Life and I

I’ve been working on rebuilding my 1978 Puch Newport L. I bought it in antiquated September and the paperwork I have is in the name of a dead woman named Bennie Kathryn, so the bike has earned the monicker of ghostbike. Her husband signed it over some time ago and the paperwork has never been handled until I acquired it. I have her passing certificate. It’s sort of spooky.

I’m being very thorough and very detailed with this bike. Lots of cleanup, scrubbing, cleaning off all the scum, redoing the bearings in the wheels, cleaning up the brake pads, cleaning up the pedal arms and putting on new pedals, scrubbing as much of the rust off the rims as I can. I’m planning on cleaning up and re-greasing the bearings in the fork either today or tomorrow after profession.

You see, it’s key that this bike is clean because it’s painted snow-white, which is why ghostbike is such a perfect nickname for it.

The engine itself, I dismantled and split the cases last Friday, replaced the bearings and seals, scrubbed the apparatus cases clean and sparkly.

The plan for this bike so far is a 50cc TCCD kit with some mods/cleanup done by Naz, 15.15 SHA Dellorto, Boss Conveyor (borrowed from Naz, thanks!), a simplified stator face, a better performance clutch as well as a race crank. Simplified wiring down to three wires, some variety of classy quiet killswitch. Long seat, original decals, clubman bars, Zooid BMX grips. I’m really excited about this project and from beginning to end tearing it apart.

The next step is matching the case to the TCCD kit. There’s a lot of dremels and sandpaper in my future, oh yes.

Hello, my name is Grigor Ashkov, I will try to write some interesting post for Blogetery. As evident from
the name of blog it will be something about my life and about outward things. Have a good day…