TheScooterScoop

While flipping through the Tokyo Scooter Stuff flickr stream I saw THIS oddity. It’s a Honda Cubra with a bagger kit. The Cubra is Honda’s “little cub” that normally looks like this:

Very nice lines if I say so myself. Very sporty looking little 49cc air cooled ride that got run over by a think tank back in 1999 when Honda spit out these two prototypes for the Tokyo motor show that I found on the Honda Worldwide site.

One was the Honda Dirt Cubra that looks FREAKIN’ AWESOME and is described like this:
Simplifying the Little Cub and adding a specially configured rear suspension, an extra-sturdy subframe, and intrepidly wild styling transformed it into this cute-but-fierce little dirt racer with a clearly different agenda.

The other was the Honda AmeriCubra which looks right at home for the next ROT rally and she’s described like this:
ontinuing the never-ending evolution of that legendary Japanese scooter, the Super Cub, this American-styled version of the Little Cub blends nostalgia with a refreshing outrageousness accented by just a touch of urbane refinement.

Ahhh, Honda… art there no limits to thine oddities and the joy in which they bathed mine heart?
I’ll always remember the Looper… The Cabina Convertible… The classy FB-S… and all those crazy fold-up toys from 2001. I wonder if the Elysium will ever see the light of day.