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jensen · Post by **jensen** » Wed Nov 25, 2009 2:55 am

Hi,

I have a original part manual, (see the photocopy)
I'll come back on this the weekend,

Jensen

shotzinky · Post by **shotzinky** » Fri Nov 27, 2009 2:25 am

Hey,

Maybe the bike is not so rare after all. I think this is a youtube video of some guy cruising around Japan on one. Enjoy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yOjofv8BJs

Shotz

jensen · Post by **jensen** » Fri Nov 27, 2009 9:05 am

Hi,

Nice movie on youtube, great sound.
I'm so sorry to call this bike rare, there so many of those bikes.
How could I not see all those movies on the internet.

Google on CB250 early style and you'll find a million hits, just like googling on rc174 or cub50
Everyone knows them, and off course everyone seen one already.
and how can I forget, most people owned one, but sadly all dissapeared, except a few.

These bikes where as common as the cub50 and the CR174, there all over the Internet, how stupid of me,

Jensen

shotzinky · Post by **shotzinky** » Sat Nov 28, 2009 12:21 pm

Jensen,

I think that they are rare for those of us in the Americas where these bikes were unfortunately never imported. I live in Oregon and only caught a glimpse of one via the web. Accordingly, my discovery of it was only an accident insofar as I was researching GB250 or clubmans, which is another bike not sold here in the states. All of a sudden I see this video of a guy on a bike that looks like my 64 Superhawk, but a bit different, however just as cool. I'd like to get my hands on one.

Shotz

jensen · Post by **jensen** » Sat Nov 28, 2009 2:06 pm

Hi,

I live in Europe, and these bikes never are imported here either.

So in Europe these bikes are very rare, in the US too.
I traveled a lot in Asia too, never seen one.

So these bikes only exist in Japan, some came to Australia, but where never imported there officially.
A few years ago I, together with John Duggen, did a full scan on the INTERNET, nothing except a few pictures, and one in the Japanese Honda Museum, and that was it.

Let's assume there where 10000 made this way (I thinks this assumption is way to high), and 2000 survived, these machines would be more commonly seen as for example a CS77.

Well, I call the CB250 in this particular look rare, just as a CS77.

There are a lot of movies from a cr174 on the Internet too, but believe me these machines are rare.

Jensen

clarenceada · Post by **clarenceada** » Sun Nov 29, 2009 4:26 am

Jensen: in 1995 I did an internet search for my name and came back with 2 hits and one was spelled differently; I was amazed! (I thought I had an unusual name). Last month I did another search and came back with 75!------and just in the USA; point is more, more people on the net, more people to report the unusual. If you spread the u-tube hits all over just japan----- not many bikes.

Clarence

jensen · Post by **jensen** » Mon Nov 30, 2009 9:01 am

Hi,

Can someone give us production numbers of this strange CB250 ?
How many members on this forum have seen this bike for real ?
Are there people here knowing this machine before introduction on this forum ?

As I stated, I've seen three now, one in Australia, one in France, and one in the museum in Japan.

Jensen

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