RATS! Another Great Bike Axed By Corporate Bean Counters...

[twowings]

Philistines! Visigoths!! Vandals!!!



https://www.hemmings.com/blog/2017/04/06/after-50-years-honda-kills-off-the-z50-monkey-bike-with-a-final-anniversary-edition/?refer=news

[smdl]

Philistines! Visigoths!! Vandals!!!

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Umm, I have no doubt that they are all of those things, but what bike are we referring to (link not complete).

Thanks,
Shaun

[twhitaker]

fotoguzzi is going to be devastated.

[Antietam Classic Cycle]

Umm, I have no doubt that they are all of those things, but what bike are we referring to (link not complete).

Thanks,
Shaun

The Honda Z50 Mini Trail or "Monkey bike".

It's not like you won't still be able to buy a new one, it just won't have the Honda name on it.

[fotoguzzi]

fotoguzzi is going to be devastated.

I don't get it, mines a Trail 90



those monkey bikes are too small.

[Muzz]

I don't get it, mines a Trail 90



those monkey bikes are too small.

Keep an eye on the oil pump drive and those things are indestructible.

[Sheepdog]

Superseded by Grom...

[Two Checks]

Yep and the Grom is selling faster than they can be built. I would imagine the monkey line will be converted to Grom production.

[steven c]

 Wow! Those CT's can bring good money all of a sudden.
http://bringatrailer.com/listing/1985-honda-ct-110/

[Huzo]

Pond scum !!!

[fotoguzzi]

Pond scum !!!

Postie doesn't your mail come by one mate?

[DaSwami]

My best friend got a MT-50 when he was 11 years old, and that's how I learned to ride.  Awesome little bike!!

[LBC Tenni]

In 1977 I was six years old. My dad gave me my first bike, a CT70 just like this one:

I crashed it so many times and beat it without mercy, yet it refused to die. What a hearty little bike and what memories. Thus began my motorbike addiction.

[Antietam Classic Cycle]

My brother and I scoured local barns and sheds (as paper boys it was easy to do) and dragged home every derelict Z50 (and occasional QA50) we could get our hands on. Combining all the best parts resulted in one running machine, which we shared.

At one point my father took out a loan and bought us a nearly mint used '73 Z50 - we made the loan payments from our paper route money. Still had to share it though. It wasn't until I bought a CL100 that I had a motorcycle of my own.

[Socalrob]

In 1977 I was six years old. My dad gave me my first bike, a CT70 just like this one:

I crashed it so many times and beat it without mercy, yet it refused to die. What a hearty little bike and what memories. Thus began my motorbike addiction.

My brother and I had a rigid frame mini bike with a Briggs and Straton engine.  It was hugely inferior to the kid around the corner having a CT just like you picture.  If I recall correctly his CT had a lever that chose a high or low range for the transmission, which was still maybe 4 gears?  I wish my big BMW GSA had that feature.

My brother and I leap frogged the CT kid when we bought a used Hodaka Ace 100.  The previous owner raced it, and it was tricked out with high compression head, expansion chamber, fork brace, racing clutch, and that bike was great on the trails, fire roads, and construction sites in the hills.  Of course the Hodaka had the chrome gas tank, which, in all honesty, is a big part of why I have an Anniversario on deposit.