Puch Monza - From San Francisco (USA)

Thanks Toni! It's great to be back. I've been very busy working on my 2005 Derbi GPR, and the 2000 GPR seen in the photo. I did have a set back--about 4 months ago I was crashed by a young woman driving a Honda Civic. I was hurt pretty bad and it's kept me from my normal activities. What I could do in a half day is now taking me five days. : / I'm starting to get better and can do little things again. :D Hopefully I can get the Monza all pretty for San Diego in March. So much to do before then!

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Gracias Toni! Es muy bueno estar de vuelta. He estado muy ocupado trabajando en mi Derbi GPR 2005 y el 2000 GPR se ve en la foto. Yo tenía un revés - unos 4 meses atrás yo estaba se estrelló por una mujer joven que conduce un Honda Civic. Yo estaba muy mal herido y me ha guardado de mis actividades normales. ¿Qué puedo hacer en un día y medio ahora me toma cinco días. : / Estoy empezando a mejorar y hacer pequeñas cosas de nuevo. : D Espero poder obtener el Monza todos bastante para San Diego en marzo. Hay tanto que hacer antes de eso!

For the LA rally last year I forgot my pipe and had to fashion one from an old Biturbo. It was pretty ugly, but it worked well, and I got to ride the rally. That was a blast!

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Para el mitin LA año pasado me olvidé de mi pipa y tenía a la moda uno de un Biturbo edad. Fue bastante feo, pero funcionaba bien, y tengo que viajar en el rally. Eso era una maravilla!

pues paciencia y poco a poco se acabara esa monza

Some Puchi Love came today

For nearly a year now the Monza has been running around with a bad crank bearing. It started to fail in San Diego at the rally--it then went on a couple more rallies. Well it was finally time to take care of that pesky bearing. Time to go to the Paz Center of Engine Rehabilitation.


One thing we discovered was that the clutch discs and plates got seriously hammered. We dressed them up with a file, but they really need to be replaced as soon as I can source some.

In an effort to prep the Monza the powder needs to come off of the wheels. I read that aircraft stripper worked well for removing powder coating. I was unable to find that locally so I tried the strongest pain remover that they had the local hardware store. It took a long time, was messy, and it kind of worked. It turned it into a kind of rubbery mode that separates from the metal, but in areas where the powder was thick (maybe because it was easy to spray there) it was a lot harder to get it to separate, and there are still areas where it didn't. Hopefully this will make it easy to finish up with the sand blaster.

When Greg and I pulled the disc off of the Monza front wheel we didn't know that the disc was cracked in several places. After I cleaned it up with some HCl I found several cracks. Getting another cast iron stock disc was going to be difficult. It turns out that the rear disc of the of a Derbi GPR is the same diameter as the Monza's front disc--200mm. The issue is the Monza is a five bolt and the Derbi is a six bolt. Another issue is the Monza is offset and the Derbi is flat. I took the bits down to JP and he machined an adapter plate. Here are the results.

great job toratora! it´s nice to know the puch bikes at the other side of the sea!!regards

CarabelaSuper escribió:great job toratora! it´s nice to know the puch bikes at the other side of the sea!!regards

Thanks! Most folks around here have the Maxi or the Magnum. Shifter Peds are really rare here in the States because they all had to come in individually. My Monza came home with a solder that was stationed in Spain.

I just picked up some clutch bits for the Monza, however I'd like to find one of these clutches to replace the clutch that's currently in service.

Fantastic Job!!!!!

the bike is in the kitchen!

Yes, didn't you know that the kitchen is the best place to cook Monza? :P

Google translation

Sí, ¿no sabía usted que la cocina es el mejor lugar para cocinar Monza? : P

i suppose

Y la matricula, Donde esta.

Angel

2000rpm escribió:Y la matricula, Donde esta.

Angel

Do you mean the words about how I did it? Yeah my spanish suxors so I started just posting the photos. If you have questions I'll try to answer them.

Google translation

¿Quiere decir que las palabras sobre cómo lo hice? Sí mis suxors español así que empecé a publicar sólo las fotos. Si tiene alguna pregunta voy a tratar de responderlas.

he ask for the license plate, he don´t see

Oh thanks. Yeah I try to block that out in photos. ;P Here is a photo from the back side so you can see the location.

Oh gracias. Si, trato de bloquear que en las fotos. , P Aquí está una foto de la parte trasera para que pueda ver la ubicación.

In San Diego the frame broke from too much vibration from the engine. So just as the bike made it back on the road, it has to come apart once again...the frame is now at the machine shop getting fixed up. :D

Google Translation

En San Diego se rompió el marco de la vibración excesiva del motor. Así como la moto lo hizo de nuevo en la carretera, tiene que deshacerse una vez más ... la trama se encuentra ahora en el taller de máquinas quedar arreglado. : D

hello, maybe must strengthen the left footrest zone, it´s easy to break too,
regards!

Hey Toni,

Yeah some time ago the right side broke where the exhaust hanger attaches. =8<>

However, my riding style is mostly with my feet on the locked in place peddles--employed like rear sets. : )

It does make me wonder though, because my GPR broke in the same spot, in almost the same way.

Fantastic, is doing a good job!