I've had many different motos in my life, but I recently purchased the first Honda Super Cub I've ever owned, and so far it's a great bike.
A Modern Classic 🎨
You might've seen this bike already from a previous post, where it was stuffed in the back of my tuk-tuk without its fenders. After arriving back home, I've had time to adjust the brakes, lube the cables, tune the carb, and give it a good enough inspection to trust it with my life. We already have a tuk-tuk, and that will always be our main form of transport, but my wife still wants to learn how to ride a moto, and that is the main purpose of this bike.
I had really hoped to score a Super Cub 70 or Little Cub, as both would be better learner bikes for my wife, whose only moto experience is a twist-n-go automatic 50cc moped. The 70s aren't very common, and the Little Cubs even less so, but this particular Super Cub 90 caught my eye because it was fresh off the container from Japan, and the shop owner had already prepared a license plate for it.
Clean & Quiet 🤫
If I recall correctly, this bike is a 2005 model and it only has 13,000km on the speedo, so it's still very fresh and the engine is super quiet. It even had two brand new tires on it, so I'm hoping there won't be any surprise expenses to maintain this bike any time soon. Most modern bikes like this are now 4-speeds, especially the Honda Waves and Dreams, of which I've owned the former.
My Honda Wave had way more power, and the 4 gears made it easier to stay in the powerband of the motor when riding. I'm still getting used to this much simpler moto, and it's a little sluggish climbing the mountain pass, but I've already picked the girls up from school with it, and we can still easy summit the pass riding three-up on this beauty.
Future Motorcyclist 🤷♀️
Sitting on the table with one of her new friends is my wife, the future pilot of this sweet ride. It'll take a few months, but eventually I'll have her confident enough to take the kids to and from school, and that will help me tremendously, because my daily workload keeps me busy from sunup to sundown. The 2x daily commute to school consumes two and a half hours of time, so this will be a game changer for my productivity levels.
Even though this is a Japanese import, English words like "choke" and "on/off" are found on the bike, but a few things are in Japanese, especially the fuel gauge info. Even though I can't read Japanese, I can assume the the character on the right means "full," the one on the left "empty," and perhaps the characters in between say "get gas bro," perhaps I'll use my phone to translate it some day, I'm kind of curious now.
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Return from My First Honda Super Cub 90 🛵 A Modern Classic 👨🎨 to Justin Parke's Web3 Blog
