Any Mini Bike Guys?

We knew those as Tote Gotes. But they were suddenly a POS compared with a Honda 50 trail when they came out.
All my friends Dad's who were loggers up here in Skagit County had them, then the Honda arrived and they all disappeared!

 

I want a QA50 kinda badly.
I am getting around the farm on a 78 XL125 that was a $150 barn find.
Wish I could find a similar deal on a QA.
I might have to get a minibike with a Techumseh or Briggs just to hear that SOUND.

 

I seem to remember a Bonanza mini with some rudimentary suspension and a 100cc Hodaka engine.
It FLEW.
I don't think it was homemade.
Anybody remember this?

 

Is it yours?

 

Don't forget the smell.

 

That just looks crazy!
Good to see it might actually have brakes, maybe
Mine just has a piece of steel on a lever that rubs on the back tire!

 

Critical!
I still have a 2-stroke trials bike I wobble about on, and I was thrilled to find a very high tech oil that contains some....castor oil!
Ahhh, the smell if pre-mix in the morning!!

 

The guy I knew who had one could powerslide it on the high school cinder running track.

 

We had a Honda Trail 70 and a mini bike, we used to ride around the desert north of Phoenix.

 

Cool Bikes! As a 13 yr old on the 60’s my Dad bought me a Red Honda Trail 90! Rode it all over the desert we lived in. Sold it to buy my first Good Guitar and Amp - a Gibson Melody Maker and a Blackface Fender Deluxe Reverb (Both used). Good Times!

 

At 66, no car, I want a Tao Tao 4 stroke 49cc scooter. They don't need registration or insurance, street legal, 35mph, 105 miles to a gallon. And geeky enough to keep my 66 yr old body from challenging off road and all the other fun crazyness.

 

You don't need to look BACK to reminisce about mini-bikes. Soon, you can look FORWARD:

Or, you can get one of these and actually get on the road TODAY:

 

I, see, it was like this, uh.........

 

got one like this and we have a Buddy 170 scooter. My son has the minibike, we have the buddy, it flies.

 

Well if Esquire Bob can post his Hunter Cub 125, I can certainly throw my CT110 into the mix.

 

@charlie chitlin, beware the infamously weak 2-speed trans on the QA, and the sort of orphan OHV engine design that was surpassed and buried by the OHC engines on the Z50/CT70 etc. QAs are cute as hell but if you break it you’ll be scouring for parts while it sits in dry dock.

I wanted a QA real bad when I was a kid.

What model trials bike do you have? I would love to have an older trials bike; the only one I’ve ever ridden was a Honda TL125. It was in a sandstone slick rock area near Moab UT, which should be cooler than anything...but my trials skills were pretty wobbly.

I know a guy in Illinois who shifted from a massive Honda collection (pretty much all variants of the Z, CT, SL, XL models from the 70s, all colors, etc) to older Spanish trials bikes. I think he had some Bultacos and Ossas and one Kawasaki (KL? RL?) trials 250....I need to find an excuse to go visit that guy. Last I talked to him he had just come home with a Bultaco 250 Astro, the dirt oval power sliding variant. He had ordered a new repro piston from some guy in Arizona that was making them and selling them for a couple hundred a pop.