1964 Honda C100 Cub Stepthrough Moped

DVLA Registered (DAP 311B)

V5C, MOT and Tax

'ROLLING RESTORATION'

This early Honda C100 is an oily rag bike requiring restoration.

But it’s taxed and MOT’d and it runs (see viedeo)

It’s missing rear indicators, and the wiring needs sorting.

The legshields are in good condition, with no cracks.

SHORT VIDEO of HONDA C100 RUNNING

The paintwork has surface rust, and the chrome is rusty too, but the metal frame is solid.

As it’s on the road, it’s a good ‘rolling restoration’ project.

Or if you prefer oily rag bikes obviously you can use it as is.

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Honda Cub History

The Honda Cub debuted in 1958, 10 years after the establishment of Honda Motor Co. Ltd. The name ‘Cub’ was said to be the acronym of Cheap Urban Bike because the development of this model was aimed to provide a kind of cheap urban transportation in busy cities. The name also likely refers to the earlier Piper Cub, an affordable and extremely popular light aircraft from the 1930s possessing many of the same mechanical qualities of the Honda bike (note that improved versions of the Piper Cub were also called Super Cubs).

Honda had discovered how to increase power and efficiency of 4-stroke engines and the company set about breaking into a market sector totally dominated by the 2-stroke models of other manufacturers. So successful were they that the Honda Cub became the most successful motorcycle model in history, and made huge contributions to Honda’s sales and profit. Honda used the slogan You meet the nicest people on a Honda as they broke into the English speaking world, until then dominated by British motorcycles.

In 1968, after 10 years of production, the whole motorcycle was uprated, the engine going from pushrod 4.5bhp to SOHC 4.9bhp. Though the basic design of Cub remained unchanged, slightly new styling features and improvements were integrated along with larger displacement (70 cc and 90 cc models) versions.

Though a few made their way here indirectly, the Honda Cub was not officially imported into Great Britain until 1962.

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Spares are easy to obtain: as you’ll discover yourself when you look, new-old-stock spares are imported or sold from Thailand, so it’s easy to keep them on the road. You can also accessorize them with screen, mirrors, rack, etc etc, if you so wish. There’s also a lot of after-market stuff from Japan, where they are a cult collectors bike.

Though this early model is rare now, the easy spares availability and a well-built 4-stroke ohv engine make this a sensible and practical vintage vehicle to own and use. It would be an ideal first vintage mount. And also very handy for someone whose main collection comprises less reliable older cyclemotors who’s got fed up breaking down on them on vintage runs

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By the way, old Honda 50’s have now become so popular around the world that a new retro-style model has been launched in Taiwan, by SYM. It’s called the Wo-Wow.

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