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Oz is getting more monkeys!

Thursday, August 23, 2007

(You can look, but you can’t touch if you live the USA. No 2008 monkey for YOU!) Australia is getting “hooked-up” next month with the reintroduction of the Honda Z50M, where “M” is for “Monkey”. If you’re bored and wanna see how much Honda thinks we’re the red headed stepchild, I recommend reading the press […]

What if I told you a Cub could be coming to the USA?

Saturday, August 18, 2007

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No, not the Honda Cub, but a preeeety close facsimile or maybe I should say facSYMile could be making its way to the USA. That’s right! During a recent visit to the SYM plant in Taiwan, Scooter World Publisher Bev Brinson was pleasantly surprised to see what upon first glance appeared to be a Honda […]

Remembering MOTRA

Wednesday, August 8, 2007

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Nearly two decades after Japan gave us Mothra and close to two decades before Japan gave us the Ruckus, Honda produced the Motra. Seen here in this 1982 promo photo showing a Japanese outdoorsman… doing.. some morning stretches(?), this baby is a clear precursor to their popular Ruckus scooter of today. If you live in […]

Some Japanese Hondas you won’t see around these parts.

Wednesday, August 8, 2007

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Presenting the Honda Bite… And the SuperCub (yes they still make them). You can’t have them. Not even the LittleCub…

Bizarre! WTF Scooter of the month

Wednesday, August 1, 2007

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Bizarre! Originally uploaded by ragtag04 ragtag04 shares THIS photo of a Honda with a fairground plane mounted on it. Not sure how if you can put your feet down… but it looks damn cool!

Honda planning some electric innovations of their own.

Tuesday, July 31, 2007

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Dudel, or as we know him around these parts “Scoop Doggy Dog”, has a hot scoop for ya like a big ‘ole ball of sticky rice (with a side of Hawaiian macaroni salad and some teriaki chicken… Man, I need to each some lunch and I wish we had a Noho’s here). As I was […]