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Title: How cool is this old rascal, '67 PUCH
Post by: brider on September 11, 2018, 11:23:45 AM
https://nh.craigslist.org/mcy/d/1967-puch-250-moto-giro/6665069998.html

Check out that enclosed chain! I wonder how often people used to actually crack them open and lube them?
Title: Re: How cool is this old rascal, '67 PUCH
Post by: fotoguzzi on September 11, 2018, 11:32:39 AM
(https://images.craigslist.org/00G0G_hP3vj22YPrH_600x450.jpg)
Title: Re: How cool is this old rascal, '67 PUCH
Post by: lrutt on September 11, 2018, 02:43:39 PM
Only have to pop a rubber plug to lube chain. Very easy. Would love to add that to my collection.
Title: Re: How cool is this old rascal, '67 PUCH
Post by: Moto on September 12, 2018, 01:57:28 AM
It's a split-single, with two.pistons sharing a common combustion chamber. Interesting design for sure. Sears sold a lot of them.
Title: Re: How cool is this old rascal, '67 PUCH
Post by: JohninVT on September 12, 2018, 01:36:04 PM
A "twingle".  Sears did indeed sell a ton of them in the 60's.  Sears Allstate/Puch.  My father had one and still raves about it 50 years later. 
Title: Re: How cool is this old rascal, '67 PUCH
Post by: Moto on September 12, 2018, 02:18:42 PM
Quote from: JohninVT on September 12, 2018, 01:36:04 PM
A "twingle".  Sears did indeed sell a ton of them in the 60's.  Sears Allstate/Puch.  My father had one and still raves about it 50 years later.

Better torque than competing two-strokes, right?
Title: Re: How cool is this old rascal, '67 PUCH
Post by: Antietam Classic Cycle on September 12, 2018, 04:34:58 PM
My friend Joseph has several of them, mostly the older ones with more rounded styling.

At one point in my life, I was without a motorcycle that ran and he loaned me a Sears Allstate/Puch 175 "twingle" to ride around on. I rode it some with my (then) wife on the back and as long as I stuck to backroads, it did okay. I rode it down to The Flying Circus in Bealeton, VA and back once along with Joseph on his 250. I gave it back after the (now ex) wife had left, I got the Morini K2 running again and I had bought my '69 Ambassador. I polished all of the alloy bits on it and gave it a good detailing as a way of saying thanks.  :grin:

Some of you might remember Joseph riding a 250 to the VA Guzzi Rally in Buena Vista a bunch of years ago. Always an adventure with him - he left late, ran out of gas on the BRP and finally made it to BV around 11 pm.  :laugh: