Comments on: Honda 50 Was a High Mileage Champ 45 Years Ago

By: Honda 50 Run

Honda 50 Run — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 19:35:51 +0000

interesting article and worth a read. checkout how popular these Honda 50 70 and 90 bikes are in Ireland today – raising huge amounts of money for charity and having fun in the process.
Brian
http://www.honda50run.com

By: C70Girl

C70Girl — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:02:57 +0000

I’ve seen people carry pigs, chickens, huge cans, wood, tons of gear, boxes of vegetables, and passengers stacked upon passengers on these things. Durable is an understatement for this little bike!

By: Carlo

Carlo — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:21:54 +0000

I can’t believe this caused all that fuss amon you americans, 50cc 2 stroke carb engines were all over the place during my teen years [90's] here in europe. Now they’re being scrapped for 4 strokers cos of emissions policies. An alternative could come from fuel injected 2 strokers but they ain’t so common.

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 12:22:09 +0000

I bought a brand new Honda 50 around 1970. My brother had a Honda trail 90 and the neighbor kids had different dirt bikes etc. at the same time. I believe I probably racked up at least 7,000 very hard on and off road miles on my 50. I took the plastic leg guards or whatever they are called off the bike and also removed the front fender. I used the bike more as a trail bike than a street bike. Basically I beat the heck out of that thing and it finally ended up in the junk yard more from abuse and lack of maintenance than anything. Those are great memories.

By: Kismet

Kismet — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 04:31:44 +0000

Just picked up two “shed bikes”, a 1980 and a 1981 C70 Passports. Red and Yellow. Red looked like hell, Yellow seemed well-cared for. Wrong.

Red is running now, awaiting tires and a new battery. Yellow will be getting (I hope) stubby tires for farm/field roads.

Should have a nice-looking, good running Red bike, and a stripped, but functional Yellow one. Still waiting to see finished scoots before going through the registration ordeal (one has ‘88 plates, the other out-of-state ‘83 plates.)

I’ve been riding R series BMWs for 35 years. I feel like a kid waiting for the “toys” to get on the road.