MANY years ago I bought a used Rupp from a friend. Rode it a bit, but it went into storage in a crawlspace and was forgotten (I was told some years back it had been left curbside for garbage).
On a trip to the homestead, I looked in the crawlspace and lo and behold, it was still there.
With some finagling, it made the 1,400 mile trip home with us.
My son and I spent last fall and this past winter cleaning it up to bring it back to life. With a lot of good info from this forum, he got to ride it for the first time yesterday.
Having test ridden it myself first, I found it a LOT more powerful than it was so many years ago. The front wheel came up easily when I whacked the throttle. The throttle stop was cranked down quit e bit to keep my son from hurting himself.
There's still some stuff to be done (change exhaust, fabricate clutch cover bracket, figure out why secondary clutch is so dang noisy), but I think I'm gonna' let him put some miles on it before it goes back up on the work table.
Many thanks to all who helped, either directly by responding to my requests for help, or indirectly by having threads I could cull information from.
On a trip to the homestead, I looked in the crawlspace and lo and behold, it was still there.
With some finagling, it made the 1,400 mile trip home with us.
My son and I spent last fall and this past winter cleaning it up to bring it back to life. With a lot of good info from this forum, he got to ride it for the first time yesterday.
Having test ridden it myself first, I found it a LOT more powerful than it was so many years ago. The front wheel came up easily when I whacked the throttle. The throttle stop was cranked down quit e bit to keep my son from hurting himself.
There's still some stuff to be done (change exhaust, fabricate clutch cover bracket, figure out why secondary clutch is so dang noisy), but I think I'm gonna' let him put some miles on it before it goes back up on the work table.
Many thanks to all who helped, either directly by responding to my requests for help, or indirectly by having threads I could cull information from.
