Puch bike : 40 yr-old : info sought
Puch bike : 40 yr-old : info sought
I have just rescued my Uncle’s Puch bike for my husband. I have a feeling this bike hasn’t been ridden for over 40 years, gears as yet are untested but it rolls well and the brakes work. New tyres will be on the list. My uncle was a bit of a hoarder and I found the original manual and another leaflet about it, both in pristine condition. It seems to be of the touring variety. I used to ride my dad’s Peugeot touring bike as a teenager and I loved it, kind of hankering after one myself now...
Last edited by Graham on 4 Jun 2019, 2:33pm, edited 1 time in total.
Reason: Title
Reason: Title
-
- Posts: 36778
- Joined: 9 Jan 2007, 2:44pm
Re: Inherited bicycle
You have posted this under "Does anyone know?" but you haven't posed a question.
If it's about the bike, a picture or two often help.
If it's about the bike, a picture or two often help.
Re: Inherited bicycle
My apologies, I’m afraid my brain isn’t really working at the moment, I’ve just spent a frantic 4 days house clearing.
I suppose my point was, does anyone have experience of Puch bikes?
I suppose my point was, does anyone have experience of Puch bikes?
Re: Inherited bicycle
The Puch bikes I knew forty years ago tended not to be very good, I'm afraid. Heavy frames, steel wheels, low-grade parts. Built down to a price in an era when people wanted cheap bikes that, to an untutored eye, looked the part.
No doubt there were better ones.
No doubt there were better ones.
-
- Posts: 15215
- Joined: 30 Nov 2013, 11:26am
Re: Inherited bicycle
Photos please
Entertainer, juvenile, curmudgeon, PoB, 30120
Cycling-of course, but it is far better on a Gillott
We love safety cameras, we hate bullies
Cycling-of course, but it is far better on a Gillott
We love safety cameras, we hate bullies
Re: Inherited bicycle
~~~~¯\(ツ)/¯~~~~
Re: Inherited bicycle
drossall wrote:The Puch bikes I knew forty years ago tended not to be very good, I'm afraid. Heavy frames, steel wheels, low-grade parts. Built down to a price in an era when people wanted cheap bikes that, to an untutored eye, looked the part.
No doubt there were better ones.
I had a couple of Puch bikes in the 70's & early 80's. I am afraid that they were as described above, heavy and with cheap components. On the plus side, I didn't really know any better as was quite happy with them.
geomannie
Re: Puch bike : 40 yr-old : info sought
Puch made quite posh bikes too, but unfortunately these are/were vastly outnumbered by the other sort.
cheers
cheers
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Brucey~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Brucey~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Re: Puch bike : 40 yr-old : info sought
I had a Puch in the early 80’s. 531 frame and decent kit (Sakae chainset, Shimano gears and a strange double step chainring set up -52/46/30). However, it had a design weakness - where the stopper for the rear derailleur cable was brazed onto the chain stay, created a weak spot and the frame broke after 18 months. They replaced in under warranty but it happened again and again, after a similar length of time. Eventually they gave me an MBK frame instead with no further problems.
Sherwood CC and Notts CTC.
A cart horse trapped in the body of a man.
http://www.jogler2009.blogspot.com
A cart horse trapped in the body of a man.
http://www.jogler2009.blogspot.com
Re: Puch bike : 40 yr-old : info sought
Thanks for your replies. No photo at the mo as the shed isn’t ideal for photography and it’s chucking it down outside.
Upon further inspection the model is “Olympian”.
Even if it is a bit rubbish it’s a marked improvement on the no bike at all situation he was previously in! It’ll do for now.
Upon further inspection the model is “Olympian”.
Even if it is a bit rubbish it’s a marked improvement on the no bike at all situation he was previously in! It’ll do for now.
- SimonCelsa
- Posts: 1234
- Joined: 6 Apr 2011, 10:19pm
Re: Puch bike : 40 yr-old : info sought
I remember buying a bright yellow Puch 'Toledo', late 70's early 80's from Samways of Weymouth. It was either that or a Raleigh 'Arena' (which everyone else seemed to own in my area).
It must have been my first major life purchase, probably just over £100 and all earned from several morning & afternoon paper rounds and bottling up in the local night club.
I recall just walking in the shop with cash in hand and asking the old fella what he had for sale. In hindsight it was quite a bit too big at the time but it did me good for getting to school and back for a couple of years and some hostelling trips with mates. When I left school and went to sea my old man used it for work until some toerag stole it probably some time in the nineties.
Not a brilliant bike by any means, but I can never remember actually changing any of the consumable parts (except brake blocks). They must have built them more durable then or perhaps we have all become overly fixated on changing stuff for the sake of change!
It must have been my first major life purchase, probably just over £100 and all earned from several morning & afternoon paper rounds and bottling up in the local night club.
I recall just walking in the shop with cash in hand and asking the old fella what he had for sale. In hindsight it was quite a bit too big at the time but it did me good for getting to school and back for a couple of years and some hostelling trips with mates. When I left school and went to sea my old man used it for work until some toerag stole it probably some time in the nineties.
Not a brilliant bike by any means, but I can never remember actually changing any of the consumable parts (except brake blocks). They must have built them more durable then or perhaps we have all become overly fixated on changing stuff for the sake of change!
Re: Puch bike : 40 yr-old : info sought
I enjoyed riding my dad’s Peugeot but my mum got rid of it after he died (and it probably didn’t fit, I just rode it because it’s what we had at the time).
We haven’t had time to do anything to this one but when I got it home hubby sat on it and the basics worked. It’ll do
for picnics down the canal with me and our daughter (also, as it has a rack he can carry the grub!). If this gets him back into cycling we can look at upgrading.
We haven’t had time to do anything to this one but when I got it home hubby sat on it and the basics worked. It’ll do
for picnics down the canal with me and our daughter (also, as it has a rack he can carry the grub!). If this gets him back into cycling we can look at upgrading.
Re: Puch bike : 40 yr-old : info sought
Shoyu wrote:Even if it is a bit rubbish it’s a marked improvement on the no bike at all situation he was previously in!
+1. I can't remember a bike that was worse than no bike
- pedalsheep
- Posts: 1324
- Joined: 11 Aug 2009, 7:57pm
Re: Puch bike : 40 yr-old : info sought
I did my first 100 mile ride on a Puch 'Touring' when I was 14. 26" steel wheels, 3 speed Sturmey, bright yellow with a step through frame. I replaced the flat bars with drops to try to make it look more sporty! 104 miles from home into Wales and back on my own.
Loved it, biggest adventure of my young life!
Loved it, biggest adventure of my young life!
'Why cycling for joy is not the most popular pastime on earth is still a mystery to me.'
Frank J Urry, Salute to Cycling, 1956.
Frank J Urry, Salute to Cycling, 1956.
Re: Puch bike : 40 yr-old : info sought
Found a picture. We haven’t done anything to it yet.