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The '''Honda Supercub''' is a 50[[cc]], [[single cylinder]], [[four stroke]], [[street motorcycle]] manufactured by [[Honda]] beginning in 1958 through today. | |||
==History== | |||
With more than 60 million sold worldwide, it is the best selling powered vehicle of all time and thus the best-selling motorbike of all time. The Honda 50 is still produced today, 50 years after its inception. | |||
In 1964, two larger engined versions were offered, the CM90 (OHV 87cc) and C65 (OHC 63cc) with slight alterations to frame and styling. Around 1967, the whole motorcycle was uprated, the 50cc engine going from pushrod 4.5bhp to SOHC 4.9bhp (a bored-down C65 engine) called the C50, and similarly the 90cc was redesigned with an OHC engine called the C90. Though the basic design of Cub remained unchanged, slightly new styling features and improvements were integrated, most visible being the enclosed front forks. In the 1980s, Honda fitted a new capacitor discharge ignition system (CDI) to replace the earlier contact points ignition, thereby helping to meet increasingly strict emission standards in markets such as the US. However, many experts on the Cub testify to the fact that Honda used the CDI system for better reliability and fuel efficiency, with the emissions improvements being an appealing by-product of these goals. | |||
[[Image:Honda-C100-Ad.jpg|left|thumb|Honda C100 Ad]] | [[Image:Honda-C100-Ad.jpg|left|thumb|Honda C100 Ad]] | ||
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[[Category:Street motorcycles]] | |||
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[[Category:50cc Single cylinder motorcycles]] | |||
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