Intro to Motorcycling
![[Honda MB5 motorcycle]](/~erlkonig/img/transport/honda-mb5-rf.jpg)
In high school, while I had the MB5, I thought:
How does a 50cc motorcycle do 55 m.p.h.?...
If all bikes were so engineered, we could do mach 1 on the highway.
I didn't ride this bike much, only through a few tanks of gas;
In fact, the first time the bike stopped dead, it took me
half an hour to figure out that low fuel was the problem, and
switch to reserve -- I'd effectively forgotten it needed gas
at all. :-)
| Owned |
Brand |
Model |
Born |
cm3 |
Mileage |
Color |
Fate |
| 1982 ? |
Honda |
MB5 |
1980 ? |
50 |
not much |
Red |
Sold |
Aspects of small motorcycles
Interesting things about the bike
- Didn't cost much.
- Easy to pick up.
Problems
- Easy to steal.
- Poor acceleration.
Mishaps
- Ran over a curb once when I was just learning to ride and didn't
make a sufficiently small radius turn.
I stopped just fine in the grass, then dropped the bike.
- The aforementioned running out of gas in the main tank,
and taking forever to figure out the problem.
- The drivechain came off once, I think.
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