Honda TRANSALP XL600-650V (1987-2002) [6/291] Introduction

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Introduction 0 5 standards of the day given the relative complexity of the machine But Honda s lifelong pursuit of technical innovation sometimes distracted him from commercial reality Fujisawa pointed out that they were in danger of ignoring their core business the motorised bicycles that still formed Japan s main means of transport In May 1952 the F type Cub appeared another two stroke despite the top men s reservations You could buy a complete machine or just the motor to attach to your own bicycle The result was certainly distinctive a white fuel tank with a circular profile went just below and behind the saddle on the left of the bike and the motor with its horizontal cylinder and bright red cover just below the rear axle on the same side of the bike This was the machine that turned Honda into the biggest bike maker in Japan with 70 of the market for bolt on bicycle motors the F type was also the first Honda to be exported Next came the machine that would turn Honda into the biggest motorcycle manufacturer in the world The C100 Super Cub was a typically audacious piece of Honda engineering and marketing For the first time but not the last Honda invented a completely new type of motorcycle although the term scooterette was coined to describe the new bike which had many of the characteristics of a scooter but the large wheels and therefore stability of a motorcycle The first one was sold in August 1958 fifteen years later over nine million of them were on the roads of the world If ever a machine can be said to have brought mobility to the masses it is the Super Cub If you add The CB250N Super Dream became a favorite with UK learner riders of the late seventies and early eighties in the electric starter that was added for the C102 model of 1961 the design of the Super Cub has remained substantially unchanged ever since testament to how right Honda got it first time The Super Cub made Honda the world s biggest manufacturer after just two years of production onda s export drive started in earnest in 1957 when Britain and Holland got their first bikes America got just two bikes the next year By 1962 Honda had half the American market with 65 000 sales But Soichiro Honda had already travelled abroad to Europe and the USA making a special H The GL1000 introduced in 1975 was the first in Honda s line of GoldWings