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Clubroom => General Discussion => Topic started by: TooFastTim on April 19, 2011, 05:31:37 pm
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http://cgi.ebay.de/Puch-250-Twin-Carb-Harry-Everts-Replica-Bj-1975-/250779569469?pt=Motorr%E4der&hash=item3a63a08d3d (http://cgi.ebay.de/Puch-250-Twin-Carb-Harry-Everts-Replica-Bj-1975-/250779569469?pt=Motorr%E4der&hash=item3a63a08d3d)
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Anyone want to buy a Canam collection? I think I might need some $$$$fast! :o
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How cool is that, brand new!! Would love one of them in the collection. ;)
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Also interesting to see that at EU10,000 it didn't make reserve.
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Nice Bike, wonder how many were made.
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90 apparently.
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90 were made, an brand new one would have to sell for at least 15k
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Thats how soft the market is . A used one reached $25,000 some years back.
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90 were made, an brand new one would have to sell for at least 15k
How do you figure that?
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I have a question regarding the twin carb Puch that was on Ebay . As Harry Everts won the 250 World MX title in 1975 on the Puch, wouldn't the Everts Replica be a '76 model ? (not a '75 model as in the Ebay description). Also I read in an Everts photo gallery webpage that there was 97 twin carb Puchs made .
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I was extremely priviledged to watch Harry Everts cutting some demo laps on a twin carbed Puch (not his actual GP bike) at the Dick Mann Vintage Rally at Sandhill Ranch in 1988. He was incredibly smooth and unbelievably fast which I naturally put down to Harry's ability more than the bike. Then the owner can't recall his name) took the bike out for another demo and he was also as quick as shit on it. I soon realised the Puch was a very fast and very special piece of kit.
I would have loved to have seen it in race action but in those days it was all pre '75 so the 'Pook' was limited to show off laps during the lunch break.
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It says 90 were made originally, but does the add mean that this is one of the 90, kept new all these years, or that it’s a replica of an original?
This would explain it as a mock up replica of what Everts rode in 75, not a Puch 76 replica of what Everts rode
Not sure about the doom & gloom of selling predictions.
I don’t think people buy these things as financial investments so much as an investment of passion.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEyuBoY8KHw&feature=player_embedded
and a nicer looking Puch ,back in the day 8)
http://ozvmx.com/community/index.php?topic=15939.0
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I have a question regarding the twin carb Puch that was on Ebay . As Harry Everts won the 250 World MX title in 1975 on the Puch, wouldn't the Everts Replica be a '76 model ? (not a '75 model as in the Ebay description). Also I read in an Everts photo gallery webpage that there was 97 twin carb Puchs made .
You are right but actually it doesn't say that its a 75 model .It says that it was built in 75 . Many bikes are made late in the year preceeding their availability. These bikes were available in 76.
Notsure about the 97 model.Got a link?
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I was extremely priviledged to watch Harry Everts cutting some demo laps on a twin carbed Puch (not his actual GP bike) at the Dick Mann Vintage Rally at Sandhill Ranch in 1988. He was incredibly smooth and unbelievably fast which I naturally put down to Harry's ability more than the bike.
I too have seen Harry ride and it's clear where Stefan got his reputation for smoothness.
Harry had polio as a child and cannot run. I'm not joking here I've seen him try. He quite literally stumbles. Because of the polio he finds the transition from sitting to standing very difficult so he stands all the time. And we all know riders that stand are smoooooth...
Mark, was it Lee Fabry?
I have a question regarding the twin carb Puch that was on Ebay . As Harry Everts won the 250 World MX title in 1975 on the Puch, wouldn't the Everts Replica be a '76 model ? (not a '75 model as in the Ebay description). Also I read in an Everts photo gallery webpage that there was 97 twin carb Puchs made .
Well the bike on which Harry won that championship was a low piper.
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I have a question regarding the twin carb Puch that was on Ebay . As Harry Everts won the 250 World MX title in 1975 on the Puch, wouldn't the Everts Replica be a '76 model ? (not a '75 model as in the Ebay description). Also I read in an Everts photo gallery webpage that there was 97 twin carb Puchs made .
Well the bike on which Harry won that championship was a low piper.
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No ,end of 74 and early 75 it was a low piper but changed to an up pipe during the year , along with some other things. The replica is the final version.
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I have a question regarding the twin carb Puch that was on Ebay . As Harry Everts won the 250 World MX title in 1975 on the Puch, wouldn't the Everts Replica be a '76 model ? (not a '75 model as in the Ebay description). Also I read in an Everts photo gallery webpage that there was 97 twin carb Puchs made .
Well the bike on which Harry won that championship was a low piper.
No ,end of 74 and early 75 it was a low piper but changed to an up pipe during the year , along with some other things. The replica is the final version.
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You learn something every day.
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Harry had polio as a child and cannot run. I'm not joking here I've seen him try. He quite literally stumbles. Because of the polio he finds the transition from sitting to standing very difficult so he stands all the time. And we all know riders that stand are smoooooth...
Thanks ToofastTim- I noted he had a different riding style and favoured his right leg,(perhaps the stronger/ridged).
Shows you can do anything you want in life !! Even ride a Puch fast :P ;D
cheers A
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Harry had polio as a child and cannot run. I'm not joking here I've seen him try. He quite literally stumbles. Because of the polio he finds the transition from sitting to standing very difficult so he stands all the time. And we all know riders that stand are smoooooth...
Thanks ToofastTim- I noted he had a different riding style and favoured his right leg,(perhaps the stronger/ridged).
Shows you can do anything you want in life !! Even ride a Puch fast :P ;D
cheers A
I think its become more of a problem with age than when he was racing. One leg is shorter but they built up the peg to even it up.He rode Stefans bike at Namur in 06 .At first I thought it was Stefan but I wondered why the fans were going nuts over a practice lap. Then I realized as he got closer that it was Harry.They love him still!He even walks with difficulty thesedays ,usually with a stick but it doesnt stop him getting around .I crossed paths with him at Lierop walking the most difficult part of the track.I was thinking whats his old guy doing out here with a walking stick, then I saw that it was Harry checking out the lines,alone. Unreal
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Notsure about the 97 .Got a link?
http://connect.in.com/harry-everts/photo-gallery.html (http://connect.in.com/harry-everts/photo-gallery.html)
I may have mis-read this, but if you look at the caption that is 7 lines up from the bottom of the page on the left, it mentions something about only 97 made .
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Nice,have liked all the puch mx bikes
tank sloping down would bug me
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He even walks with difficulty thesedays ,
When I saw him at Sandhill Ranch in '88 he didn't have a stick but I do recall a distinct limp. Not being aware of his history with polio, I assumed that the years of hard racing had caught up with him as many old racers or footballers carry similar limps. When he got aboard the Puch wobbly walk was replaced by a riding style that gave no hint of his affliction. He'd be up there with Marty Tripes as one of the smoothest, most fluid racers I've seen. It's probably no coincidence that both riders rode standing more than their opposition.
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I was fortunate to have seen Harry at his peak albeit not on Puch but on Bultaco (he spent one miserable season with them on a bike that was well past its best). He was late for gate for one race and had to rush to the start line. It wasn't pretty.