Moto Adonis builds a meaner Monkey… As the story goes, the original Honda Monkey was created for a Honda-owned amusement park in Hino, Japan — a Tokyo suburb: “It was called Tama Tech Park, and […]
Tag: Pitbikes
Special Ciao: “Speciao” 75cc Piaggio Tracker
Fuchs Workshop builds a Piaggio mini-tracker… In 1967, Piaggio introduced their first moped, the Ciao — a 50cc two-stroke with a belt drive, drum brakes, and 6-volt electrics. Produced in various versions well into […]
Modern FatCat: Honda CRF110 Big Wheel
ATC-Inspired “BW110” Flat Track Pit Bike by A&J Cycles… How many of you remember the Honda FatCat? In the mid-1980s, three-wheelers were all the rage, including Honda’s red-hot ATC “All Terrain Cycle” range. For 1986, […]
Senna Tribute: Honda CT70 John Player Special
The Chattahoochee Skunkworks pays tribute to a racing legend… Some of the most iconic racing liveries in history came out of the heyday of tobacco company sponsorship, when the likes of Lucky Strike, Marlboro, Rothmans, […]
Mad Dog Tracker: “The Mini” by Jake Drummond
“This is a full-on mini race bike.” If you think full-grown adults have no business racing 175cc play bikes, a host of pro racers and amateur flat track stars are here to prove you wrong. […]
Turbo Pitbike: Orion FX-PRO 125 Scrambler
Sweden’s John Aaman builds a turbocharged, snow-going, fat-tire mini scrambler! There are builders who model everything in 3D before they ever loosen a single bolt. They have the entire project conceptualized, the materials sourced, the […]
Mini Smoker: Dyno-Tuned 2-Stroke Mini Tracker
#CoronaVirusBikeBuildOff 2nd Place: Wilco Lindner’s insane 2-stroke mini tracker! Last year, we featured Wilco Lindner’s Yamaha RD125 street tracker built “for the love of screaming two-strokes.” That dyno-tuned 125cc twin would become one of our […]
Droog Moto: DM-018 Mini Fighters
What you really want under the tree this year… In the last decade or so, we’ve seen a real resurgence in minibikes — a 21st-century rebirth of a trend that swept the nation in the […]
Trail Reaper: CB175-Powered Honda Mini Trail
CB175-powered CT70 built by a team of Wisconsin high-schoolers! The Honda CT70 — aka Trail 70 — hit the US market in 1969, a dual-purpose minibike with a 72cc four-stroke engine and three-speed semiautomatic transmission. […]
Fur1ous 9e0rge: 190cc Honda Z50R Monkey
The meanest little monkey in California… Some ten years after the introduction of the original Honda Z50A monkey bike, Honda noticed an increasing demand for a more aggressive, race-ready minibike to meet the needs of […]
