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Puch mopeds, scooters, and motorcycles, 1954–69 (switched from Allstate to Sears badging in 1967) Gilera motorcycles, late 1966 to 1969 (badged as Sears, not Allstate) (106cc and 124cc single-cylinder 4-stroke engines. The 106cc was a 4-speed, and the 124cc was a 5-speed)
Puch MS50 Moped. Puch produced the Puch Maxi, Puch Newport, and MK mopeds, which were popular from the late 1970s to early 1980s. In Austria and the Netherlands, Puch mopeds played a big role in the 1960s popular culture. [citation needed] Puch mopeds in Sweden were, and still are, very popular despite the company ceasing production of mopeds ...
Scooters share traits with mopeds (some models could even be considered both a moped and a scooter). Adding to the confusion between them, in many jurisdictions smaller engined scooters (e.g. 50cc) are road registered in the same legal category as mopeds (often named "Moped" class), leading to scooters being casually referred to as "mopeds" in ...
1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s: Subcategories. This category has the following 10 subcategories, out of 10 total. M. Motorcycles introduced in 1960 (4 P)
Rupp's minibike offering in 1963 was the Dart Ridge Runner, classified as a trail scooter. It featured a 3 1/2 HP Lauson engine with a belt drive system and dual fuel tanks. A passenger seat was located over the two fuel tanks. It came in one color—high-visibility orange.
Sears sold a version of these models under the Allstate brand. Cushman scooters featured an automatic centrifugal clutch , which allowed the rider to twist the right grip to accelerate. Oddly, the throttle twisted forward during acceleration, opposite the usual pattern in most other motorcycles and scooters.
Delivering Tomos motorcycles - 1960. Tomos first product was a motorcycle called TOMOS Puch SG 250. In 1955 they made 137 of these motorcycles and assembled 124 RL 125 scooters and one hundred mopeds. The next year, mopeds accounted for the majority (1712) of the total number of assembled units, followed by motorcycles (615) and scooters ...
In the early 1960s, the Japanese motorcycle industry took a downturn. Bridgestone's core business of tyre manufacture kept the company secure and they took on engineers from Lilac and Tohatsu when those companies stopped motorcycle production. These engineers were responsible for a new range of motorcycle, initially with the 90 cc BS-90 in 1965.