Okay, something very different. Not a Monkey bike. This is a Honda 70 slightly bigger in cc than the
Monkey bike and also in physical form. It is bigger. This bike is very much untouched. It's
had one owner, and it's been ridden around, and had kids on it and all sorts.
Now I've taken all the bits and pieces off of it, but i just want to show you underneath the seat.
The sort of build quality, this is 1973. Lifted the seat up and here we have the fuel tank.
It's all tucked away and I mean it's really nice. A little tiny little six volt battery.
But everything is nice quality. It all sits in nicely and this has survived. It's as it was. It's
never been restored, and it's just a lovely piece of machinery really. Okay we're going to talk
about the controls on the bike. Hasn't really got many. Although the lights aren't working at the
moment, we just literally have a horn up here. This probably is just a dip switch for the headlight.
But we have no clutch, we just have the throttle twist grip. And front brake here. It is
automatic, well it's pre select. It's the same as your little Cubs and the rest of
it. You have a gear lever on this side which is a rocker lever. And first gear is right back, and what
you do is you pull away, shut the throttle right back, select the next gear, and open up the twist
grip. It's got a centrifugal clutch inside so you let the revs drop right off, then you select your
gear. Very easy to ride. The feature with this is it's got fold down handlebars. It's the sort of bike that
you could have put this on the back of a camper van,
you could put it in the back of an estate car probably. Just undo these these knobs
here on the handlebars, and they all drop down. So what's the engine? It's 70cc.
It's four-stroke overhead cam. Low compression. Very easy to start. I'll just show you, you can
actually start by hand. I'll just turn on the key. And I should be able to just...
I mean that's not bad. I haven't touched this engine and that's how she runs.
Very reliable, very easy to live with.
Got a high level exhaust on it. It was quite a sporty looking bike for its day.
ignition on.
Hear all the power now.
We're going to put it straight into second gear, we don't need
first gear here because we're on the slope going down. Just pre-select it.
Off we go.
I'll have to come back on that one.