Austro Daimler / Puch bikes
 

Hey guis,
I am from Austria, to be precise in the hometown of all Puch bikes :thumb: (Graz)

Welcome to Bike Forums, wastl46.

Wilkommen!

We also have at least one member from Wien, the home of Capo bicycles.

Hey gals,
Love to visit Graz.

Hello! Started working in bike shops at a Puch/A-D dealer here. After a summer Praktikum at BMW in '79 I rode my bike from Munich to Graz, where I requested a tour of the Puch factory. From there I continued to Maribor, Trieste and onward.

Cool story :D so you build the bikes by your own and you can also speak german i guess ;)
You have som bikes from Puch oder AD?

German was my minor (Nebenfach) but I have forgotten most of it. No longer in the bike business but I keep at the hobby. I only had one A-D, an Inter 10 that had been damaged. It had a wrinkled seat tube from being mishandled in a workstand. I made a mountain bike from it and rode it for a few years, then transferred all the parts to a different frame.

That Puch factory also produced the famous Puch Pinzgauer, the Mercedes Gelaendewagen and (later) the VW Syncro Transporter, as well as mopeds and motorcycles. Cool place.

And also the Puch G. Now mercedes is producing the G-class.

I would really like to have one with a chrome frame.

i am sorry but i have to post 10 time until i can read all privat messages.

The A-D Vent Noir is the only one I know of that was made in chrome and that was a "black chrome" finish, dark-tinted chrome plating. They turn up for sale in the U.S. occasionally.

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A quick Google search showed two on Craigslist (in New York and Chicago) but both ads had been removed so they must have sold quickly. Also, I see that Motobecane now makes a Vent Noir, so that might complicate the search. Good luck!

Thank you very much for your hint. I am looking for such homepages.

Welcome to the Forum! I owned an Austro-Daimler Olympian for a while. Nice riding bike. Mine had a very nice Brooks Professional saddle that I foolishly allowed to go with the bike when I sold it. Don

My Austro-Daimler is one of my personal favorites at the moment. I think it's a "Team" model, from around 1979 judging by the serial number. There seems to be tragically little information available on these.


https://c4.staticflickr.com/9/8548/2...f5e39fcc_c.jpg

Here's an '83 Chrome Ultima SL I was fortunate enough to come across a few years back..

http://www.bikeforums.net/classic-vi...-sl-frame.html

My Pathfinder II. nichts Besonderes, but it's mine. I got it this year from the original owner, and put 3600 miles on it.

Welcome, @wastl46! I have two frequent riders from Graz, I think: my Austro-Daimler Inter 10 and my Jeep WJ. :)

The Inter 10:

https://myalbum.com/photo/Y4eUEazuh0qZ/1k0.jpg

Hey :) wow nice bike. Also one id like to have ^^
Just have a sprinter for my girlfriend but it is like a new bike with new chrome :)

You wount send it to back to austria right? ;)

So if someone is willing to sell a Puch bike, let me know :)
does some one has experiences in shipping a bike from the US to Europe?

I have a Puch Bergmeister in progress, which I got for free when my neighbor was planning to send it to the dump.

I also started a thread on Austrian bikes when I had recently acquired it: http://www.bikeforums.net/classic-vi...ian-bikes.html

http://i.imgur.com/cQFTOPFl.jpg

I've actually passed it along to the interested party in the aforementioned thread!
Would have kept it my self if it were 63cm..

Sorry to reopen this old thread. I heard that Sears subcontracted Puch to make some of their "Free Spirit" bikes and was wondering if mine was one of them. I have a 1981 Free Spirit "Pinnacle." It's a twelve-speed with nearly all Taiwanese components. The reason I think it may be one made by Puch is the frame looks very similar to a 1981 Austro-Daimler Pathfinder we have on campus. The intersects between the tubes and the pattern on the part of the front tube where the head-badge goes is extremely similar.

Unfortunately, I don't see any "Made in Austria" stickers. When I got it, there were no stickers saying where it was made, but it appears on the front tube that there may have been a sticker there at one point.

If it helps any, my frame has two numbers stamped into the bottom: "718-472930" and "70402160"

I've just been curious as to who may have actually made this bike.

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Here's the A-D Inter 10 frame mentioned above that I converted into a mountain bike.
https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...0572a6a94f.jpg
https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...8b149d043f.jpg

That makes sense because majority of the components of the bike are Taiwanese. The drive-train is made by Falcon, and the freewheel is made by "Long Yih Company."

The frame looks very similar to the Austro-Daimler Pathfinder mentioned in my previous post. I was thinking that perhaps Puch made a "scaled-down" version for Sears using Taiwanese components.

Perhaps some Taiwanese bike manufacturer wanted to imitate the look of Puch bikes?

Puch Austro Daimler Ultima SL
 

I’ve searched high and low and found very little about the Puch Austro Daimler Ultima SL in smoked chrome. Most of what I’ve found is about the Vent Noir. Anyone here seen or have an Ultima SL?