In the bec,trllming,
The grandfa ther of
Soichiro Honda
rodays all- terrain vehi cles,
didn't build complete
the orih
rinal 1970 ATC90, the
motorcycles. He didn't
first ATY A1'Vs have grown
even build entire
to add a who le new way to
cngin~.
No, Honda
Motor Company
was founded bv
•
a ma n who got his
"Nicest Peopl e" bike. That
stan making piston rings.
little ste pthro ugh introduced
Fifty years later, Honda
Motor Company has grown
an entire generati on of
America ns to mot orcycling
and chanzed the wav thev
o
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.
thought about bikes.
The legen dary 1969
Honda's fir.; f tlf'fH,fmkr motocross biler
tI/1 1973 ('R
25I.1.l1f:twum
enjoy tile outdoors.
The 1973 C 250M
Elsinore. Our first motocross
CB7S0 KO With
.
bike, it won
four air-coo led
the National
cylinders set
Cha mp ionship
in-line across a
in its first year,
to become th e largest motor-
full-cradle
and we never
cycle manufacturer in the
fram e, four ca r-
looked back.
world. And in between, we've
buretors, and a
produced a whole string of
disc brake, the
mach ines that have rocked
, KO absolutely
Then there's
the machine
that reshaped
th e industry, and changed the
defined motor-
world of motorcycling forever.
cycling in the late sixties and
the concept
of taking a trip on a
.I ust consider some of our
early seventies.
motorcycle, th e 1975
Gold Wing~ TIle pioneer
benchmark bikes :
The 1959
of liquid cooling and
CI00 Supe r Cub~
shaft final drive in a
the original
modem touring machine,
Thr ]{J,-...:
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