Re: Puch

[John Paramore <wizprodj@eskimo.com>]

On Sun, 30 Aug 1998, Martin Jackson wrote:

>   In '61 or '62, I ran across a Puch engine. Maybe it was in a magazine,
>   but I think it was at school. One of the cylinders was an air pump and
>   all the power came from the other cylinder. Many of the disadvantages of 
>   a regular two stroke were cured by the design. More friction and balance
>   problems made it a hard design to love, but fun to try and figure out.

Golly, I'd have thought that any two stroke of that era would be a proper
little stink-bomb, and worthy of an unceremomious meltdown :-) 

Most two cycles weren't too very clean anyway, but in bike engines they
tried to save weight by burning more fuel as a coolant rather than just
adding mass to the engine. That aside though this thing would make a head
turning conversion.

John