It’s almost unbelievable but my latest mail ‘yea yea - it’s a Monkey’ posted yesterday has gone awol......?
I really can’t understand what makes this otherwise wonderful site click?
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So why has my ‘Monkey’ thread been removed? I’m baffled!
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No it’s NOT where I left it, something has been done to remove it from the list of topics. But I don't understand why?
But I’m now the proud owner of a completely re-built & restored 1979 ST70.
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That brings back memories.My first ever two wheel bike was a Honda ST 70.I think I bought it in 1973-74.I bought it brand new on h p paying back £8.00 a month.Still remember the registration OCL 8L.It was a white one, happy days!
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Yes they’re lovely little bikes, if yours was white the colour is now known as a Lady Dax usually having a green coloured flower design on the seat. Said to be most valuable today. I bought mine to play with not dismantle, occasional rides etc. as just a keepsake amongst my other bikes. Maybe yours cost £209 new which was the price then......worth a LOT more now.
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I read this in the Motorbike Chat Section down the page a bit .
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No knowledge of ......
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Re: Yea Yea - my Monkey missing!
From the motorbike chat section .
Sun Jun 13, 2021 4:34 pm
In the early sixties the Monkey Bike was very much a status symbol, not particularly fast or a ‘cafe-racer’ its quaint design was to say the least eye-catching holding its then ultra small engine beneath its initial tubular and later pressed steel frame - it’s folding handlebars showing it was intended to be going somewhere, it was, mostly being carried by motor caravans and the like to be used as supplemental economical transport between locations. It was too, the thing to be seen on to dodge traffic queues while showing a kind of oneupmanship to cage drivers.
The ST series of bikes ranged from 50cc’s through 70cc’ and in some countries 90cc’s, and were popular until the late nineties when they were eclipsed mainly by increasing euro controls. Many of these mini-bikes are still in use or to be found as ‘Barn Finds’ eligible for restoration. The original ST’s were a patented design of Honda but the patents expired and the design was taken over by the Jincheng company in China. Fast-foreword to today and we learn that Honda have renewed their patents and are about to introduce their 2021 ST125 DAX design in the style of their previous ST series.......an example of which, produced for 2021 with what appears to be the engine used in the new Cub125 can be seen on U-Tube.
I want one! - for IRO £4000.
https://imotorbike.my/news/en/2021/01/h ... n-the-way/
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Post by Phil » Mon Jun 14, 2021 5:07 am
Hi Jimo. Have you seen the Bullit 125 Monkey bike? Phil
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Post by Jimo » Mon Jun 14, 2021 6:19 pm
Hi Phil, Yes I’ve seen the Bullett but it looks - well - like a monkey rather than an ST variant as also shown,
What do you know ...... I’ve just stumbled upon a very clean ST70 and bought it.
More later.
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Post by Jimo » Tue Jun 15, 2021 5:04 pm
My ‘New’ Monkey is actually a 1983 6v Dax ST70 - a recent ‘nut and bolt’ re-build with beautiful Blue paint job, starts and runs perfectly with no oil leaks and fully working 6v electrics, stumbled upon it last night where it had been advertised for 1 day, - it was delivered this morning, Couldn’t believe my eyes it’s like new!
By the way, that’s not oil - it’s water under the bike!
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Post by 2wheelover51 » Wed Jun 16, 2021 2:46 pm
Very nice Jimo.
Have to say I would like one of these just for fun. I was wondering "when did Honda make a 6 valve engine?" then I cottoned on...
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In the early sixties the Monkey Bike was very much a status symbol, not particularly fast or a ‘cafe-racer’ its quaint design was to say the least eye-catching holding its then ultra small engine beneath its initial tubular and later pressed steel frame - it’s folding handlebars showing it was intended to be going somewhere, it was, mostly being carried by motor caravans and the like to be used as supplemental economical transport between locations. It was too, the thing to be seen on to dodge traffic queues while showing a kind of oneupmanship to cage drivers.
The ST series of bikes ranged from 50cc’s through 70cc’ and in some countries 90cc’s, and were popular until the late nineties when they were eclipsed mainly by increasing euro controls. Many of these mini-bikes are still in use or to be found as ‘Barn Finds’ eligible for restoration. The original ST’s were a patented design of Honda but the patents expired and the design was taken over by the Jincheng company in China. Fast-foreword to today and we learn that Honda have renewed their patents and are about to introduce their 2021 ST125 DAX design in the style of their previous ST series.......an example of which, produced for 2021 with what appears to be the engine used in the new Cub125 can be seen on U-Tube.
I want one! - for IRO £4000.
https://imotorbike.my/news/en/2021/01/h ... n-the-way/
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Hi Jimo. Have you seen the Bullit 125 Monkey bike? Phil
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Post by Jimo » Mon Jun 14, 2021 6:19 pm
Hi Phil, Yes I’ve seen the Bullett but it looks - well - like a monkey rather than an ST variant as also shown,
What do you know ...... I’ve just stumbled upon a very clean ST70 and bought it.
More later.
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Post by Jimo » Tue Jun 15, 2021 5:04 pm
My ‘New’ Monkey is actually a 1983 6v Dax ST70 - a recent ‘nut and bolt’ re-build with beautiful Blue paint job, starts and runs perfectly with no oil leaks and fully working 6v electrics, stumbled upon it last night where it had been advertised for 1 day, - it was delivered this morning, Couldn’t believe my eyes it’s like new!
By the way, that’s not oil - it’s water under the bike!
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Very nice Jimo.
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