For Sale Honda 250 Super ( wet ) dream

[twosmoke300]

I'm selling the superdream that has been in our family for at least 10 years

All up and running / riding - motd until may .

I'm very original condition , would make a nice short distance commuter but would be nice to see it go to someone that would use it as a base for an easy resto .

New battery , chain / spkt kit and oil / filter change in May z

I have some small period pannier with it as well as the original rails.

Looking for £750 and it's in cornwall . I could deliver a reasonable distance for some monies. I may have van space on my way up to Liverpool in mid oct.

[purplebargeken]

Nice old ploddy things with a good physical size/presence. I had one and loved it.

[John F]

Me too.

 

I bought mine with 24,000 on the clock, replaced the borked rear shocks with some I had lying around in the garage, rode it for 6 months or so then sold it to a courier who put 30,000 more miles on it. When he'd done with it I bought it back, got a fresh test on it & then sold it again for twice what I first paid for it.

 

Happy days.

[Fabergé Greggs]

That's very nice! Shame my licence doesn't allow real bikes..

[Matt]

My dad had a Super Dream in the early 80's so I would be quite tempted if it weren't for the fact that the current license laws seem to render 250's pretty pointless (From how I understand it I would need a full license to ride it in which case I might as well get a bigger bike).

[tommytwo]

Nice tidy bike and at £750, it is not overpriced.

 

I own a 1986 125 Super Dream, had it for twenty years. It has never failed to start and I have done plenty of long trips with it. Thought about getting a more powerful bike but it does everything I need a bike to do. Cheap to tax and insure.

 

GLWTS.

[wuvvum]

I had one of these about 15 years ago. Took me about two weeks of ownership before I worked out it had a 6th gear.

[DodgeRover]

That's very nice! Shame my licence doesn't allow real bikes..

Just fit a 125 conversion piston...just a piston with a hole in it and some blanking plates, seriously they were a real thing when the 125 learner laws came in

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Nah, you want one of these

[DodgeRover]

You are damn right I absolutely need an RD! Ive never managed to own a liquid cooled RD bigger than a 125 and my RD250DX was bought thinking it would be just like an LC....oh how wrong I was

[strangeangel]

My dad had a Super Dream in the early 80's so I would be quite tempted if it weren't for the fact that the current license laws seem to render 250's pretty pointless (From how I understand it I would need a full license to ride it in which case I might as well get a bigger bike).

 

Don't dismiss 250s out of hand - I've been up to 400cc twice now and come back to the Helix each time. Admittedly I've just bought something with a 700cc motor, but that was purely on looks

[Cavcraft]

Absolutely brill bikes. The proper big brother to the CG125, and I don't even like Hondas.

[UltraWomble]

I keep looking at this

Thankfully the shed is full of doors right now and with winter coming I wouldn't have tbe heart to leave this outdoors.

Good luck with the sale.

[Faker]

Looks like a lovely wee bike

[Momentary Lapse Of Reason]

I had one of these back in the early 80s.

I wore out an Avon Speed Master rear tyre on it.

We called it the Fridge,

('cause with the Speed Master on it it handled like a ...)

Changed the tyre to a Conti, transformed the bike.

 

My girlfriend of the time was learning singing at The RNCM, she used to practice her scales etc while riding pillion.

A bus queue in Salford was utterly bemused at her singing while we waited at the traffic lights...

 

Change the rectifier/regulator every 25000 miles.

[Guest Hooli]

Don't dismiss 250s out of hand - I've been up to 400cc twice now and come back to the Helix each time. Admittedly I've just bought something with a 700cc motor, but that was purely on looks

 

HANG ON!

 

You bought that DN thing on LOOKS?

[strangeangel]

You bought that DN thing on LOOKS?

 

Yes, absolutely! It's the first decent looking thing Honda have launched since 1986.

[PiperCub]

The Avon Skid-Master - oh god that takes me back to a place I never want to visit ever again.

[UltraWomble]

Did this sell?

[uk_senator]

Just fit a 125 conversion piston...just a piston with a hole in it and some blanking plates, seriously they were a real thing when the 125 learner laws came in

125`s are out now as well, you're limited to a 50cc if you passed before 2001 these days (I found this out when I went to buy my mates Honda CD125 Benley twin.. The bastards..)

[twosmoke300]

Yup sold locally

[John F]

125`s are out now as well, you're limited to a 50cc if you passed before 2001 these days (I found this out when I went to buy my mates Honda CD125 Benley twin.. The bastards..)

 

WTF? You can't ride a 125 on L plates with a car licence anymore?

 

The world's gone mad.

[Eddie Honda]

WTF? You can't ride a 125 on L plates with a car licence anymore?

 

Well you can, but you have to take a CBT every two years. None of this ride around on Ls until 70 business.

[John F]

Ah OK, I thought the 125 cc entitlement had been revoked completely.

 

So you can ride a 50 cc on the road with no CBT but not a 125 cc? Well, that makes sense...

[bezzabsa]

125`s are out now as well, you're limited to a 50cc if you passed before 2001 these days (I found this out when I went to buy my mates Honda CD125 Benley twin.. The bastards..)

Benley you say??.....tell me more 

[Eddie Honda]

So you can ride a 50 cc on the road with no CBT but not a 125 cc? Well, that makes sense...

Well it depends when cat B was passed, for some they need to do a CBT before their full moped entitlement is active:

 

 

Code 122

[uk_senator]

Well it depends when cat B was passed, for some they need to do a CBT before their full moped entitlement is active:

 

 

Code 122

I think the cut off date was 2001, until they introduced that rule all car drivers could ride a 125 on L-Plates, as Eddie says, thats now down to 50cc if you dont want to do a CBT every 2 years, & I dont...

 

Around the same time they removed 7.5 ton entitlement, & you even have to pass a test for towing a trailer if you passed after 2001 now.

 

Since I cant get a sexy sounding 125 twin now I`ve decided I`m going to get a C50, but the prices have gone through the roof (+ C50`s are now rare, & because of this bollocks rule I cant look at C70`s or C90`s either). I like cubs, but I`m not gonna pay the equivalent of 4 decent Punto`s for one..

[uk_senator]

Benley you say??.....tell me more 

Its an 84 & sounds lovely, havent got any up to date pics, he`s restored it since this pic, so its not for sale any more:

[Eddie Honda]

Since I cant get a sexy sounding 125 twin now I`ve decided I`m going to get a C50, but the prices have gone through the roof (+ C50`s are now rare, & because of this bollocks rule I cant look at C70`s or C90`s either). I like cubs, but I`m not gonna pay the equivalent of 4 decent Punto`s for one..

 

My bro has a chicken chaser. So I occasionally break out singing "You little CUB" to the music of "You Little Thief".

 

Honda Little Cub 14 by E Honda, on Flickr

 

Worked out at 975 quid - because 2014, because exchange rate, because lives Japan, because before 8% purchase tax. MRRP now is  ¥216,000 inc p.t.

[Rave]

Around the same time they removed 7.5 ton entitlement, & you even have to pass a test for towing a trailer if you passed after 2001 now.

 

I don't know when the rules about riding 125s changed, but the cut off date for grandfather rights to 7.5 tonners and trailers was 31st December 1996. I should know, I turned 17 in June '96 but didn't get round to taking my car test till Feb '97 (ironically, because I thought it was more important to beat the cut off date for the bike Category A2 licence).