I also had something very similar! Had to pedal it up any hill otherwise it would stop! Glad someone else had one!
I wanted a FS1E or an AP50 or even a Frantic Fantic ... anything but a Puch! But a a 5th hand Puch was what I could afford so that's what I had, anyway it was character building, I learned fairly early how to ignore having the piss ripped out of me
Yep you got it, 3 gears cable operated like a scooter, cables became so stretched that I nearly got my elbow down while going for third gear!
I had a Suzuki GT250 later on as well but mine was an R reg in metallic blue, getting all nostalgic thinking about it! But once the rose tinted glasses are removed it was an unreliable, noisy, smelly, shed of a bike that constantly needed visits to the doctors!
Mine was a FS1E DX in yellow. A couple of mates had the same,and there was also a Suzuki AP50 and a Honda SS50. Great fun at the time.
The speedo on my GT 250 used to regularly read well over 120 mph, which when down the pub was the absolute truth!
Not exactly, I'm only 30 but know a 'fizzy' what with my dad having had, and crashed two. Even ridden a mates one he restored. Not all us 'youfs' are ignorant lol.
Ouch , funny though the same fate for many first bikes, in my case 2nd, 3rd & 4th as well , then I got some training . But as an idiot once told me, if you never crashed you never tried that hard!
Ha ha, some more than others mate! I got into bikes in an era where mopeds did 50mph & if you didn't kill yourself on them you were allowed 100mph 250's on 'L' plates with no further training! ... what could possibly go wrong? It's a wonder there's any of my generation of bikers left!
Great little bikes, but for those of us who couldn't afford one at the time. We used to call them: Fuckin Silly 1 for Effort "Chillin"
True, very true. I did quite literally crash my first 4 bikes, then did some training organised by RAC-ACU, made a such huge difference to my riding that I went onto do the instructors course, after that I had CX500, CB750K & Z1000ST all before my 20th birthday & no crashes After that I had 9 years racing a clubman level Moto-Cross when in my 20's so falling off was expected if not compulsory .
Replaced the pistons twice in 18 months. Mind you I had absolutely no mechanical sympathy in those days. No red line , no change gear!
