked out 'ped and I was hooked on 2-strokes instantly.
I bought it about two months ago, was running okay at the time. rode it around for a week or so, fell in love with it, but had to make some dates and meet some folks. After a month of vagabonding, I'm back at the parent's house for a little bit, working at my dad's office and cleaning up my act, deciding what I'd like to do in the near future. It seems that this little moped is in the immediate future, as i need a project to keep myself busy and progressing. It started acting up a little, partly due to my fiddling, exchanging heads/rejetting/2stroke majik.
I plan to ditch the clubmans and stock seat, put some smaller motocross, 1 or 2 inch risers on, not too tall, build a seat (see next post) and eventually repaint. It's the only bike I have, so any bonus dough I'm not saving will probably end up somewhere inside it or coming out of the tailpipe. Right now, some jets, some hardware, some cables and a fat little expansion chamber are whistling their way towards my house on a ups truck ; phase II of the master plan happens tomorrow.
This is my bike, and I am so pumped to get it running right and get riding. I need some motorized transportation, I need a project...
Plus I need some thunder under my buns.