Add this one to the list....

[JJ]

...of the many two-wheel vehicles I want...(but probably will never have...)

So many cool motorcycles, old and new, and so little money / time / garage space....(*SIGH*)

[Siamese]

My dad brought a new Trail 90 home in the mid-sixties, and I pretty much lived on that thing.  Now, I want the new 125 so badly, but what would I really do with it.  You can't go back.

[JJ]

My dad brought a new Trail 90 home in the mid-sixties, and I pretty much lived on that thing.  Now, I want the new 125 so badly, but what would I really do with it.  You can't go back.

You would ride it to the grocery store...ride it to the local pub...ride it to your neighbor's house...ride in around your neighborhood...ride it on your favorite back roads trail!!

[john fish]

It's quite hilly where I live.  The grocery store is 10 miles away on a 55 and 45 mph two lane.  I've become a fat bastard.  Otherwise, I'd have one of these things.

Quite an active thread on ADVRider:

https://advrider.com/f/threads/honda-ct125-trail-125-hunter-cub.1408707/

[DougG]

Hi JJ,                                                                                                                 9-20-20

I rebuilt an early 70's Honda CB 100 (that I found in pieces at the dump),  and gave it to my wife as her first bike (about 10 years ago).  She really liked it BUT, it did not have electric start.  It was difficult for her to use it on her own.  I gave it to my nephew.  I looked at a new Super Sub (125 cc) for her and it looked great BUT, it did not have a side stand and it weighed too much for her to hoist it on its center stand.  We ended up with a Rad City ebike.  She absolutely loves it!  I wish I had known, it would have saved a lot of time and effort.

Be well,
DougG

[fotoguzzi]

They are here in the US.. if not yet in your Honda dealer they will be.. I want one and said I get it as soon as they were in showrooms but I'm not happy with the red color. On the Honda website they show it in tan, I think I'll wait for that. Hopefully next spring it will be here. FI and ABS, perfect.
Will be a good mate for my CT 90 that I've had for 48 years.

[JJ]

Hi JJ,                                                                                                                 9-20-20

I rebuilt an early 70's Honda CB 100 (that I found in pieces at the dump),  and gave it to my wife as her first bike (about 10 years ago).  She really liked it BUT, it did not have electric start.  It was difficult for her to use it on her own.  I gave it to my nephew.  I looked at a new Super Sub (125 cc) for her and it looked great BUT, it did not have a side stand and it weighed too much for her to hoist it on its center stand.  We ended up with a Rad City ebike.  She absolutely loves it!  I wish I had known, it would have saved a lot of time and effort.

Be well,
DougG

Up here in Vortex-Land (Sedona, AZ), it is Mountain-Bike-Mania, for obvious reasons.   

Lately, I have been seeing more and more of these "Electric-Bikes" all over the place. 

They are very popular for the tourists to RENT also.




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[DougG]

Hi JJ,                                                                                         9-20-20

Yup, makes total sense.  I live in a mountainous area, lots of ups and downs.  This bike allows you to pedal when you want or twist your wrist and you're gone!  It will easily do 30 mph+ uphill.
I've been keeping my eye on electric "motor"cycles.  If they continue to improve, I just might go over to the silent side as a good stablemate to my Guzzis.

Be well,
DougG

[Huzo]

If Mandello does not go ahead in 2021, I will be doing a ride from Cape Otway to Cape York ..(and back)..8,000 km.
Either on this



Or this..

[JJ]

If Mandello does not go ahead in 2021, I will be doing a ride from Cape Otway to Cape York ..(and back)..8,000 km.
Either on this



Or this..

My vote is to go on........."The Little Honda That Could..." 

(So I can be inspired and buy one in 2021!!

[Tom]

I got an 80cc engine to turn one of the bicycles into an illegal moped.    (mopeds are suppose to be 50cc)

[JJ]

I got an 80cc engine to turn one of the bicycles into an illegal moped.    (mopeds are suppose to be 50cc)

My neighbor has one of these..."the MotoPed Cruzer!!"    

Stock motor is 50cc, but he installed a 90cc "Big-Bore" kit in it! 

He still rides it around the hood in the bicycle lane, like the big MOPED that it is!!   Who would know the difference?!?

[twowheeladdict]

...of the many two-wheel vehicles I want...(but probably will never have...)

So many cool motorcycles, old and new, and so little money / time / garage space....(*SIGH*)

I am hoping to buy one of them.  Might be the perfect bike to get my wife interested in riding and to bring along camping as a second bike for running around the campground and such. 

I need to find a dealer who is willing to sell one for MSRP which is hard with Hondas.  Most of the "honda" dealers around here want to tack on $1500 in profit above MSRP. 

[MGrego]

I am hoping to buy one of them.  Might be the perfect bike to get my wife interested in riding .......

Yes, I'm thinking the same thing, might get my soon to be wife interested in riding.  She doesn't like to be a passenger...

[malik]

Hugo,

I met a sandgroper who had done the Figure 8 on a CT110 - great trip, once he got into the groove he would start at 10am & finish at 3pm, the only mechanical issue was the loss of high beam. I got the impression that once home, he parked it up, and rode his other bikes, he'd got that out of his system. Id hazard an opinion and say these small bikes require a different riding culture - there's no prospect of being in a hurry, you'd smell every rose. The buffeting of passing trucks & road trains might be a little scary. A niece of mine rode a CB125 Sydney - Brisbane & back, then promptly went out & bought a bigger bike, so she wouldn't be overtaken by every truck on the road. Just saying.

[twowheeladdict]

Hugo,

I met a sandgroper who had done the Figure 8 on a CT110 - great trip, once he got into the groove he would start at 10am & finish at 3pm, the only mechanical issue was the loss of high beam. I got the impression that once home, he parked it up, and rode his other bikes, he'd got that out of his system. Id hazard an opinion and say these small bikes require a different riding culture - there's no prospect of being in a hurry, you'd smell every rose. The buffeting of passing trucks & road trains might be a little scary. A niece of mine rode a CB125 Sydney - Brisbane & back, then promptly went out & bought a bigger bike, so she wouldn't be overtaken by every truck on the road. Just saying.

Where I ride, I see nary another vehicle.   There are many such roads around here and one can plot out a route to avoid most forms of traffic.

[Huzo]

Hugo,

I met a sandgroper who had done the Figure 8 on a CT110 - great trip, once he got into the groove he would start at 10am & finish at 3pm, the only mechanical issue was the loss of high beam. I got the impression that once home, he parked it up, and rode his other bikes, he'd got that out of his system. Id hazard an opinion and say these small bikes require a different riding culture - there's no prospect of being in a hurry, you'd smell every rose. The buffeting of passing trucks & road trains might be a little scary. A niece of mine rode a CB125 Sydney - Brisbane & back, then promptly went out & bought a bigger bike, so she wouldn't be overtaken by every truck on the road. Just saying.

You are so on the money Malik, it’s scary.
I have done a 600 km practice run and what you say is borne out in reality. Whilst I do not underrate the enjoyment of touring on big bikes and all that comes with it, there is a different discipline that I imagine will need to be embraced for this one..
My plan is to pop the bike into the Hilux and take the whole lot to Cape Otway and Ann can push me out the door and bugger off. From there it’ll be by the shortest GPS route to Cairns, then on and up..
I figure that 7 hours a day will give me 500 k. On my test run, I held 75 k’s and after a while it didn’t seem unusual.
When I was a Postie (37 years), we regularly did 6 hour days on the bike and that was after 3 hours inside setting up.
Funny thing is..
If you have your dim sims and stubbie in the front bag, you don’t need to stop for lunch and such, thereby averaging better k’s in the day than you’d have thought and the car that passed you going 25 k’s quicker, is stopped up the road having lunch or changing the kid’s nappy (diaper).
 I filled the 4 litre tank and had a 4 litre container as well and that little bag on the front is a new Aussie Post standard issue jobbie and I have new panniers as well.
Here’s the thing though..
Once on a Nullarbor trip in the truck, I happened upon a guy at Nullarbor Roadhouse riding a pushbike from Perth to Melbourne. I marvelled at the level of tanacity he must have possessed, given that he did not look like I thought such an adventurer would and asked him how he confronted the spectre of each coming day. He just said he rode until he wanted to stop and that’s where home was for that day.
There’s a lot more, but I’ll stop here because it’s not my thread..
BTW..
I’m going alone at this stage...Wanna’ come ?

[Bobic69]

That's totally doable on a Postie. I know guys that ride their 60 y.o. Vespas all over Oz so easy on a Postie. These guys port and work their little 2 strokes hard and often blow motors. They carry spare pistons and some sandpaper to smooth out the cylinders after a seize and rebuild the motor on the side of the road...and Mal you may need to explain what a Sandgroper is.

[malik]

A sandgroper, then, is a denizen of the state of Western Australia, the western third of the island, a bit less than 1,000,000 sq miles, mostly of sand or its near equivalent. Hence the term. Well, there are a few rocks, too. To prove me wrong, someone's going to post up a photo or three of the kauri forests - there's an exception to every rule.

[reidy]

If you want a good read on what a postie bike is capable of you should read a book called Going Postal by Nathan Millward. He decided to ride a postie bike from Australia to England. Apparently the book is called something different in the states as the name going postal has a different meaning over their.

The second bike he purchased in Brisbane was surprisingly reliable especially as he had a tight timeline from Brisbane to Darwin, a mere 3000 km's.

Steve 

[twowheeladdict]

If you want a good read on what a postie bike is capable of you should read a book called Going Postal by Nathan Millward. He decided to ride a postie bike from Australia to England. Apparently the book is called something different in the states as the name going postal has a different meaning over their.

The second bike he purchased in Brisbane was surprisingly reliable especially as he had a tight timeline from Brisbane to Darwin, a mere 3000 km's.

Steve

He then moved on to a Royal Enfield Himalayan, and currently owns a V85TT. 

[JJ]

I want one as well...but I am NOT going to pay $1500+ extra over MSRP!!

GREED is clearly one of the WORST Seven Deadly Sins....