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| When I was eleven years old seemed that everyone
had a Honda CT70 in the area. My friends had the 1974
candy topaz orange, 1975 mighty green and two Tahitian red 1976 models,
I just had to have one. Christmas 1977 I got the shiny orange
1977 model. We brought it home and I rode it for about 10 miles when the first picture was taken, mud and all. It was the best thing that I can remember about being a kid, riding my bike in the hills of WV. I rode it for about 2 years before the top end and |
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points gave me problems. At 13 years old you know everything, so I was going to fix it. Well it never got fixed. In 1979 it was traded off for a go cart and more neat stuff to a kid whose daddy fixed minibikes. In a few days they had it running. He rode it for a couple years before selling it. |
| In 1998, while visiting a friend, a
1970 candy sapphire blue Honda CT 70 went by in back of a truck and I
thought of my little bike. All I could think of was the best
time ever when I was a kid, I wanted another CT70! I began looking in newspapers, trading and swapping papers and there was none to be found. In a few months I found three of them in a motorcycle salvage yard in GA, a 1972 4 speed candy yellow special frame roller and a |
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1971 candy sapphire blue parts bike and a 1972 3 speed candy yellow frame all for $75.00. I started looking for my old 1977, model calling and asking 'if they had it and then who did they let have it' and then that person 'if they had it and then who did they let have it' and the search was on . |
| I had been on ebay for awhile and decided to
do a search for them and at this time ebay didn't have alot of CT70 stuff.
After a few weeks I found a 1977 model roller (no engine). Then I found,
at a motorcycle shop in town, a 1971 candy gold. That was the first
complete bike, but it needed work. At this point I had a ad in the all the papers that I wanted a Honda CT 70.
I got a call from a guy in FL that had
a bright yellow 1979 model for sale.
This one is like new. |
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| While on ebay I came across an ad for some Honda 70 parts. I emailed that I was looking for a 1977 model bike or parts and he emailed back 'I cant believe it, I do have a 1977 Honda 70'. He gave me a phone number which |
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I called right away. He said come on
and get it. I drove that evening to Gainesville, FL,
90 miles away and brought it home. The carb. choke screw had came out and
locked the top valve, that's why it didn't run. I fixed it and had a 1977 model to ride now. |
| This bike is
the one I ride most ever day
now. At this point it had been about two years. I had tracked everyone down and had an idea where my 1977 bike might be located. While on vacation I started looking for it. |
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Friends told me you will never find that bike, I went to the last person on my list. The guy told me he let someone else have it. I went to them. He said that he didn't have it any more, that a guy about 5 miles away had it. |
| I went there and asked if he had it and he wanted to know why I was looking for it. I told him how it was mine as a kid and I bought it new. I showed him a picture of it new and said I just wanted to find it and buy it. |
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The guy said to come around to the back side of his
house. He raised a tarp, and YES there it was. I had
tears in my eyes. I had found it after about 2 years. I asked if he would
sell it with my mind set that after all this he would not sell. He said
that he remember me as a kid and knew my family and yeah he would sell it to me. I bought it, took it home and checked the serial numbers and YES it was mine!!! |
| I took it and bought all new parts,
top end, points,
ect. It runs great. Then on vacation the year after, I took it
back home to the hills of WV to ride and once again I rode my bike where I
did as a kid. It was great! Today I have 31 Honda CT 70s, and wanting to collect all year models and colors. I just cant get enough of them Webpage: http://www.kvinet.com/~carlshonda70s
Carl
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