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**Slyer** · 16th April 2009, 16:05

CT110?

**macros87** · 16th April 2009, 18:02

Originally Posted by Slyer

CT110?

the rubish collector guy bikes right? what about them?

**Danae** · 16th April 2009, 18:05

...I want one.

**xwhatsit** · 16th April 2009, 23:20

Originally Posted by Slyer

CT110?

People always see them as rubbish collectors' bikes and (spending many years in Australia) as postie bikes. Which is a bit sad really but it's good they still serve a purpose.

They were brought out as a serious offroad machine. Not `serious' like Dakar, but serious as in a nice little trail bike for average people. They started out with the CT90 in 1967, it was marketed as the `Trail 90' and advertised to fishermen, hunters, all those sorts of people in the States to get out to their spots with all their gear. Crossing rivers and creeks, climbing serious proper hills that modern dirt bikes would shit themselves at (you can switch in a reduction drive in the final drive that will just about halve the gear ratios, like putting on a double-size rear sprocket). The CT110 was just a bored-out version.

I wouldn't call them a scooter at all, sure they've got a semi step-through frame and the fuel tank is under the seat, but the cross member is pretty high and they've got telescopic forks unlike the Cub. They're quite a bit closer to a proper motorbike than an `underbone'.

There's a couple of videos somewhere on Youtube of a couple of Japanese guys driving one upstream (not cross-stream, upstream, up the river). They do proper real offroading, not to be messed with!

**motorbyclist** · 16th April 2009, 23:47

they're postie bikes here too! our postie loves to do a 180 on the grass outside our letterbox every other day....

**xwhatsit** · 16th April 2009, 23:54

Originally Posted by motorbyclist

they're postie bikes here too! our postie loves to do a 180 on the grass outside our letterbox every other day....

Serious? We just get fit buggers on bicycles around here. Suppose the letterbox density demands that where you are.

Australia Post is so influential that not only have they managed to keep Honda producing and selling the things, but they've even got their own tyre manufactured, it's sort of an old-fashioned semi-knobbly trials tyre. I think Dunlop makes it?

Why change something good?

**Slyer** · 17th April 2009, 00:17

Yep I've seen plenty of them, but how are they rubbish collector bikes?

**motorbyclist** · 17th April 2009, 00:32

the rubbish collecting guys get to munt around on them, that's how.

and yeah apparently there's some legal/policy requirement that nzpost has to use postie bikes outside of 50kph zones or something like that. there was an interesting case on fair go where a local council changed the speed limits in an area which resulted in a lot of post not being delivered

**Hanne** · 17th April 2009, 05:13

meeean. I would ride one of those :P
*Stephen, that does not give you permission to fill the shed with them though!

(only half the shed)

**macros87** · 17th April 2009, 10:28

Originally Posted by xwhatsit

People always see them as rubbish collectors' bikes and (spending many years in Australia) as postie bikes. Which is a bit sad really but it's good they still serve a purpose.

They were brought out as a serious offroad machine. Not `serious' like Dakar, but serious as in a nice little trail bike for average people. They started out with the CT90 in 1967, it was marketed as the `Trail 90' and advertised to fishermen, hunters, all those sorts of people in the States to get out to their spots with all their gear. Crossing rivers and creeks, climbing serious proper hills that modern dirt bikes would shit themselves at (you can switch in a reduction drive in the final drive that will just about halve the gear ratios, like putting on a double-size rear sprocket). The CT110 was just a bored-out version.

I wouldn't call them a scooter at all, sure they've got a semi step-through frame and the fuel tank is under the seat, but the cross member is pretty high and they've got telescopic forks unlike the Cub. They're quite a bit closer to a proper motorbike than an `underbone'.

There's a couple of videos somewhere on Youtube of a couple of Japanese guys driving one upstream (not cross-stream, upstream, up the river). They do proper real offroading, not to be messed with!

i actually did not know this... i have greatly underestimated this bike

wont do it again tho