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I still have my 1966 Sears Puch 250SGS. It’s in my dad’s barn. I bought it when I was 14 in 1978.

Great Video, Bob, I was laughing most of the time watching Bobby ride that thing.

Thanks for the tips!

Exciting times in the shop! I should share my shop adventures too!

Pretty cool

Two awesome Georges!

Sears was the first Amazon, should not have ignored the developing internet, which put them out of business. Sears stores and catalogs used to sell everything, everywhere.

Hey Bob, maybe once a week pick out one of the bikes in the museum and give us a little history lesson on it and its back story kinda like the Sear's bike.

First bike I ever rode was a Sears 106, I was seven. My dad had to ride on the back as I couldn’t touch the ground. I could barely pull the clutch in. I forgot to pull the clutch once and put it in first gear, all I saw was my dad’s hands and feet flying up beside me, he was not pleased! Cool video!

Looks like a Benelli, they made low CC bikes for Harley around the same time

I had a Sears/Gilera 124. My first bike. Could hit 60 mph. Loved it. I was going places.

In the days before the internet you could get almost anything you wanted from a department store catalog. From shoes and toys, Right on up to an "assembled by numbers" vacation home!

You said amazing it worked after 50 years, in most everything didn’t work brand new, that’s a good one, I can remember about once a month sears would run them in the ad $199

Used to go to sears for parts for Cushman scooters

Sears sold EVERYTHING except perhaps nuclear weapons. Houses, Cars, Motorcycles...

I had one. Great little bike.

Sears and Roebucks sold pre-built whole houses! The Sears catalog was strong back in the day the first Amazon! I used to love my Sears and roebuck shotgun single-shot bolt action!

Dad worked for Sears for over 20 years. He bought one in the late 60's, I believe it was a 250cc Allstate. He rode it for years (I still have 1 of the tank badges on the side of my toolbox). I had a Harley Davidson Sprint 250cc, that had right side shift with a "reverse" pattern, damn thing was a ball to ride. My favorite thing was to ride it to my friends Harley dealership and watch people cringe at my Italian Harley Davidson!

Sears was a magical company…… now we get junk from Walmart.

Me and my best friend both had these motorcycles...... when we were kids we used to ride them on the trails.

I bought a 125 Gilera when I was 15 back in the '60s. What a doggy piece of crap! Took a girl for a ride out in the country and tried to trail ride up a hill. We had to get off and push the sick SOB UP THE HILL. Not a way to make a good impression! 😅😅😅

Cool find. I has an 62 Allstate 175. I rode with a guy who had a Sears 106. Back in the day we called that shift pattern " 1up 3 down".

Sears had a hand in almost everything my parents and grandparents and myself went to Sears for almost everything we had a Sears card and off we went . Haha

I had a Sears 12gauge pump shotgun i sold for $40 to a pawn shop. I regret that.

i had a neighborhood teen that had a sears 175 from the 60' to that one , this was probably 1971 he wanted to sell me for $75..i ended up with a Honda SL100 but back than we would ride anything just to get on the road.

Nice to see it run. At 14 years old I did my first top end rebuild on an Allstate 175, made by Puch. Yep, it was a "Twingle".

My dad got a sears sabre in late 60s, which was a 50 cc 2 stroke puch motorcycle

Back in the mid 70s I traded for a Montgomery Wards 125 lightweight motorcycle that looked just like this one. It was a 2 cycle engine and the gas cap had a built in cup to measure the oil to add to the gas tank. It would do 50 mph on a flat run without a headwind. Unfortunately I wrecked it when I got blown off the road by a big gust of wind.

I bought a brand new one in 1968 my first M.C. Iam still riding at 72 only Harleys now.

My Dad's coworker gave me a Sears 124 about 40 years ago. It wasn't in running condition. Someone had replaced the seat with a gray top seat from a Triumph Cub. I made a list of parts it needed and ordered them from my local sears parts department. Out of all the parts I ordered, the only thing still available from Sears was the exhaust header gasket. I have since bought a gasket set and oil seal set on ebay. There was also an ebay seller that had reproduction Sears and Gilera badges for the tank. They sold out before I got around to buying any. That Cub seat is probably the most valuable part of the bike by far.

What a sweet survivor

I thought those old Sears bikes were made by Bonelli??

Bravo 👏

Bob I have one of those little Sears Gileras. Mine is also a 1967 and it has 275 original miles. I bought it a few years ago and replaced the original tires and tubes and replaced the fork seals.

I had Montgomery Wards 250cc twin two stroke with a huge chrome swan on front fender. Had it for less than five minutes as guy passed by on a new 1974 Sachs dkw 125cc and he did a 180 and wanted to trade. I never even got a chance to start that old Puch 250 street bike but I got the cool German dirtbike. My grandma bought an entire casino outta a sears catalog complete with everything needed. Those were the days when men were men and couldn't get pregnant.

I bought a BSA 650 lightning in 1972 that was a 1971 left over model with the right-hand shift. I paid twelve hundred dollars for it brand new and I believe 1972 was the last production year for the BSA,s. I rode it for two and half years putting seventeen thousand miles on it riding it whenever I could weather permitting. The dealer was selling Yamaha's and a 650cc was twenty-six hundred dollars.

My uncles Bob and Bill bought one brand new and I got to ride it when I was very young.

Sears carrying motorcycles just like J.C. Penney carried Bridgestone motorcycles. That is now a dead dog, never to return.

Stop picking your nose, that's disgusting.

Sears also sold a 125cc 2 stroke made by Puch in Austria. 3 speed gears selected by twisting the left grip as did the Vespas of the day. Fan forced cooling through an aluminum shroud.

Thanks for sharing the tips! 👍

My brother had an allstate 250 in 1970.

My friend's brother had a 106 we thought it was Soooo, Cool. Thanks for sharing.

Fun.. I have a 1959 All-State MoPed. My 1st bike and it still runs. Enjoy

As I recall Monkey Wardds used to sell bikes built by Jawa back in the day.

Had an Allstate/Vespa 125 and it got punched out from under me by a drunk lady in a Corvair. It cost me $60 in ‘68.

Great stuff. I grew up on the Allstate 250s, my brother owned the very rare Allstate 175 which was a Twingle just like the 250. When they ran we called these Puchs "Pooks." When they didn't, we called them "Pukes." There was also the Sears (Gilera) 124 c.c.

Looks very similar to a couple of Allstates, also sold by Sears, that I restored for a customer several years ago, a 1958 350 "Twingle", and a 1965 250 "Twingle".