Honda C50 or simmilar wanted in suffolk area

[jaycey001]

In an ever increasing attempt to reduce my fuel cost i am now looking for a 50cc moped. So if anyone in the Suffolk, Norfolk or Cambridge area has an old Honda C50 or similar kicking around in there garage i would be very interested. Preferably in running order, but am happy to tinker and restore within reason!

 

Can go up to £250 for something in good running order but cosmetically challenged! maybe more for something in good all round nick.

 

having to work in Hull this year so a moped will be great for transporting in the camper and save on fuel driving the van back and forth to the camp site.

 

anything up to 125cc considered, twist and go or semi auto would be great

 

James.

[peter9000uk]

Bit further away but I have a Peugeot Elysseo 125 watercooled 4 stroke twist and go that I would take £80 for. It is on an X plate has a rack and removeable top box. I took as payment of a debt but have just never got round to recomissioning it (sat in a garage for 2 years). All I have done is removed some of the bodywork to get better access to service items.

 

It will need a new battery as the one that was in it had no acid at all, bone dry. Front pads and rear shoes will be needed too. I have all the paperwork including quite a large pile of invoices, one showing an engine rebuild with new crank in 2006. I will even throw in a genuine Peugeot workshop manual, none of your Haynes book of lies here!

 

It would probably break to more than that but I really can't be arsed with the mongs on e bay.

 

Located nr Weybridge, Surrey (nr Heathrow)

[peter9000uk]

This now going to Torsten's dungeon!

[wackywacerwill]

HONDA CUBZ R GR8 BUT CG125's R 4 WINNAHS.

[Cavcraft]

HONDA CUBZ R GR8 BUT CG125's R 4 WINNAHS.

 

Exactly. Can I interest you in one by the way?

[Father Ted]

Is your journey on footpaths or on roads to which the public have no access in motorised vehicles at any time?

 

No?

 

Well dont get a 50cc motorped then. Really just dont. They are in modern traffic frankly lethal and IMHO should be banned. The 29mph top speed from most (read less if you happen to weigh slightly more than 11 stones) is frankly piss poor in modern traffic and serves only to infuriate other road users, try to change into the second lane on a 50mph dual carriageway to turn right at a roundabout and you will understand just what I mean.

 

Buy something 125cc, do your CBT - ride around for a bit, do your direct access and then get a nice 500cc bike for a while

 

@ Billy - what ye got?

[Cavcraft]

[wackywacerwill]

^^^ posh spec CG complete with CDI ignition, swanky body work and electric boot. Mine's of the points and condenser variety which they made well into the 90's. Everyone knows about the indestructibleness of them and as such they all seem to hold their money well, gave 200 for mine and it was a non runner having stood for a few years, easy to get going again though

[Father Ted]

GR8 - and virtually indestructible in normal use

[Cavcraft]

Go down a storm in Preston I'm told!

[Father Ted]

Arrr.

But I be singularly lacking in the Vespa, Lambretta, Aprilia RS125, Suzuki GT/Kawasaki KH/Yamaha RD, Decent 4/5 berth caravan, Small boat, Zafira, or Vectra C.

Or indeed the type of cash this would command.

 

That said, this is a much better proposition than a Cub50, will do pretty much the same MPG, cost not a lot more to insure and the same to tax. Oh and it'll keep up and in many cases overtake local traffic. Just try not to get caught in the downdraft off the cabs of lorries on the motorway.

[Cavcraft]

 

Tell you what though, joking aside the last CG I had was more economical than the C90 it replaced.

[barefoot]

OK, apologies for dragging this up and I take into account all of the points* raised.

 

But I fancy a bit of a moped/scooter for some of the much shorter journeys that I am wont to occasionally pursue.

* I am whatsit to admit that I've taken the CBT to facilitate use of my lovely Honda ST 70

(but I just just don't use it often enough & it's expired (for the sake of 23cc))

& remains, seldom used, somewhere in the stable block, here at barefoot Towers

 

I'm up for any old bit of Chinese 4 stroke shite what you can point me in the direction of in the Midlands

[gtd2000]

What does an ST 70 get to the gallon then?

 

Years back when I had my Yamaha FSIE 50 (JSH 661 P) a mate had a C50 on an N plate and it was able to reach almost 50mph and got about double the mpg of the Fizzy

 

Another mate had a C50 with the C70 engine at 16 - of course he didn't tell us that before he turned 17 and got a 125 - we never could work out why his daft looking C50 was so fast

 

I've got a bit of a hankering for a 125cc 4-stroke Trail bike at the moment - but with a 1980 GT 250 Suzuki X7 and a 1986 Suzuki GSX-R750 sitting in the shed doing fuck all it might be something of a white elephant....

[e287yba]

My Suzuki CS50 Roadie gave 120mpg, when ridden from Brighton to Bury - the journey took 12 hours (305 miles over 2 days, all on A-roads and my back is still shot 20 years later ). It didn't give many less mpg when commuting around Brighton daily...

 

The Honda II Deluxe that precededed it was not as economical, giving perhaps 105mpg on a run and as low as 70mpg commuting - donno why . I know that nowaday we dream of fuel consumption figures like these, but at the time I wasn't happy .

 

A C50 should knock these figures into a cocked hat! But my first moped was a 1969 Honda Graduate (50cc 4 stroke - some of its siblings appeared on the opening credits to The Monkeys) and that only did about 120mpg - the C50 was its descendent???

 

I seem to recall that a CG125 I had for a day gave about 100mpg mooching about town. Not a bad ride either - but not a 250 Wet Dream in terms of the sound it made .

[Cavcraft]

OK, apologies for dragging this up and I take into account all of the points* raised.

 

But I fancy a bit of a moped/scooter for some of the much shorter journeys that I am wont to occasionally pursue.

* I am whatsit to admit that I've taken the CBT to facilitate use of my lovely Honda ST 70

(but I just just don't use it often enough & it's expired (for the sake of 23cc))

& remains, seldom used, somewhere in the stable block, here at barefoot Towers

 

I'm up for any old bit of Chinese 4 stroke shite what you can point me in the direction of in the Midlands

 

 

eBay usually best, but honestly you really don't want to get a Chinese one, they're shit. Shop round for an older Jap/French/Italian one as they're precisely 11 million percent better built and more reliable.

[barefoot]

What does an ST 70 get to the gallon then?

 

Absolutely no idea.

 

I've had it going on ten years & I'll bet I've not done 50 miles on it yet!

[Father Ted]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HONDA-STREAM- ... 1071wt_937

If this wasnt 50cc I would be all over it like galloping nob rot.

[face]

Get it and de-restrict it.

 

I brought a brand new Peugeot Speedfight back in 1997. It was hopeless until I ran it in and had it de-restricted. After that it was a hoot and would go off the clock at 100Km/h.

[gtd2000]

What does an ST 70 get to the gallon then?

 

Absolutely no idea.

 

I've had it going on ten years & I'll bet I've not done 50 miles on it yet!

 

LOL - I hear ya - same thing with my GT250X7 and the GSX-R