Beautiful bike, never knew Puch made a split tube model like this. I'd say this is mid-80's.
Regards.
Jerry Moos
Houston, TX
> Hallo Scott,
>
> ant the others,
>
> i put the picture of this Puch on
> http://mitglied.lycos.de/
>
> any ideas about the year?
>
> Martin
> Munich, Germany
>
> SH> I'm not sure if Puch ever liscenced them but it sounds like a
> SH> frame called a Rigi. They were great criterium and hill climb
> SH> bikes with ultra short wheelbases.
>
> SH> If its what I can recall the seattube was replaced with two
> SH> (aprox 10mm) tubes set about 2cm apart, just enough room for the
> SH> tire to pass between. I raced with a friend who had one only to
> SH> find the one major flaw, the front deraileur wasn't a braze on,
> SH> which would make sense, but a custom made mini clamp on type.
>
> SH> It was a really nice, light and fast bike. I wish I had one.
> SH> I hope that might help.
>
> SH> Scott Henry
> SH> Dayton, Ohio USA
>
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> SH> Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 23:23:15 +0100
> SH> From: "Martin Appel" <martin@camelot.de>
> SH> To: Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
> SH> Subject: Re: [CR]Puch on Ebay
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> SH> I can't help with that particular Puch i'm afraid, but i got a
question
> SH> about Puch myself:
> SH> I saw a Puch frame at an exhibition in Vienna last year that was a
> SH> special design for uphill TT, with two thin "seattubes" that allowed
> SH> the rear wheel in betwen them for a shorter wheelbase ("Bergmeister"?)
> SH> Question: was this a prototype or were thse actually sold? If so, how
> SH> many are around?
> SH> i could provide a (bad) picture if it helps.
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> SH> Martin
> SH> Munich, Germany
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