AUNT WINNIE’S ALLSTATE
When Jennifer Tremaine learned she’d inherited property from her late Aunt Winnie, she wasn’t quite sure what to do.
It wasn’t thousands of dollars, nor was it real estate. The object left behind in the will was a 1954 Sears Allstate Puch 125, which, as it turns out, is a rather rare and unique machine.
It wasn’t that Jennifer was a stranger to motorcycles. That’s not why she didn’t know what to do with the bike; there were other reasons, and we’ll get to them soon.
Just a farm kid
Jennifer is a self-described farm kid from Wisconsin. By the time she was four years old, she’d learned to walk, play hockey, and ride a Honda 50. “I was the youngest of six kids and spent so much time tagging along with my brothers,” she explains, and adds, “we all had bikes.”
At the tender age of seven, she got pulled over by the police for riding her Honda through a subdivision. The officer didn’t give her too much trouble, just asked her not to do it again. By nine, she was racing Class C flat track aboard a Yamaha YZ125. At 12, her first legitimate on/off road machine was a Honda XL100. The bike served her well. She took her learner’s permit on it, rode it daily the six miles from home to the Oconomowoc High School and back, and
