Posts Tagged ‘puch’
Dual Snap Rings
While I was in Seattle I picked up a V1 turned Puch clutch bell for the KTM conversion. This fancy item was forged deep in the liar of Seattle wizard Michael Mike. When I picked it up he gave me some wizardly advice and suggested running dual snap rings to keep the crank from walking […]
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Tags: dual snap ring, e50, ktm clutch conversion, polini, puch
a double dose of pimping
Scary Busey’s getting a suspension UPGRAYEDD along with the new motor build. First up is getting the magnum swingarm I’ve had sitting around mounted up. With the longer swingarm, it was time to chop the fender down. I used Jeremy D Bandit’s maxi frame as some inspiration. Jeremy is a master of meticulous and beautiful […]
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Tags: gas shocks, puch, scary busey, suspension
ALL BLUE’D UP
yarrrrg, another polini seize. this time with an estoril, what i thought was an unseizable setup. i put 2500 miles on the same setup (15 bing polini estoril) last year with zero problems. this has me slightly questioning the porting i did, or maybe it’s just a series of flukes. well…here’s my first addition to […]
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Tags: derbi, polini, polini seize, puch, rally, wb3, ZINK
There seems to be a lot of nervousness when it comes to building these kits. There’s not much too it, but there are some Polini tips I’ve picked up from Devin at Motion Left Mopeds, Peter, the MA community and a few little things I’ve figured out along the way. Most all of this stuff […]
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Tags: gary busey, GUIDE, polini, polini porting, porting, PRO TIP, puch, puch polini
This past weekend Nate, Devin and I went up to Milwaukee (which is AWESOME) to hang out with the Cranks. If you haven’t spent time with any of the Cranks, you’re blowing it. These dudes are super hospitable, a ton of fun, real knowledgeable, ride year round…they’re doing it right. We spent all day Saturday […]
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Tags: 3 shoe clutch mods, bourbonbandits, clutch, cranks, doppler clutch pulley, GET SOME, machine shop, puch
metra 80 and a new shop
I’ve wanted a big kit to play around with for a while now, and just before christmas I snagged Vic’s up. I bought it with an initial purpose of having some fun with it on the derbi down the road, but it also came with a complete e50 and some other puch performance goodies, so […]
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Tags: metra 80, puch, shop, wads
devin brought down a bunch of prototype pipes this weekend. one of them was designed specifically for the puch polini cylinder and we used gary busey to test it. my current setup was a 15 bing, puch hero cdi, polini and modified dmp (estoril) pipe. it gps’d today at 50.0 mph. insert motion left’s brand […]
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Tags: e50, motion left, polini, puch, puch polini
a few updates in one
a few things have happened and i haven’t been posting. i just got back from brodeo (which was AMAZING) so this is going to be quick. – i tried installing the za50 cdi benji sells on my derbi. i followed cuperzack’s blog post on how to install it and had no luck. finally, after flipping […]
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Tags: clutch, derbi, e50, metrakit, puch, zen pipe
MAGNUM DASH! 