"you meet the nicest people on a honda". Well I did just that. And 50 years later she is still the love of my life. ( The girl I mean not the C90 scooter ). Yet the put put sound still makes my heart lift because that is what I heard as she came home to me each day.
Love these old commercials. Definitely a different day. One thing I noted in the early commercials, they didn't show that 50cc bike going up those San Francisco hills! ;-)
In the 1960s, we lived across the street from an American Motors (Rambler) dealership. The dealership decided to add Honda motorcycles to its offerings. I remember walking past this dealership and checking out the various offerings. My favorite was the Honda Sport 90 or S90. I have like motorcycles ever since. However, my parents did not like motorcycles!
Groundbreaking for it's time. I own an 85 Goldwing and an 87 Helix both extremely high milage by today's standards and both run like a Swiss watch. Honda is a master of it's craft.
Nifty thrifty honda 50. I bought the next step up, a honda s65 for under $400 new. Took me to high school and work everyday plus a lot of exploring. Wish i could buy one today.
*My '68 Honda 90 'Super Cub' was $300 'out-the -door' at 'Scootersville Honda' in Las Vegas...my 14th. B-day!* ___________ *I BEAT HELL out of that poor little Honda for 3-yrs. straight...but it was 'tough as a 3-penny nail' and I sold it for $200 when I started driving a hand-me-down '64 'Galaxy 500' station-wagon and I 'abused' that too!* ___________ *I bought a '08 Honda 'Metropolitan' on 'CL' 5+ yrs. ago...and it is the most reliable machine I've ever had in 55-yrs!* ( *Goes with the house when I croak...I will never let it go!* )
I have a 1981 Honda Passport 70cc. Dad bought it new in 81 for my sister. It's been garage kept and still looks new. Somebody told me they are pretty valuable now if you can find one. I don't plan on selling it did not doesn't matter
Vintage motorcycles are very safe, easy to fix, ride, and operate than modern motorcycles are hard to fix, unsafe to ride, and may cause fire because it's computerized where connections are circuit when wire insulator peels. Rider today, will be enthusiast.
I have a 1963 C105T Honda 55 and a 1964 C100 super cub and I don’t trust either to do 44mph without the engine completely exploding or blowing oil out of its non vented crankcase everywhere. That being said I have no need for that speed and I love them dearly and they both run fantastically.
How irony the ad is since it was meant for US but now Honda cub is no longer a thing there.. Maybe because of the law or something that banned/restricted small motorcycles? The Honda cub and its modern variants including from other manufacturers still remain hugely popular and successful in south east Asia.
Honda's first bikes were based on bicycles. A moped has pedals. Scooters are not mopeds. The old style motor bikes are mopeds. Basically, they are motor assisted bicycles.
@SpeedRacer 650 Thanks for update 650, the first Honda I ever saw was60-61 step thru 50 Cub auto. cluch. Till then we had cushman's, vespas and mopeds. The Honad had elec. start and large tires, it was game changer..
@SpeedRacer 650 This was exactly the way our C90 scooters were organized. 1966 and 1969 models. Then later ag 90s using the same system. But the bike form of it used a four speed gearbox and a clutch instead. An they gave it an extra hp from the same engine with a bigger carburetor. Incidentally all of these C90s were overhead camshaft with the timing chain you refer to. I can only remember the pushrod on the early 50 cc engines.
Thats one hell of an enjoyable and persuasive ad campaign but Honda nicked the Step thru scooter type concept from DKW. But yeah the C90 could haul ass two up.
They made some with restricted top speed that were classed as Mopeds in the U.K. after 1977 .The mopeds no longer needed push bike pedals to qualify as mopeds provided they had a top speed of no more than 30mph .
@@G56AG Since 1978 a moped does not require pedals to be classed as a moped as long as the engine is 50cc or below with a restricted speed not exceeding 30 mph .Before then mopeds were limited to 50cc or less engines & required to have pedals that could also propel the machine but had no speed restrictions .The Japanese & Italians got around the law & added pedals to geared & clutched 50 cc motorcycles that could reach speeds up to 50- 60 mph .The governments didn’t like 16 year old kids having so much fun killings themselves ,so they brought out laws that restricted the mopeds to top speeds of 28- 30 mph (47 kph approx ) without the requirement of the pedals .All mopeds built before 1978 have been grandfathered in to law ,so mopeds built before then can still exceed 30 mph ( 47 kph ) providing they are 50cc or under & still have their pedals attached & working correctly .
These bikes, if you want it last, you must ride it no more than 20 miles per hour, never races its engine. If you do not obey these... you will be saying goodbye to your bike soon.
@@thangquocnguyenmdp that's just not true. I had one in 1967 and being young I hammered it. It lasted 15 years in our possession, being ridden first by it's first owner, then by me for 5 years, then by my dad for 10 years, then we sold it, and it was still running well.
@@CharltonLatchford There bikes are almost indestructible, I remember years ago after an accident fixing the bike with a hammer. They just keep going and going.
life looked to be more simple in those days, just kick that 100cc bike and go freely enjoying everything around you. now everyone is obsessed with speed and hp figures and just don't care.
ripmax333 I don't give a shit about speed or power.. I've had sub 100cc scooters and peds for 15 years as well as several cars that wouldn't go much beyond 65. Recently got a rebel250 and find it totally adequate.
Lordracula not sure whats warrents the tough guy comment and im unsure if what you mean by 70s equivalent.. wouldn’t that be like a 150cc? Since bikes have just gotten larger? Regardless, i was just agreeing that worrying about stats is dumb if your priority is transportation. My rebel250 is also still lots of fun and totally adequate for my needs. And fwiw, i was never even alive in the 70s..
Not a single moped in the entire video. A moped is a cross between a bicycle and a motorcycle, it must have bicycle pedals that can drive the back wheel as well as a small engine that can power it. Motor plus pedals equal moped. Honda made an unusual model for a few years, it was called a NO PED, basically a small engine on a frame similar to a moped, but NO pedals. It was called a Honda Express, and I won one From my Honda dealer in a motorcycle touring contest, make all the checkpoints all over the state to get your name in the hat, then my name was drawn, about a 1 in 100 chance.
0:44 seconds WHAT!?!?!? 200 miles to the Gallon! wtf!? and your telling me we are in 2023 and we can get 60 mpg at best?? shouldnt we have moved forward not backwards!? wheres my 1000 mpg bike then you can laugh at my mo-ped all you want :) as i get smashed by a 18 wheeler on the highway doing 35mph in a 65 BONK BONK huh?? whats that? SMACK! KA POW* Splat* like a comic book
I miss those days when you road without a helmet and nobody complained about it. I rode all winter on ice and snow and easily survived it. Now, people are such wimps they wear helmets riding bicycles on dry pavement.
*LBS ‘Lot of Bull Shit’ and Gallons Imperial or US?? Everybody is confused. Not to mention Fl.Oz WHAT is that? Bangkok-Johnnie from Thailand, officially metric country like Australia, the rest of ASIA and Europe* ua-cam.com/video/AH55ZkQJ73A/v-deo.html
@@lordracula2461 Where can I see the sales figures for these little bikes? I'm not arguing that the Honda CBs weren't popular. Also, I'm saying that the advertisements shown here weren't what caused young men to buy motorcycles. (They weren't buying them and riding to work on them in a suit and hat.) I've never seen a single person on a CB in a suit.
Don't make fool of yourself. Everybody knows that honda is japanese automotive manufacturer. but the video was taken marketplace in USA. So would you say honda is from India if the video was taken place in India?
Honda Cubs or Super Cubs have been made all over the world, in at least 15 countries, such as Vietnam, Brazil, Thailand, Nigeria, Mexico, etc.@@aprillinardiprasetya959
Unfortunately, nice people on Honda’s in 2019 have gone the way of the dodo bird. Now, the only people riding Honda’s are 36 year old, tatted up manchildren who wear bandanas and leather vests the bought at Walmart over their oversized white T and JNCO jeans with the wallet chain loop, heading home to their grandma’s brownstone basement, where they spend their nights cutting the yayo they’re slinging with baking soda before dividing them up into dime bags to sell out of the back seat of their car outside the local middle school. That she roided out correction officers at Riker’s Island
"you meet the nicest people on a honda". Well I did just that. And 50 years later she is still the love of my life. ( The girl I mean not the C90 scooter ). Yet the put put sound still makes my heart lift because that is what I heard as she came home to me each day.
So glad I grew up in the 50’s and 60’s people seemed so much happier. Makes me want to go and get another bike.😅
I love those old Honda commercials brings back some great memories from the 1960s and the 1970s
First gear, it's all right
Second gear, lean right
Third gear, hang on tight
Faster, it's all right
Love these old commercials. Definitely a different day. One thing I noted in the early commercials, they didn't show that 50cc bike going up those San Francisco hills! ;-)
It could do it but man you will be holding up traffic lol
In the 1960s, we lived across the street from an American Motors (Rambler) dealership. The dealership decided to add Honda motorcycles to its offerings. I remember walking past this dealership and checking out the various offerings. My favorite was the Honda Sport 90 or S90. I have like motorcycles ever since. However, my parents did not like motorcycles!
Groundbreaking for it's time. I own an 85 Goldwing and an 87 Helix both extremely high milage by today's standards and both run like a Swiss watch. Honda is a master of it's craft.
Nifty thrifty honda 50. I bought the next step up, a honda s65 for under $400 new. Took me to high school and work everyday plus a lot of exploring. Wish i could buy one today.
*My '68 Honda 90 'Super Cub' was $300 'out-the -door' at 'Scootersville Honda' in Las Vegas...my 14th. B-day!*
___________
*I BEAT HELL out of that poor little Honda for 3-yrs. straight...but it was 'tough as a 3-penny nail' and I sold it for $200 when I started driving a hand-me-down '64 'Galaxy 500' station-wagon and I 'abused' that too!*
___________
*I bought a '08 Honda 'Metropolitan' on 'CL' 5+ yrs. ago...and it is the most reliable machine I've ever had in 55-yrs!*
( *Goes with the house when I croak...I will never let it go!* )
I have a 1981 Honda Passport 70cc. Dad bought it new in 81 for my sister. It's been garage kept and still looks new. Somebody told me they are pretty valuable now if you can find one. I don't plan on selling it did not doesn't matter
9 and a half minutes of utter joy. Love it 😊
Can I take a TARDIS back to this alternative universe where everyone is happy?
Vintage motorcycles are very safe, easy to fix, ride, and operate than modern motorcycles are hard to fix, unsafe to ride, and may cause fire because it's computerized where connections are circuit when wire insulator peels. Rider today, will be enthusiast.
I think the Cub has the record for being the biggest seller they ever had . Next in line was the Mini Trail 50
Most sold vehicle in the world. Honda cub.
It broke the 100 million sold mark, back in 2017, and they still sell all they can.@@davidleonard8369
1:10 "if you need more then 4 wheels - buy another honda" - cool advertising)
I have a 1963 C105T Honda 55 and a 1964 C100 super cub and I don’t trust either to do 44mph without the engine completely exploding or blowing oil out of its non vented crankcase everywhere. That being said I have no need for that speed and I love them dearly and they both run fantastically.
I could watch this all day - happier days......
0:37 "Even your brother-in-law can master it in minutes." LOL Was making fun of brother-in-laws a thing back then?
Have a Honda Shadow and a Honda Revell. They work perfect. love them.
Die kleinen Hondas sind und waren wunderschöne Motorräder.
I have this one Honda c100 50cc 1964 Model my grandfather used to ride this bike now he give me this motorcycle
take care of it and pass it to your grandson
Want to sale honda c 100
Starred on the iconic FIFTY ! many bikes since then and now own a blackbird I've owned for 23 years ..
I know my very first bike was identical to the ones at the beginning but it had bicycle pedal and I never see that version
Bring them all back
no helmet ,no side mirror. what a gangsta😎
1:58 I remember that night. Acid, your husband was out of town on business, your kids were at camp...ah the water bed!
Makes a lot of sense even in 2021 🇬🇧👍
master piece
5:06 a Bug Eyed Sprite is just coming up the hill.
Great catch!
Honda Super Cub is the best motorcycle 🏍️
watching 50-60's commercial ads just like watching a movie,
How irony the ad is since it was meant for US but now Honda cub is no longer a thing there.. Maybe because of the law or something that banned/restricted small motorcycles? The Honda cub and its modern variants including from other manufacturers still remain hugely popular and successful in south east Asia.
They offer the super cub as well as the trail 125 here in the US.
Honda's first bikes were based on bicycles. A moped has pedals. Scooters are not mopeds. The old style motor bikes are mopeds. Basically, they are motor assisted bicycles.
Have a cg125, and it's perfect for me.
Great video, No one I know remembers that the first C110 Hondas all had cream colored tanks and a all down 3speed trans., Yes?
@SpeedRacer 650 Thanks for update 650, the first Honda I ever saw was60-61 step thru 50 Cub auto. cluch. Till then we had cushman's, vespas and mopeds. The Honad had elec. start and large tires, it was game changer..
@SpeedRacer 650 This was exactly the way our C90 scooters were organized. 1966 and 1969 models. Then later ag 90s using the same system. But the bike form of it used a four speed gearbox and a clutch instead. An they gave it an extra hp from the same engine with a bigger carburetor. Incidentally all of these C90s were overhead camshaft with the timing chain you refer to. I can only remember the pushrod on the early 50 cc engines.
And the sun always shone it seems.
Empty roads. Lovely.
この動画見た後、CS90入手して楽しんでいます。普通に流れに乗れ普通に使えています。56年前の東京オリンピックの年製造の初期型
Thats one hell of an enjoyable and persuasive ad campaign but Honda nicked the Step thru scooter type concept from DKW. But yeah the C90 could haul ass two up.
Interesting to note when muscle cars with high hp were king Honda was promoting low hp means of transportation!
Honda the power of dreams.
No helmets ?? LOL, that would NEVER air today !!
Loved the anthology.
But these are motorcycles, not mopeds!
They made some with restricted top speed that were classed as Mopeds in the U.K. after 1977 .The mopeds no longer needed push bike pedals to qualify as mopeds provided they had a top speed of no more than 30mph .
Exactly right, not a moped in the entire thing. Bicycle type pedals, PLUS an engine are what makes a moped.
@@G56AG Since 1978 a moped does not require pedals to be classed as a moped as long as the engine is 50cc or below with a restricted speed not exceeding 30 mph .Before then mopeds were limited to 50cc or less engines & required to have pedals that could also propel the machine but had no speed restrictions .The Japanese & Italians got around the law & added pedals to geared & clutched 50 cc motorcycles that could reach speeds up to 50- 60 mph .The governments didn’t like 16 year old kids having so much fun killings themselves ,so they brought out laws that restricted the mopeds to top speeds of 28- 30 mph (47 kph approx ) without the requirement of the pedals .All mopeds built before 1978 have been grandfathered in to law ,so mopeds built before then can still exceed 30 mph ( 47 kph ) providing they are 50cc or under & still have their pedals attached & working correctly .
The Trail90 segment shows scenes with both CT90 and CT200.
I had 7 , great to get to work and never let me down .
200 miles to the gallon? That’s crazy
These bikes, if you want it last, you must ride it no more than 20 miles per hour, never races its engine. If you do not obey these... you will be saying goodbye to your bike soon.
@@thangquocnguyenmdp that's just not true. I had one in 1967 and being young I hammered it. It lasted 15 years in our possession, being ridden first by it's first owner, then by me for 5 years, then by my dad for 10 years, then we sold it, and it was still running well.
@@CharltonLatchford There bikes are almost indestructible, I remember years ago after an accident fixing the bike with a hammer. They just keep going and going.
looks nice and light.
Love it!
Would love a cub! Hondas are great. I had a ruckus that was never reliable but my cmx250 more than makes up for it.
I also have one.very nice bike
Kelum Rupasinghe mines still going strong, hasn’t needed anything but some fresh oil from time to time. It’s my only vehicle
@@jseden nice, my one is with me for 17 years and its like my family member.
It’s not a moped. Mopeds, originally had pedals along with a motor.
"only a good horse is hard to find" thats what she said :)
life looked to be more simple in those days, just kick that 100cc bike and go freely enjoying everything around you. now everyone is obsessed with speed and hp figures and just don't care.
ripmax333 I don't give a shit about speed or power.. I've had sub 100cc scooters and peds for 15 years as well as several cars that wouldn't go much beyond 65. Recently got a rebel250 and find it totally adequate.
@@jseden Yes but you are not living in the 70s tough guy, nobody else is. Rebel 250s are bad bikes compared to the 70s equivalent
Lordracula not sure whats warrents the tough guy comment and im unsure if what you mean by 70s equivalent.. wouldn’t that be like a 150cc? Since bikes have just gotten larger? Regardless, i was just agreeing that worrying about stats is dumb if your priority is transportation. My rebel250 is also still lots of fun and totally adequate for my needs. And fwiw, i was never even alive in the 70s..
คลาสสิคสวยๆชอบมากเลยครับผม👍👍👍
Cool!!! :-) Jetzt fehlt nur noch der Übergang in die Neuzeit mit der derzeitigen Motorrädern ;-) Es lebe die Honda 1100 Blackbird XX
the man that came up with adds , pass away this Sept. Robert emenegger
You meet the nicest people on a Honda and the most insecure narcissistic divorced losers on a Harley.
Ooohh man i miss my grandpa😭
nice but you really need to change the name of the video as it is not a moped it is a HONDA CUB
Not a single moped in the entire video. A moped is a cross between a bicycle and a motorcycle, it must have bicycle pedals that can drive the back wheel as well as a small engine that can power it. Motor plus pedals equal moped. Honda made an unusual model for a few years, it was called a NO PED, basically a small engine on a frame similar to a moped, but NO pedals. It was called a Honda Express, and I won one From my Honda dealer in a motorcycle touring contest, make all the checkpoints all over the state to get your name in the hat, then my name was drawn, about a 1 in 100 chance.
And on the other hand there is 213 HP Honda CBR 1000RR-R Fireblade... :D :D
@2:12 - Lombard Street in San Francisco?
Retro Nice
They can't even come close to ads like these in this age! Ads are just shit today
I completely agree, it's all animated garbage to keep you ADD engaged
Now I am using this one still now gifted from him
Back then when people didnt use helmets. Either you can ride or you die. Simpler times.
True, but with 60cc’s you can only do so much damage.
In most of the scenes in these commercials the bikes don't have any mirrors, to go along with the riders not having any helmets. Good stuff!
Chiiii man i miss my grand parents. 😐
That is a bike not a moped it had no pedals. Steve in Thailand.
Had one for years in eighty's wot a buzz?
幸せを運ぶHONDA？
我が日本の誇り？
Nowadays, Honda got no more nice people....
All very idyllic but the reality of riding through a uk winter it very, very different, been there done that! 😱😱😱
That's why the old British Empire usually colonized in better climates.
5:00 I wonder what the Snell rating was on that babushka?
where can i buy one, are these new?
How the wind didn't blow her hat right off
I got my super cub in 61 or 62?
いいね👍
No one can take place of road master 200cc
0:44 seconds WHAT!?!?!? 200 miles to the Gallon! wtf!? and your telling me we are in 2023 and we can get 60 mpg at best?? shouldnt we have moved forward not backwards!? wheres my 1000 mpg bike then you can laugh at my mo-ped all you want :) as i get smashed by a 18 wheeler on the highway doing 35mph in a 65 BONK BONK huh?? whats that? SMACK! KA POW* Splat* like a comic book
One problem is most people are twice the size nowadays.
Mad Men bringed me here
1968 chevrolet bel air wagon black
If you meet the nicest people on a Honda, would Jesus and the apostles ride them? I think that would make a great ad campaign.
I ride push bike very fast weather permitting
シャレオツCMやなぁ
6.26.21
I miss those days when you road without a helmet and nobody complained about it. I rode all winter on ice and snow and easily survived it. Now, people are such wimps they wear helmets riding bicycles on dry pavement.
notice..NO helmits !!
6~70 age
200 miles 1 gallon. Not a single unit I understand.
1.176 litres per 100km
*LBS ‘Lot of Bull Shit’ and Gallons Imperial or US?? Everybody is confused. Not to mention Fl.Oz WHAT is that? Bangkok-Johnnie from Thailand, officially metric country like Australia, the rest of ASIA and Europe* ua-cam.com/video/AH55ZkQJ73A/v-deo.html
people before dont wear helmets
#Fourstrokebarn
I can't imagine these commercials selling many bikes because the situations and people seem too out of touch with reality.
@J G Be polite.
@J G So just how old are you that you know this?
@@robertbrandywine The statistics say so bro, Honda sold millions in the 60s and 70s.
@@lordracula2461 Where can I see the sales figures for these little bikes? I'm not arguing that the Honda CBs weren't popular. Also, I'm saying that the advertisements shown here weren't what caused young men to buy motorcycles. (They weren't buying them and riding to work on them in a suit and hat.) I've never seen a single person on a CB in a suit.
Highest selling motor vehicle of all time
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1960s: you meet the nicest people on a Honda
2010s: you meet the biggest chads in a honda
dai hong un do thorm a honda grand silhouette is a begin at october 8 1771 is 1771 honda grand silhoette green and silhouette
No longer a dine more like 5 i bucks
Thing i dont get it. Honda from japanese or USA?
Don't make fool of yourself. Everybody knows that honda is japanese automotive manufacturer. but the video was taken marketplace in USA. So would you say honda is from India if the video was taken place in India?
@@aprillinardiprasetya959 Be nice.
Honda Cubs or Super Cubs have been made all over the world, in at least 15 countries, such as Vietnam, Brazil, Thailand, Nigeria, Mexico, etc.@@aprillinardiprasetya959
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not a moped in the bunch.
Unfortunately, nice people on Honda’s in 2019 have gone the way of the dodo bird. Now, the only people riding Honda’s are 36 year old, tatted up manchildren who wear bandanas and leather vests the bought at Walmart over their oversized white T and JNCO jeans with the wallet chain loop, heading home to their grandma’s brownstone basement, where they spend their nights cutting the yayo they’re slinging with baking soda before dividing them up into dime bags to sell out of the back seat of their car outside the local middle school. That she roided out correction officers at Riker’s Island
Um no, maybe Harley riders. Honda riders are still nice middle-class people.
I have see a lot of people riding a Honda but never have I seen one riding one with a leather vests.