Honda CZ100 was the Honda Motor Company 's first minibike which was sold to consumers. The CZ100 minibike was first introduced in 1963 after Honda saw how well their Honda Z100 prototype was received at The Tama Tech park.
9-617: In 1961 the Honda Motor Company opened the Tama Tech park. The park attractions involved motorsports. It was at the park Honda first introduced a minibike called the Honda Z100 . Honda recognized that the bike was popular with park visitors. When Honda first developed the Z100 minibike it was never meant to be a commercial product, it was only meant to be an attraction at the park. Honda recognized
18-399: The Z100 minibike for the park, it was never meant to be a product for consumers. Honda had built a new Suzuka Circuit so that park goers could experience the joys of driving. The minibike was meant to be ridden around the Tama Tech park. Honda took note of the fact that it became the park's most popular attraction. The minibike was not a production motorcycle, so the engine in the Z100
27-520: The bike to continue until 1966. The Minibike was fitted with a 49 cc engine. Honda had much success with the 49cc, and it was fitted in other bikes like the Honda Super Cub . The CZ100 had small 5" wheels and the minibike had a white fuel tank and a bright red frame. Honda also used a fuel tank which was meant for another bike: they used the tank from the Honda C110. Honda Z100 Honda Z100
36-551: The popularity of the Z100 minibike and they decided to manufacture a street-legal version of the bike. By 1963 they had created a production version of the minibike and they called it the CZ100 Mark I. The 1963 CZ100 Mark I series, had a white fuel tank and a rigid frame which was painted red. In 1964 they released the bike in the Japanese market and called it the CZ100. The CZ100 Mark II series
45-454: The very small motorcycle. Onlookers described riders as looking like a Monkey on the bike. Honda recognized the popularity of the minibike and they decided to manufacture a street-legal version of the bike. In 1963 they released the bike in the Japanese market and called it the CZ100. The Z100 proved to be so popular that it was introduced to the European market as the CZ100 in 1964. The Z100
54-550: Was a prototype Honda Motor Company minibike which was introduced at the Tama Tech amusement Park in Tokyo , Japan in 1961. The Z100 minibike was never meant to be produced and sold to consumers. The success of the Z100 prototype convinced Honda to produce and sell the minibike to consumers. The Tama Tech park opened in 1961 and was owned by the Honda Motor Company. The park attractions involved many different motorsports. Honda developed
63-473: Was a prototype so it is both rare and collectable. The minibike was the precursor to all of the other versions of minibikes produced by Honda. The prototype Honda Z100 proved the minibike concept could be successful as a niche product and it led many years of Honda Minibike production. The little bikes were all powered by the same 50cc engine with a 3 speed transmission. The Z series Honda Minibikes that followed had folding handlebars so that users could stow them in
72-439: Was repurposed from the Honda Super Cub . The 1961 Super Cub engine which was used in the Z100, was a 49 cc. The Z100 had small 5" wheels and the minibike had a white fuel tank and a bright red frame. The bike was intentionally built small to accommodate children, but it also appealed to adults who rode them around the circuit. The bike soon came to be known as a monkey bike because most adult people, looked large in relation to
81-552: Was then produced and it was virtually identical to the Mark I series with the exception of paint: the tank and frame were both painted red. Honda continued to produce the CZ100 but it was not sold to consumers in the United States. In recent years collectors have begun to import examples of the bike from Europe. The CZ100 was street legal and only offered to consumers in European and Asian countries. The minibike sold enough for production of
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