New bike, this thing screams!!!

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Title: New bike, this thing screams!!!

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dorkpunch	\| Move to Bottom Author
Rank:none Score: 0 Posts: 625 Registered: 03/28/2004 Time spent: 0 hours	(Date Posted:04/10/2008 5:47 PM) Picture this: Ultra light wieght, 5 speed 2 stroke street bike. Built with the racer in mind! Kick start only. Starts right up on the first kick! Let it warm up for a bit and your ready. Back it out, drop it into first gear and start moving. Your on the road now, time to open it up! Whack the throttle all the way open and feel that instantaneos accleration! We've hit redline at 10,500 rpms but wait, whats this? we're only going 10 mph? Huh, better shift. Second gear. Whack the throttle all the way open again, takes a bit longer to go from 7k to 10.5k but its moving, now were up to 17 mph! Makin progress! Hittin redline all the way through the gears we've finally made it into 5th. WHOLLLY SMOKES we're bookin now! 45mph! my eyes are blurring from so much speed! This thing is A BLAST to ride! kinda gutless but does a lot better than you would think. If you havent figured it out yet: 1982 Honda MB5, 49cc, 2 stroke, oil injected, 5 speed. -------------------------------------------------------------- 78 CT70 74 TL125 76 XL175 72 XL250 75 XL250 74 XL350 75 XL350 78 XL350 80 XL500 and a buncha other junk.....

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KirkN	\| Move to Top \| Move to Bottom 1#
Rank:none Score:0 Posts:99 Registered: 03/08/2007 Time spent: 0 hours	RE:New bike, this thing screams!!! (Date Posted:04/11/2008 9:29 AM) Kewl. I had one for a while, years ago. Got it for $10 at a garage sale. Ran, but had a bad left-hand crank bearing. Never really rode it, and sold it away for $100.... :( Recently, I've passively looked for one, but I guess I already have too many projects. There are even one or two websites dedicated to it. Quite a few hot-rod parts: 70cc kits, hi-compression goodies, porting, expansion chambers, the whole 2-stroke bit. The neat part of them, other than the fact that it's a 50cc 2-stroke, is the otherwise non-bargain-basement nature of it. I mean, it has a hydraulic disk brake up front, tachometer, the works. Definitely not an el cheapo commuter. Have fun with it! Kirk

woosh	\| Move to Top \| Move to Bottom 2#
Rank:none Score:0 Posts:695 Registered: 03/05/2005 Time spent: 0 hours	RE:New bike, this thing screams!!! (Date Posted:04/11/2008 12:49 PM) Wow only 45 I wanted one for a while now but I didnt know they were so slow should have figured tho only 50cc. There is a mint one for sale by me but its kinda pricey.

dorkpunch	\| Move to Top \| Move to Bottom 3#
Rank:none Score:0 Posts:625 Registered: 03/28/2004 Time spent: 0 hours	RE:New bike, this thing screams!!! (Date Posted:04/11/2008 3:13 PM) there are TONS of upgrade stuff out there for them. I'm kinda hopin it blows up so I can "tinker"... some guys have even swaped in newer liquid cooled cr80 or cr85 engines- i'd imagine they go pretty quick with even that small engine! -------------------------------------------------------------- 78 CT70 74 TL125 76 XL175 72 XL250 75 XL250 74 XL350 75 XL350 78 XL350 80 XL500 and a buncha other junk.....

KirkN	\| Move to Top \| Move to Bottom 4#
Rank:none Score:0 Posts:99 Registered: 03/08/2007 Time spent: 0 hours	RE:New bike, this thing screams!!! (Date Posted:04/11/2008 5:03 PM) They also accept fairly nicely the Honda 'lay-down' single family of engines (SL70, CT90, CT110, XL70, etc etc.) including the chinese LIFAN versions of same. Now THERE's a motor that has potential - 140cc and a WORLD of aftermarket support. Good luck, and happy tinkering! Kirk

TygerTung	\| Move to Top \| Move to Bottom 5#
From: New_zealand Registered: 06/02/2008 Time spent: 0 hours	RE:New bike, this thing screams!!! (Date Posted:06/05/2008 10:25 PM) I thought they were supposed to be six speed? All the MB5's/MB50's here are. You can grab out the six speed gearbox and wang it into a MB100 motor so then you have massive displacment, huge power AND the six speed box, which is much better than the MB100 4 speed.

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KirkN	\| Move to Top 6#
Rank:none Score:0 Posts:99 Registered: 03/08/2007 Time spent: 0 hours	RE:New bike, this thing screams!!! (Date Posted:06/06/2008 10:20 AM) Ahhh, the MB10. I remember reading a teaser in Cycle magazine back in '81 - '82 about the coming MB10 and the coming Kawasaki AR100 to complement the MB5 and AR80... Then, the bottom fell out of the US economy and the US motorcycle market, and they never materialized here... The MB5 sold here did, indeed, have only a 5-speed transmission. A hot-rodded MB10 with a six-speed transmission, full instrumentation & disk brakes would be a hoot! I've only seen an ad for an AR80 for sale once, and it was in rough shape... Although, personally, I liked the looks of the MB5 better than the AR80. And yet, a quick search turned up this, even today: http://redding.craigslist.org/mcy/706919638.html Kirk (Message edited by KirkN On 06/06/2008 10:36 AM)

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