Puch 250 SGS
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Puch
Puch is a manufacturing company located in Graz, Austria. The company was founded in 1889 by the industrialist Johann Puch and produced automobiles, bicycles, mopeds, and motorcycles.-Pre 1919:...
250 SGS (Schwing-Gabel-Sport) was a motorcycle
Motorcycle
A motorcycle is a single-track, two-wheeled motor vehicle. Motorcycles vary considerably depending on the task for which they are designed, such as long distance travel, navigating congested urban traffic, cruising, sport and racing, or off-road conditions.Motorcycles are one of the most...
manufactured by the Austria
Austria
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n Steyr Daimler Puch AG
Steyr-Daimler-Puch
Steyr-Daimler-Puch was a large manufacturing conglomerate based in Steyr, Austria, which was broken up in stages between 1987 and 2001. The component parts and operations continued to exist under separate ownership and new names.-History:...
in Thondorf near Graz
Graz
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The motorcycle was powered by a split-single
Split-single
The split-single , is a variant on the two-stroke engine with two cylinders sharing a single combustion chamber.There have been "single" and "twin" The split-single (Doppelkolbenmotor to its German and Austrian manufacturers), is a variant on the two-stroke engine with two cylinders sharing a...
two-stroke engine (two pistons sharing a single combustion chamber). It was marketed in the US by Sears as the "Allstate 250" or "Twingle".
A total of 38,584 Puch 250 SGS motorcycles were produced between its launch on October 1, 1953 and the ending of manufacture in 1970.
Technical data
| Puch 250 SGS | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Engine | aircooled two-stroke one-cylinder double piston | ||
| Cylinder capacity | 248 cm³ | ||
| Bore | 2 × 45 mm | ||
| Stroke | 78 mm | ||
| Performance | 16.5 hp (12.2 kW) @ 5800 rpm | ||
| Torque | 2.32 kgm / 22,76 Nm @ 3300 rpm | ||
| High speed | 110 km/h | ||
| Fuel consumption | 3,3 l/100 km | ||
| Fuel capacity | 13 l | ||
| Weight wet | 155 kg | ||
| permissible total weight | 342 kg | ||