Interestingly, the shiny header pipes were pipes within pipes, the ostensible reason being that the owner would not have to put up with the inevitable bluing that arrived with time. Which was covered by a black heat shield for the first two years, and then the shield was chromed. The essence of the scrambler style were those upswept pipes, curving individually around the left side of the cylinders and ending up in one large muffler that held a permanent spark arrester. Owner: Jack Wagner, Grover Beach, California. Or, more likely, he wants other people to think that.Īdvertisement 1968 Honda C元50 Scrambler. It was a styling thing, much like the “adventure” bikes of today, with the rider liking to think that he can dash across the Gobi Desert any time he wants. Here we are dealing with the Scrambler version, better characterized as a street-scrambler, having only minor pretensions to being competent off the pavement.
over the six years of production, which means a lot of them are probably still stashed in old barns or forgotten behind the junk in the back of the garage. All told, more than 600,000 of these 350s were sold in the U.S. Honda used it in three models, the 1968 CB Super Sport and CL Scrambler, and a year later the SL Motorsport. No matter, as minor exaggeration is considered to be quite acceptable in the advertising world. The bore was increased from 60 to 64mm, the stroke reduced from 54 to 50.6mm, the true size of the “new” engine being only 325cc. Having a different number would be good, from 305 to 350. What to do? Shouldn’t cost too much because lots of money was going into the carefully kept secret–the four-cylinder CB750. And over the next 10 years the company acquired a very positive reputation, well deserved, for having high revving, hard hitting, highly dependable products, especially with its 305 series, like the CB77 Super Hawk and CL77 Scrambler.īut, as we say about horses, the 305s were getting a bit long in the tooth.
Honda motorcycles opened for business in the American market in 1959, when the four-stroke 50cc Super Cub came on the market.
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