![]() Today, Honda produces a broad array of motorcycles of every class. It was in 1949 that they manufactured their first real motorcycle with a 98 cc two-stroke motor. Honda Motorcycles started out as bicycles with two-stroke motors grafted onto them. Today, the company makes industry-leading motorcycles in nearly every category. The Honda cycles of this era were primarily known for competing on racetracks around the world. It was in the 1960s that these inexpensive cycles really rose to the height of popularity. Soon after the company started manufacturing Honda Motorcycles. Honda's business began as a producer of piston rings. During this time, the Japanese economy was recovering from World War II. The Dunning-Kruger effect was evident with many of the people that were hurt themselves on three wheelers back then and even with some of the people posting their comments here.Honda was founded in 1940s Japan by Soichiro Honda. The were generally beat to death, so to find one still intact is rare today. They even had an three position adjustable throttle stop to limit the speed on them to a crawl to 25 mph. Slow, low to the ground, and almost impossible to tip over, they were a good for kids if they were properly supervised. So the government banned them, and we got four wheeler ATV’s that people are still killing themselves on.įor your information, the ATC 70 is probably the safest ATC ever built. That’s the American way! It didn’t hurt that us Americans were butt hurt from the Japanese bringing over superior and well engineered cars and motorcycles to buy in the 70’s and 80’s instead of our inferior US built stuff built at that time. Of course when junior crashed his brains out, it had to be somebody elses fault, so call your ambulance chaser lawyer to go for the deep pockets of Honda. They wouldn’t let Junior tear around in their pickup, so they bought him a three wheeler. Unlike a dirt bike, you could get on a three wheeler and twist the throttle wide open and go flat out until you got to that first corner or big bump, then you crashed if you didn’t know what you were doing! Parents were buying them for their kids as toys or motorized baby sitters without taking the time to teach their kids how to ride them safely and monitor their use, often without helmets and safety equipment. They are no more dangerous than a dirt bike, except that anyone could ride one with no experience or sense of balance. I never got hurt, and that included racing in national events in the 80’s. I worked at a Honda dealer, so I sold and worked on them there too. I have ridden and raced Honda three wheelers from 1975 to 1995, from the balloon tired ATC 90’s to the water cooled ATC 250R’s. Then they did their job of clearing the debris from our gene pool! It has Honda’s single-cylinder and they say that it starts on the second or third pull when the engine is cold and it runs great. It looks like with some detailing and maybe new graphics and some paint on the engine cases, it would look like new again if that’s a person’s goal. It received new tires, a new aftermarket carburetor, filters, spark plug, and they treated the gas tank. They pulled out and got to work to make it usable. ![]() It was given to his friend’s girlfriend’s son brand new and has been sitting for 30 years. The seller’s friend found this one in a barn where it had been sitting for three decades. I know that things happen and if 2020 has taught us anything, it’s hard to keep away from everything that can harm us, especially when it’s something as fun as this Honda ATC70. That sure sounds like a lot of unfortunate, innocent accidents or a lot of careless goofballs, or maybe a combination of both. They didn’t have any trouble with them as far as being thrown off or running over their feet or legs or whatever else happened when people aren’t being as careful as they could be when riding these things.īelieve it or not, in a story in 1988, Time Magazine reported that 800 people had been killed riding them over the previous five years and 7,000 people a month were injured due to three-wheel ATV accidents. ![]() I freely admit to having never owned a three-wheel ATV but friends of mine had them when we were growing up. The current bid price is $1,225, there is no reserve, and there is only a day left to line up your shipper, or your backroads route if you’ll ride it home… As if there weren’t already enough threats to our personal safety, our sanity, and pretty much everything else this year, we give you this 1985 Honda ATC70! I mean, what could go wrong with owning one of these things? The seller has this formerly-hidden three-wheeler listed here on eBay in Woodruff, South Carolina.
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