Any vintage Honda minibike enthusiasts out there?

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Just wondering if there are any vintage Honda minibike enthusiasts out there? Honda ct70, z50, monkey bike clones too.
 
Yup back in Indiana I grew up on the honda 50 . I rode the hell out of that bike. Got chased by a lot of cows in the pasture.
 
I only discovered them about 10 years ago after seeing some custom built ones with parts imported from Japan. Some people would spend a couple of grand just on custom parts. Many were made street legal. Then came the Chinese copies which made it harder to register mini bikes all together.
I had a few and have thinned the garage a bit. I had a blast riding then and so did my kids.
 
They are a great bike to start learning on at a young age. They can take some abuse. Drop it , flip it, run it into a tree. They just keep going.
 
Had a lot of Hondas, but never the minibike.

Started with a new SL125 in 73, well new anyway.

Actual first bike was a CA95 baby dream. :D

My minibike was an actual Briggs and Stratton 3.5hp.
 
First bone I ever broke in my body was when I dumped a CT70 on the dirt. I had my left foot under the shift peg (I was young and hadn't yet learned not to keep yiur foot under the peg...) when I wiped out and I crushed my big toe. Doh! I had only ever ridden the street before that, and I learned the hard way that dirt is a whole different ballgame that the road!

Anyway, no Hondas here. I do still have the very bike I learned to ride on at age 9, a Yamaha YSR50. She needs a serious rebuild, but all the parts are there. Just needs my time and some effort to get her going again!
 
Trying to think back on all the different bikes and mini bikes my childhood cronies used to ride, I remember a couple of them had Mavericks which actually had a clutch and a four or five speed trans. Tote Goat and a Mini Goat, they would climb a tree plus were capable of 40 to 45 mph. Honda 70s and Trail 90s. The rich kid had a Bridgestone 100.
 
The only time I really got hurt on a bike was a Honda 50....beer probably had something to do with it also.
 
Had an XR50 traded it on the old AZS for an AR, wish i had kept it. Had a 73 Honda XL250 that i restored to pristine condition. Sold it when we moved and regret that to this day. Currently working on fixing up a Yamaha TW200 and a 94 Husky 610.
 
mini bikes were strictly prohibited in NYC. Now this was during the 60's 70's and early 80's when NY had one of the highest murder rates in the world with 2500 per year .. Yup .. but those mini bikes were a problem.

Still .. every now and again someone's uncle would break one out of secret storage and you would see a kid ripping up the street. They would get 4-5 rides in before the police showed up.

Man .. so Jealous!!!! :)

Think I am to damn big for one now but there was a fat tire floating around a bit ago that peaked my interest. Think at this point I will stick with Big boy bikes though so I don't kill myself unintentionally!
 
I've got a 77 z50 picked up 6 months back, installed new tires, tube etc to make it look good and ride good.
Also have 2 atc70 three wheelers, a 110 atc and just bought a 250 big red project. jim
 
The guys on Throttle Out just rode Honda Monkeys the length of the Baja. A hilarious and epic event.

I learned on a Honda Mimi Trail 50 back in the early 70's. It was a real Timex....took a licking and kept on ticking. My brother beat on it and later on 2 cousins used it and it was still running in the mid 1990's....lost track now. Cool stuff.
 
No kidding, I know for a fact as a kid I never changed the oil on the mini trail, had two brothers that rode it after me, finally gave it away to some family friends and their two boys, they rode it for god who knows how long.
 
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