Pure Therapy

[Eck]

This is my therapy....Some weeks I get a little more or less but it is the best therapy I can find.

[cowpuc]

This is my therapy....Some weeks I get a little more or less but it is the best therapy I can find.

 

Ohhhh heckyea Eckyea,,, and it comes in all shapes and sizes my brother!!!! Makes no difference what we ride,,, its the therapy that counts!!

 

HERE'S WISHING ALL MY LOP EARED VARMINT VR FAMILY MEMBERS THE BESTEST THERAPEUTIC SUMMER EVER - GET OUT AND GET SOME YA'LL!!

[venturesome]

What y'all got in that bag? You look just a little too happy!!

[cowpuc]

What y'all got in that bag? You look just a little too happy!!

 

On our way to Hot Dog cook out with the neighbors... Thar beee Dogs in that thar bag ya varmint:big-grin-emoticon:

[Larry1963]

I believe that is a Honda Trail 50 or 70. it was the first bike I ever road,

[cowpuc]

I believe that is a Honda Trail 50 or 70. it was the first bike I ever road,

You know your scoots Larry!! She was a Honda CT70 - also known as the famous "Honda Trail 70"... Sold that one to guy from Maine, drove all the way to Michigan to pick it up.. Did a bunch of em back in the restore days.. Also did a good business with the original hard tail Honda Z50 ("Honda Mini Trail") = LOTS OF FUN!! Still have one of the Trail 70's in my basement. It is the rarer bird, an original CT70-H model that has the 4 speed with manual clutch..

[Freebird]

I've owned a couple of those too Puc but did you ever own one of THESE? i picked it up a few years ago for about $70.00. They said it didn't run. Had it running like new about 30 minutes after I got it home. Folks rode it around here for a month or so and then sold it for a nice profit.

 

[cowpuc]

I've owned a couple of those too Puc but did you ever own one of THESE? i picked it up a few years ago for about $70.00. They said it didn't run. Had it running like new about 30 minutes after I got it home. Folks rode it around here for a month or so and then sold it for a nice profit.

 

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Yessiree Bossman,, had a couple of em.. If memory serves me correctly, kind of a different step for Honda cause they were 2 strokers - GOOD BIKES THOUGH!! The only thing I didnt care for about em was that none of them came with lites and you therefore couldnt just hang a plate on em and buzz around on the roads.. FUN trail bikes though..

I bought both of mine with probably the same issue you got yours with - dirty carbs from sitting? The kids had a BALL on em, they pulled pretty dog gone good for a 90 and the wider tires made em pretty stable in the sandy soil on the two tracks behind our old house.. They were electric start (with kicker backup) and it would have been fairly easy stick aftermarket lights on em and make em "street legal" (Michigan titling laws were really lax back then) but they didnt hang around long, like you - I found them to be GREAT SELLERS:thumbsup:!! By the way,, $70 ,, NOT BAD AT ALL YA LOP EARED BANDIT VARMINT!!! I got a lot of my vintage stuff at auction and both of my Cubs came thru dealer auction sales.. Thinking mine were closer to adding another zero onto what you got yours for:missingtooth: but still turned a handsome

 

Also did a few Honda "Gyro's" a number of years ago.. You ever had one of those Boss? They were REALLY strange.. Had dual rear wheels and had an articulating frame.. Had a little lever on them that you could "unlock" the frame so it would pivot in the middle.. I did buy one of the Gyro's once for about the price you got your Cub for because the owner had picked it up from a guy who bought out one of those storage bins and the frame was unlocked - it wouldnt stand up and he thought it was busted .. Honda sure came up with some cool stuff!!

[Freebird]

Heck...I don't remember ever even seeing a Gyro. Will have to look them up. The carb wasn't even dirty on the Cub I bought. There was a safety interlock that, if I remember correctly, worked off the brake lever. You had to have the brake pulled in before it would start. That interlock was just very slightly out of adjustment. I just tightened it up a bit and she fired right up.

[Freebird]

OK...found the Gyro info and yes, I have seen one but never ridden one. There is even on for sale on Ebay right now. Pretty cool little bike...or trike...or????

[cowpuc]

Those Gyro's were one strange little creature,, Honda quality but definitely strange in design.. Oddly enough, they were pretty fun little riders - just make sure you relocked the frame lever when you got off or over she'd flop

 

Another model that I did several of thru the years was the Honda MB5.. Little 50cc scoot that was pretty popular on the Gran Prix tracks cause with a little massaging they would really scoot.. I had one that I redid the motor on that, after freshening up I could break 70 mph on with me on it and it was stock!!

One I never did get my fingers on and always wanted to play with was the Yamaha 50cc Crotch Rocket,, thinking it was called a YSR50 or something like that.. VERY well built mini crotch rocket that China (like a lot of the cool Jap scoots) copy catted.. The Yamaha was a high end piece of work and just gorgeous!!

 

,,,, another one of Ecks threads,,, thankfully I can blame the Bossman for this one

[stickhandle2]

Ohhhh heckyea Eckyea,,, and it comes in all shapes and sizes my brother!!!! Makes no difference what we ride,,, its the therapy that counts!!

 

HERE'S WISHING ALL MY LOP EARED VARMINT VR FAMILY MEMBERS THE BESTEST THERAPEUTIC SUMMER EVER - GET OUT AND GET SOME YA'LL!!

 

 

Puc, that picture of the Honda brings back lots of memories from when I was a younger lop ear varmint as you would say. Great picture

 

Mike

[Larry1963]

I think we had a thread hack. I loved that Trail 70 somewhere I have a picture with my and my brothers riding that bike. I see them for sale down here. I keep thinking about buying one then I think where would I store it, and what would it look like with my fat butt on it. The other bike I would like to have for throw back reasons, is a BMW 75/5R. Probably my love for baggers. My dad had one that had bags and a wind jammer faring, we would ride that bike all over. If my dad and I where going somewhere I would ask if we could take the bike, I loved ridding on the back of it. He also had a 69 Honda 350, I think.