Man I used to own one of this MB5 back in 1983 during my high school year . Mine was red color . I remember this dame was fun and it is Leak a lot . As an Asian Vietnamese Chinese American I got balls to drive this thing from San Jose California to San Francisco hahahaha lol 😂😂😄😄👍👍👍👍👍👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇻🇳🇻🇳🇻🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳!!!
Man I used to own one of this MB5 back in 1983 during my high school year . Mine was red color . I remember this dame was fun and it is Leak a lot . As an Asian Vietnamese Chinese American I got balls to drive this thing from San Jose California to San Francisco hahahaha lol 😂😂😄😄👍👍👍👍👍👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇻🇳🇻🇳🇻🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳!!!
My friends had mb5s I had 78dt 50 great times. And all these years later I still have my DT 50 only 1600 hundred miles even now turn key choke and 2 kicks and you're riding. Thing is a blast.
Awww, it was sooo cute! That was my first bike in Chicago bc a guy was afraid to sell me a 500 Honda! I was running a tavern and the boss let one of the guys give it to me for a few bucks and his beer tab. 1986 or so. That down Lake Shore Drive to the Navy Pier! That took me from North Avenue to Rush Street right past Cabrini Green and across that steel bridge! Those were the days. My last bike was a Yamaha XS 1100 and RIP in Oklahoma after the post 9-11 layoffs.
That takes be back to being 16-17yrs old my 1st road legal bike a white mb5 with chrome micron exhaust &65cc bigbore kit from r&g spares Birmingham UK happy times ✊
@@markmarkie1950 the mbx50 was the new replacement model for the mb5 my buddy had one the same time I had my mb50 it came with bigger tank different alloy mag wheels &prolink suspension a much better bike all round ✊
@@cuswardo cheers dude I could always hear the distinct sound of a whirl from the spokes on mbx50s Out of interest Did the mb5s wheels make the same distinctive noise? Dont worry last question! Have fun Stay safe ....
As a brit with a passion for anything that can be ridden on 1 wheel ? You are fast becoming my favourite channel . I think that going to the moon is 1 of man kinds greatest achievements but would rather visit your museum than NASA ! I hope you guys across the pond regard these guys as national treasures. From the heart ❤
Had a chance to buy a white MB5 in 1998 that was just collecting dust in a neighbors shed. I hesitated and missed my chance. I am still kicking myself to this day (metaphorically) even though I’m in a wheelchair now.
Hello from the Netherlands. I happen to own a Honda MBX80 (big brother of the mb) The MB5 was a common sight here in the 80's and 90's. You could buy them for about 250 euro's (2nd hand) back in the day. Now they all are above 1200. Did the US also have the MBX and other variants of the M series Honda bikes from back then? Cheers.
For you’re info, when it’s a stock machine, to get something sense you need to do more upgrades but start with, 1- another exhaust! 2-bigger bore carburator!(most of the time you need another airfilter) 3-another ignition,stock has a flightwheel but take a inrotor ignition! 4-bigger bore cilinder, from 50cc you can go to 70cc but you’re big end and crankshaft has a short life,by 80cc you need another gearbox, but it’s recommended! 5- play with you’re chain rods , it depends you’re weight or the road you will drive(here in the Netherlands is flat so we can use another set up for higher speed but like Shea with hills it’s not working that set up! These things you can bold on simply, back in the ‘70/‘80 the MGp started with 50cc those where tuned and had a topspeed of around 120miles( 200km/h) Be aware if you go tuning the life of you’re engine will be shorter! So you have to find a mix of speed and trustworthy but you can endless tuning! Good luck and fun, one tip, if you don’t have knowledge or guts, bring you’re bike to a specialist like Shea/Kaplan! Before I forget, be aware with Honda engine, you have a balance axle if that’s disturbed you will have problems to set you’re ignition correctly!
ah, wow! that was a grat checklist 😃 I will bring this info with me to the mechanic to discuss further ones I get the moped here!! thanks for getting back @@TheRtm68
@@SimplicityForGoodwith my 55years I still love riding and screwing on my Zundapp 529 50cc 1982, nowadays you have interned but before computer time you have to get knowledge and info from lovers, what I told you to start with it’s easy to do! But it’s like restore something, you always find something further to do! You start for example with carburator you notice to change exhaust as wel to get good timing you need to change the ignition! The air in you’re country is totally differents as here in the Netherlands! So there are more aspects to look, the 50cc is just testing and testing, maintenance is always necessary! But even that is fun! Thnx for quick response 🙏🏻
Cool, I've seen the Zundapp and pre-1970s veteran race here in Stockholm every Summer, is super fun.. is like 300 mopeds that do a Midsummer race all night and they pass just outside my window, love seeing every different style and the crazy ideas some people made on their mopeds.. Not sure if this will continue in Stockholm downtown as the Environmentalist party of Stockholm city made a new law in 2025 that only electric-driven vehicles will be allowed to drive in the most inner-downtown area, the most famous streets in Stockholm and all others will be stopped by police and fined.. Is sad, and it is crazy to us.. Most of us in Stockholm hate the aggressive environmentalist party but is the young women in the countryside who are extreme Leftist liberals, like Greta Thunberg who all vote for the changes we in Stockholm later have to live with.. - Is such an asshole practice by the politicians. We had a very strong Rockabilly culture of people from the whole of Scandinavia coming here every Summer with huge cars from the rock n' roll time of the 1950s and they are very chill and friendly and always drive these specific roads in downtown that now will be forbidden for gas-driven vehicles with no exceptions... So, it might be just history soon here in Sweden, no more veteran vehicle festivals for us... So one needs to do the best of the time left for this hobby... I love the smell of real petrol and sounds of unburned fuel popping and cracking, and the typical snoring sound of an old four-stroke moped slowly pacing it is' way pass your house, sometimes you can by just the sound tell which neighbour it is passing your house right there by the sound of it, is an amazing thing with people fixing and tuning their loved ones. Have a good week from Stockholm. @@TheRtm68
@@SimplicityForGoodI know you Swedish have moped days, back in the ‘80 many bikes and parts where bought by Scandinavië people, and I’ve being many times in Stockholm ❤! In the Netherlands the restrictions in the city’s we have as wel, but lucky we are not so far as in Scandinavië and it’s stil a living thing to drive with mopeds! We have still many clubs with Zundapp mostley old people like me hahaha, but for all brands we have clubs like Honda’s! I have a Chevrolet Malibu from 1979 as well and know the biggest meeting with Americans is every year in vasteras! If I watch TH-cam vids with people in Scandinavië with ride on Zundapp I notice that the police have no much control for mopeds, in here we have a lot, so to tune up is not that worthy if you can checked every corner, in old days they took you’re bike from you nowadays you get a WOK status, that means you are not allowed to drive before you get a TÜV checkup! It’s not hard to get parts for tuning in Europe and you got the space for nice driving! Yes we know the hypocrisy of Greta Thunberg, talking about environment but self flying around the world! But be aware she is a part of the WEF/WHO the same organisation who is responsible for you’re immigration crisis! Here we hope to get right politics, and out of the Union!NEXIT! Well you have the time and place for working on a bike, enjoy and keep trying to improve! The best thing you can do is to look for a MB 8 or MB 125, but if you tune a 50cc good it wil drive faster dan 80/125 cc! My buddy have a Zundapp 517 80cc with top speed around 95km/h, I drive around 120km/h( my set up, 50cc with 10poorts cilinder and fine tuned, a 19mm bing carburator,electronic ignition, and 16front and 38back gearwheel) My ultimate goal is to build a 5speed to make 6speed gearbox with straight clutch wheel gear instead helical gearing, a in rotor ignition, this brings me more power in the low speed and because the ignition quicker on my top rpm, I hope around the 140km/h to come! For a nice Honda you pay around €1500/€2500 here in the Netherlands and for a Zundapp 529 around €2500/€3500, but if you talk about a 125bike they cost around €9000/€14.000 from zundapp then! So you can make it as expensive as you like, for Honda I would buy second/third hand they starting with licensplate around €300/€750 and build him up! If you want more info ask, with mechanical it’s always the best to ask before breaking especially for engine, the rest is like working on you’re bicycle! Again good luck and fun
Hi. Gun owner here. Bro... come on now... How you gonna have that hand-cannon on your hip while riding around on a 50cc moped? I'm dying! Keep it up, dude. This is awesome.
What are these generally worth these days? Looking at one via Facebook market place listed at 2000. Is that a reasonable price? anything particular you'd recommend looking out for when looking at a used one? Thanks!!
I’m picking this exact mb5 barn find all oem original decals and all for $150 tomorrow from Lakeville and the owner has a Yamaha 80’s motorcycle for sale for peanuts I wana say around $250 for that
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It's not a 6 speed it's a 5 speed!!!!!!!!!.....I owned one! Got mine new in 82 for $499
You are my hero, Rambo on the left, Clint Eastwood on the the right, plus the Kizz spikes and Merica gloves, love how you keep the nostalgia alive🙏🇵🇷🥊
Man I used to own one of this MB5 back in 1983 during my high school year . Mine was red color . I remember this dame was fun and it is Leak a lot . As an Asian Vietnamese Chinese American I got balls to drive this thing from San Jose California to San Francisco hahahaha lol 😂😂😄😄👍👍👍👍👍👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇻🇳🇻🇳🇻🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳!!!
Man I used to own one of this MB5 back in 1983 during my high school year . Mine was red color . I remember this dame was fun and it is Leak a lot . As an Asian Vietnamese Chinese American I got balls to drive this thing from San Jose California to San Francisco hahahaha lol 😂😂😄😄👍👍👍👍👍👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇻🇳🇻🇳🇻🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳!!!
My friends had mb5s I had 78dt 50 great times. And all these years later I still have my DT 50 only 1600 hundred miles even now turn key choke and 2 kicks and you're riding. Thing is a blast.
Awesome
What was faster by chance?
It’s so exiting to see ken ripping around on these, there very rare and this ones mint
You guys are slaying me w the flashbacks!!! I want em all!
Awww, it was sooo cute! That was my first bike in Chicago bc a guy was afraid to sell me a 500 Honda! I was running a tavern and the boss let one of the guys give it to me for a few bucks and his beer tab. 1986 or so. That down Lake Shore Drive to the Navy Pier! That took me from North Avenue to Rush Street right past Cabrini Green and across that steel bridge! Those were the days. My last bike was a Yamaha XS 1100 and RIP in Oklahoma after the post 9-11 layoffs.
I bought obe brand new in 82, it was black&red also I think it was $499.00 brand new👍👍👍👍👍
I bet you could ride that every day for the next 20 years and not have any problems
Brings back memories of riding one in college 30+ years ago. That thing would eat Honda Sprees at every stoplight.
That takes be back to being 16-17yrs old my 1st road legal bike a white mb5 with chrome micron exhaust &65cc bigbore kit from r&g spares Birmingham UK happy times ✊
Is this the same as a mbx50?
Looks the same to me?...
@@markmarkie1950 the mbx50 was the new replacement model for the mb5 my buddy had one the same time I had my mb50 it came with bigger tank different alloy mag wheels &prolink suspension a much better bike all round ✊
@@cuswardo cheers dude
I could always hear the distinct sound of a whirl from the spokes on mbx50s
Out of interest
Did the mb5s wheels make the same distinctive noise?
Dont worry last question!
Have fun
Stay safe ....
As a brit with a passion for anything that can be ridden on 1 wheel ?
You are fast becoming my favourite channel .
I think that going to the moon is 1 of man kinds greatest achievements but would rather visit your museum than NASA !
I hope you guys across the pond regard these guys as national treasures.
From the heart ❤
Mankind
Had a chance to buy a white MB5 in 1998 that was just collecting dust in a neighbors shed. I hesitated and missed my chance. I am still kicking myself to this day (metaphorically) even though I’m in a wheelchair now.
Accident I ?
@@vrossi2596 yessir, girl driving illegally turned in front of me
@@jonnyonwheels oh man so sorry for you.. take care of yourself.. V .. U.K. based. 👍
@@vrossi2596 thanks, I appreciate it
I hope you're keeping POSITIVE .
Forwards ever
Backwards never ....
From the UK
Very nice! I have a tomos wish it was this!!
Badass bike, awesome video 👍🏻
Need a licence for everything where I live. Pity, great little bike, fill the tank once a year!
NO WAY !!! MY BIKE !!!
Never seen one in Aus. awesome little bike!
I'm distracted by the FXRs in the background, but great bike!
Hello from the Netherlands. I happen to own a Honda MBX80 (big brother of the mb) The MB5 was a common sight here in the 80's and 90's. You could buy them for about 250 euro's (2nd hand) back in the day. Now they all are above 1200.
Did the US also have the MBX and other variants of the M series Honda bikes from back then? Cheers.
How much fun is that bike? Rock a cupholder in the console, lol.
Suns out, Guns out!
lol.
sweet bike.
Man that sounds nice, a big bore kit would be an over the top mod for one of these, say 80cc?
a 80cc engine from the german mb80 or swiss mb80
Of stock they have 125cc as well
The Honda H100 engine bolts right in.
is this one tuned? and if so, how hard is it to tune when you do not know anything yet about engines ? thanks! am looking at one now from 2000
For you’re info, when it’s a stock machine, to get something sense you need to do more upgrades but start with,
1- another exhaust!
2-bigger bore carburator!(most of the time you need another airfilter)
3-another ignition,stock has a flightwheel but take a inrotor ignition!
4-bigger bore cilinder, from 50cc you can go to 70cc but you’re big end and crankshaft has a short life,by 80cc you need another gearbox, but it’s recommended!
5- play with you’re chain rods , it depends you’re weight or the road you will drive(here in the Netherlands is flat so we can use another set up for higher speed but like Shea with hills it’s not working that set up!
These things you can bold on simply, back in the ‘70/‘80 the MGp started with 50cc those where tuned and had a topspeed of around 120miles( 200km/h)
Be aware if you go tuning the life of you’re engine will be shorter!
So you have to find a mix of speed and trustworthy but you can endless tuning!
Good luck and fun, one tip, if you don’t have knowledge or guts, bring you’re bike to a specialist like Shea/Kaplan!
Before I forget, be aware with Honda engine, you have a balance axle if that’s disturbed you will have problems to set you’re ignition correctly!
ah, wow! that was a grat checklist 😃
I will bring this info with me to the mechanic to discuss further ones I get the moped here!!
thanks for getting back @@TheRtm68
@@SimplicityForGoodwith my 55years I still love riding and screwing on my Zundapp 529 50cc 1982, nowadays you have interned but before computer time you have to get knowledge and info from lovers, what I told you to start with it’s easy to do!
But it’s like restore something, you always find something further to do!
You start for example with carburator you notice to change exhaust as wel to get good timing you need to change the ignition!
The air in you’re country is totally differents as here in the Netherlands!
So there are more aspects to look, the 50cc is just testing and testing, maintenance is always necessary!
But even that is fun!
Thnx for quick response 🙏🏻
Cool, I've seen the Zundapp and pre-1970s veteran race here in Stockholm every Summer, is super fun..
is like 300 mopeds that do a Midsummer race all night and they pass just outside my window, love seeing every different style and the crazy ideas some people made on their mopeds..
Not sure if this will continue in Stockholm downtown as the Environmentalist party of Stockholm city made a new law in 2025 that only electric-driven vehicles will be allowed to drive in the most inner-downtown area, the most famous streets in Stockholm and all others will be stopped by police and fined..
Is sad, and it is crazy to us.. Most of us in Stockholm hate the aggressive environmentalist party but is the young women in the countryside who are extreme Leftist liberals, like Greta Thunberg who all vote for the changes we in Stockholm later have to live with..
- Is such an asshole practice by the politicians.
We had a very strong Rockabilly culture of people from the whole of Scandinavia coming here every Summer with huge cars from the rock n' roll time of the 1950s and they are very chill and friendly and always drive these specific roads in downtown that now will be forbidden for gas-driven vehicles with no exceptions...
So, it might be just history soon here in Sweden, no more veteran vehicle festivals for us...
So one needs to do the best of the time left for this hobby...
I love the smell of real petrol and sounds of unburned fuel popping and cracking, and the typical snoring sound of an old four-stroke moped slowly pacing it is' way pass your house, sometimes you can by just the sound tell which neighbour it is passing your house right there by the sound of it,
is an amazing thing with people fixing and tuning their loved ones.
Have a good week from Stockholm.
@@TheRtm68
@@SimplicityForGoodI know you Swedish have moped days, back in the ‘80 many bikes and parts where bought by Scandinavië people, and I’ve being many times in Stockholm ❤!
In the Netherlands the restrictions in the city’s we have as wel, but lucky we are not so far as in Scandinavië and it’s stil a living thing to drive with mopeds!
We have still many clubs with Zundapp mostley old people like me hahaha, but for all brands we have clubs like Honda’s!
I have a Chevrolet Malibu from 1979 as well and know the biggest meeting with Americans is every year in vasteras!
If I watch TH-cam vids with people in Scandinavië with ride on Zundapp I notice that the police have no much control for mopeds, in here we have a lot, so to tune up is not that worthy if you can checked every corner, in old days they took you’re bike from you nowadays you get a WOK status, that means you are not allowed to drive before you get a TÜV checkup!
It’s not hard to get parts for tuning in Europe and you got the space for nice driving!
Yes we know the hypocrisy of Greta Thunberg, talking about environment but self flying around the world!
But be aware she is a part of the WEF/WHO the same organisation who is responsible for you’re immigration crisis!
Here we hope to get right politics, and out of the Union!NEXIT!
Well you have the time and place for working on a bike, enjoy and keep trying to improve!
The best thing you can do is to look for a MB 8 or MB 125, but if you tune a 50cc good it wil drive faster dan 80/125 cc!
My buddy have a Zundapp 517 80cc with top speed around 95km/h, I drive around 120km/h( my set up, 50cc with 10poorts cilinder and fine tuned, a 19mm bing carburator,electronic ignition, and 16front and 38back gearwheel)
My ultimate goal is to build a 5speed to make 6speed gearbox with straight clutch wheel gear instead helical gearing, a in rotor ignition, this brings me more power in the low speed and because the ignition quicker on my top rpm, I hope around the 140km/h to come!
For a nice Honda you pay around €1500/€2500 here in the Netherlands and for a Zundapp 529 around €2500/€3500, but if you talk about a 125bike they cost around €9000/€14.000 from zundapp then!
So you can make it as expensive as you like, for Honda I would buy second/third hand they starting with licensplate around €300/€750 and build him up!
If you want more info ask, with mechanical it’s always the best to ask before breaking especially for engine, the rest is like working on you’re bicycle!
Again good luck and fun
Hi. Gun owner here. Bro... come on now... How you gonna have that hand-cannon on your hip while riding around on a 50cc moped? I'm dying! Keep it up, dude. This is awesome.
You have to mix the oil and gas? Mine had what was called an autolube with a 2 cycle oil tank.
From stock out they had that all( in Europe)but most of times they disconnected it especially by tuning!
The best way is to mix you’re self!
3k perfect price
Nice bike❤💯..did it sell?
Ken's out of breath....never seen him more excited over a moped....packin a 357 and a Buck 119 to protect it
What are these generally worth these days? Looking at one via Facebook market place listed at 2000. Is that a reasonable price? anything particular you'd recommend looking out for when looking at a used one? Thanks!!
I thought for sure Jr's girlfriend was going ride it
Put a CR 500 in the old girl haha then she'd be a rippa! I'm guessing about 69 more hp..something tells me uncle Ron would approve that decision 🍻🇺🇲
no lid ,gun in pocket lol
I’m picking this exact mb5 barn find all oem original decals and all for $150 tomorrow from Lakeville and the owner has a Yamaha 80’s motorcycle for sale for peanuts I wana say around $250 for that
If you don't want the yamaha we do 860 454 7024
@@KaplanCycles I’m getting the mb5 tomorrow
@@KaplanCycles I’ll let u know the model one I know tomorrow…I told my buddy he may want the Yamaha for a quick flip but if not I’ll let u know
@@KaplanCycles is this your cell
@@KaplanCycles If so I can text u a pic of the bikes the mb5 I’m getting and the Yamaha kinda hard to tell but u can see a glimpse of it
its to bad every 50cc moped wasnt a clutch
if its a 6 speed then someone swapped the tranny and possibly clutch from a 80-82 cr80 engine
100 bucks if you can out run the popo on that
Which is cheap
I'd give anything to have that bike lol so nice for a 50cc