Suzuki Stockman

Super cool ride.
And loved the dog photo too.

Always help were you can. So now it's time to import a kreidler?

I have always been a Zundapp kid. My KS 50 was a great bike. However I did fly around between Dordrecht and Zwijndrecht on one of these when I attended the LTS in Zwijndrecht.
(The LTS in Dordrecht asked me to lave after I blew up a rubbish bin with rotjes....)

I do look at "Brommers" on Marktplaats at times. I have destroyed so many of these awesome little bikes when I was young. I would love to have a brommer but there is no place for a brommer in Australian traffic. 

Thank you very much. We have only one kid and I love to help him out. He is a hard worker and never caused us much grief. Must be taking after his mum....

Never realized that Suzuki build something like the Stockman. Technically it should have been easy for them to convert a SJ (or is this already a Samurai?). I get it that you sell if you get an offer for 3x. Great work!

I've never really been into mopeds although you see them a lot in this area during summer. The classic ones that is. Together with my dad, we were given a Mobylette Kaptain moped from an old aunt. That was fun. They bought two of them new in the early sixties and for some reason they stashed one away. Dark and reasonably dry. We took it out of that place in around 2005, and only added fuel and some air to the tires and it was working fine again. So it is really 100% original, including all the rubber parts.

During hot summer days, it would however always misfire and at some point just stop. The ignition coil (a big coil directly on the crankshaft) had very brittle lacquer on the wiring which hated hot temperatures. So it would short out. In the end, to keep it driveable we upgraded it to the 70s Kaptain system which had a car-like ignition coil that did not suffer from the heat. But we build it so that it was reversible without damage in 5 minutes.
After a few years and a little mileage, it came to the point it had driven enough to reach its first-ever service according to the maintenance log. Must have been 1000km service or something. We still had the coupon for the first free service that came with it when purchased new. And all the other documentation. We figured that was the time to sell it to a collector. It now sits in this guy's living room and he takes it to events.

But that is a long story for what I want to warn you about:
Old mopeds with their ignition coils on the crankshaft don't do well in the heat. Many can be upgraded to more automotive-style coils but that still only makes them Dutch/UK summer proof. Not Australia proof. Maybe you can mount it somewhere where it is cooled by the wind.

Still.... if you are into mopeds then get one. Even if you only drive it around the block.

Did you get any "finished" pictures before it went??