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If anyone knows of an early 60’s uk Honda c100 for sale at sensible money let me know

There are quite a few on FB in Cornwall, but do not know what your budget is?

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These bikes are all expensive to buy, esp as a project.
So very popular, esp the 90 and 100. Fancied one myself but bought the Yamaha YB1 instead.

Basically yours is the modern variant of the old YB 100, and was a 1999/2000 model?

Yes, one of the last ones.50cc 2T but 12V and elect ignition etc, but classic looks.

Thanks. I think I’ve found one, that I’m seeing on Saturday . I’ve hired a van as pretty sure I’ll be coming back with it .

If so I’ll post pics and details on here

12 hour round trip to south wales … and came back with this … a 1963 c100 supercub . All original except it’s had paint during during a sympathetic resto . Push rod motor that is surprisingly spritely

Original welsh bike and only one family owned prior to the guy I bought it off .

Lovely little thing and pulls really . Hasn’t done many miles recently so little niggles need sorting , like it has a tendency to stall if you come to a stop in 2nd for example

What’s prompted this purchase James, didn’t know you were a biker?

Nice little bike!

Looks great James.
Soooo much better than the basket case Honda CB175 I got from Wales...

That will be a nice ride around Yorkshire's lanes.
Room for the wife too.

yoda wrote:What’s prompted this purchase James, didn’t know you were a biker?

Nice little bike!

I’m not . Don’t even have a cbt and won’t ever get a bike licence due to loosing a close family member in a motorcycle accident and not being able to trust myself …. Always been Pedals only for me , but fancied a classic small bike like this to do weekend runs on into the dales . 2 mates in the village have small bikes too … a 50cc Ducati and the other a Honda cub that the previous owners rode to Istanbul and back on !

911hillclimber wrote:Looks great James.
Soooo much better than the basket case Honda CB175 I got from Wales...

That will be a nice ride around Yorkshire's lanes.
Room for the wife too.

She’s wants to ride it.. she’s already been up the village … admittedly she never got out of first

I had a 50cc honda in the 80s that looked like that. Semi automatic gearbox. Not sure I could ride one today. I did my CBT a few years ago but it was pretty clear to me that cars drivers didn't look when pulling out. Same problem on a bicycle but less than a third of the speed

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^^^ always been my issue too^^^
I have a full bike licence from my Lambretta days, back in the late 60's, and nutters were on the roads then, but not in Range rovers and with phones and tunes distracting the driver..

A hard hit to a car back then (driver pulled out) finished me off.

Small engined bikes are slow, modern people only drive to 'Their=way-codes', dangerous.

neilbardsley wrote: ↑Mon Mar 10, 2025 11:55 am I had a 50cc honda in the 80s that looked like that. Semi automatic gearbox. Not sure I could ride one today. I did my CBT a few years ago but it was pretty clear to me that cars drivers didn't look when pulling out. Same problem on a bicycle but less than a third of the speed

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Standard procedure with todays drivers. The phone use and texting makes it even worse. I do about 12,000 miles a year on two wheels , so am on the roads nearly every day. It's VERY rare that a day passes when a car / van does NOT do something stupid / dangerous which causes me to take action to avoid an "accident". You just develop and hone a 6th sense for these issues , and treating them all as idiots is one way of helping me stay alive. I keep thinking I should have a camera mounted and make a TV series on the subject - but the language would be such that it would be banned !!
... and yes , very often the drivers look .............. then they just pull on out. (I have been known to stop them and ask why sometimes ... I am yet to obtain any sort of sensible answer) . Modern drivers can't even position themselves properly (98% of time) when turning across a road. I was always taught to get right to the middle of the road ... then things like bikes can get past on the inside ------ humph .... they must not get told that these days. I'll stop now , but don't let it stop you riding on the roads ... just be very alert and careful and assume that the drivers WILL pull out in front of you.

When I worked I had the pleasure of doing projects with Patent Agents in Birmingham.
They are all unusual people, but with a razor sharp understanding of so many things.
One of them was a keen Vellocette rider of many years. He drove a car too.

His 2 daughters came to start to learn to drive a car.

He insisted they took and passed their motorcycle test first, then do the car test which they passed with ease.

He then 'banned' them from riding bikes due to idiots, but they were far better drivers for understanding the world of bike on roads.

His take on safeguarding his daughters.