Looks an awful lot like a rebranded Honda Dream? Seems like a steal if so.
If memory serves me correctly, I think Puch made them. Vespa, and Perragio, also produced scooters for re-badging. As a kid, I remember seeing motorcycles on display at the old Sears near my parents.
Damn if it was the west end of PA i'd go grab it
And it's gone.
Sears sold a bunch of re-badged small European motorcycles - Puch was one of them, I know that they also sold Benelli and (I think) Moto Morini. Also just learned that they sold Gilera as well.
185cc is an unusual size for a European sourced motorcycle though, most were 125/150/175cc or 250cc, so the 185cc is potentially a typo. At least there are no 185cc bikes listed here: https://www.searsallstateriders.com/collection/sears-allstate-motorcycles.html
Like Harley Aermacchi?
In reply to BoxheadTim :
Wasn't the sears bridgestone a 185? It's the one I think about when I hear sears, and bike. I remember them from the early'70s. Mom was NOT gonna let that happen!
In reply to 914Driver :
I've seen a few of the '60s Aermacchi sprints, and actually rode a friends HD Aermacchi 2 stroke street bike in the mid/late '70s. His was in the 175-185 range.
They also made a 250cc. PITA is the right side shifter (standardized in 1976 or so); panic braking and you end up just down shifting!
I've owned, or ridden, a number of bikes that shift on the right side. Never bothered me to switch back and forth between them and bikes that don't shift on the right side (old sporty joke!)
Just takes a fair bit of attention to detail, that IMHO, anyone that rides a bike where other people are, should have.
I known a couple folks that have wrecked by panicking and hitting the shifter trying to brake... they were not people that should have been riding at all. Hard truth, but there it is.
In reply to 914Driver :
The early Sprints were 250 and 350.
the '70s 2 stroke HDs were mostly smaller. Not sure they made one as big as a 250 in those versions.
In reply to 03Panther :
I was more thinking about 1950s and 1960s European motorcycles, for those 185cc tends to be a bit more unusual. IIRC something to do with tax and license laws. And yes, you're right the Aermacchi strokers were offered with 185cc, presumably to compete with the Japanese bikes of the era.
In reply to BoxheadTim :
914 mentioned Aermacchi , and sent me down that rabbit hole.
In reply to 03Panther :
I hear you. I wouldn't mind a 350 in my motley collection.
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