Scooter "Tulitsa" - the ancestor of the scooter

2024 Author: Erin Ralphs | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-19 11:42

Today's youth may not be familiar with the word "scooter". After all, they are more accustomed to scooters that have flooded the small-sized market.

TMZ line

Meanwhile, in the USSR, scooters were incredibly popular with the population, almost the same as mopeds. Soviet industry had something to be proud of. Many large machine-building plants produced motor scooters. In Tula alone, they produced up to a hundred thousand a year. "Tourist", "Tulitsa", "Ant" - these are only serial models, and there were more than a hundred experimental ones, starting with an amphibious scooter and ending with a scooter called "Dragon". By the way, the latter was not much different from modern counterparts, with the exception of a two-stroke engine.

Tourist

The scooter under such a proud name has been produced at the Tula plant since the second half of the sixties of the last century. As conceived by the creators, it was made for free movement across the vast expanses of the Union. The authors, based on the previous T-200 and T-200M models, created a series that is different from its predecessors in design. Technically"Tourist" is a scooter that has become a significant breakthrough in mechanical engineering. It was noticeably different from previous analogues.

The Design Bureau, which was entrusted with the development of the Tourist, did a great job of improving many of the technical shortcomings of small vehicles produced at the Tula plant.

The new model had a load-bearing hood, which made it possible to abandon the overall tubular subframe at the rear of the scooter. And its new lever push type fork provided good handling. According to reviews, this scooter, along with innovations, had several drawbacks. But in general, "Tourist" is quite comfortable and reliable. Moreover, at the All-Union motorcycle competition held in 1967 in the nomination "brand championship" it was with him that the Tula Machine-Building Plant was awarded the main prize and the overall first place. Two years later - in 1969 - this success was repeated. Among the production models, the Tula "hard worker" took second place.

Motor scooter "Tulitsa"

In 1978 "Tourist-M" - the last issue - was modified. It was replaced by the Tulitsa scooter. The new model was a deep modernization of the Tourist-M, since it was quite difficult to distinguish them externally with a cursory glance.

Changes in design have been kept to a minimum. The shape of the front wing and the tunnel between the driver's legs has slightly improved. The trunk mount has also been modified. The Tulitsa motor scooter was produced until 1986. It was then that TMZ began to produce completelynew model. The Tulitsa was replaced by a scooter of a different class. In fact, this was today's scooter.

Specifications

The follower of "Tourist-M" had a more powerful engine. Tulitsa has become more powerful by two horsepower. And again, as in the case of the previous model, this parameter was achieved by increasing the compression ratio from 7.8 to 9.3.

The three-channel, more perfect scavenging in the cylinder also contributed to the increase in engine power. But the increase in this technical characteristic led to increased thermal loads. In order to maintain the normal mode of operation, the Tulitsa scooter received a new cylinder head with developed side ribs and a central location of the candle.

Interestingly, increasing both the compression ratio and, accordingly, the power did not affect fuel efficiency and did not require a switch to a higher octane brand of gasoline. The motor scooter "Tulitsa" still worked on the AI-76. His connecting rod bearing instead of a roller bearing became a needle bearing. Thus, the durability of the crankshaft was doubled constructively. As a result, the engine of the Tulitsa scooter, referred to in the data sheet as T-200A, received power from fourteen to sixteen horsepower.

The clutch has also changed for the better. Thanks to an additional pair of discs - master and slave, as well as a built-in damper, it has become more reliable. The designers were also able to make the frame of the Tulitsa scooter somewhat stiffer than its predecessor.

The side stand, based on user dissatisfaction, has been moved from the right side to the left. The muffler on the Tulitsa scooter began to be attached to the body at two points using rubber gaskets. Thus, noise was significantly reduced and its durability increased.