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Family Ride

Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2019 6:44 pm
by motorbreath53
I hadn't intended to start a thread for this, but Neighborjoe harassed me in the freeCheaporBeerBaja build ive got...

He called it the "New Monster" in my garage...

I did recently move it from my dads place to mine, but its certainly not new...

My Grandpa bough two of these new for his daughters. My mom and her sisters have cool memories on the little property they grew up on in Bend Oregon. Eventually though they lost interest and all but discarded them outside. When a teenager version of my dad started hanging around their house, he wasn't looking for a mini bike. :mrgreen:

Still, right at the edge of the pond on the property sat this 1969 Honda 50 MiniTrail. The other of the two bikes was seen fully submerged, and was deemed not worth saving.

He was given permission to take the bike home and stored it various places until my Brother and I were born.

Only minor fixes were required to give my brother and I a million amazing memories. The bike has been sent all over Oregon, and Idaho as our family has grown to give the new batch of kids a go on "The Minibike".

A recent trip to Oregon for Easter ended with this awesome family heirloom sitting in my garage in SoCal. My little girls have a couple years before they will fit it, but my brothers oldest girl will get her shot any day!

Here's a couple pics of the "new family ride" safe at home!

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Re: Family Ride

Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2019 6:53 pm
by Leatherneck
Cool little scooter, make sure you give the biker wave when you ride by. More importantly ya off-road tease what is the real monster used as a prop in the back ground?

Re: Family Ride

Posted: Sun May 05, 2019 5:52 pm
by jt1967
Lets talk about that BIG OL SEXY BEAST in the back ground little Brother! Quit holding out on us tell us about your Double D's :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:

Re: Family Ride

Posted: Mon May 13, 2019 7:22 pm
by dustymojave
We're obviously not talking about the 74 or '75 TransAm. But IIRC, there is a whole thread about that silver terror.

I remember a WHOLE LOT of those Honda MiniTrails around my neighborhood where the 405 freeway meets the I5 in Sylmar, CA (far north end of Los Angeles). Lots of folks used to call those hills "Honda Hills", even before Mini Trails were invented. Now those hills that we were chased out of occasionally for "causing erosion" have been deeply bulldozed and had homes built on them. All the thousands of offroaders put together couldn't move as much dirt in a lifetime as 1 bulldozer in a day. Throughout the 70s MiniTrails were popular all over at desert offroad races.