everything you need to know about the Honda Dax 125 in five minutes this is a first in the new
series of five minute reviews there's also going to be a longer review as usual on this bike watch
out for that too but let's get started now this Honda dax125 is massively nostalgic for me I had
one of these in the 1970s when I was a kid and I used to ride around the farm tracks and what have
you and around the garden as well it was a Honda ST 70 at the time which came out in 1969 and they
stopped making them I'm not sure when sometime in the late 70s and they've just brought this
bike back in a one two five CC version it's a bit bigger than the original bike it retails at 3749
pounds in the UK and that's very good value for money because Hondas never go wrong I mean mine
I never put oil in it I never did anything to it I just rode it years ago shouldn't obviously
shouldn't do but it never went wrong this is a Reincarnation of that bike this engine has
been going for many years and it's wonderful so reliable it's really great fun to ride it's got
a very short wheelbase very small wheels it's extremely Nimble so it's a perfect City bike in
and out of traffic it's absolutely perfect in and out of sheep in the countryside it's absolutely
perfect at speed I got to 60 miles an hour in it I wouldn't want to go any faster than that
to be honest because with that kind of wheelbase and small wheels it could be Twitchy at higher
speeds but at low speeds is brilliant so you won't have any problems there maneuvering is perfect
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so with me sitting on the bike at six foot two as I said the riding position is really good
if you're smaller than me it'd be even better so it'd be ideally suited to someone probably five
foot ten five foot nine five foot eight with such a lightweight bike the brakes are very good on it
the engine is really good too as I said it's pretty bomb proof you've got 9.25 horsepower
at 7000 RPM and 10.8 newton meters of torque at 5000 RPM that's 7.9 foot pounds in America
um obviously it's like any one two five they're not hugely powerful when you're
going uphill in first gear it'll go up nicely and you build the revs change to Second who does that
oh [Music] um so the the gap between the ratio of the first and second gear is quite big but if
you keep it in first gear on the steep hills and they were pretty steep the hills have been going
up today uh it's fine so that's just one thing I noticed the gears are a bit weird if you're
used to a normal motorbike it's not one down four up or three up it's one down two down three down
four down uh so once you get used to that that's fine and having no clutch means it's ever so easy
if it's your first bike but if you're jumping from one bike to another having the different
gear shift pattern you have to bear that in mind in many respects it's very similar to the Honda
monkey the monkey's got a tank here on this one you've got it under the seat and on this
one you can take a pillion passenger as well now I've been riding on very Mucky roads today
and this little mud guard at the front with a little flap at the bottom does the job pretty
well a bit of splashing on my feet and it was extremely extremely wet on the roads as you'll
see but most of the engine is fairly clean just a bit of the sides there's got some mud
splashes so that's not too bad at all now with this you can ride with a passenger on the back
as well because you've got the pillion pegs and the seats a bit longer and Monica's been on the
back of this all day long and she's loved it I wrote this down a really bumpy Farm track and
these little wheels even though they've got big kind of fattish tires um and the suspension was
really good it soaks the bumps up really well so I was very impressed with that so not only could
you go on the road with this of course you can go off-road as I said in the intro I used to ride
my one down the farm tracks when I was a kid so they are brilliant they can do anything with this
um in fact if we're going off in the countryside I'd rather be on one of these than one of the big
heavy Adventure bikes because they're so light you can pick the front up and turn
it around if you want to and they'll turn around in no space whatsoever if you're going the wrong
way so they're brilliant for that styling wise I think it looks really nice it's a stunning looking
bike nothing like it on the planet you've got this nice little round speedometer thing here which is
in LCD lights it's a bit dim hard to see actually it looks kind of nice but it would be even better
with a proper animal one but no complaints there the mirrors are pretty bad for my height and my
width I could see very little of the road behind me but for a normal sized person you'll be fine
you've got a 3.8 liter fuel tank under the seat and that sounds really small but this bike is so
economical it's unbelievable and that's one of the best things about these Hondas they're brilliant
it will do 188 miles per gallon that's UK gallons or 156.8 U.S gallons uh or 66.7 kilometers per
liter so in whichever language you're talking it's brilliant fuel economy and of course they're
Honda's official figures in the real world you probably won't get quite that much and it
depends how you ride the weight and then whether you're going uphill or carrying anything um but
in some countries you see a whole family sitting on one of these you know a kid at the front mum
and dad and a plank of wood so these bikes are brilliant in the UK we are restricted to very
high standard of health and safety which means you can't do anything so I do highly recommend
this Honda dax125 it's fantastic it comes in red or gray get to your Honda dealership you
can buy it outright or you can buy it on finance monthly it's brilliant check out Honda's clothes
they do some really cool retro stuff as well like this hoodie and look out for the longer review of
this bike where I go into a bit more detail and ride to a few more different places which
is really interesting uh you will see that in the future if you're watching it now but if you're in
the future you'll see it right away so see you on the next one don't forget to subscribe bye