Puch Bobber

[dracothered]

I cut up two Murray swing arms and stretched the one.

The rods are to line up the pieces and to add strength at the joint.

Added about 3 1/2 inches to the swing arm.

One side all welded up.

 

[dracothered]

After doing some reading and a test assembly with the rear wheel on the swing arm I have come to the conclusion that it is becoming a hard tail with a sprung seat.

The shocks that are there now will be going bye bye, to be replace by a seat stay.

 

[Intrepid Wheelwoman]

Very nice work with lengthening the swingarm. Once that's cleaned up and painted nobody would know you'd done it.

 

[CTripps]

Hmmm... could you put in the solid stays, but swing those rear shocks upward to hold the back end of your seat?

 

[dracothered]

Hmmm... could you put in the solid stays, but swing those rear shocks upward to hold the back end of your seat?

I have a mountain bike shock that I am going to use for the seat if it fits in there and looks good.

 

[dracothered]

A hard tail it is now, which takes care of many a worries over the shocks and if they will work right or not. Still need to weld the other side on.

Try to guess what I used to make the seat stay out of...

 

[dracothered]

Got the other seat stay welded in...

 

[dracothered]

Mock up of seat position...

 

[dracothered]

Here is my Puch E50 50cc engine that should put out a little over 2hp.

I wonder it I put an extension pipe on the muffler if it would effect how it works?

 

[Intrepid Wheelwoman]

You've got a great engine there. I owned a 1950's Puch at one time and for some daft reason I sold it.

 

[curtisfox]

This is turning out to be a realy cool build, love what you are doing ..........Curt

 

[dracothered]

The front seat mount is made, now I have to wait for the rear seat coil over shock to come in so I can mount it.

Here is two different tail light positions that I am considering, of course neither is in the exact position that they would be mounted. I also have a couple small tail lights coming that I want to mount just above the rear axle on both sides.

 

[Intrepid Wheelwoman]

That is a very nice looking tail lamp. I find myself liking the position that's set to the left more than the central mounting.

 

[dracothered]

Here is a full profile view of her.

The handling should be good with a 3" trail on the front fork rake.

 

[Intrepid Wheelwoman]

That certainly is a sweet bike you're building. It's looking very good indeed.

 

[dracothered]

To be honest the more I looked at the top tube alignment the more it bugged me so I moved the back of the top tube.

 

[Intrepid Wheelwoman]

Yes that does look better. I hope you didn't have any problems with the VIN sticker this time.

 

[dracothered]

No problems with it because I cut and spliced the tube user the gas tank.

 

[dracothered]

Well finished re-welding the top tube in and got rid of the last of the old rack that was on the back of the frame.

 

[dracothered]

Tire size

Lower tail lights