I remember the commercials, " You meet the nicest people on a Honda." They looked fun, safe & cheap on gas. And the motorcycle market seemed to really take off after this.
Thanks for the memories! My first bike was a black 150 Dream purchased in about 1963. I had that bike until I went into the Army in 1965. My future wife and I put many miles on that fantastic bike.
These were very impressive for their time. The models prior to the late 1960's are relatively uncommon. The early and mid 60's models were race developed technology detuned for the street. The 125's had top speeds of about 80 mph and the 150's about 85 which was very fast for the era. Thanks for the work you do in preserving these old classics.
This was my first motorcycle I ever owned. I was 16..That was 1975..I stripped the pipes off and road it hard in the hills where I lived in the Fingerlakes.These bikes where tanks..This era was an iconic time with enduro's coming out..But the 70's..Ya the 70's..RM's,YZ's,CR's,Husky's,Penton's,Jawa's,Can Am's..Mr.Kaplan? Thank you for all these great videos and memories you have brought back to many..Soon we will be gone..But the trails will always be waiting.....
Holy cow man that's unreal!! First bike I bought was a 1979 cd200 benly I was 12 the bike got hammered round our farm for 3 years and was still going strong minus silencers and front mudguard it was a great bike
Thanks for the video! I had a 1961 I bought for a great price when I was about 12 years old in the late 70s. It was in decent shape and my plan was for it to be my first vehicle when I got my license. I was out shining it up in my parents yard one day when the mail lady came by and started asking questions about it. She rode motorcycles and her husband collected them. Long story short, her husband came by a day or two later and paid me a good price for it and took it away. I always hoped to see it going down the road, but never did. In my mind he has it sitting in his living room as a show piece, when in reality he probably fixed it up a bit more and sold it. Now that I'm not that young anymore, I would love to have a bike like this again just for putting around town.
Having had a Spiritual Awakening as a result of these videos I try to carry the message to others about Kaplan and practice riding these classics in all my imaginations~
I recall that in the late 1950s through about 1962 or so, the coolest guys in our North St. Louis neighborhood wore DA haircuts and rode Cushman motor scooters. The hot setup was a straight pipe on a Cushman Eagle and that cone shaped tail light from a 1959 or 1960 Cadilac. One day in 1961 as an 11 year old, I was riding on the back of my 17 year old neighbor's Cushman. There were 2 or 3 Cushmans motorscooters all riding along together. Then, some guy we knew joined us riding his Honda 150 Dream. We laughed our asses off at that Roman front fender and the puny exhaust note compared to the Cushman. That was the first Honda Dream any of us had ever seen and we joked about it later, not knowing that the joke was on us, and that puny little Honda was the deathknell of the mighty Cushman motor scooter. Within about 3 years, the Honda Dream had sent the Cushmans to the tar pits of history. By 1964, the sight of a teenage romeo with a DA haircut riding a pimped out Cushman had disappeared forever. By that year, teenage boys started riding Hondas and wearing their hair like the Beatles or Beach Boys, and I was one of them.
These are the bikes of my childhood . My Uncles rode these bikes and gave us rides on the on the red dirt roads of Oklahoma . They lit the fire that turned into my obsession of motorcycle ownership . I ended up owning 26 of them and I wish I had the money to keep them all . PK
When I was a kid my dad had one of these, but in black. I remember riding all over on the back of it. As a little kid is seemed like such a big bike. I started riding at 9 years old on a honda 50 - 55 years ago, but it seemed not much longer than the day before yesterday.
I love these from a historical perspective. Before these you had Harleys and they were a bunch of British bikes kind of making innovations but they were kind of junk. The British bikes that preceded this kind of leaky and poorly made and Mr. Honda kind of change the whole motorcycle world With these and their predecessors he took the modern English bike styling and he just introduced precision machining and quality to the industry and changed it forever. These bikes were kind of a steppingstone to the quality and precision and the next generation of bikes in the 70s combined that with some performance and the rest of the Japanese manufactures jumped on that bandwagon and competed with each other and sort of pushed us into modern motorcycles and there’s definitely new technology and things are better but this was kind of the start that made motorcycles sort of universal. Before that they were kind of junky and it kind of had to be a restoration guy and an engineer and a mechanic to be in the motorcycles, this made them pretty much turnkey simple and reliable and well-built, kind of like what Ford did with the automotive industry, he kind of created the assembly line for cars and on the took that and was a stickler about it and made sure they started producing high quality machinery. These were very well-built bikes, you fix that up like it was when it was new and you can drive that thing forever. You can’t say that about the old English bikes and Harleys are awesome but they are not marvels of engineering by any means and this was kind of the first series of bikes that did that, before that you had junkers and race bikes and they were kind of built like toys or farm equipment, and no I probably wouldn’t want to spend a ton of time writing these, just the history of it, this series of bikes changed to the motorcycle industry and forced all the manufactures to start making quality products. That’s why the big four Japanese bikes are so amazing and there are so many great models out of there because Honda pushed everybody into it because when this came out there was nothing close to it everything else is kind of a rattle a leaky two wheeled lawnmower and people did some very cool things with them but they weren’t precision machinery by any means, this introduced performance and quality manufacturing to the industry and made it a standard. Five or get rich I will probably buy a couple just as a museum piece of history. I know everybody loves sports people and idolize them but even though our two countries were embroiled in very recent military and political issues, he accomplished something amazing and Soichiro Honda is one of my personal heroes. Lol These may not be the coolest most powerful highest performance bikes but for what they were at the time they created something that doesn’t exist that forever change the entire industry, this series of bikes are two motorcycles with Jimi Hendrix was to music. These forever change the motorcycle industry and brought it decades into the future overnight. At this point people go down to dealer and buy a great motorcycle, before that anything you but you had to be pretty much a mechanic to keep it running, this made motorcycling something for everyone.
Very Nice! I have a 65 CT200 with 1020 original miles, I got it from my neighbors shed for 200 bucks! only thing we didn't find were the plastic side covers! new piston and bore job... no spark, Wish i could figure it out! 😞
@@KaplanCycles Hello, Thanks for the offer, but plan to strap it to the front of my 65 F250 4x4, I have a set of those hoop tire mounts for a bumper. JC Whitney sold them I believe. It will run, I haven't given up yet. Cheers!
The Honda ad slogan "You Meet the Nicest People on a Honda" was meant to change the image of motorcycle riders that we got from the outlaw Hells Angels Harley bunch. Honda's slogan was meant to change the image from a leather jacket wearing, greasy haired punk to the white teenager of the early Sixties who wore their hair like the Beatles or Beach Boys. And change that image they did! I grew up in the Sixties and graduated high school in 1968. Most of the boys my age and older had a Honda. I bought a CA200 Sport 90 in 1966 and my two older brothers bought a Honda 150 Dream in 1962, then upgraded to a 1963 CA77 Superhawk in 1964, Nobody of my generation of highschoolers rode Harleys. We were all nice, clean cut young kids having a blast riding our 50cc to 305 cc Hondas thus validating the slogan "You Meet the Nicest People on a Honda".
The Clutch and Front Brake Cables should be fed through the Slots in the top of the Forks pressing..not left to flap around as on this Bike. The original Throttle Cable was threaded through the handlebars and and had a Slider pull Mechanism for the Cable.
Try to get a Simson Schwalbe or s50/s51 I life near the town they were build, Suhl-Thüringen Germany old 50cc 2 smokers with very big culture also nowdays! Greets
I remember the commercials, " You meet the nicest people on a Honda." They looked fun, safe & cheap on gas. And the motorcycle market seemed to really take off after this.
Thanks for the memories! My first bike was a black 150 Dream purchased in about 1963. I had that bike until I went into the Army in 1965. My future wife and I put many miles on that fantastic bike.
These were very impressive for their time. The models prior to the late 1960's are relatively uncommon. The early and mid 60's models were race developed technology detuned for the street. The 125's had top speeds of about 80 mph and the 150's about 85 which was very fast for the era. Thanks for the work you do in preserving these old classics.
This was my first motorcycle I ever owned. I was 16..That was 1975..I stripped the pipes off and road it hard in the hills where I lived in the Fingerlakes.These bikes where tanks..This era was an iconic time with enduro's coming out..But the 70's..Ya the 70's..RM's,YZ's,CR's,Husky's,Penton's,Jawa's,Can Am's..Mr.Kaplan? Thank you for all these great videos and memories you have brought back to many..Soon we will be gone..But the trails will always be waiting.....
Billy always brings an air of authenticity to the commentary. (His racing credentials aside !)
Has a beautiful exhaust note! Sounds really good! I remembered people saying these were really comfortable to ride. 👍Definitely a Dream!
Rare ole bird~! Excellent piece of art! Parallel twin magic. Billy is on point again with the breakdown! Props and respect Billy!
Holy cow man that's unreal!! First bike I bought was a 1979 cd200 benly I was 12 the bike got hammered round our farm for 3 years and was still going strong minus silencers and front mudguard it was a great bike
Thanks for the video! I had a 1961 I bought for a great price when I was about 12 years old in the late 70s. It was in decent shape and my plan was for it to be my first vehicle when I got my license. I was out shining it up in my parents yard one day when the mail lady came by and started asking questions about it. She rode motorcycles and her husband collected them. Long story short, her husband came by a day or two later and paid me a good price for it and took it away. I always hoped to see it going down the road, but never did. In my mind he has it sitting in his living room as a show piece, when in reality he probably fixed it up a bit more and sold it.
Now that I'm not that young anymore, I would love to have a bike like this again just for putting around town.
Gorgeous. That was the year my Mother graduated high school. Somebody knew how to take care of that bike, very well.
Having had a Spiritual Awakening as a result of these videos I try to carry the message to others about Kaplan and practice riding these classics in all my imaginations~
I recall that in the late 1950s through about 1962 or so, the coolest guys in our North St. Louis neighborhood wore DA haircuts and rode Cushman motor scooters. The hot setup was a straight pipe on a Cushman Eagle and that cone shaped tail light from a 1959 or 1960 Cadilac. One day in 1961 as an 11 year old, I was riding on the back of my 17 year old neighbor's Cushman. There were 2 or 3 Cushmans motorscooters all riding along together. Then, some guy we knew joined us riding his Honda 150 Dream. We laughed our asses off at that Roman front fender and the puny exhaust note compared to the Cushman. That was the first Honda Dream any of us had ever seen and we joked about it later, not knowing that the joke was on us, and that puny little Honda was the deathknell of the mighty Cushman motor scooter. Within about 3 years, the Honda Dream had sent the Cushmans to the tar pits of history. By 1964, the sight of a teenage romeo with a DA haircut riding a pimped out Cushman had disappeared forever. By that year, teenage boys started riding Hondas and wearing their hair like the Beatles or Beach Boys, and I was one of them.
These are the bikes of my childhood . My Uncles rode these bikes and gave us rides on the on the red dirt roads of Oklahoma . They lit the fire that turned into my obsession of motorcycle ownership . I ended up owning 26 of them and I wish I had the money to keep them all . PK
When I was a kid my dad had one of these, but in black. I remember riding all over on the back of it. As a little kid is seemed like such a big bike. I started riding at 9 years old on a honda 50 - 55 years ago, but it seemed not much longer than the day before yesterday.
Keep them classics going Kaplan's!!
I want one of these so bad, they're gorgeous, like a grown up super cub lol
What a fine machine , you always have the coolest bikes on the channel
I had the exact scoot at 15 in 1965 loved it!!!!
Эксклюзив!!! Супер мотоцикл 🏍
If Peewee Herman had a motorcycle. Just kidding. I love these bikes.
Good video here in Panama I have the same model but the motor is 125cc has the same frame
Regards
I love these from a historical perspective. Before these you had Harleys and they were a bunch of British bikes kind of making innovations but they were kind of junk. The British bikes that preceded this kind of leaky and poorly made and Mr. Honda kind of change the whole motorcycle world With these and their predecessors he took the modern English bike styling and he just introduced precision machining and quality to the industry and changed it forever. These bikes were kind of a steppingstone to the quality and precision and the next generation of bikes in the 70s combined that with some performance and the rest of the Japanese manufactures jumped on that bandwagon and competed with each other and sort of pushed us into modern motorcycles and there’s definitely new technology and things are better but this was kind of the start that made motorcycles sort of universal. Before that they were kind of junky and it kind of had to be a restoration guy and an engineer and a mechanic to be in the motorcycles, this made them pretty much turnkey simple and reliable and well-built, kind of like what Ford did with the automotive industry, he kind of created the assembly line for cars and on the took that and was a stickler about it and made sure they started producing high quality machinery. These were very well-built bikes, you fix that up like it was when it was new and you can drive that thing forever. You can’t say that about the old English bikes and Harleys are awesome but they are not marvels of engineering by any means and this was kind of the first series of bikes that did that, before that you had junkers and race bikes and they were kind of built like toys or farm equipment, and no I probably wouldn’t want to spend a ton of time writing these, just the history of it, this series of bikes changed to the motorcycle industry and forced all the manufactures to start making quality products. That’s why the big four Japanese bikes are so amazing and there are so many great models out of there because Honda pushed everybody into it because when this came out there was nothing close to it everything else is kind of a rattle a leaky two wheeled lawnmower and people did some very cool things with them but they weren’t precision machinery by any means, this introduced performance and quality manufacturing to the industry and made it a standard. Five or get rich I will probably buy a couple just as a museum piece of history. I know everybody loves sports people and idolize them but even though our two countries were embroiled in very recent military and political issues, he accomplished something amazing and Soichiro Honda is one of my personal heroes. Lol
These may not be the coolest most powerful highest performance bikes but for what they were at the time they created something that doesn’t exist that forever change the entire industry, this series of bikes are two motorcycles with Jimi Hendrix was to music. These forever change the motorcycle industry and brought it decades into the future overnight. At this point people go down to dealer and buy a great motorcycle, before that anything you but you had to be pretty much a mechanic to keep it running, this made motorcycling something for everyone.
Head to church in a suit on this one. Classy !
Have fun at your event next week!
Very Nice! I have a 65 CT200 with 1020 original miles, I got it from my neighbors shed for 200 bucks! only thing we didn't find were the plastic side covers! new piston and bore job... no spark, Wish i could figure it out! 😞
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@@KaplanCycles Hello, Thanks for the offer, but plan to strap it to the front of my 65 F250 4x4, I have a set of those hoop tire mounts for a bumper. JC Whitney sold them I believe. It will run, I haven't given up yet. Cheers!
Fine example!
I like the sound
The Honda ad slogan "You Meet the Nicest People on a Honda" was meant to change the image of motorcycle riders that we got from the outlaw Hells Angels Harley bunch. Honda's slogan was meant to change the image from a leather jacket wearing, greasy haired punk to the white teenager of the early Sixties who wore their hair like the Beatles or Beach Boys. And change that image they did! I grew up in the Sixties and graduated high school in 1968. Most of the boys my age and older had a Honda. I bought a CA200 Sport 90 in 1966 and my two older brothers bought a Honda 150 Dream in 1962, then upgraded to a 1963 CA77 Superhawk in 1964, Nobody of my generation of highschoolers rode Harleys. We were all nice, clean cut young kids having a blast riding our 50cc to 305 cc Hondas thus validating the slogan "You Meet the Nicest People on a Honda".
Amazing!
Had the benly in 64 black, Great ride. $550.00 new
Where are the baffles, they do burn out,
@@alfredbisson9997 The Baffles can Rot ,but they are fixed in Place with one Small Bolt
easy to remove .
then they go Missing.Lol.
The 150, to my knowledge was never called a "Dream" as that was reserved for the 305. I worked at that time at a Honda dealer.
nice
What a Sound
good
ARE YHE PONTS ON THE RIGHT OR LEFT SIDE
The Clutch and Front Brake Cables should be fed through the Slots in the top of the Forks pressing..not left to flap around as on this Bike.
The original Throttle Cable was threaded through the handlebars and and had a Slider pull Mechanism for the Cable.
希少なバイクですね😂最高です！
got a vintage harley look to it
How much?
Wow
Don’t make them
Like that anymore
Try to get a Simson Schwalbe or s50/s51 I life near the town they were build, Suhl-Thüringen Germany old 50cc 2 smokers with very big culture also nowdays! Greets
One cool ass motorcycle right there.
I love old stuff taken care of !
about an hour ago there is one in my yard