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Speedo drive produced only
oil _page on the bike.
The Honda comes with a nice
selection of labels.
Nextqear's
Freewaq
Flqer:
TheHonda
XL-115
Photos by John D. Ulrich
and Arthur M. Friedman
Magnesium side cases, businesslike
head pipe, and lousy horn. Despitll no
excess of cooling fins, it never
overheated.
30
Toolbox and spare fuses live
under the seat.
What manner of beast is the
Honda XL-175? It all depends on
how you approach it.
When we got the 175 from
Honda to lest, we could have
taken it out and ridden it the way
someone would be expected to
ride a Honda Elsinore. If we had,
we could have quite honestly COme back
and written that the Honda 175 was a
true pig. or maybe even print a photo of
it inside a pig pen, saying uoink", just
like "Dirt Bike" magazine did recently.
The trouble is, the Honda I 75 was
not built to be used in stock form to
blow off Cordis Brooks in the desert;
Good thing, too, because if it was it
would be a failure.
