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OT Honda Mini-Trails #2892585
02/24/21 09:32 AM
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Does anyone else here play around with the Honda Mini-Trails? I started into this and now I think I need to find a cheaper hobby!


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Re: OT Honda Mini-Trails [Re: oldjonny] #2892612
02/24/21 10:38 AM
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This is the wrong spot to look for a cheap hobby!

Re: OT Honda Mini-Trails [Re: 340Cuda] #2892616
02/24/21 10:57 AM
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I planned on buying one and restoring it but a buddy sent me a Craigslist link to a guy that had 3 restored Mini Trails for sale. I bought one since it was cheaper than buildng it myself! I have about $2500 in it and it came with knobbies and whitewalls. It is also upgraded to 70cc's. He showed me receipts totaling what I paid!

Funny side story, we took it to a big car and bike show in Oklahoma and I entered it on a whim (took it there just to ride around). It ended up winning a big trophy for People's Choice and beat out a bunch of high dollar Harleys. smoke

Absolutely love it as a pit bike and gets all kinds of attention at the nostalgia races we attend.

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Pump gas, n/a, through the mufflers on street tires with 3.54's. 3,600 lbs.
10.01 @ 133mph with a 250 shot of nitrous an a splash of race gas. 1.36 60 ft. 3,700 lbs.

Re: OT Honda Mini-Trails [Re: GY3] #2892625
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I had one just like that ^ but it was all red and the headlight had been removed. 1978, my brother also had a 78 but his was orange and all original. Super reliable bikes, we were spoiled, no other bike was as reliable as those two.

Re: OT Honda Mini-Trails [Re: SRT6776] #2892632
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Originally Posted by SRT6776
I had one just like that ^ but it was all red and the headlight had been removed. 1978, my brother also had a 78 but his was orange and all original. Super reliable bikes, we were spoiled, no other bike was as reliable as those two.


I got an ATC 70 when I was 5 years old secondhand from a cousin who had beat the crap out of it. I then proceeded to beat the crap out of it! I wore out 2 sets of rear knobby tires on that thing but that's the ONLY thing that wore out! Stone reliable! I always wanted a motorcycle but Mom said no. Maybe because dad got his back broken in a motorcycle accident when I was young? Much irony in this in that we had a string of 3 wheelers over the years but never a motorcyle because 3 wheelers were "safer". LOL!


'63 Dodge 330
11.19 @ 121 mph
Pump gas, n/a, through the mufflers on street tires with 3.54's. 3,600 lbs.
10.01 @ 133mph with a 250 shot of nitrous an a splash of race gas. 1.36 60 ft. 3,700 lbs.

Re: OT Honda Mini-Trails [Re: GY3] #2892694
02/24/21 02:15 PM
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My mom and dad surprised me with a 1983 atc 70 when I was 9yrs old. My dad welded up a trailer for his boss at the time in trade. His boss was a blown alky flat bottom boat racer and bought the 70 new to get alcohol at the boat races. I'm 42 today and still have it and is still in mint oem shape, I rode that thing almost every day until I was around 14. I'm super particular and cherish my stuff. It sits inside my spare bedroom as we speak along with a mint original 85 atc 70. We didn't have much growing up and that made me cherish my things. I'm big time into the Hondas, my family grew up going to the oregon dunes and all had atc's back in the day. I also have a nice 85 350x that's original and a almost nos 85 atc 250r. It's a passion of mine along with the mopars.... Lots of fun

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Re: OT Honda Mini-Trails [Re: greendart408] #2892697
02/24/21 02:23 PM
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I'm putting a '70 CT70 back together now. Have a few more that potentially could be done...but not sure I want to do it again. The yellow one is a '79 that I bought just as it sits. The 50 I just picked up last year. Also have a '69 CT70H (manual transmission) and a '72 CT70. Too many hobbies.

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Re: OT Honda Mini-Trails [Re: oldjonny] #2892758
02/24/21 04:13 PM
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I just did this one over this past fall. Was in my back garden shed for 30 yrs. spent a little over 1k on it

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Re: OT Honda Mini-Trails [Re: greendart408] #2892764
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Originally Posted by greendart408
My mom and dad surprised me with a 1983 atc 70 when I was 9yrs old. My dad welded up a trailer for his boss at the time in trade. His boss was a blown alky flat bottom boat racer and bought the 70 new to get alcohol at the boat races. I'm 42 today and still have it and is still in mint oem shape, I rode that thing almost every day until I was around 14. I'm super particular and cherish my stuff. It sits inside my spare bedroom as we speak along with a mint original 85 atc 70. We didn't have much growing up and that made me cherish my things. I'm big time into the Hondas, my family grew up going to the oregon dunes and all had atc's back in the day. I also have a nice 85 350x that's original and a almost nos 85 atc 250r. It's a passion of mine along with the mopars.... Lots of fun


We had a 200X and and 250SX (driveshaft and reverse, but big and heavy!) A buddy had a 350X that I got to ride quite a bit, but I always wanted a 250R. The 200X was a nicely balanced machine that I really enjoyed.


'63 Dodge 330
11.19 @ 121 mph
Pump gas, n/a, through the mufflers on street tires with 3.54's. 3,600 lbs.
10.01 @ 133mph with a 250 shot of nitrous an a splash of race gas. 1.36 60 ft. 3,700 lbs.

Re: OT Honda Mini-Trails [Re: GY3] #2892912
02/25/21 01:26 AM
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I’ve got a low mileage 1971 ct70. Soooo much fun!


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Re: OT Honda Mini-Trails [Re: GY3] #2892974
02/25/21 10:40 AM
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Honda had the secret on how to be in every childs dream. The Mini trail 50 the Trail 70 and a bike I never had but still have fond memories of- The 1970s XR75. That tall beautiful cylinder and head- lots of suspension travel that slender steel red tank with the winged Honda logo. Just pure perfection.


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Re: OT Honda Mini-Trails [Re: 2boltmain] #2892990
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i have owned a bunch of early 70's ct's. there is a huge following for ct's and monkey bikes. i do a bunch of vapor blasting for bike guys and its amazing what people spend on them. One of my customers has a 69 monkey that was ordered by a army guy stationed in japan in 69 so its a JDM model. there are pictures of his wife (a stewardess) bringing it back to the US strapped to the seat of a twa plane. unrestored, perfect and documented it has 400-ish original miles. The original knobby tires which were not available here. He has been offered obscene money (i am guessing 25g+) as its rumored to be one of the best in the world and the only documented one with the tires.







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