First mini bikes
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From: C-Town
Great thread!
Some early ones in our garage...
Sears 3˝ horse minibike.
Honda 50. NOT the QA.
Honda 70.
Kaw 75.
Hodaka Combat Wombat
5 HP mini from Sears.
Gemini 80.
Chapperal 100.
Gemini 65. (Or was in a Gemi... It was stock green.)
Sigh... I know there were a few others we had.
WE, Not myself!
Some early ones in our garage...
Sears 3˝ horse minibike.
Honda 50. NOT the QA.
Honda 70.
Kaw 75.
Hodaka Combat Wombat
5 HP mini from Sears.
Gemini 80.
Chapperal 100.
Gemini 65. (Or was in a Gemi... It was stock green.)
Sigh... I know there were a few others we had.
WE, Not myself!
Road Master
Joined: Sep 2007
Posts: 934
Likes: 3
From: Northern California
I bought my first mini bike back in 1961 when I was ten. I mowed every lawn in the neighborhood for an entire summer to get the money for it. My seven year old son just got his first minibike a from an honorary uncle. Life was a lot harder when I was a kid. Mine looked like the one in the picture on top, and my son's is the bottom picture.
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Joined: Apr 2008
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From: Oak Park, IL
Great thread!
Some early ones in our garage...
Sears 3˝ horse minibike.
Honda 50. NOT the QA.
Honda 70.
Kaw 75.
Hodaka Combat Wombat
5 HP mini from Sears.
Gemini 80.
Chapperal 100.
Gemini 65. (Or was in a Gemi... It was stock green.)
Sigh... I know there were a few others we had.
WE, Not myself!
Some early ones in our garage...
Sears 3˝ horse minibike.
Honda 50. NOT the QA.
Honda 70.
Kaw 75.
Hodaka Combat Wombat
5 HP mini from Sears.
Gemini 80.
Chapperal 100.
Gemini 65. (Or was in a Gemi... It was stock green.)
Sigh... I know there were a few others we had.
WE, Not myself!
The Combat Wombat was anything but a mini bike. I campained one during the summer of 68 or 69, best bike I ever had, even out performed the Yamaha factory 125 I raced the following year. It is one of the bikes I wish I still owned!
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From: north of Daytona
Like some others...I started out on a 'Western Auto" style 3.5 HP Techumsah, solid frame, sponge seat with the rear brake that scrubbed of the rear tread. Centrifucal clutch....
all my friends on CT-70s would zip by me up a hill.
Man...I hated that mini-bike (But it got me to where I am today!)
Chuck
all my friends on CT-70s would zip by me up a hill.
Man...I hated that mini-bike (But it got me to where I am today!)
Chuck
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From: Greensboro, NC
5HP B&S engine Trail Horse....1968
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From: Mn.on a lake,well nxt to a lake.
Hodakas were notorious for not running,if they wernt broke in right then you had a cool looking chunk of steel....Jugs would get high spots and then the troubles would start....