Honda MB50 information

Launched in 1980 into the hotly contested sports moped market, Honda broke with their four stroke tradition with the MB50. In it’s unrestricted form this by any 50cc standards of the day was pretty quick, as was the popular trail version. Honda listed this as well a the more traditional SS50 at the same time, to ensure they kept alive their traditional sales to four stroke die hards!

The three spoke wheels and spine type tubular frame were exactly what youngster of that time were looking for, and the model was hugely successful for Honda, and today has now achieved classic status, although never to the same degree as the machine this model was bought out to beat, which it didn’t, the hugely popular then (and now) Yamaha FS1E “fizzy” still selling well after a 10 year run, with only minor changes.

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