talk to me about Honda c90`s

Yeeeah. I am a C90 fanatic. I've had 3. 2 to rebuild and sell, and 1 which I have now had for 2 and a bit years using pretty much daily. I love it, and I will never sell it.



Basically, you cannot go wrong. I'm assuming its a 12v square headlight? That's really the one to have for daily useage.

My advice would be; Give it an oil change every 600-700 miles with mineral oil from tesco/asda/morrisons etc. It likes running on the thicker heavier oil. The stuff I use is £8 a bottle and it does about 3 oil changes. There is no oil filter as such but there is a wire gauze under the right hand side engine/clutch cover. This still gets a bit choked and replacements are cheap and easy to fit. I get around 100mpg all the time. Costs £3 or so to fill. Never trust the fuel gauge it'll always under-read. If youre in the red you still have a fair bit in the tank!

When you have time strip the rear end (very very easy to do). Wheel, suspension and rear mudguard off. Wire brush the underside of the wheel arch and clart it in underseal. They ALL go here but if you catch it early on like me youll be fine . While youre doing all of this, pull the fuel tank out, 4 bolts, and underseal in all the creases in there. Keep on top of adjusting the chain and lubricating it but thats easy too. If your chain guard is curse word, which most are, buy a Honda C50 chain guard off ebay. They pattern C90 ones are rubbish and the pattern C50 ones not only look cooler but are a better fit.

If you can get block tread tyres rather than the cheapo C90 repro ones, especially for the front. They are rubbish. I have a viva or something, which cost £7 new on ebay, with a block pattern and it feels infinitely better.

If you are using it daily spend £20-£30 on Honda CG125 shocks. They are a bolt on replacement and much stiffer! Feels much better to ride and I do 2 up which it handles no problem.

The general consensus is that if you want a decent replacement part spend more on a genuine part, or a used replacement. Pattern parts for these are made very cheap.

But enjoy it! It'll take all the abuse you throw at it and keep going. If the engine dies then its 4 bolts. At which point you'll be looking at 125/140 conversions

she`s a r reg 97. hopefully picking it up tomorrow. cant wait.

My father had one back in the early 1980's. It was a 'J' reg, so I guess about 1971 ?

It was brown and cream with little tartan panniers and a huge front windscreen.

I had a big crash on my RD250 and for reasons unknown I was able to get him to loan 'the' C90 to me for a year. On what was probably the third or fourth ride, the engine seized. At the time I was probably flat-out in third. It had been feeling a little sick and gutless prior, but I just assumed that this is how they always are. I managed to leave a thin black line for a very long way and amazingly kept it all under control.

I bought a used engine from a breakers in Coventry and about three hours later it was in and running.

Over the months that I rode it I put about 10K miles on the thing, I rode from Leicester to London on it, buzzed around Wales, took it up to Manchester and rode it 2-up endlessly travelling to see bands play.

When he decided that he wanted it back, I pretty much begged him to sell it to me, by this time I was utterly smitten with the thing.

I bought a newer one (1977 ?) a few years later, but never had the affinity I had with that old J-reg one.....