Puch Marauder Restoration

Hi Guys, I am new here, so hopefully won't upset anyone by asking silly questions.

I am on the verge of completing a restore of my old Puch Marauder that my parents bought me when I were a kid (around 1984 I think).

OK, some may say it was not worth doing, but I guess sentimentality makes you daft when it comes to money.

Dad reckons the bike was only about £50 or so when new. The restore has cost me at least four times that.

But now I have a problem. The frame has been powder-coated, hence I have lost all the decals that were on the bike. I'm wanting to get it looking as original as possible (except the colour is now a rather darker blue than before), but cannot find anywhere a set of decals to suit. I have a local vehicle lettering company that says they can make me the decals as I want them, but they need images from which to work. The biggest problem is the headset logo.

Does anyone know of a source of original decals, or have access to decent images of the Puch logo (apparently a photo of the headset is not good enough due to it being on a curved surface).

Have you tried Velocals.com ?

He is based in USA, not cheap, but he has a very large database of decals...
I am sure he has a few Puch decals... it was a very popular make

The quality of the decals is good and they can be laquered over

Well he has the head badge on there (or a head badge anyway), so that is an option.

I do have a photo of the bike pre restoration, so maybe the local man can make up some decals from those. It can't be that hard surely.

Get in touch with Gil_M on this forum, if he does not have the decals, and you have photo's and sizes, he may well be able to produce some for you.

Thats the problem, I don't have a photo of the head badge.

I have a side on of the bike pre strip down, but nothing at all close up on the decals (at all)

Drop Gil a PM anyway, he may have something on file.

NeilM":1o5w9dra said:

Drop Gil a PM anyway, he may have something on file.

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Already done.

There are head badges on the net, but nothing like I remember the old one.

On the pic I have you can just see the edge, and it is more round than the oval ones on offer.

But then my bike was labelled Steyr-Daimler-Puch Ltd, whereas many you see were Austro-Daimler-Puch. Quite what the difference is I am not sure.

Either way it said on the frame 'Made in Austria'

Have you tried H LLoyds? (sorry if you have mentioned this, I only skim read the thread)

We used to sell Puch bikes in the shop in the 70's. For some reason the ones destined for the UK market were branded Steyr-Daimler-Puch.

Never sure why but I guess your's is a UK bike

Shaun