1969 Honda Z50
Our old friend Klaus from Las Vegas has sent us his most recent two wheeled toy to share with everyone, a 1969 Honda Z50! This isn’t your average little pit bike, check out the mods that Klaus has performed:
Here’s a little Z50 with an ATC 70 motor, Fast/Past intake, F/P Pipe, and an XR 75 carburetor. It’s been bored out to take an XR 75 piston. The Head has had the intake & exhaust ports opened up. It also has a WEB cam in it! Fun little bike to play around on!
The Honda Z series of trail motorcycles were first sold in the spring of 1964 with the Honda Z50M. The Z series originally was introduced as an amusement park ride for kids in Japan; the lawyers here in the States would have a hay day with that. The Z’s didn’t hit the European market until 1967. The Honda Z50’s, (or Ape 50s as they are referred to), of today have come a long way and are now even fuel injected!
Thanks for sharing another one of your toys Klaus!
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Dan, It’s a clear blue paint made by Dupli-color. Your rite about Anodizing. The shop here in Vegas want to charge an arm and leg to do it and takes 2 to 3 weeks to get it done.
My first bike was one of these little guys. I grew up in Oregon and must have rode a hundred thousand miles on mine. My dad made it run, and it used a Volkswagen coil for spark, (hose clamped under the seat), the kill switch was to pull the plug wire off. My dad made an exhaust pipe from a galvanized piece of pipe with a Briggs and Stratton muffler wired on it. And my rear fender? A license plate from “the land of Lincoln”. It could only hold a thimble full of gas but it would ride for hours and hours. Your version is WAYYYY better than mine. All the blue on the engine, is that anodized or is that painted? I have searched and searched for some place that can anodize parts. So far, the only thing I have found are places that do industrial anodizing. If you don’t have 500 pieces….they are not interested.