Speed Demon or Dud! - Honda Dream 50 Race Replica - Episode 7 - Rob's Garage
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- Seventh episode in this series on getting this little dream on the road. Let's see how fast it will go, both with stock ignition and then the Takigawa de-restrictor unit that removes the RPM limitations. Afterwards I sum it all up.
The 1997 Honda CB50V Dream 50 AC15 is relatively rare. These were a Japanese market street legal version of the Dream 50R race-only version sold in the US in 2004. These DOHC four valve singles were meant as a tribute to the RC110 factory 50cc racers and the 1962 CR110 production racing bikes
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Very informitive. Loved seeing Oriental Bay after having been away from NZ for 50 years. Will consider this for my stock CB50.
50 years! That's a long time to stay way. Oriental Bay is still the jewel in the city, especially since they started shipping in nice sand from down south somewhere. Other than that, the city council is hell bent on destroying this place. I had a ride on a CB50 back in the 70s. It was slow compared to our 2 strokes but I loved how it sounded and felt... like a real motorbike. Getting this Dream 50 decades later pretty much arose from that ride on the CB.
Rob, nice video. The original AC15 sales brochure has a hp and torque graph that shows peak hp at 10,500 rpm and peak torque at 9K, so you could probably squeeze out a couple more kph by going one tooth larger on the countershaft sprocket to lower revs at top speed. It's diminishing returns though since above 75 kph wind resistance really takes a toll. Mine with the Takegawa 84cc kit will approach 95 kph on level ground fully tucked in, with 2 tooth larger C-S sprocket.
Hey thanks Bill. I've got the brochure from the previous owner. It's interesting to hear how yours performs with all the extras. It does seem like 75k or so is about it at 50cc and I'm pretty happy with that. I went on a longer ride a couple of days ago and realised that there's nowhere to ride it, even if it were 20 or even 30k faster. It wouldn't be fast enough for the motorway and so I'd be riding on the same roads at the same speeds anyway. The bike was really fun on this ride.. flat out in every corner and it just feels like you're going faster than on a big bike. Fun to relive some of that feeling.
That is a buzz-bomb!
heheh Hi Colin, it's certainly no Bevel 😄
You could mount your phone and check the speed by GPS. GREAT VIDEO 👍
Absolutely, yes. I even said that in my mic halfway through the ride. I'll definitely look for a suitable app before I do another run. I'll assume one can track an entire ride and see speeds along the way. Thanks!
@Ducati900SS - I use GAIA GPS App on my phone. Free and can plan and record trips as well as showing true speed. 👍
@@bobz1736 Just looking that app up now.. it says it's an off road hiking app. Is that the one? I wouldn't have picked it form the description, but I'll download if that's it.
@@Ducati900SS - yes that's the one
When I was 16 I owned a 1977 Yamaha FS1-E, which regularly achieved 50+ mph (best was 57mph on the clock). 75kph equates to 46.6mph, so the Honda is certainly no quicker than my old Fizzy, and I suspect, probably a bit slower. It would be interesting to see how it performed if it was tuned.
Yes this is not even up to scratch with all the tuned Mofas and Mokicks that teens had when I lived in Germany in the 70s. There were also the legal 50cc "Klein Kraft Rad" bikes that were unrestricted and could do those speeds legally but needed an expensive license to ride. Once I did about 70 on my 50cc Hercules Mokick that was only legal for 40.. that was exciting. That's why I put this Honda at about 3.5 horsepower. There's a video on YT of someone trying bigger carbs without any benefit, and pretty much all the other performance mods involve bigger heads and pistons, which I think sort of misses the point of having a 50cc bike. But there must be power hiding somewhere in this motor as it is. I don't think they'd claim 5.6hp if it couldn't do it. At this point I think the biggest speed boost would come from me losing about 40 pounds!
@@Ducati900SS Thank you. I hadn't considered our expanding waistlines! At 16 I too was quite a bit lighter than today.
@@1man1guitarletsgo About 40 pounds in my case!!
I own an AC17. !
Bloody hell.. that's a bike I've never seen before.. that's very cool! 👍
Your bike doesn't have the 80cc bore kit?
No, this is entirely stock, and then stock plus the delimiter. Those Takigawa big bore kits are also going for big money these days, but I don't think I'd want to have one. For me this was meant to be a 50cc bike and it runs fine as such. I can always get on the other bike in my garage if I want to go fast. Thanks for the comment!
@@Ducati900SS Sure. People have gotten about 12 horsepower out of that engine. It's a marvel, I wish I had a dream 50. Where are you living, it doesn't look like the UK.
@@CrapKerouac This is New Zealand.
Great video, I have a Dream 50 and have fitted the takegawa 89cc kit with PE24 carburetor. It's great but I do miss how it was as a 50cc. I do understand what your saying about keeping it a 50cc. 👍
@@voodoochild800 Hi Voodoo.. Yes, it totally wouldn't be the same for me if it's not a 50. I don't mind so much if it runs like crap if it's a 50 heh. All part of the fun. Out of interest though - what kind of speed/performance have you had with the 89cc kit?
Big bore kit will make a decent bike without revving it's bollocks off