Does anybody remember the old Honda Z series mini trails?

May have been the 70.

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That's a monkey. And it isn't very mini anymore.

Bigger than a grom

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A mini trail for grown ups!

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My bro in law has a bunch of 70s mini bikes, like 200 of them

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Mini bikes are making a come back, I suppose due to the inexpensive Honda clone (Predator, etc.) gasoline engines that are now available. Academy and Walmart sell them. Sears and Montgomery Ward used to sell a bunch back in the '70's, and some of the local fab shops made them as well. Broncco mini bikes were the cream of the crop.

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I dont ask why with him. Dude has more money than he knows what to do with, yet has hobbies like that or adding el caminos to his car collection next to MB's Rolls, Bentley, etc...

They also had a QA-50,my cousin had one of those when he was about 4 years old. Miracle that he survived. He didn't get much supervision.

My father buys and resorts the 90’s model Z50’s. We have 5 or 6 ranging from 90-96 or so, as well as multiple other restored mini-bikes

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My bro in law has a bunch of 70s mini bikes, like 200 of them

They sit on a three tiered rack in his barn. its non stop buying more and piecing them back together

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I knew a guy in Irving that had over 300 Corvairs. Everyone around the country who owned them knew about him, and bought parts from him. The wrecked ones were stacked three high. It was a business for him, but he was a collector that bought, sold and built cars like other guys do Star Wars crap on Ebay.

Everyone I knew that had one Corvair, owned more than one of them. A frat brother had four of them that ran, but his parents only knew about two.

My dad bought me a Suzuki TS-100 when I was in 5th grade- best Christmas present ever!

My friend ran into me on his YZ80 and broke my leg a year or two later. Mom grounded me from my bike (not to mention I had a cast on my leg), so the girl across the street let me ride her Z-50 while I was in a cast... chasing her on her YZ-80.

Fun times indeed in the woods of Pineville, LA!

This is a spitting image of the bike my buddy Tee had when we were kids back in the early 70's.

I was so jealous of him. I finally got my own bike, an XR-75, after saving my money from working a paper route.

Tee on his Mini-Trail and me on my XR had some kind of freedom. His dad would bring him out to the country and drop him off with his bike, and we'd go wheeling down the dirt roads. We would go easily 5-10 miles away and think nothing of it. And our parents didn't worry all that much.

Can't do that today. Last year my brother and I took our 4 wheelers down those same roads and promptly got ticketed by the local Green Jeans.