As a guy that grew up with a honda spree. The crash was inevitable. I watched every single one of my buddies as a kid crash on that thing. Those small tires act completely different than any other bike you've ever ridden. Every, single, one of my friends. They would ask to ride it and I'd say "you're going to crash it, but ok". I was never wrong.
You should be putting pre-mix in all the 2 strokes, even when if they have oil injection. At least until you can confirm the injection is working as expected.
Should do a lot of things not done before taking a rare bike and trying to start it and ride it. Sort of makes me cringe every time they do this stuff. I like these guys but this bro just find-and-ride stuff is not great craft and practice, it must be said.
12:12 it's just fuel gauge. 補給 (hokyuu) meaning "supply / replenishment" as for you to refill gas, and 満 (man) meaning "full". Or simply just empty / full.
even 90s man ive got tons of memories on honda ct70s and monkeys... my neighbor would collect and rebuild them and he would help all the neighborhood kids with theirs machines most of us had monkeys such fun times man.....
Sooooo true. This comment is by far the most accurate thing Ive seen on youtube in a while. Those sure was some cool times..like stairing in awe at the lambos and such. Just made you want the future to be now, now we want to run away from the future.
Hi from Japan. I’ve owned a lot of these bikes. The best bike you got in the shipment was the nsr250r. This is like in total maybe $25k max though if you bought everything privately. The condition looks as expected for auction bikes, so I think you over-paid a lot. The TZR, NSR are what’s worth the most. Most of the bikes you can get basically thrown into a deal, or for really cheap. I think you could get $85k out of it if you sold again in the US. The export, import cartel forces thin margins. It’s a lot different than the domestic market. The cbr250rr is imo one of the greatest bikes ever made though! I hope you get it running. I am riding mine in the twisties and it has no problem keeping up with larger bikes. It’s a race bike Honda made for the street
Yup that MSR LOOKS AND SOUNDS BEAUTIFUL WHEN IT HAS BEEN MAINTAINED AND WELL TAKEN CARE OF, I would love to own one of them bikes, I personally think that it is one CHERRY MPHUUCCIN BIKE.CHEERS FROM EAST LOS ANGELES CALIFORNIA TO ALL MINI BIKE RIDERS AND STONERS(420)ALL OVER THE WORLD.🏍🛵🚲🛹🍻🌮🍰🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥👌🏼😎👍🏼🤓✌🏼🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🔥🔥🔥👍🏼
SACS- Suzuki Advanced Comical System was an in-house joke amongst Suzuki due to the it being a gag mini GSX-R. SACS on big bikes is Suzuki Advanced Cooling System. Just learned this myself.
I'm guessing they never revved it high enough to get into the powerband. That little zook should be a screamer. The tiddlers didn't come on the cam till way up in the rpm range.
Regarding the the shifter on the Pigeon: About 65 years ago (Yeah, I'm old as dirt), we rode an old Lambretta scooter around on Nantucket Island (Before the island became overpopulated with obnoxious yuppies - when the harbor smelled of fish - and you took an actual steamship to get there) unbeknownst to the owner. (It wasn't theft - we 'borrowed' it.). The Lambretta shifted by twisting the grip just like on the Pigeon. My brother actually got it ripping in 3rd gear before he slammed it into the side of a house just after mowing down a forsythia bush. I'm still riding motorcycles. My brother 'retired' from the sport.
The Yamaha 850 TRX is a 270° parallel-twin engine, not a V-twin. Same engine as the Yamaha TDM850 the "Sport Touring" bike. The TDX is more of a Cafe Racer, very cool like I owned one for a few years, very nice to ride. There are lots of roads to make the TRX tires look like that, the Hakone Turnpike for example, we would do that to our tires all the time!
12:25 The colored bars (red and blue) and the text (possibly Japanese) indicate the fluid levels: "low" (補給) on the left, and "full" (満) on the right. The red needle points toward the current fluid level, which appears to be close to "full.
Man you're living my dream. I was station in Okinawa Japan for a total of four and a half years. I actually had a truck like the one you got. I had it painted metallic blue with red pinstriping. That was about 35 years ago. Oh to be young again and have another one! Happy holidays brother!
When you add a 6V rectifier/voltage regulator (I have one of a Honda MB in my MOTOCOMPO, NOT MOTOCOMPACTO!) and an good 6v battery (very VERY hard to get hold of) the buzzing goes away and the blinkers work, you also don't go trough bulbs like christmas cookies.
This is by far THE BEST VIDEO you have put out. And I've been watching for years now... you could've got like 3 videos out of this! More containers please!
Clean the carbs on bikes that have em. Fuel sits in the carbs and forms deposits like varnish after sitting for a while and you almost always have to clean em to get it running right.
Not sure if you've figured it out yet but the buzzing sound is the indicator module that doesn't have enough voltage going to it and then the contacts "bounce" instead of "flicker". The old-style modules all did that. The moment you revved the engine a bit you'll notice the indicator started working and the buzzing disappeared. If you switch the indicator off the buzzing should disappear as well 👍
Mitsubishi has a long history of technical excellence. You forgot one of their most iconic creation. The Mitsubishi A6M Reisen know to WWII Aviators more commonly as a the Zero.
Shawn, some of my most painful motorcycle crashes have occurred on Honda CRF 50s with 88cc big bore kits. You look at it and think I can't get hurt on this and go riding without gear thinking it's a kids toy.
We made tall handlebars for our 50 so it was shaped more like a BMX. Awesome for wheelies, however 100% accurate about overconfident because it's so small.
Most of the bikes sound like the airbox either isn't connected at all or is just empty. Those little 50cc engines have tiny carbs that need a limited amount of air to get the mixture right.
@@starfox_wr-45e93 this video would not be one of the ones that knows what theyre looking at and talking about since they keep calling their motocompo (2 stroke) a motocompacto (an electric bike)
I'm in love with the XR. The Honda 2stroke is worth its weight in gold in Europe. They still race those. The green bike is a mix of Mel Gibsons Mad Max 2 and Princes Purple Rain movie.
it is a cash card reader for charges in the city (like parking areas) and road tolls. Some cities charge for entering the business district during certain hours. It subtracts from amount on card. Then you refill it through online to your bank.
As an 86 Ninja 1000R(American GPZ) owner I can confirm yours should have WAY more power than that. They are older bikes but they’ll still do good burnouts.
@ my father had something like a 70s Z1000 I’ve seen pictures of when he was younger.. just wish I could have a look at that thing in person beautiful bike with the maroon red paint and golden pin striping
Amazing collection . The Harley Monkey is one of the coolest things, but I'm pretty sure 10 year old Phil , living on a farm , would have gone for the Monkey Baja . I rode my Z50 long hours in the bush and went past dark a lot . That single headlight couldn't keep up to the bike . I remember the mini YSRs when they came out too ...being the stuff of dreams .
Moto compacto, it is the blinker relay that causes it to buzz,if you notice that when it is stationary the turn signal lights up constantly, when you drive it flashes and stops buzzing
Such a fun video. One piece of advice considering fueling, leaking petcocks and jumper boxes....I didn't see a single handy fire extinguisher. Maybe I just missed it. Just a thought.
that buzzing sounds like the mechanism that retracts the kickstarter gear is broken, what you're hearing sounds to me exactly like the kickstarter ratchet working, which it really shouldn't be. (I may of course be wrong though.)
Well that was fun. A suggestion with the 2-stroke bikes, check the exhausts for restrictor plates at the engine end. Power profiles can be modified by adding a restriction (for noise, power, fuel consumption). The Honda 4-cyclinder 250cc goes back to when the Grand Prix classes had no cylinder number restrictions. At the time when GP bikes (covering all classes) had single, twin. triple, four, five, six and V8 engine configurations.
Only issue i had with my CBR's was regulator, correct plugs for elevation or you can hole your pistons, balance your carbs. I had mine Dyno tuned after fitting a VFR micron end can and it transformed it as standard endcan is sooo restrictive
Kinda high jacking your comment here to explain what "Suzuki Advanced Comical System" actually means. The big Suzuki GSXR's had the same looking sticker on them saying "Suzuki Advanced Cooling System". The GSXR 50 doesn't really have a cooling system, it's air cooled. But since it's a small replica of the big bikes and they wanted it to to look the same as much as possible, they added that sticker but changed "cooling" to "comical" as a sort of in house joke.
Got my Moto 1 fast detailer spray last week. Love this stuff. Love the smell. Do you have it in a cologne, soap, shampoo, deodorant? lol. Oh. And thanks for the safety tip.
35:45 that bike looks and sounds so modern other than the headlight, it really is a gorgeous bike. Yamaha has had some pretty ones, tho I definitely prefer the Hondas, the NSR and the Fireblade are iconic.
I think this is the first time I’ve ever seen a channel do their adds while doing relative work (like getting gas) and not just looking into the camera in a random room on a webcam
The trx 850 has a dry sump you need to run it first then check the oil, also the trx has a 270 degree crank and made more power than the ducati monster of the same time. They have real following.
I believe the Indian Papoose being based on the Wellbike actually makes it a British design by a chap called John Dolphin. He later adapted the Welbike design in to a civilian version called a Corgi and that is what the Indians were licensed copies of. I think. Ooh it seems like they were exported as completely built bikes from my hometown of Southport and then rebranded as Indians when they arrived on your side of the pond. ;)
i absolutely loved my TRX 850 , rides like it's on rails , but it has a handling quirk i could never come to terms with , if you were almost at the limit once you chose a line into the corner you could not change ,you were committed to that line , you could not tighten the line or run it wide if you were too tight , the only bike i ever had that had that trait , aside from that wow , what a bike !
the suzuki r50 should rev a lot more, we drove with those on the streets here in finland when we get moped licence at 15years old along with the suzuki pv50 that was a lot more popular and had the same engine.
38:50 we had those 250 4 cil here in Venezuela imported from Japan. I remember those where very very fast to be a 250cc it could go around 100-120 mph easy.
I had a identical CBR250RR with a yoshi pipe as my learner bike here in NZ it was a awesome bike and in that color and you can fit a 4 pack of bourbons in that cool little boot too, 😎 Great bike! Sux you couldnt get it running yet
That was so funny guys 🤣 epic! Loved the micro Harley wow! The Golden Monkey Bike!. I'm Currently in Rhodes Greece they love the Monkey and mini bikes here! The roads are so narrow and dangerous but the minibikes win! 😂
I read online that the Suzuki advanced comical system is the company making a joke. The bikes name is the Gag 50. It's a parody of Suzuki advanced cooling system.
That red and white Yamaha is super nice. TRX850 I think it was called? Super awesome. The Honda NSR250 is sweet as well. I've never ridden anything bigger than a small dirt bike but living in the Philippines I would love to learn to ride and have a motorcycle. So freaking awesome.
While watching this video, I couldn't help but think, God, why didn't they just clean the carburetors before starting these bikes? I just don't understand it. All of these bikes, except a few of them, should be screaming. None of them sounded healthy. All of them sounded like they needed the carbs cleaned out, new fuel, new fuel lines, and fuel filters. None of them were running well. I've owned a lot of these bikes, and these little things scream you twist the throttle, and those little motors rev up super fast, super easy, and they sound extremely good when they're properly running. I just wish they would've taken the extra time to clean the carburetors, put new fuel filters, new oil filters, and so on, and then did a video cranking them all up and riding them. It would've been a hell of a lot of fun, and we, the viewers, would've been able to see these bikes at their best. Other than that, it was a great video. Obviously, he has a lot of really cool bikes, and I believe that he can definitely make a profit. These things sell for really good money here in the States with lots of collectors.
if i remember right that TRX850 has an ohlins shock.... the bike was made during the time yamaha owned ohlins and around the early/mid 90s they started incorporating the high end suspension into their base model bikes. And yeah, you were right about the frame being inspired by ducati also, some great napoleon dynamite quotes in this video not lost on me
02:00 I (German) didn't know that the British Brockhouse Corgi Mk2 (developed from the WWII military parachute Welbike motorcycle) was branded and sold as the Indian Papoose in the US, starting in 1947. Amazing, as the whole video is amazing, thank you!
33:41 I think you are good to remove the carbs, clean everything and syncho them when back together with the engine. Also change or remove the vaccum fuel tap, membrane can become porous and one cylinder is way richer and lead to crappy behavior. My dad got the issue on a Z400J
I go to Japan fairly often and know a place that has at least two very early H1's. Not too far away is another shop that has some early Brigstone bikes. Would love to bring one back with me.
The Honda CBR250RR has a side stand kill switch that turns off the ignition when the side stand is open. The side stand switch is a safety device that automatically stalls the engine if the side stand is down and the rider selects a gear. 😎 I've ridden a lot of CBR250RRs. Great fun in the city streets.
You're absolutely right about the Suzuki 50: It was not meant for grown ups. In the "unboxing" video I commented that they were very popular in Puerto Rico in the 80s (when they came out) with the Teenage crowd. They were known as "mini-ninjas" even though everybody knew they were not Ninjas, they weren't even Kawasakis, and there were GSXR 750s and bigger on the streets!!, but Ninjas were, arguably, the most popular and most recognized sport bike in PR in the late 80s, so the Suzuki 50 automatically became the "Mini-Ninja"
I watch all your videos on TH-cam and I'm subscribed to my two TH-cam channels. I have an ATV but I haven't been able to fix it. It's from China, it has a turbine, it didn't have a chain and the shaft is crooked.
i can confirm that is the easiest way to drain fuel from bikes we deliver, loosen the petcock and drain them sideways. That ysr is is so nice. Nsr is still my favorite of them all.
Take pictures of the things you want translated or have questions of what they are, like the floating mystery guage, and ask Chat GTP to translate what it all is.
The Pigeon is the coolest of the lot. But, it's a copy of a Vespa, including the switch gear. The Trx850 was the best bike Yamaha never sold in North America, but it's not a V twin. The TRX is the parallel twin design that is now the standard out of Japan decades later. But these guys know this. Their comments are designed to trigger TH-cam comments to game the algorithm.
I have a 1991 cbr 250 mc22 it’s a pocket rocket I plan on keeping it for while nothing beats the sound so happy you guys have one never thought I would see it
A buddy of mine up in Tennessee has a k-truck for their small lavender farm…thing is fun as hell and rips. It ain’t particularly fast or strong but it’s a fun time
We were told by the Pa inspection officer don't get caught inspecting one of those mini trucks not allowed on road in Pennsylvania and my dad went a bought one and now cannot get rid of it
I ride an 04 Road King. But u sir have inspired me to build a British Motorcycle. I picked up a 68 BSA 250 starfire! She's rusty and crusty but gonna be a fun build
maybe you lost money maybe you didnt, what remains the same is the fact that youve still got the dream collection!! nice!
Seriously, I haven’t been this excited watching TH-cam in a while. It really felt like Christmas
collection? hes a dealer
@@imperialdra-mon5907 Also a dealer is allowed to dream, collect or run a museum for special treasures 🙂
He got a new subscriber through that video.
most of them are so ugly
As a guy that grew up with a honda spree. The crash was inevitable. I watched every single one of my buddies as a kid crash on that thing. Those small tires act completely different than any other bike you've ever ridden.
Every, single, one of my friends. They would ask to ride it and I'd say "you're going to crash it, but ok". I was never wrong.
Damn. Like deja vu over and over…
You should be putting pre-mix in all the 2 strokes, even when if they have oil injection. At least until you can confirm the injection is working as expected.
❤❤ very true.
Even if the oil injection works, just disable it and use pre mix, old injection is unreliable and could fail at any time
Yep. The guaranteed way to ruin an old two stroke is to trust the original oil mixing system.
Should do a lot of things not done before taking a rare bike and trying to start it and ride it. Sort of makes me cringe every time they do this stuff. I like these guys but this bro just find-and-ride stuff is not great craft and practice, it must be said.
@@Simulera Same, crazy how little effort they put into checking all the fluids.
12:12 it's just fuel gauge. 補給 (hokyuu) meaning "supply / replenishment" as for you to refill gas, and 満 (man) meaning "full". Or simply just empty / full.
Can confirm 👍 👌 was just about to post this haha
Mini bikes are mythical machines for kids that grew up in the 70s and 80s. Rekindling that nostalgia is just awesome 👍
even 90s man ive got tons of memories on honda ct70s and monkeys... my neighbor would collect and rebuild them and he would help all the neighborhood kids with theirs machines most of us had monkeys such fun times man.....
Got my 2019 monkey for the reason alone.
Sooooo true. This comment is by far the most accurate thing Ive seen on youtube in a while. Those sure was some cool times..like stairing in awe at the lambos and such. Just made you want the future to be now, now we want to run away from the future.
They were used in the ship yards, to travel the length of the ship on deck etc, some were 1/4 mile long, it was shown on tv in the seventies
I had to check, you tube search Japan shipbuilding mega projects
Hi from Japan. I’ve owned a lot of these bikes. The best bike you got in the shipment was the nsr250r.
This is like in total maybe $25k max though if you bought everything privately. The condition looks as expected for auction bikes, so I think you over-paid a lot. The TZR, NSR are what’s worth the most. Most of the bikes you can get basically thrown into a deal, or for really cheap.
I think you could get $85k out of it if you sold again in the US. The export, import cartel forces thin margins. It’s a lot different than the domestic market.
The cbr250rr is imo one of the greatest bikes ever made though! I hope you get it running. I am riding mine in the twisties and it has no problem keeping up with larger bikes. It’s a race bike Honda made for the street
Yup that MSR LOOKS AND SOUNDS BEAUTIFUL WHEN IT HAS BEEN MAINTAINED AND WELL TAKEN CARE OF, I would love to own one of them bikes, I personally think that it is one CHERRY MPHUUCCIN BIKE.CHEERS FROM EAST LOS ANGELES CALIFORNIA TO ALL MINI BIKE RIDERS AND STONERS(420)ALL OVER THE WORLD.🏍🛵🚲🛹🍻🌮🍰🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥👌🏼😎👍🏼🤓✌🏼🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🔥🔥🔥👍🏼
SACS- Suzuki Advanced Comical System was an in-house joke amongst Suzuki due to the it being a gag mini GSX-R. SACS on big bikes is Suzuki Advanced Cooling System. Just learned this myself.
SACS. Lol.
I'm guessing they never revved it high enough to get into the powerband. That little zook should be a screamer. The tiddlers didn't come on the cam till way up in the rpm range.
I was thinking it could be a typical translation “close but not quite” of Anime to comics as in animation. 😅
Why would you put an "in house" joke on the outside of a damn production bike?? That is literally the opposite of an in house joke .. 🥴
Never trust a self mix 2-stroke always pre mix had a few heat seize back in the day down to autolube failure 👍👍👍
A lot of 50cc Yamaha's seemed to suffer from that, which is odd, because usually Yamaha is very meticulous with their bikes.
Regarding the the shifter on the Pigeon: About 65 years ago (Yeah, I'm old as dirt), we rode an old Lambretta scooter around on Nantucket Island (Before the island became overpopulated with obnoxious yuppies - when the harbor smelled of fish - and you took an actual steamship to get there) unbeknownst to the owner. (It wasn't theft - we 'borrowed' it.). The Lambretta shifted by twisting the grip just like on the Pigeon. My brother actually got it ripping in 3rd gear before he slammed it into the side of a house just after mowing down a forsythia bush. I'm still riding motorcycles. My brother 'retired' from the sport.
Incredible story my friend
That kind of shifter is the same of the old Vespa
The Yamaha 850 TRX is a 270° parallel-twin engine, not a V-twin.
Same engine as the Yamaha TDM850 the "Sport Touring" bike. The TDX is more of a Cafe Racer, very cool like I owned one for a few years, very nice to ride.
There are lots of roads to make the TRX tires look like that, the Hakone Turnpike for example, we would do that to our tires all the time!
12:25 The colored bars (red and blue) and the text (possibly Japanese) indicate the fluid levels: "low" (補給) on the left, and "full" (満) on the right. The red needle points toward the current fluid level, which appears to be close to "full.
You actually think he was serious?
Man you're living my dream. I was station in Okinawa Japan for a total of four and a half years. I actually had a truck like the one you got. I had it painted metallic blue with red pinstriping. That was about 35 years ago. Oh to be young again and have another one! Happy holidays brother!
Turn off your turn signal and the buzz sound goes away
$7 electronic turn signal relays remove the normal relay click sound when blinking too.
When you rewatch the video you'll see the light
The harley monkey its wild that someone made that
When you add a 6V rectifier/voltage regulator (I have one of a Honda MB in my MOTOCOMPO, NOT MOTOCOMPACTO!) and an good 6v battery (very VERY hard to get hold of) the buzzing goes away and the blinkers work, you also don't go trough bulbs like christmas cookies.
The card reader as well as the antenna mounted above your rear view mirror is for the ETC toll system used on the highways in Japan.
The buzzing sound is so you don’t forget you got you’re turn signal or blinkers on! 🤪👌🏻
This is by far THE BEST VIDEO you have put out. And I've been watching for years now... you could've got like 3 videos out of this! More containers please!
Clean the carbs on bikes that have em. Fuel sits in the carbs and forms deposits like varnish after sitting for a while and you almost always have to clean em to get it running right.
A lot of em will want re jetting and tuning to suit the big change in location
Not sure if you've figured it out yet but the buzzing sound is the indicator module that doesn't have enough voltage going to it and then the contacts "bounce" instead of "flicker". The old-style modules all did that. The moment you revved the engine a bit you'll notice the indicator started working and the buzzing disappeared. If you switch the indicator off the buzzing should disappear as well 👍
Mitsubishi has a long history of technical excellence. You forgot one of their most iconic creation. The Mitsubishi A6M Reisen know to WWII Aviators more commonly as a the Zero.
just like vespa. went from making planes to making scooters.
They've also produced a variant of the F-15 Eagle, specifically the F-15J.
My favourite is their air conditioning 😂
I couldn't believe he didn't mention the Lancer Evo series of cars, you know WRC champions.
I have only ever owned one Mitsubishi product and that oddly enough was a TV. And you know what, it was a damn good TV.
I had the NSR 125 RR that was once owned by the Castrol/Campsa 1990s race team.
Got 105mph on the straight! Best 2 wheels ice ever owned 👌
The GSXRs of the 80s had SACs Suzuki advanced cooling system , the GSXR50 was just making fun of itself with that sticker .
Thanks for circling the spanner in the screen shot I didn't wanna get confused which was presenter ! Also it clarifies the clickbait
Shawn, some of my most painful motorcycle crashes have occurred on Honda CRF 50s with 88cc big bore kits. You look at it and think I can't get hurt on this and go riding without gear thinking it's a kids toy.
We made tall handlebars for our 50 so it was shaped more like a BMX. Awesome for wheelies, however 100% accurate about overconfident because it's so small.
Most of the bikes sound like the airbox either isn't connected at all or is just empty. Those little 50cc engines have tiny carbs that need a limited amount of air to get the mixture right.
You could only buy the Motocompo as an add-on to the honda city. It wasn't available to purchase otherwise.
That explains why they are rare... Forgot about that little fact.
Where did you get that info from? Got any links? Or sources for that info?
@@supertedogpriken Wikipedia? And every video on youtube that knows what they're looking at and talking about
@@starfox_wr-45e93 this video would not be one of the ones that knows what theyre looking at and talking about since they keep calling their motocompo (2 stroke) a motocompacto (an electric bike)
3:07 predicting that a Honda is gonna be easy to start up is like predicting that tomorrow the sun will rise 😂
I'm in love with the XR. The Honda 2stroke is worth its weight in gold in Europe. They still race those. The green bike is a mix of Mel Gibsons Mad Max 2 and Princes Purple Rain movie.
XR’s are four stroke though .
@@allseeingotto2912 he meant the NSR probably... and he's right!
@@allseeingotto2912 yes, worded wrong. I meant the NSR. But I'm in love with the XR.
@@Chrissurfs Me too , both of them here in England are silly money.
it is a cash card reader for charges in the city (like parking areas) and road tolls. Some cities charge for entering the business district during certain hours.
It subtracts from amount on card. Then you refill it through online to your bank.
As an 86 Ninja 1000R(American GPZ) owner I can confirm yours should have WAY more power than that. They are older bikes but they’ll still do good burnouts.
I had a ‘83 KZ1000R ELR and that bike ran very well when I traded it in on an ‘87 Ninja 1000. Of all the bike I want back, it’s actually the ELR😢
@ my father had something like a 70s Z1000 I’ve seen pictures of when he was younger.. just wish I could have a look at that thing in person beautiful bike with the maroon red paint and golden pin striping
Rad video guys. I'll take the XR Baja twin headlight. Reminds me of my 1st bike 🤙🏼
Nice to see the bikes I see in Japan in the USA. Thank you for the content.
The OG Piaggio Vespa has the same twist to change gears as the silver pigeon, it's rad.
Those tiny 2 stroke sport bikes are a dream come true
A track day would be a blast
Cletus youtube channel need to do honda grom races
Amazing collection . The Harley Monkey is one of the coolest things, but I'm pretty sure 10 year old Phil , living on a farm , would have gone for the Monkey Baja . I rode my Z50 long hours in the bush and went past dark a lot . That single headlight couldn't keep up to the bike . I remember the mini YSRs when they came out too ...being the stuff of dreams .
i had a tzr exactly the same as the non scratched one very tuneable and for such a small capacity absolutely rapid you can ride at 10/10ths
The styling on that Pigeon is beautiful!
Moto compacto, it is the blinker relay that causes it to buzz,if you notice that when it is stationary the turn signal lights up constantly, when you drive it flashes and stops buzzing
Such a fun video. One piece of advice considering fueling, leaking petcocks and jumper boxes....I didn't see a single handy fire extinguisher. Maybe I just missed it. Just a thought.
You know what you're right. Maybe I should have one
You probably wear a helmet 24/7
@@Q-nt-Tf Are you talking to me?
@@stixx3969 Yes. I bet you bubblewrap your table corners and keep an industrial fire extinguisher by the microwave.
@@Q-nt-Tf Well....aren't you a delight. Bless your heart.
This is such a great video, thanks for your craziness.
The old 2 stroke Vespa also having handle bar gear shifting.
Dream scoot status.
Yeah old Vespa 3 speed Twist shift had one back in Sixties.
my sachs optima 2DK also has it, 2 speed and neutral
A bunch of bikes from around europe(and japan) has this on there bikes. Kinda regular on scooters from that time(just not in the us)
Really enjoyed the content over 2024, thank you, & Happy Christmas from here in the U.K chap. 👏👍🤙🖖✌🤘👌🍻
that buzzing sounds like the mechanism that retracts the kickstarter gear is broken, what you're hearing sounds to me exactly like the kickstarter ratchet working, which it really shouldn't be. (I may of course be wrong though.)
Sounded like a seized horn to me..
4:50 The buzzing sound is from the kick start if the bike starts and you push the kick starter pedal the buzzing sound produce
Well that was fun. A suggestion with the 2-stroke bikes, check the exhausts for restrictor plates at the engine end. Power profiles can be modified by adding a restriction (for noise, power, fuel consumption). The Honda 4-cyclinder 250cc goes back to when the Grand Prix classes had no cylinder number restrictions. At the time when GP bikes (covering all classes) had single, twin. triple, four, five, six and V8 engine configurations.
The 4 cylinder 250 has to be fun to ride. Smallest 4 I've ridden is a 400, power profile like a 2 stroke.
Only issue i had with my CBR's was regulator, correct plugs for elevation or you can hole your pistons, balance your carbs. I had mine Dyno tuned after fitting a VFR micron end can and it transformed it as standard endcan is sooo restrictive
"Suzuki Advanced Comical System" this needs to be on a t-shirt
The big question is. Did someone make that decal as a joke. Or is this just a prime exsample of Engrish?
@@maxmoller😂
Kinda high jacking your comment here to explain what "Suzuki Advanced Comical System" actually means. The big Suzuki GSXR's had the same looking sticker on them saying "Suzuki Advanced Cooling System". The GSXR 50 doesn't really have a cooling system, it's air cooled. But since it's a small replica of the big bikes and they wanted it to to look the same as much as possible, they added that sticker but changed "cooling" to "comical" as a sort of in house joke.
The Gpz is just 1/2 or 3/4 of a point. Not all cylinders working.
@@maxmoller ofcourse it's a joke...
Got my Moto 1 fast detailer spray last week. Love this stuff. Love the smell. Do you have it in a cologne, soap, shampoo, deodorant? lol. Oh. And thanks for the safety tip.
Nice the bozozuko bike fired right up! Love the wild lights on it!
Glad you didn't dump that one, imagine the embarrassment!
35:45 that bike looks and sounds so modern other than the headlight, it really is a gorgeous bike. Yamaha has had some pretty ones, tho I definitely prefer the Hondas, the NSR and the Fireblade are iconic.
I think this is the first time I’ve ever seen a channel do their adds while doing relative work (like getting gas) and not just looking into the camera in a random room on a webcam
First time on TH-cam?
The only issue I have with bikeandbeards is the religious bs.
The trx 850 has a dry sump you need to run it first then check the oil, also the trx has a 270 degree crank and made more power than the ducati monster of the same time. They have real following.
I believe the Indian Papoose being based on the Wellbike actually makes it a British design by a chap called John Dolphin. He later adapted the Welbike design in to a civilian version called a Corgi and that is what the Indians were licensed copies of. I think.
Ooh it seems like they were exported as completely built bikes from my hometown of Southport and then rebranded as Indians when they arrived on your side of the pond. ;)
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Crosby represent!
John Dolphin sounds like a so made up name 😂 I'm sorry for the Dolphin family but I can't think of it as a real surname
i absolutely loved my TRX 850 , rides like it's on rails , but it has a handling quirk i could never come to terms with , if you were almost at the limit once you chose a line into the corner you could not change ,you were committed to that line , you could not tighten the line or run it wide if you were too tight , the only bike i ever had that had that trait , aside from that wow , what a bike !
the suzuki r50 should rev a lot more, we drove with those on the streets here in finland when we get moped licence at 15years old along with the suzuki pv50 that was a lot more popular and had the same engine.
Hello from Ireland again, Sam. Happy Xmas to all you're family, and the garage guys. Respect 🙏 👌
38:50 we had those 250 4 cil here in Venezuela imported from Japan. I remember those where very very fast to be a 250cc it could go around 100-120 mph easy.
Must be fun. Smallest 4 cyl I've ridden was a 400, it was fun, like a 2 stroke.
What is that Spray that you are spraying while starting the scooter?
Start spray
@glennkooijman1386 can I use it at the time I meet my girlfriend 😜
850 Yamaha is sick🤟
An underrated gem it is
29:33 "What about the christmas lights?" Cameraman should have asked "What about refilling your Ritalin prescription, ADHD boy?"
I had a identical CBR250RR with a yoshi pipe as my learner bike here in NZ it was a awesome bike and in that color and you can fit a 4 pack of bourbons in that cool little boot too, 😎 Great bike! Sux you couldnt get it running yet
Was my learner bike too. I had the camel yellow with yellow wheels
They still hold a good price if they are running too.
Not Fan of Harley’s, but that Monkey makes me want to join a club and get a vest with a patch
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"hey guys! I got my Harley from Temu, what about you?"
😂😂 the shriners?
That was so funny guys 🤣 epic! Loved the micro Harley wow! The Golden Monkey Bike!. I'm Currently in Rhodes Greece they love the Monkey and mini bikes here! The roads are so narrow and dangerous but the minibikes win! 😂
24:21 Same gearshift as as older Vespa's and Lambretta's Shaun..😊
Literally came to say this, surely Shaun has seen vespas for sure
Just kept smiling thru the video. The 50s remind me of charlie brown racing his dirtbike
I read online that the Suzuki advanced comical system is the company making a joke. The bikes name is the Gag 50. It's a parody of Suzuki advanced cooling system.
That red and white Yamaha is super nice. TRX850 I think it was called? Super awesome. The Honda NSR250 is sweet as well. I've never ridden anything bigger than a small dirt bike but living in the Philippines I would love to learn to ride and have a motorcycle. So freaking awesome.
Brass monkey is a 40oz Old English Beer mixed with orange juice. Drink 40oz to top of “label”, then fill to top with OJ… at least where I grew up(AZ)
It's also a classic cocktail Rum, orange juice and vodka.
Brass monkey, that funky monkey?
While watching this video, I couldn't help but think, God, why didn't they just clean the carburetors before starting these bikes? I just don't understand it. All of these bikes, except a few of them, should be screaming. None of them sounded healthy. All of them sounded like they needed the carbs cleaned out, new fuel, new fuel lines, and fuel filters. None of them were running well. I've owned a lot of these bikes, and these little things scream you twist the throttle, and those little motors rev up super fast, super easy, and they sound extremely good when they're properly running. I just wish they would've taken the extra time to clean the carburetors, put new fuel filters, new oil filters, and so on, and then did a video cranking them all up and riding them. It would've been a hell of a lot of fun, and we, the viewers, would've been able to see these bikes at their best. Other than that, it was a great video. Obviously, he has a lot of really cool bikes, and I believe that he can definitely make a profit. These things sell for really good money here in the States with lots of collectors.
If i have this rare bikes i would even bother thinking bout money id lost, this bikes legends ! 🎉
the buzz from the moto compo is the low oil buzz, theres a little tank for you to put oil in
The buzzing is your indicator on motocompo not enough voltage at idle
Oh ok makes sense
if i remember right that TRX850 has an ohlins shock.... the bike was made during the time yamaha owned ohlins and around the early/mid 90s they started incorporating the high end suspension into their base model bikes. And yeah, you were right about the frame being inspired by ducati
also, some great napoleon dynamite quotes in this video not lost on me
02:00 I (German) didn't know that the British Brockhouse Corgi Mk2 (developed from the WWII military parachute Welbike motorcycle) was branded and sold as the Indian Papoose in the US, starting in 1947. Amazing, as the whole video is amazing, thank you!
Enjoyed very much watching your video today. Watching and laughing at your comments. From Tokyo 🇯🇵 Merry Christmas.
33:41 I think you are good to remove the carbs, clean everything and syncho them when back together with the engine. Also change or remove the vaccum fuel tap, membrane can become porous and one cylinder is way richer and lead to crappy behavior. My dad got the issue on a Z400J
I thought the British excelsior welbike was the first parachute bike.
Same bike
Corgi
@@GrahamA63 but British... not ''Indian''...
@@user-McGiver Yes of course - was the Indian was made under license or just rebadged?
7:10 i had a few CT-70 growing up, Points are the weakness, clean or change the points and you ll have it perrring in no time
That Harley Monkey probably has the renowned Screamin' Pigeon package.
I go to Japan fairly often and know a place that has at least two very early H1's. Not too far away is another shop that has some early Brigstone bikes. Would love to bring one back with me.
53:36 Those bikes sound like the hosts of The View.
Brother, thank you for keep this things alive. glad all these legendary motorcycles in a good hands..
i think that GPZ1000 isnt firing on all cylinders
The Honda CBR250RR has a side stand kill switch that turns off the ignition when the side stand is open. The side stand switch is a safety device that automatically stalls the engine if the side stand is down and the rider selects a gear. 😎
I've ridden a lot of CBR250RRs. Great fun in the city streets.
Man. That's an awesome collection
You're absolutely right about the Suzuki 50: It was not meant for grown ups. In the "unboxing" video I commented that they were very popular in Puerto Rico in the 80s (when they came out) with the Teenage crowd. They were known as "mini-ninjas" even though everybody knew they were not Ninjas, they weren't even Kawasakis, and there were GSXR 750s and bigger on the streets!!, but Ninjas were, arguably, the most popular and most recognized sport bike in PR in the late 80s, so the Suzuki 50 automatically became the "Mini-Ninja"
I watch all your videos on TH-cam and I'm subscribed to my two TH-cam channels. I have an ATV but I haven't been able to fix it. It's from China, it has a turbine, it didn't have a chain and the shaft is crooked.
i can confirm that is the easiest way to drain fuel from bikes we deliver, loosen the petcock and drain them sideways.
That ysr is is so nice. Nsr is still my favorite of them all.
This is fast becoming a full JDM bike and kei-truck channel, and I am here for it
Take pictures of the things you want translated or have questions of what they are, like the floating mystery guage, and ask Chat GTP to translate what it all is.
That seems like a hell of a lot of miles/km on some of those little bikes
Hi guys, Seasons greetings.
The box that you kept looking at in the cbrrrr fireblade might be an aftermarket immobiliser.
The Pigeon is the coolest of the lot. But, it's a copy of a Vespa, including the switch gear. The Trx850 was the best bike Yamaha never sold in North America, but it's not a V twin. The TRX is the parallel twin design that is now the standard out of Japan decades later.
But these guys know this. Their comments are designed to trigger TH-cam comments to game the algorithm.
We had the TRX here in the UK but they were damn expensive when they were new , so they were not very popular.
You may find there are rear seatbelt mountings in the van so you can fit belts.
Welbikes were British originally.
I have a 1991 cbr 250 mc22 it’s a pocket rocket I plan on keeping it for while nothing beats the sound so happy you guys have one never thought I would see it
2stroke is BEST
For under 250 cc
That is the best looking TRX 850 I have ever seen, paint scheme is awesome!
A buddy of mine up in Tennessee has a k-truck for their small lavender farm…thing is fun as hell and rips. It ain’t particularly fast or strong but it’s a fun time
We were told by the Pa inspection officer don't get caught inspecting one of those mini trucks not allowed on road in Pennsylvania and my dad went a bought one and now cannot get rid of it
I ride an 04 Road King. But u sir have inspired me to build a British Motorcycle. I picked up a 68 BSA 250 starfire! She's rusty and crusty but gonna be a fun build