Honda Farm Bike 'resto'.

[RobertN]

I love watching flat track motorcycles!
Fast Fridays Speedway

I had an SL125 (bought for $3 at an aution) that I set up for 1/8th dirt oval racing that I pumped up to around (guestimate) 15hp until I broke the output shaft of the transmission.

 

[alchemysa]

Pretty happy dogs....

 

[RobertBrown]

Looks great, I hope you get plenty of hours out of it.
I'm guessing you didn't take any before pictures?
If you have any, post them, pictures of the profect before you started.
Nice work and time well spent.

 

[alchemysa]

A smaller version of the CT125 farm bike previously pictured is the CT110 'step through' shown below. These are better known over here as 'Postie Bikes' because until recently only Australia Post were able to buy a street legal version. (The general public could only buy a non-registrable farm bike version). Australia Post still uses these bikes to deliver mail. They must have bought tens of thousand of these bikes over the years. They put about 10,000 ks on the clock then sell them off. They are enormously popular family fun bikes because they are so easy to ride and so reliable. They have quite a cult following. I think at the moment a group of guys are riding across Australia on them.

Which begs the question..how do US postman get around?

 

[joemd11]

I think the U.S. equivalent of the Postie was the trail 90. Looked very similar to the one in your post. I had a Honda CT70 when I was a kid. Put a lot of miles on that bike. Mine was the 3 speed automatic and my best friend had the 4 speed manual. Spent many hours trail riding thru the limestone quarries in Western Pa.

 

[RobertBrown]

Depends on where you live, but I don't think they use 2 wheeled vehicles anywhere. They do use a very sparse version of a jeep, 2wheel drive with 1 seat and lots of flat deck wth a roof and a large sliding door.
Where i live, the mail is delvered in personnal vehicles that are leased back to the USPS

 

[jinman]

A common mail delivery vehicle for residential delivery in the cities is currently the Grumman LLV (long-life vehicle).

Another vehicle of the past was the Cushman Mailster.

As Robert said, they also used Jeeps.

In rural areas or contract delivery areas you may see vans, SUVs, and others. Our rural delivery people have personally owned jeeps that are leased back to USPS.

 

[alchemysa]

Depends on where you live, but I don't think they use 2 wheeled vehicles anywhere. They do use a very sparse version of a jeep, 2wheel drive with 1 seat and lots of flat deck wth a roof and a large sliding door.
Where i live, the mail is delvered in personnal vehicles that are leased back to the USPS

When I said Aussie postmen use these bikes I was referring to the suburbs, where they can ride right up to the letterbox and deliver the mail without getting off the bike. The weather is milder here in most places so a motorbike is pretty practical.

So what happens in the suburbs in the US? Does the postie climb out of his 'Grunman' at every home letterbox?

 

[rswyan]

So what happens in the suburbs in the US? Does the postie climb out of his 'Grunman' at every home letterbox?

The boxes are at the end of the driveways to the homes:

 

[MotorSeven]

Ahhh, that brings back memorys. My first "real" motor was a well used SL125. First was a mini bike with a Briggs & Stratton 3.5 hp motor similar to this one:

I rode the wheels off that thing and it was still running when I sold it to help pay for the Honda. Unfortunatly the 125 only lasted less that a year before the engine blew. Then it was a Suzuki TS185, then a Honda 400, then........the list gets kinda long