Moped Karpaty-2 1991 with a mileage of 6 km (10 photos)

What modern teenagers dream about is a new iPhone 6, MacBook Air, GoPro and other electronic gadgets that have literally filled almost all areas of our lives. But schoolchildren of the 70-80s and, partly, the early 90s had completely different fantasies.

Here it is - the dream of schoolchildren of the 80s!

The entire Karpaty-2 family assembled: Sport, Luxury and standard

Personally, at the age of 12-13, I really wanted a moped - so much that I even often dreamed of how I was rushing along a country road on the Carpathians with the guard raised and the muffler pulled up.

This is what Karpaty-1 looked like: a scan from the magazine Behind the Wheel.

The most amazing thing is that the dreams came true: very soon I had the coveted red “Karpaty-2 Sport” - in perfect condition and with minimal mileage.

In its best years, the Lvov Motor Plant produced 300 thousand mokiks, but in the mid-80s, demand began to fall, and production dropped to about 100 thousand units per year. The production of 2-wheeled vehicles at LMZ was finally curtailed in 1997: the enterprise’s equipment was dismantled and removed, and the former factory buildings are now rented by third-party companies that are far from motorcycle production. However, “Time Capsules” still periodically appear on sale - completely new mopeds and mokicks with no mileage, which, for various reasons, sat in sheds, garages and even balconies. One of these finds will be discussed in today’s post.

Mokicks were equipment with a kick starter, and mopeds were started using pedals. 2-color painting was common in the early 90s: they put what they had!

A simple speedometer and 6.8 km on the odometer.

So, in front of you is a standard Karpaty-2 mokick from 1991 with a mileage of 6 kilometers, which all this time has been mothballed in one of the garages in Izhevsk. For this mokik they asked for 10 thousand Russian rubles - with documents and a full set of factory tools. But in the late 80s, “Karpaty-2” cost 250-260 Soviet rubles, depending on the modification.

Headlights with a plastic housing began to be installed in 1989

Getting burned on a hot exhaust pipe is a standard childhood story.

This model is equipped with a 2 hp V-501M engine. produced by the Siauliai bicycle and motor plant "Vairas". The 2-speed gearbox had foot shift. From my experience, I will add that such a scheme was simpler, more reliable and more convenient than manual switching, although the foot itself was made of disgusting quality metal and constantly broke: in my memory, it was welded exactly 3 times.

The antennae still remain on the factory tires.

"Karpaty-2" replaced "Karpaty-1" in 1986 and were produced practically unchanged until the death of the plant. The design of the mokick is extremely simple: a stamped steel frame, a 2-stroke internal combustion engine, a primitive suspension with puny shock absorbers.

Operating instructions, keys, repair kit for sealing cameras and even a pressure gauge!

The maximum speed of such equipment was 55 km/h: this was with a tailwind and without a passenger, and these mokiks were very slow-moving. Some craftsmen dabbled in “tuning” in the form of modifying the pistons for three rings. There was also a more radical approach - installing a 125 cc engine from a Minsk motorcycle, but such amateur activities were not particularly encouraged by traffic cops.