VèloSolex Moped, Will it Run/Ride After 46 Years?
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- Опубликовано: 30 мар 2024
- this VèloSolex 3800 Moped was given to me last summer from a subscriber that found this machine in the back of a damp garage, in part one we were able to get the engine to run, now lets see about getting the rest to work.
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Happy Easter everyone! Mustie is back!
Happy Easter back at ya, @stashyboy1
Easter bunny stop by???
Happy Easter to you. I enjoy your videos very much. I was wondering what model your lift is? I'd like to get one like it for working on golf carts and such
Happy goddess of fertility worship day.
If he sees his shadow it’s 6 more years of dirty carbs.
My wife who is the daughter of the previous owner of the Solex rode on the back of this when she was a kid. She guessed 1967 on the dime!
That is so awesome. These types of memories are precious, especially if it with some she truly loved and cared about. John here, from the back-roads of Northeastern Tennessee.
@@robinredman5192 When I pulled it out of that garage I knew I would never work on it but I thought it would be great for a Mustie1 rehab. I was right!
Cool memory, up with this reply!
Or it could be 1963
I thought it said 69
A 3800 Solex !? Yesterday afternoon I took mine - 1968 - for a drive ! It is the two-wheeled equivalent of the Citroën 2CV. Less is more. A concentrate of simplicity and intelligence. The first “VéloSolex prototype” rolled in December 1940. The first VéloSoleX was marketed in 1946. Since then, seven million copies have been sold in France and abroad.
Thank you Mustie !
Does it go any faster than Mustie's?
Less is more, That's a hubnut saying 😆
Nothing gets this guy down. His attitude is fantastic. When it goes pear shaped, he just laughs it off.
A lovely guy with positive attitude.
👍👍👍👍👍👍😄😄😄😄😄😄😄
Stock : 20 mph. Mine goes 50 mph but with a big carb and some hole enlargements.
@@Hjerte_Verke According to Waze the top speed is 35 Km/h whith original settings
One week off got us worried haha glad to see you upload
Just in time for Paris summer Olympics
well deserved.....sometimes Darren needs a break.....
@@Mikefngarageobviously.....not everyone....has nearly.....700k fans to get......worried about them missing....a week.....
I was actually worried too haha
In 62 or 63 while in the Military I was in Cannes France and saw a young beauty driving a bike like that and must’ve locked it in my memory because as soon as I saw that bike I remembered that moment in time 😊
What was she wearing ? Yellow dress ?
@@D...M...A... BB
We missed you Darren, happy Easter!
hi guys ! hi mustie ! i'm a french crazy fan of there solex moped ! and i can tell you it's soo fun to drive ! just little tips ! it's have a centrifugal cluche so if you stop in idle and you let the engin on the tire it will not burn it ! you just pull the engin up went you want to park it or ride like a regular bicycle ! went you have a stop, just pull the front brake ....have a great ride !
Fantastic idea!
....and you can't use a "regular" bicycle tire. I learned the hard way. As soon as I dropped the engine on it, the engine chewed through the tire like a high speed Dremel tool, just before it busted the inner tube. lol
If it has a centrifugal clutch, how do you start the engine? Mustie's clutch must be stuck then.
Back in the mid-70s, I had a friend who was really deep into modifying the many 2-stroke motorcycles of the day. Moving the ports, polishing them, bigger bores and carbs.
You name ... they went fast.
He was given a Puch moped in trade for...whatever...and had no interest in it. I got to fooling with it and had to pull the piston because of stuck rings. He helped with the rings and went down the rabbit hole. We fiddled with it, and it kept getting faster. One day I decided to ride up the road by his house to stretch it out. About 2 miles round trip. The speedo went to 40mph. It was pegged. I wanted to let him see how fast it was, so I stayed in the gas past his house. US Route 41, the main north/south road in southwest Florida, was about 200 yards down. About 150 yards, the brakes faded completely out, and I zipped across at about 20mph. Now, 41 was busy between Fort Myers and Naples. It was also pretty cool, which meant winter and snowbirds (northerners going south for the winter) rushing to get as far south as possible. I'm lucky to be alive. The speed limit was still 60-65mph so how I found a gap through is a miracle. We parked that thing, and I never rode it again.
How did we ever survive our childhoods?
LOL!
Cheers
Terry
a Velo Solex 3800s was my first touch to engines i fixed it up in my teens and was playing with it for weeks.
musti you get the startup wrong.
you are supposted to cycle it normal up to speed, then pull decompression, drop the engine and let go the decompression... there you go, for at least half an hour until the 1.25Ltr of fuel are gone.
if you "plan" on stopping, you idle the engine. pull it up into the hook and decompress it...
emergency braking is just pull both levers and use the rearbrake, it stops quiet good
engine operation was never ment to be used in the city, ist made for long range strait. you have to keep in mind that this thing is a poor mans transportation from an area where the war has left not much to work with ;)
Hey! Good morning! Happy Easter to everyone! ☀🌟
Happy Easter to you
Mustie was up early looking for his Easter basket!
No candy though....just a moped
Easter basket...moped basket...same same....
Darren, I have been thinking of you off and on all week. My prayers are with you and hope all is well. God bless you sir. John here, from the back-roads of Northeastern Tennessee.
Amazing how dependent we are on our Sunday morning Mustie fix!
A 1967 dime. Back then I was a boy of 9 nine years.Yes, I remember seeing those Solex mopeds in Europe where we lived for a year in the 1960s. I remember thinking, "Why did they put the engine on the front wheel? Everyone knows they're supposed to be driven by the rear wheel!" Now, I think that moped just exudes French eccentricity like a Citroen 2CV. You did an excellent job of getting it running and it was a great video to watch. Merci beaucoup!
Well, that’s a big relief!
He has risen!
Well it is Easter .😋
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He is risen indeed!
@@johnathanedwards9054 ✝️👍
Yea! Mustie is back! Happy Easter everyone.
One of my cats can’t stop watching your channel. I think she really likes when you spray rust inhibitors.
Hey man, this was my first motorized vehicle when I was nine years old in France … good memories thank you very much I appreciate it!
Wahey! He's alive!
he came back on the advise of Arnold ...!!!
It's a miracle !!
He is risen indeed
Throttle reversal makes sense. For long cruises around those Gallic lanes, with a string of onions around the neck, you can let go of the handle bar throttle so you can smoke a Gaulloise or Camel cigarette, using the left hand for gentle braking via the rear wheel, and when do need to brake to a complete stop it slows the throttle to idle too. Makes perfect sense.
Great to see you back Darren, we were worried about your radio silence last week.
Welcome to the Solix club! I had one back in the 90's. It was given to me as it didn't run. I had fun with it, as did my daughters. They were upset when I sold it. It was one of my many projects back then. I mostly restored old snowmobiles back then.
Watching musty wrench having a coffee on a Sunday morning. Happy easter
Welcome back Mustie! Hope you had a good time while away. We were all here last Sunday! Happy Easter Everyone.
My dad had 3 of these all in your condition, he never knew it but I fixed one to run and drive while he was out of town, I was 15 at the time. I am now 45 lol, you sure brought back some very fun memories!!! They are not very fast, they are heavy and they do not jump well!!!!
YIPPEEEEEEEE Mustie1.. 100% Glad you here today, Made mine & 1,000's of followers mega happy..
Hi guy. Really good to see a French bicycle solex on your work table. I'm French and I follow your channel whenever possible. I love it when you work on a VW engine, I have one in my 1600 i trike. A great pleasure to see you in your garage. THANKS.
Lol, sat here watching Mustie1 's latest offering and me and my wife are arguing like two feral cats about this French product. Me a Brit and her French. The only thing we can agree on, is when she says "It's France Francine". Glad to see ya back Mustie.
Welcome back Mustie !!
Hi Mustie.
That wire with the tang goes underneath the copper part on the headlight cover.
I've got a S2200 and a S3800 both go out for a ride just about three to five times a month.
Being Easter Sunday my brother in law and me went for a ride after lunch for a couple of hours.
They are an absolute fun time to be on out and about.
Hello from Portugal.
What voltage are the light bulbs?
@@Hjerte_Verke 7.5 volts, they are prone to burn out.
I converted mine to LED
Excellent information, thank you!
For some reason as soon as I saw you start riding this cool old moped I was reminded of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
Mustie video on my birthday can't get better than that.
happy birthday!! new mustie is a good present!!
@@urdooinitrong7753 thanks, definitely
Yo happy birthday matey now lets watch a well overdue Mustie :)
@@baldfatgit1 thanks mate
Happy birthday mate
I was expecting Brian to jump on the back and you two heading to Aspen :)
It's good to see Brian, aka VWnut.
@@markbrown6236yes it is Mark :)
This is the exact one in my shed, it's in the same condition, THANK YOU for this, it'll be instrumental in my approach for fixing the old girl!
Have you checked your shed lately?Maybe it's the *same* one. lol
@@manifold1476 hahaha awesome, I should've mentioned mine is orange. Funny thought though!
WELCOME BACK -you were missed Sir !
Vary nice to see you this Sunday.
Thank God you are OK. You had a few hundred k worried fans out here :)
Hundred, heck; there were thousands of us in a panic!
@@user-pf6sn8rd2l It was like a family member getting out of sight. Been following Darren for like 15 yrs or so just like many of us as it seems
@@user-pf6sn8rd2l Notice he said "hundred k" that's 100,000
More that a few hundred, add me to the couple hundred thousand.
@@markbrown6236 few hundred k I wrote given his 650+k subs
In the mid 50s i purchased a German made Zundapp two gear 49cc moped when i was a teen. It had a top speed of 35/40 mph and was a great means of transport for a young man in New Zealand. There was another model a friend owned at the time called a Puch also German made, Jim loved it. Bob.(83) Veteran.
It’s even got the “big” motor they also made a 2800 eg 28cc 🤘
There were millions of them made, I think I had 5 or 7 of them ❤ simple and a joy to ride in a city, the motor just runs and runs
Love seeing you bring a neglected machine back to proper stature, they can't thank you, but if they could, I'm sure they would 🙂 Looks like there was a tang that held the spade connection of that one wire on that housing.
Solex made a few motorised bicycles all using the same engine, the throttle is designed to go backwards to stop cramp in your hand by holding the lever in.
Later models incorporated the front brake into the throttle lever plus the decompression valve all in one.
You are lucky in the USA that ou can ride one of these completely free of charge, here in the UK it is a motorised bicycle (moped) hence you need to pay road tax have it, insured and pass a MOT test,(ministry of transport, Road safety check)
it probably varies by state but here you need to register(cheap sticker) it and have a permit(14-15yr old i think ) or drivers license(16+). Likely get away without it as long as you dont attract attention to yourself.
thankfully the MOT on a solex is quite lenient, many solex's will be MOT and tax exempt being over 40 years old. the insurance on a historic moped like that is going to be pretty cheap.
I love how Brians street is always your go to. Ahahah you 2 a truly kids at heart. Thanks for another awesome video
Yay, Mustie's back again.....with a bike i've never heard of! Couldn't help but notice that the Econoline in the background, has had a paint job! :)
I got the year of the dime correct. I guessed "67 because that was my first trip to France where there were thousands of Solex bikes whizzing around. This brought lots of great memories back. You did a great job saving this one Darren.
Now probably full of Ebikes.
23:15 - I like how the throttle lever is reversed like that. On a long trip your hand wouldn't get tired like cruise control. If you have to stop more than a moment turn off the moped. I love this thing!
I had a solex motor bike when I was 10 or 11 had a blast riding it all over the neighborhood that was 50 years ago but I'll never forget that awesome bike
Anything that even resembles bike mechanics I'm all for. Thanks Mr. M.
Real French heritage! Greetings from France.
oh today is the day if you live in New Jersey (south at least) to go out on the vintage moped.. it's going to be 62 and sunny, rain all the rest of the week. What a joy!!
Don't let the Jersey Devil get you.
Go South Jersey!!!
That thing cleaned up nice. Very cool that its a functioning machine now after all these years!!
As soon as I saw the one footrest I thought that it's not unusual on the continent to have a girl-child sit side saddle on the rear of motorbikes so one rest was all they needed. Plus the grab handle, of course. Loving your work and looking forward to more small-engine vids.
That was my thought as well. It was set up for Side-Saddle.
Thanks for another good one Mr. Mustie! That's quite a ride ya got there! Great job on getting this thing going! Always a great start to Sunday morning! Glad you're back - I think we all missed ya last week!
Helo Mustie & Brian Happy Easter. I rode a buddies solex back in the day. Unfortunately the engine pretty much finished so keeping it running the real challenge. You get used to the front brake / throttle very quickly. Just squeeze normally to stop and let go to start. As you mentioned there not speed deamons just meant for cheep transportation and help with steeper hills.
There a lot of fun for kids and practical as a touring bike if your not in a hurry.
Think of it as a 1940's prelude to the EBike.
Last Sunday, I got up, checked RUclips and died a little inside when there was no video 🤣 super glad you’re back!
Awesome to see some of these older project come to fruition .
These Solex are still driven in the Netherlands, and you can hire them to have a fun day. Greetings from (Friesland) the Netherlands 👍
I lived in Doorn 1968-71 I had an old Solex I rode. Father was Air Force at Soesterberg.
These are/were pretty popular in the Netherlands, there are solex clubs holding annual races on them in period correct clothing (long leather jackets etc) Just very basic engineering on a normal bicycle which holds out for a pretty long time. I wasn't too fond of them because they were too slow for me when I was around 15 or 16 years old in the 80's. I had a couple of Puch mopeds which were solid and very easy to work on and being modified. Thanks for sharing bringing this back to useable condition
Zundap and kridler were the most popular mopeds in the Netherlands when I was a kid 1968-71
Puch and tomos too.
In europe they race these, will go 90 km/ph.
There are tubevideos.
It's fun watching you bring old stuff back to life keep it up and as usual good video
I had a paper route, too. It was tough enough delivering the papers in the snow, but I had to collect every two weeks-a buck fifty for the Cleveland Press. Boy, it taught me the value of hard work for sure!
Good Morning!
You know a bike is old when you take out the tool kit and
everything looks "Fossilized"! 🤣
Blimey that brings back memories once in France as a teen. No helmet, open unused country road between villages of an evening.. they’re great little things, you done good with it mr M👍😀
You are more entertaining than anything on cable tv The new learning channel Cheers
Happy Easter I have to say here in the Netherlands we do see this and other local made mopeds used daily some from the 1950s.
*THE LORD IS RISEN!* ...and apparently, so has Darren! *HOLLEY~BOOYAAAAH!*
and we know which one to believe in...
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Glad to see the VeloSolex back on the operating table.
Hi from France. You suppose to start it with the motor down using de décompression. If the timing is correct, it should start on 1 mètre. The tiny white thing you found in the tool box is a gas filter. You can take it out easely just under the air filter. Just open the air filter and get rid of the filtering membrane, it s running better without it.
Welcome back. Neat bike. I guess the reverse throttle makes sense if you think of it like a bicycle instead of a motorcycle. Someone who's used to a bike would pull the brakes to stop -- wouldn't want to add throttle to the engine in that case.
A blessed Easter to you and your family, sir!
Love watching your vids.
Need to get a small lazer rust removal tool.
Great vid and Happy Easter.
yessssss mustie has returned all is right and well in the world
Good to see you back
Good morning. Happy Easter.
Glad you are back. You were missed
Happy Easter Mustie!! (and all watching!!)
That dime could be made of Silver? Could be worth a gallon of gas. They way it should be. You inspired me to fix my bike that has been sitting for months.
1964 was the last year they minted coins out of silver. 1967 is a clad dime.
38:30 break springs for the front wheel to center breaks
That what I thought too.
When my father and I would set up a wheel's spokes, we used a bicycle fork squeezed in the vice. Mounted the wheel on the fork and adjusted the spokes with the wheel firmly fastened to the fork.
I'm glad to see you back!!
Finally ❤
You know , if you suddenly stopped making videos, you'd have a whole lotta people wondering WTF!! Glad your back, better give us an explanation boy!
Maybe it was the storm that went through
Cool I liked the first video on this moped. super unique. I am a bike person too. But I only have so much time ......Glad to see another video on this. Summer is coming so it will be a fun bike to ride around on.
an interesting bike, nice to see it back in action😄
The only things missing are the beret and the baguette.
You missed onions, blue and white hooped top and a manky bottle of red wine.
happy easter everybody
My Dad's uncle gave us one of these in the early 90s. I'm guessing it was from the late 70s. All it needed was new inner tubes, some adjustment of the engagement lever and a good cleaning of the carbon build up present in the exhaust downpipe (was about 80% blocked...ran a shitload better after I chipped the charcoal out of it, lol). It did OK. I used to ride it down the road to my little part-time teenage landscaping job. I remember at one point running some methanol/nitromethane model airplane fuel through it (briefly) and it absolutely screamed...but didn't make much power...haha. I knew nothing about the mixture jetting modifications that would have been required to get that to work properly. Anyway, the moped is still sitting at Dad's house...somebody tore the engine half apart at some point trying to "fix" something...afraid many of the parts (head, carb, head cover, etc.) are probably gone for good now.
“Keep your eye on it , if you drop it.” ( no truer words were ever spoken)😂
I used to have one of these back in my youth and I had a lot of fun when I moved to a brand new apartment building, so the garage was empty and I enjoyed it a lot. I was not allowed to ride it on the street. It brings me a good memory. thanks
That nasty ice storm in the Northeast last weekend got me too.
I think that moped is as cool as heck. Would love to find one.
In Lawn Boy school, we were taught to adjust the mixture so the engine occasionally "4 stroked" . Cool bike!
Thank you again for the work you put into all these videos.
Happy Easter, missed you last week, glad you're okay. G-d bless.
Good happy Easter morning and glad to see you back
This is cool I have an old sachs fro the 70s only found this channel a few years ago when I was renovating that.. Now I am a Mustie addict.
Hi D. Holes and balls. Priceless!!!! Great video as always! That’s a really cool moped/bike. Love seeing you fix old things and breathe new life into them!! Thanks again for bringing us along for the ride!!
Felt like a 14 day week. Welcome back.
awesome and outstanding as always.thanks for sharing and taking us along
Thanks for sharing! Great start to Easter morning- great video