AMERICANS: Would you buy a 125cc motorcycle for the street?

[Piotrsko]

Back in the day there was two ways to get slick tires with minimal tread: buy them or make them. The owner made them. Still not good for low traction surfaces like rain or center of traffic lane, fine for drag strip

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I'm sure that was not intentional anyway...

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The newest of this version of the 5th-generation Honda CG 125 is already 15y.o. but they're still soldiering on...



4th-generation Honda CG 125, still featuring the pushrod engine, and a 9th-generation 160 already fitted with the OHC engine



It's no longer so easy to find a 4th-generation Cargo still stock, as most were converted to 2-seater in order to get a better resale value.



AFAIK the 5th generation of the Honda CG 125, the last to be fitted with the pushrod engine, is the most copied motorcycle ever.

[JSH]

There is an interesting book call "Old Man on a Bike" about a many in his 70s that decided to buy a Honda Cargo 125 "Pizza Bike" in Mexico and ride it to the bottom of South America. The follow up book is "Old Men Can't Wait" about him riding a different small back north. (The original bike was destroyed in a crash that badly injured the author)

The author very correctly decided that a small bike that is sold all over the region he was going to be riding would be: cheaper to buy, cheaper to run, easier to handle at his age, and able to be repaired by any mechanic he could find. A very different perspective than most long distance riders from Europe that bring a big foreign bike and then have to have every little thing like even tires or tubes special ordered and shipped in for their journey.