I've owned countless Hondas over the past 50 years (cars and motorcycles) and never had a problem due to engineering or manufacturing. If only everything was built like a Honda.
@@KeyboardComando My US assembled Honda lasted 18 years and had 330,000 miles on when the head gasket blew and I sold it to be parted out. My current one is only 9 years old and has never needed a repair. I'm satisfied with that performance.
I'll have to watch this later and will prefer to watch it in my TV while having a cup of Tea in my old man chair but I do a biography or documentary on Old Mr. Honda and his start after the war and him making Piston Rings working for Toyota to motorizing a bicycle for his wife with old leftover small engines from the 2nd world war. God Bless Honda.
Excellent 👍 Would love to see a later update, say mid to late 1970’s with Goldwing GL 1000, CX 500, CBX 1000 production lines and component manufacturing:)
Great historical documentary. Honda with less than 2 decades of existence presenting an enviable production technology. I have a 1964 Honda 50cc that I am renovating, 2 1974 Honda CB200s and a 1983 XLR250 with 28,000km. I have a lot of appreciation for motorcycles from the 60s, 70s and 80s. Congratulations.
Thank you for sharing this version with the English voiceover. I was born in 1962 and within just a few years I was riding on the back of my dad’s Honda. Within 8 years I was riding a Honda of my own thanks to the Z50 Mini Trail. All these years later I still ride (and drive) a Honda. このバージョンを英語のナレーションと共有していただきありがとうございます。私は1962年に生まれ、ほんの数年以内に父のホンダの後ろに乗っていました。 8年以内に、Z50 Mini Trailのおかげで自分のホンダに乗っていました。これらの数年後、私はまだホンダに乗っています（そして運転しています）。
Great video in language english, I appreciate much this trademark and I owner of one motorcycle Honda GL 125, greetings from Peru - Southamerica 🇵🇪 😉👍🏻
I have a Honda cb500x, and I love it. Thank you, Honda, to be consistent and reliable with the reasonable price always. I wish one day I would be able to visit any of your factory sites to appreciate your hard work and honesty in this regard. Just wanted to let you know that I have two Honda cars too, Honda Insight and Honda Element, high mileage but no problem, drive like a champ. Thanks again
Thank you so much Honda. My dad he used to drive his motorcycle MB100 i love this motorcycle. I hope one to visit The motor company in Japan. Many Greetings from Tablada de Lurin, VMT, Lima, Perú.
I am restoring 13 - 1987 and older Hondas. Wonderful video. Fabulous engineering. Now I know why not one of my bikes needs engine work. Most carbs, chains, fork seals, electrics, and the like...
Not everything about Honda in the 1960's was smart. Back then a friend of my father had a Honda dealership, and was doing quite well in it. Drove the local Triumph dealer out of business with Honda's lack of vibration, far better quality, and better reliability. But Australia was a quite well off country and almost all people could easily afford cars. So my father's friend soon saturated the local market for motorbikes. Some clot in Japan noticed the orders had levelled off, and noticed the number of bikes sold per head of population was lower than in other countries. So Honda said "lift your game, son, you ought to be selling so many bikes. If you don't, we''ll take the dealership off you and give it to someone else." Well, he couldn't, so they did take it off him and gave it to someone else. Who sold less bikes as they were not well known.
First bike, Honda C90. About 90 hp/l from a motor that would run literally without maintenance, with anything resembling oil in the engine while consuming thin air. I downshifted to 1st from 2nd instead of grabbing 3rd, >10 k revs i believe - no problem. A friend turned his upside down to empty the oil from the fill plug, no problem 😀 How about 4 people on it - you guessed it no problem. The prices of Japan made, unmolested examples nowadays are through the roof. Maybe the price of nostalgia? Who knows, I have some nice toys and no time (or energy) to enjoy them as I should. I would trade them to get back to the times that 80 km/h was enough, take the back roads and stop along the way to enjoy a nice view. Greece loves Honda, if only the Importer was better 😀
В 1962 у моего любимого производителя были очень передовые заводы, и это всего чуть более 15 лет после разрушительной войны. Вы молодцы, приятно было посмотреть. Спасибо.
@suzukishakra это не показатель. Так как это все не было разрушено. А после 1945 года промышленность Японии была в плачевном состоянии. И экономика, и многие города. И все это было восстановлено очень быстро и качественно. Об этом было мое сообщение.
Yes it's Very Interesting to Compare the Historic Role Out of Cars, Bikes, Trucks, Trains, Tractors, Ships, Planes to the Current Attempts to Switch to Renewable Machines. The Early Machine Production had Significant Public, Corporate and Government Support and Now They are Reluctant to Change, Weird!.
So quintessentially Japanese, complete with Godzilla Vs. Rodan music and sound effects. Does anyone know what happened to the "motorcycle playground" and which plant it was located at? Fascinating history.
It is Tama Tech, located at outskirts area of Tokyo. The Tech switched to amusement park in 1970s and finally closed in 2009. The Tech was isolated from other Honda plant.
@@いぎりす国鉄 Thank you! Any knowledge that any of those unique delivery trucks still exist? Heading back to Japan in February and would love to see one in person.
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At 5:15 the narrator says "Our concept of a research laboratory is to combine human technology and psychology as a means of transforming psychological findings into reality" Seems like 1962 Japanese film industry translators were about as bad as their instruction manual writers at the time. Were they curing lunatics or making better bikes? Presumably they meant something like "In our reasearch laboratory ideas of human imagination are turned into practical methods."
Masters of refinement really. The Japanese, unlike Chinese manufacturers, actually bought a lot licences to manufacture certain items, and even full motorcycles in the case of the Meguro/Kawasaki W1. They then used that as their starting point with brand new equipment, while in the UK we were left with appalling management, a government hell bent on reducing manufacturing and pre-war equipment. Had we had correct investment the British motorcycling industry was full of talent, quality and ideas. You only have to look at what companies like Velocette were doing pre-war.
Its generally true that Japanese manufacturers were copyists. Even today, their heavy machinery is much the same as obsolete American models. But Honda was unique. Their motorbikes, right from the early days, were nothing like any western product. Completely different design and far more advanced.
My dad owned a HONDA shop in Jacksonville , Florida from 1965-1982. Best years of my life. Still a HONDA fan and owner today.
Mr. Honda had made his first motorcycle just 13 years prior to this. It is so impressive.
This is a beautifully done English translation of the original which was available only in Japanese a few weeks ago. Thank you!!
I haven't seen the Japanese version, but I can hear it thought this English translation.
Sorry, I meant to write "through" not "thought".
I have owned and loved Hondas since I was 9....over 50 years and 20 Motorcycles.
Me too, I still have and ride my S90 and CL90.
@@KeyboardComando S-90 was my FIRST!
I've owned countless Hondas over the past 50 years (cars and motorcycles) and never had a problem due to engineering or manufacturing. If only everything was built like a Honda.
I have 2 Honda motorcycles and cars, the Honda cars assembled in US are not as reliable as the ones built in Japan.
@@KeyboardComando My US assembled Honda lasted 18 years and had 330,000 miles on when the head gasket blew and I sold it to be parted out. My current one is only 9 years old and has never needed a repair. I'm satisfied with that performance.
More videos like this please Honda ❤
wow, for 1960s, there is a lot of cool tech!
I'll have to watch this later and will prefer to watch it in my TV while having a cup of Tea in my old man chair but I do a biography or documentary on Old Mr. Honda and his start after the war and him making Piston Rings working for Toyota to motorizing a bicycle for his wife with old leftover small engines from the 2nd world war. God Bless Honda.
Excellent 👍 Would love to see a later update, say mid to late 1970’s with Goldwing GL 1000, CX 500, CBX 1000 production lines and component manufacturing:)
今一度この時代のHONDAに戻ってほしい🏁
I too, was amazing see this video and the keep to the details is wonderful.
Great historical documentary. Honda with less than 2 decades of existence presenting an enviable production technology. I have a 1964 Honda 50cc that I am renovating, 2 1974 Honda CB200s and a 1983 XLR250 with 28,000km. I have a lot of appreciation for motorcycles from the 60s, 70s and 80s. Congratulations.
64 50 cub was my first bike and was used off and on road with no trouble.
When I saw my first Honda 50 at age 13, it was love at first sight. Now at 73 I still have two Honda 90s that I restored and ride.
Thank you very much for putting it in English. A few days ago I heard it in the original language and I didn't know anything 🤷🏻♂️
Damm..😳 my hat is off and appreciate all the hard work and effort all the people at Honda put forth to produce such amazing motorcycles 👍
Thank you for sharing this version with the English voiceover. I was born in 1962 and within just a few years I was riding on the back of my dad’s Honda. Within 8 years I was riding a Honda of my own thanks to the Z50 Mini Trail. All these years later I still ride (and drive) a Honda.
このバージョンを英語のナレーションと共有していただきありがとうございます。私は1962年に生まれ、ほんの数年以内に父のホンダの後ろに乗っていました。 8年以内に、Z50 Mini Trailのおかげで自分のホンダに乗っていました。これらの数年後、私はまだホンダに乗っています（そして運転しています）。
１９６２年のホンダ、既に凄いといか言えない！僅か１０年後にはシビックCVCCが発売されたのも頷ける。
Definitely not an ordinary documentary film.
Great video in language english, I appreciate much this trademark and I owner of one motorcycle Honda GL 125, greetings from Peru - Southamerica 🇵🇪 😉👍🏻
I have a Honda cb500x, and I love it.
Thank you, Honda, to be consistent and reliable with the reasonable price always.
I wish one day I would be able to visit any of your factory sites to appreciate your hard work and honesty in this regard.
Just wanted to let you know that I have two Honda cars too, Honda Insight and Honda Element, high mileage but no problem, drive like a champ.
Thanks again
The captivating sounds and sights of making Honda bikes. Would like to see a doc. on Honda superbikes. Thanks for the great upload.
Thank you so much Honda. My dad he used to drive his motorcycle MB100 i love this motorcycle. I hope one to visit The motor company in Japan. Many Greetings from Tablada de Lurin, VMT, Lima, Perú.
I am restoring 13 - 1987 and older Hondas. Wonderful video. Fabulous engineering. Now I know why not one of my bikes needs engine work. Most carbs, chains, fork seals, electrics, and the like...
Thats great! Those transport tucks are amazing they should have diecast versions of it.
Honda. We make it simple.
2nd civic's copyright?
Amazing!! 👏👏👏👏
Not everything about Honda in the 1960's was smart. Back then a friend of my father had a Honda dealership, and was doing quite well in it. Drove the local Triumph dealer out of business with Honda's lack of vibration, far better quality, and better reliability. But Australia was a quite well off country and almost all people could easily afford cars. So my father's friend soon saturated the local market for motorbikes.
Some clot in Japan noticed the orders had levelled off, and noticed the number of bikes sold per head of population was lower than in other countries. So Honda said "lift your game, son, you ought to be selling so many bikes. If you don't, we''ll take the dealership off you and give it to someone else." Well, he couldn't, so they did take it off him and gave it to someone else. Who sold less bikes as they were not well known.
Правильная организация рабочего места на предприятии - залог качества и успеха !
Honda stands for superb quality bikes, fron 50 το 1050 cm.
I have a 40 year old cm 250 tb, running almost as new...
First bike, Honda C90. About 90 hp/l from a motor that would run literally without maintenance, with anything resembling oil in the engine while consuming thin air. I downshifted to 1st from 2nd instead of grabbing 3rd, >10 k revs i believe - no problem. A friend turned his upside down to empty the oil from the fill plug, no problem 😀 How about 4 people on it - you guessed it no problem.
The prices of Japan made, unmolested examples nowadays are through the roof. Maybe the price of nostalgia? Who knows, I have some nice toys and no time (or energy) to enjoy them as I should. I would trade them to get back to the times that 80 km/h was enough, take the back roads and stop along the way to enjoy a nice view.
Greece loves Honda, if only the Importer was better 😀
No wonder Honda makes awesome products. The machines in the machine shop make the same noises you hear during a Godzilla Vs Mothra battle.
Sounded a bit like the old Bruce Lee movies too.
8:12 Telemetry in 1962. Pretty cool!
В 1962 у моего любимого производителя были очень передовые заводы, и это всего чуть более 15 лет после разрушительной войны. Вы молодцы, приятно было посмотреть. Спасибо.
@suzukishakra это не показатель. Так как это все не было разрушено. А после 1945 года промышленность Японии была в плачевном состоянии. И экономика, и многие города. И все это было восстановлено очень быстро и качественно. Об этом было мое сообщение.
23:18 German Schuler press machine. 23:50 Swiss Schlatter welding machines.
食堂では脱帽です。
EPIC
good
Yes it's Very Interesting to Compare the Historic Role Out of Cars, Bikes, Trucks, Trains, Tractors, Ships, Planes to the Current Attempts to Switch to Renewable Machines.
The Early Machine Production had Significant Public, Corporate and Government Support and Now They are Reluctant to Change, Weird!.
Buenísimo el vídeo q historia 👍👍
❤❤❤ from Viet Nam 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Does anyone know if any of the unique delivery trucks are preserved?
First Honda a 1964 cub. More bikes, quads pumps generators and 2 Ridgelines. None let me down. Beat up on that 50 cub in the bush but it never quit.
man the music in 1960s youtube vids is so wierd!
カブ大豊作🍅
🤭
So quintessentially Japanese, complete with Godzilla Vs. Rodan music and sound effects. Does anyone know what happened to the "motorcycle playground" and which plant it was located at? Fascinating history.
It is Tama Tech, located at outskirts area of Tokyo. The Tech switched to amusement park in 1970s and finally closed in 2009. The Tech was isolated from other Honda plant.
@@いぎりす国鉄 Thank you! Any knowledge that any of those unique delivery trucks still exist? Heading back to Japan in February and would love to see one in person.
@ Sorry, I couldn’t find any information of those trucks. I think they were scrapped.
@@いぎりす国鉄 Thanks again. They look like Hinos, which would be owned by Toyota, so maybe there wasn't much incentive to save one.
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Make video about cbr1000rrr sp 2020_2024
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At 5:15 the narrator says "Our concept of a research laboratory is to combine human technology and psychology as a means of transforming psychological findings into reality" Seems like 1962 Japanese film industry translators were about as bad as their instruction manual writers at the time. Were they curing lunatics or making better bikes?
Presumably they meant something like "In our reasearch laboratory ideas of human imagination are turned into practical methods."
Why are there 2 japanese bot in the comments?
Spam.... U know youtube is not that tight 😂
even japan is not immune to bot
impressive, btw only man workers. other times.
Hate the music and added sound effects. Sounds like a cheap 1960s horror movie score in places. Otherwise good film.
Now lets see the barn that produced stone age dinosaur harley davidsons in 1962 or 60 years later today?
Hahahahahahaha
Hahahahahaha
weird music
ウルトラセブンの
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テーマソングです
MASTERS OF COPYING...
Copying what exactly? These bikes had lots of new and innovated tech that the British and American bike manufactures didn't have in a production bike.
Masters of refinement really. The Japanese, unlike Chinese manufacturers, actually bought a lot licences to manufacture certain items, and even full motorcycles in the case of the Meguro/Kawasaki W1. They then used that as their starting point with brand new equipment, while in the UK we were left with appalling management, a government hell bent on reducing manufacturing and pre-war equipment. Had we had correct investment the British motorcycling industry was full of talent, quality and ideas. You only have to look at what companies like Velocette were doing pre-war.
I ride push bike very fast weather permitting
Its generally true that Japanese manufacturers were copyists. Even today, their heavy machinery is much the same as obsolete American models. But Honda was unique. Their motorbikes, right from the early days, were nothing like any western product.
Completely different design and far more advanced.
Dreadful music!!
they used to be the best in craftmanship and bleeding edge technology, but now they're just meh...mediocre.
Việt Nam rất thích Honda
纯粹的日本精神