Hi

In article <g4efcl$hso$1@registered.motzarella.org>, CL <flothru@yahoo.com> 
wrote:
>obakesan wrote:
>> Hi
>> 
>> I have stumbled across a CB50 still in a crate from 1997 ... I'm just 
>> wondering if it is perhaps more of a significant bike than I thought it was. 
>> 
>> Any of the bike nuts here know more about this?
>
>DOHC (red tubular frame and silver bread loaf tank) or the regular model 

http://tinyurl.com/3jxlh6

they're askin 9000 euro for it ...

>(pressed steel backbone, usually black or white in Japan but sometimes 
>silver)?  If the former, depends on price as there is a collectors group 
>and they have their own racing class here.  If the latter, I'll ride it 
>for you if you send it to me.

and if the former (and I can scratch up the cash) I'll leave it in the living 
room (even though I'm not allowed to).

>
>I've long wanted to do an Iron Butt ride on one from the northernmost 
>point of Hokkaido to the southernmost point of Kyushu on a CB50.  Got 
>the idea from the IBA 50cc class -- which means "(US or Canadian) Coast 
>to coast in 50 hours" and since that would only take a big bike and 
>cubic money in Japan, I thought I'd come up with something more in line 
>with the Iron Butt Association's goals -- 50cc bike through the central 
>Japanese cordillera from north to south, 50kph average speed .... but it 
>COULD NOT BE DONE in 50 hours.

sounds like a trip ... if it starts to get concrete I'd like to toddle along 
on something like that


>

See Ya
(when bandwidth gets better ;-)

Chris Eastwood
Photographer, Programmer Motorcyclist and dingbat
blog: http://cjeastwd.blogspot.com/

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