I had a Puch VZ50 loved it at the time but when my mate let me ride his TS125 (illegally as16) thought I was on a rocket!😅

they did'nt riders weight determined top speed a fairer comparison and more accurate🤪🤪

Up to July 1977 there was no legal restriction on the top speed of mopeds in the UK. They had to be under 50cc and have pedals by means of which they could be propelled. The FS1E would usually do about 45mph (72km/h) without modification. The one in this video is going remarkably well and sounds as though it has its original exhaust system. Mopeds registered from August 1977 had to be designed not to exceed 30mph (48km/h) but were no longer required to have pedals.

I could have written your post word for word but change to Norfolk! special times for a fantastic machine!

The Puch Grand Prix was available in a colour scheme that looked like a packet of JPS cigarettes but the letters jumbled together were actually SDP (for Steyr-Daimler-Puch, not the political party formed several years later by among others William Rodgers who was the minister of transport at the time the 30mph restriction was placed on mopeds in 1977.)

@@cedriclynch Ha Ha - yes indeed not too many of them around!! It was a good looking bike!!

Any cop worth his salt would pull him over, take a selfie with the bike, and then send the rider off on his merry way.

Haha those were the days eh.... what mods did you make to the mt5? My dt50 did 47mph during my CBT, but then as far as I recall, it would only ever pull to 40 on a flat. Maybe it would go over a bit downhill. There was a rumour that the old DT 50s were capable of 50-55+ fully deristricted. Not something I ever tinkered with though sadly. Big regret. Was still the fastest of all the 50s round my way. Apart from a lad who went to the same college who had a Derbi Senda. That would do 50 on a flat all day out the box. But they were very pricey.

@@itzajdmting I must admit I've cheated a bit!...Its running a 66cc big bore kit although that on its own would not make all that much difference. I've modified all the ports which was pretty tricky as the bore is so small. The head has had a lot of work, it has been totally reprofiled and now has a working squish band with 0.6mm clearance. The CR is 13.5:1 (uncorrected). I've cut open the exhaust and removed the restrictions, it also runs a proper baffle cone inside the exhaust, it looks stock from the outside. I'm running fibre reeds with the reed stop bent back, the carb is up from 13mm to 18mm, it has had to be extensively re-jetted, the inlet manifold has been opened up to match the new carb. The restriction in the air filter has been removed. The standard ignition starts to misfire at around 7500 RPM, its a spare spark system which means that at 7500 RPM the CDI is sparking at 15000 RPM, I've modified the ignition trigger system so that it now fires only once per revolution, the engine runs to 9000 RPM now. The last 'big' mod that I've done is to fit an MTX80 six speed box in place of the 5 speed box. The bike is a 'sleeper', it looks immaculate but stock but goes much better than stock. I recon it can hit 60+ down hill but I've geared the bike so that it will pull 55 all day long, I don't like 'over-geared' bikes. Looking back I think that I got a bit carried away with all of this but it does make me laugh when I'm out and about on it, more so than my Triumph 1050 Speed Triple!

My mate had an MB5 and couldn't believe how fast my fizzy was when he had a ride

its being run in only done about 5 miles then since re-build