CT110 - good or bad?

[vinnieh]

OK recently I bought a little Honda Nifty 50 for $500, it seized on me and until I get it going again I am needing something really reliable to get me around.

Is a Honda CT110 a decent bike to use for around town? I hear that they are used a lot by posties and apparently they are pretty reliable but I thought I might ask here. I don't really care about speed as long as it does 50kmh but I just need something that I will not have to be constantly buying parts for etc.

The one I am looking at is in good as condition.

Cheers all

[MSTRS:Me]

It's all here...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_CT110

[Coyote]

Where do all the postie bikes go when they've done their duty? Been looking at ozzy bike sites, and unless I'm not looking in the right places, there doesn't seem to be a surplus of cheap bikes.

[dino3310]

VERY GOOD
probably the most reliable, longest living bike on the planet.
will certainly out last the nifty 50

[dino3310]

" I don't really care about speed as long as it does 50kmh "

very rare to here those words nowdays

[avgas]

CT110 awesome.

[xwhatsit]

Absofugginlutely awesome bikes

Great offroad too, just search Youtube for all kinds of river-fording shenanigans!

Same horizontal single series motor as the C50, C70, C90 etc.

[avgas]

Absofugginlutely awesome bikes

Great offroad too, just search Youtube for all kinds of river-fording shenanigans!

Same horizontal single series motor as the C50, C70, C90 etc.

yep but those motors are rubbish........and before you bring out all those lovely cafe' customs out again they are nice but for that money you could get a bonnie 650 cafe.....

[xwhatsit]

yep but those motors are rubbish........and before you bring out all those lovely cafe' customs out again they are nice but for that money you could get a bonnie 650 cafe.....

What's wrong with the motors! Utterly reliable, run on the smell of an oily rag, nice and torquey considering the capacity and vintage. The semi-automatic gearchange (clutchless) is a bit naff and makes shifting gears heavy though.

[Motu]

The CT110 is a great little bike,and you can still get them brand new.I was working in a Honda shop last year,and the CT110 came out of North Carolina...it was a really well put together bike...tough as.

[rat biker 08]

Rode one thay are great and will do 100 kph

[Zoolander]

Pretty bulletproof as others have said, but, unlike the nifty, you will need a learners motorcycle licence to ride it legally, if you dont already have it that is....