Moped engines are fairly heavy-duty long life engines in general. There are all types>.....wet clutch single speeds,geared with wet clutch,variator pulley driven, tire scrubber types(Solexes), dry clutch single speeds or variator.....so many types impossible to list here.
So saying they have weed-wacker engines is incorrect except for a very small percentage.
The best engines in my opinion that are single speed(this includes an incorporated tranny).....Minarelli,Franco-Morini,Puch,Sachs,NVT-Morini,Garelli,Honda Express,Suzuki FA50,Yamaha QT50.
The most powerful because of high rpms and no limiters?....Derbi comes to mind with 11 hp or more at over 12K rpms.
For 2-speed mopeds,the Franco-Morini and Tomos and Puch and several others are good.
If you're talking limited HP mopeds, there were a lot of mopeds over 2HP. Derbi variant models were very powerful(seems like mid to late 1980s).
The above are all mopeds or nopeds, not snail looking scooters like the Honda Elites or Sprees. The scooter family,though ugly,LOL, has more power because they are NOT mopeds in most States and don't have to limit gearing and HP. don-ohio (:^)
This message has been edited by don-ohio from IP address 12.109.127.66 on Feb 25, 2004 6:08 PM
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