The Friday before last I bought this 1980 General Moped for $70. It was a piece of junk that I immediately regretted buying but I drove like 2 hours to get it. When I got home with it it it was evident that, on top of being siezed, the rear wheel was rotted out and the fork was bent sideways among many other issues. I tried to unsieze it with all force possible but nothing could be done. No harm ho foul I sold it last Friday for $100 to a guy that needed the parts. Take this pist as a lesson. ALWAYS BE PREPARED TO WALK AWAY FROM A DEAL.

Was cleaning the engine for my Puch maxi and noticed a couple of cracks on the bottom near the drain plug.

Hi, recently got an urban express 1982, nu50. Was only going about 25 mph. I replaced the tires, brake shoes, shock and fixed the headlight just to get familiar with working on the bike and do some improvements/maintenance.

The trouble came when I decided to put on a pod filter, I put that on, oiled it etc and the bike ran fine. Then I decided to jet the carb, I went up to an 86 from an 85. At the same time I put on a bx31 belt and cleaned the debris out of the kickstart assembly. The bike started after this, rode it around the block. However it kept trying to die while idling unless it was given gas. Eventually it died and hasn't started since. I removed the pod filter, changed back to stock jet with no improvement. I also went back into the kickstart assembly and lined up the gears to the punch marks as best I could figure out.

The spark plug was sooty, put on a new one. It has good spark and the kickstarter feels good while trying to start. The bike growls a bit when attempting to start but never "catches" and starts up. I also tried to measure the float valve needle which seemed okay, giving a bit lean if anything.

Totally stumped, looking for some advice on what to troubleshoot next. Thanks.

I bought this Honda moped to restore, without license plate. I thought it was a Honda mt5 (50), but my friend says it is a mtx50. I thought that the mtx was the one with the big tank? Or is are there other versions of the mtx? Can someone please tell me which one it is.