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Teflon-Mike
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PostPosted: 03:25 - 19 Mar 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote

Rufous wrote:
Only mentioning this for completeness's sake and eccentricity's, but you can make one from a semi-auto step-through quite easily.

Bit like:

https://www.ukscooters.com/pictures/Vespa_Super_Sprint_90,_1966.jpg
From the mid 1960's
https://cdn.barnfinds.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/left-4-e1470687354149-630x421.jpg
While this earlier, scooter conversion, was offered by Cushman who sold through the Sears catalog I believe!
https://garage.1977mopeds.com/assets/images/builds/19943/87e5d85e5547f48ec1f6cf9d7d709919.png
And of course there's the legedary Puch Maxi!

Those are genuine factory variants of a step-thru rather like a DNA!
You think its a bt of a daft idea, but look ow seriousely they took it to try and sell such a bike!

Wasn't what I was looking for TBH, my google fu must be weak. I was looking for a Czeck scooter, I remember that was bult for utlity companies, that was a fatastic creation with a motorbike style tank i the step-through and a 'fake' engine housing that was a tool box, I think! There were a few of them in the 60's.
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PostPosted: 18:31 - 19 Mar 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote

Teflon-Mike wrote:

Those are genuine factory variants of a step-thru rather like a DNA!
You think its a bt of a daft idea, but look ow seriousely they took it to try and sell such a bike!

Wasn't what I was looking for TBH, my google fu must be weak. I was looking for a Czeck scooter, I remember that was bult for utlity companies, that was a fatastic creation with a motorbike style tank i the step-through and a 'fake' engine housing that was a tool box, I think! There were a few of them in the 60's.


Yes, a lot like those, especially the second and third ones, and I agree it's a 60s phenomenon. If memory serves, when Honda released their first step-throughs in America, they launched a bike versions of the same basic ladies' bike frame, with the addition of a single downward member to support the engine, adding '1' to the 'C' designation, i.e. C51, C71, C91, etc. There's probably more to it than that, and Google says they didn't use Cub engines and were real motorcycles, but they all appear to be likely candidates for the proto-UJM frame concept.
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