1998 Manet Korado
No Reserve

Registration No: S409 UND
Frame No: 028140
MOT: None

• Offered from a large private motorcycle collection
• Dates from the first full year of Korado production
• One of very few Korados sold new in Britain

One marque which certainly is not a household name is the Slovakian firm of P S Motor Manet, which produced the 50cc Korado moped. It owed its existence to the popular Puch Maxi moped of the 1970s, which was produced by Piaggio until 1997. The same year, Piaggio agreed to license the engine to Manet, and production moved to its Považská Bystrica factory. Despite some problems with the early examples, the new Maxi-engined Manet Korado quickly improved and was soon being widely exported, including to Britain, where it was available through the sole British Jawa importer in King’s Lynn, and in the Netherlands, where it was marketed as the Puch Z-One. The Považská Bystrica factory had ceased producing mopeds altogether by 1998, and Manet was reorganised as VVEK, selling agricultural machinery. Priced at £700, at least 100 Korados were sold on the British market.

This very early Korado dates from 1998 and represents an extremely rare sight in modern Britain, not that they were ever common. It was purchased by the late owner, as with many other machines, for his extensive collection of historic and unusual motorcycles. Having been out of use for some time, it will require light recommissioning. It is sold with the current V5C.

For more information, please contact:
Mike Davis
mike.davis@handh.co.uk
07718 584217