3000W Chinese Gensets Info.

ol Bombero-JC wrote:
For "bill h" -
I grew up in the "shadow" of UCLA - and remember when one of the first Vespa shops opened up on Westwood Blvd.

Was that Westwood Scooters? I seem to remember a Possman's Scooter shop on Pico that sold Vespas. Very near to Jack Baldwin's.

Of course even before those days kids rode Cushmans, Whizzers, Powells, etc.

I had a Whizzer, but my paper route money barely kept me in belts.

By the early/mid 60's - most of us had "graduated" to more serious "rides". I had my share of experiences with various Limey M/Cs and still have a (650cc) '66 Triumph TR6C and a (500cc-single) TR5MX. Wish I had kept my: Eddie Mulder / Burbank Triumph (Ekins) '64 "Desert Sled" - and '65 TT120 (TT Special).

Of course everyone had lots of friends with various 2-strokes of all sorts - which had affectionate names such as Seize Eazy (CZ) and Griefs (Greeves).
We used to run fouled Bultaco plugs in one cylinder of our Triumphs to clean 'em up, LOL.

So my experiences with two strokes were pretty "straight forward" until . . . . .

An off road week-long F/F "fun" trip (desert/dirt about 1970) at the CO River.
One of the guys who was *not* really into M/Cs had picked up a old Puch for an excellent price (read: very cheap) just for that event.
IIRC is was "about" a 250 cc.

It became fondly known by a new name - "Push" - as he spent a lot of time doing that, whether it was running or not. (running on flat ground was "acceptable", but even minor hills were another story).
Wish I had known of your "secret ingredients" - they would have improved on our "stand-by" and "fixit" time - but might have cut down on a lot of laughs.

That might have been a bad one. The 250 was a pretty decent bike in general.

Sorry for the "hi-jack", couldn't resist.

~

JC

Always fun to talk old bikes. :)