| Author | Message | ||
     Birdy |
A couple of weeks ago I stopped in this Honda shop to buy a rain suit and they had this little Honda 50cc Racers on display. I ask about it and was told it was a 2004 model that Honda had built a limited number of. True to the earlier race bikes of this type but with upgraded brakes and what not. It sold new for $5000.00 but are starting to showing up on E-bay around $7000.00 now! No it wasn't for sale...nor were a couple of the last Honda two 2 stroke Mx bikes, still in the crates, either! Yea I know the photos bite but all I had was my camera phone. I'd love to have one of these little guys. If you never seen them raced it's amazing to see a 50cc bike running over 100 MPH! And the sound of a bunch of 50cc bike at full fury is a hoot!   | ||
| Bcordb3 |
About a year ago or so Northwest Valley Honda a Cave Creek Rd. in Phoenix had one of those jewels on the floor for sale. Give them a call they still may have it. | ||
| Miamiuly |
Those were cool, they also had the ones with fairings, but I liked that retro one. Didn't realize (or forgot) that they went for that much. | ||
| Dentfixer |
I think Honda also had a 50cc six cylinder way back in the 60's as well. Can anybody confirm? | ||
| Dentfixer |
Maybe it was this 250 I was thinking about. http://www.jockeyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php? t=27638 | ||
| Imonabuss |
As far as I can remember, the most cylinders in a 50 was a Suzuki two stroke with three and a 21 speed gearbox. Honda had a 125 five cylinder and a 50 twin. | ||
| Igneroid |
I hadda little airplane with an .049 when I was a kid, it was a single though.... | ||
| Nik |
I hadda little airplane with an .049 when I was a kid, it was a single though.... That's ci though. I have a .010ci single. >27000 rpm... | ||
| Igneroid |
That's ci though. I have a .010ci single. >27000 rpm... Ooops, my bad. My highschool buddie and I took that little .049 off the busted airplane and clamped it to the kitchen table. Then we screwed a pot lid on where the propeller should go. We fired that little motor up by spinning said pot lid. It tooka while but that pot lid got to spinning at a fairly high RPM(approaching scary). Unfortunatly, for us, the lack of air movement caused the little engine to overheat bigtime and it siezed up instantly at some gawdawful rpm, causing the flywheel effect of the potlid to snap the end of the crankshaft off. The potlid hit the linoleum and did a burnout clear accross the kitchen floor and busted the dry wall.... | ||
| Reepicheep |
You could get those little motor running huh? You had better luck then I did... | ||
| Bcordb3 |
Those glow plugs really had to be glowing to get them to run. Used many of the dry batteries in my misspent youth trying to start my Cox .049. It would actually start better in reverse! So much in being left handed in a right handed world! | ||
| Spatten1 |
The same year they made a 50 with a two-stroke that would have been perfect for the YSR circuit. Too much dough, but looked super cool. |
