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Post by fugaziiv on Jun 1, 2017 15:38:22 GMT -5
Food for thought, the late 70's and early 80's C70 Passport is actually a Cub. Honda couldn't use the Cub name stateside due to trademark infringements, hence the name Passport. Matt Honda Passport is also an automobile. Wiki says these are all names for the Super Cub: Cub, C100, C102, C65, CM90, CM91, C110, C50, C70, C90, Passport, EX5, Dream 100, EX5 Dream, C100EX, Super Cub 50, Super Cub 110 If you really want to get into detail, the other Honda Passport was actually a badge engineered Isuzu Rodeo.  Matt |
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Post by ThomasTPFL on Jun 1, 2017 21:17:54 GMT -5
Weirdest Honda name reuse to me is the Odyssey.
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Post by fugaziiv on Jun 2, 2017 9:11:24 GMT -5
Weirdest Honda name reuse to me is the Odyssey. From Kart to Minivan. I never figured that one out either. Matt |
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Post by bluegoatwoods on Jun 4, 2017 23:01:09 GMT -5
My memory is hazy on this....but if it serves me right the original "Cub"
was simply an engine that mounted on the rear wheel of a bicycle and pushed the bike.
And the "Super Cub" was this bike in this thread. Also, I think, the very bike that the Beach Boys were singing about in "Little Honda".
This would have been about the time of my very earliest memories. And I have no memory of the Super Cub at that time. I do have memories of the Passport. In advertising if not in person.
The Passport is reputed to be the Super Cub under a different name. I suppose there might have been some small mods.
And trademark issues could certainly explain the name change.
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Post by thxcuz on Jun 6, 2017 9:53:21 GMT -5
Wasn't the super cub just called "the honda 50" in the US? Later It was Called The Passport. A guy a block over has a sym symba. I'm pretty jelly. You meet the nicest people on a honda! But this guy is kind of a jerk youtu.be/ck9wBHW2160 |
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Post by ozo on Jun 6, 2017 11:36:38 GMT -5
Wasn't the super cub just called "the honda 50" in the US? Later It was Called The Passport. A guy a block over has a sym symba. I'm pretty jelly. You meet the nicest people on a honda! But this guy is kind of a jerk youtu.be/ck9wBHW2160I liked the video. San Francisco with no traffic? O, and your neighbor, ha, times have changed. |
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Post by bluegoatwoods on Jun 7, 2017 8:57:20 GMT -5
Excellent Honda commercials! Some of those models were familiar. I was just a kid, so the memories are hazy.
As a kid I had a '68 305 "Scrambler". The 305 "Nighthawk" in that one commercial looked like a street version of the very same bike. I can't say that I genuinely liked the Scrambler. It was too big for me and didn't start well. That doesn't mean that it was a bad model, of course. It could be that that particular one had seen better days. I don't know it's history and that was a long time ago now. More than forty years.
And the SYM Symba was the bike that convinced me to get into scootering. I had discovered it by chance on the internet. I came to understand just what it was and I was impressed. Spent some time thinking that I'd kinda like to have one of those. Vaguely thought about getting one and encouraging my wife to ride. I figured I'd get some riding out of the deal, too.
Then one day I noticed the "SYM" logo on a local motorsports dealership. I said to my wife, "You know....I've been thinking about buying you a scooter". I figured she'd like the idea. But she really liked the idea!
So we went on down to this dealer and I asked, "Do you have a Symba in stock? I'd like to have a look at one of them".
They said no they didn't have one in stock and that they were going to drop their SYM franchise anyway on the grounds that SYM was too demanding in some way or other. So I bought her a Honda Metropolitan instead.
That was really the better way to go for her anyway. She's a newbie and the Symba might have intimidated her.
As a matter of fact having now ridden the Honda Super Cub above, I now know a few things I didn't know before.
I'd never ridden a bike with manual transmission and centrifugal clutch. And I'm not at all sure I got that bike out of first gear. It was a very quick ride and I'm sure I could get a second chance one day to learn it. One day I might. But shifting gears with no clutch lever to pull on was not intuitive. It was awkward.
Also that bike is quite small. I'm six feet tall. I doubt if anyone over, say, five and a half feet could be really comfortable day-in and day-out on that bike.
It's a beauty and so is the Symba. But it's not the bike for me.
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