Puch Free Spirit

Have started re-building an old Puch Free Spirit that I bought for a £10.

I am a super cheap student so this is going to be a super cheap build, but have always wanted to do it/learn so I thought why not...

Started a thread here so people can help me out as I have a lot of little questions.

What the bike started out as (apologies for hipstergram pictures, proper ones to come)

Striped all the parts off

Sand blasted the frame

Primed it

And my dad's company re-store old cars, managed to get the paint guy to agree to paint the frame whenever he was painting a car. Only condition was that I couldn't pick the colour, think the blue looks pretty damn good though.

And thats where its currently at, will get some proper pictures up soon.

Hi there,
I am looking for a Puch frame. Where did you find yours?

it sounds like you are doing exactly what I did a year ago. I am also a student who one year ago wanted to start learning about bikes and tinker with my own build. Its good fun but if you haven't done it before there are lots of horrid little pit falls with compatibility of components.

Its good you got that for £10. Now the frame looks much better.

What sort of bike do you want to make? Single speed, fixed or build it back up as a geared bike

Currently looks like this

Had loads of issues with finding a new bottom bracket and headset (compatability like you say) and ended up just regreasing the old ones and putting it back on, seems to work ok.

Building it up as a geared bike, have a single speed atm and wanted to have another one to deal (when I am feeling lazy) a bit easier with the 1 hill I have near me ha.

Not sure about the grips and brake, just old stuff I had lying around so may change them but other than that new chain and tyres and it should be nearly ready to go.

@anna I got mine of ebay from some guy near winchester who had a massive warehouse of old bikes, best shot is ebay or a local dump or something I guess.