Honda C92 information

The model that bought us that most famous of names, The Benly! The C92 was heavily influenced by Sohichiro Honda’s fact finding mission to the more successful motorcycle manufacturers in Europe and Great Britain.

He chose the NSU format over alternative, rather dated designs from Great Britain and Italy, who’s glory day’s of motorcycle production were already faltering due to a lack of investment, poor quality control standards and antiquated production line and manufacturing systems.

When launched in 1959, the world had never seen an overhead cam twin cylinder production motorcycle of just 125cc, let alone one with push button starting! As if all that was not enough, the engine produced 11.5bhp at an unheard of 9500 rpm!
It could top 65mph, and as such would happily keep up with general traffic of the day, and was to spawn a line of the greatest quarter litre four stroke twins the world had ever seen, starting with the amazing and truly beautiful CB92!

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