obakesan wrote:
> 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 ...

JPY 1.5 million?  That's high even for here.  By about 33%.  They're 
cute and technically interesting, but not worth _THAT_ much.  They're 
_STILL_ only 50cc and not that fast or historic ... not to mention that 
modern production methods ensured that they're not completely rare.

>> (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).

You'd want to keep it on display.  The minute you take it out, the value 
drops -- unless you can take it out, have a world famous rider race it, 
and have it win a World Championship.  Then you'd have to leave all of 
the original dirt on it and let it drip oil on your carpet.

>> 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

I have asked Honda and several major shops for sponsorship ... and free 
bikes.  Big H indicated interest after I contacted the branding guys I 
know at Dentsu to see if they could turn it into enough of a freak show 
to repay their investment ... and Dentsu can turn _anything_ into a 
freak show.  Now, I wait.

-- 
CL