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The bike was intentionally built small to accommodate children, but it also appealed to adults who rode them around the circuit. The bike soon came to be known as a monkey bike because most adult people, looked large in relation to the very small motorcycle. Onlookers described riders as looking like
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The Z100 was a prototype so it is both rare and collectable. The minibike was the precursor to all of the other versions of minibikes produced by Honda. The prototype Honda Z100 proved the minibike concept could be successful as a niche product and it led many years of Honda
Minibike production. The
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Honda recognized the popularity of the minibike and they decided to manufacture a street-legal version of the bike. In 1963 they released the bike in the
Japanese market and called it the CZ100. The Z100 proved to be so popular that it was introduced to the European market as the CZ100 in 1964.
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little bikes were all powered by the same 50cc engine with a 3 speed transmission. The Z series Honda
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551:Prototype
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