CLASSIC MORRIS

Australian Motorcyclist Issue #27

• MOTOmania
• BEAR FACED
• FRATERNITY?
• NEW BIKE PRICES
• WHAT SAY YOU?
• CLASSIC MORRIS
• LONG TERMERS
• TEAR-OUT MAP #12
• NEW IN THE SHOPS
• INDUSTRY
• ADVENTURE FILM
• USED & REVIEWED
• PUB OF THE MONTH
• INSPECT DA GADGET
• BIKE TEST
• EVENT
• TOUR DE OZ WEEK 1 – WESTERN AUSTRALIA (NW TO PINNACLES)
• Special Feature WINTER GEAR
• TEAR OUT MAP #27
• READERS’ TRAVELS
• AMM TOUR – PART TWO
• TRAVEL
• BIKE LAUNCH
• NEWS
• FROM THE BEAR
• EDITOR SPEAKS

HELLO, HONDA! PART 1
THE JAPANESE ARRIVE IN AUSTRALIA, AND WHO SHOULD BE THERE TO GREET THEM BUT OUR LESTER WORDS LESTER MORRIS

The C100 Super Cub, Honda’s world-beater.

One balmy day way back in 1958 I was lurking behind the spare parts counter of Ryde Motorcycles, the suburban motorcycle store in which I spent several happy years, idly re-adjusting a balled-up sock which had been sucked under my foot by an ill-fitting wool-lined `flying’ boot. I straightened up to behold a black Ford Mercury pulling into the gutter outside the front door. This seemed strangely ominous, and in fact was to be the portent of monumental things to come.