Puch Monza – The Ugly

Finally some time for my own projects again. I’ve started to build a Puch Monza from all kinds of spare parts, leftovers from other projects or parts that where to ugly to re-use.

Nothing will look good or be close to a original Monza, my only goal is that the mechanics work perfectly and that it can carry alot of baggage.

Frame pictures are found here:

 

And the engine pictures here, remember to read the picture comments:

Moped Speed Calculator

Another spreadsheet i’ve made, to calculate the speed of your moped at a given RPM. You need to know the details of your engine, gearbox, sprockets and rear wheel. You can find most of it in a spare parts catalogue, or simply count the teeth on all sprockets.

Moped Speed Calculator

Only type in the blue fields!

If you want to calculate the velocity for a single speed engine like a Puch Maxi, just type the same value in “1 Gear” in the primary and secondary fields. I’ve made the file up to a 6 speed gearbox.

You can use MS Excel, OpenOffice, LibreOffice or a similar program.

Allans Lowrider Puch Maxi K

My friend Allan had a dream to build a low and simple Puch maxi for shorter rides. We found a Manet Korado that had a good engine and some nice 16″ rims. We kept the parts we could use and sold the rest again.

Another Small Pistons member had a rigid kickstart frame for this project, all the other parts where bought new at JMPB.

Puch Maxi Lowrider

We kept the design very simple, everything that isn’t necessary for riding is removed. Allan wanted a low Maxi in black and white design. Check the gallery how that turned out, remember to read the image comments: