Honda Super Cub

Honda Super Cub, (originally the Honda C100 or Honda 50) also known as the Honda Cub, is a 49 cc 4-stroke underbone motorbike first manufactured by the Honda Motor Co., Ltd in 1958. with more than 600 million sold worldwide, it is the best selling powered vehicle of all time. The Honda 50 is still produced today, 50 years after its inception. The variant Honda C90 with a large engine displacement is also still produced. Today, the Honda Super Cub's primary market is in Asia. In the European Union, the Honda Cub has been replaced by the more powerful Honda Wave Series.

the first Honda Super Cub C100

"Super Cub" give a birth to 4-stroke technology

Super Cub was born in Japan in 1958 based on an ideal concept of Soichiro Honda evolving from model "Cub Type F" in 1952 that put an empty bicycle frame installed with running engine as you can see the picture on the left-hand side.

Model History

On August 1958: Sales of Super Cub C100 began (air-cooled 4-stroke, single-cylinder OHV engine, 49cc, 4.5 horse power)

In 1964, two larger engined versions were offered, the CM90 (OHV 87 cc) and C65 (OHC 63 cc) with slight alteration to frame and styling.

In 1966, the whole motorcycle was upgraded, the 50 cc engine going from pushrod 4.5 bhp to SOHC 4.9 bhp (a bored-down C65 engine) called the C50, and similarly the 90 cc was redesigned with an OHC engine called the C90. Though the basic design of Cub remained unchanged, slightly new styling features and improvements were integrated, most visible being the enclosed front forks.
Super Cub C50

In the 1980s, Honda fitted a new capacitor discharge ignition system (CDI) to replace the earlier contact points ignition, thereby helping to meet increasingly strict emission standards in markets such as the US. However, many experts on the Cub testify to the fact that Honda used the CDI system for better reliability and fuel efficiency, with the emissions improvements being an appealing by-product of these goals.

In 1988, Sales of Press Cub began.
Honda Press Cub model 50 cc

In 1997, Sales of Little Cub began.
Little Cub

In 2007, An electronically-controlled fuel injection system, Honda’s PGM-FI, was installed on Super Cub 50, Press Cub 50 and Little Cub in the Japanese market for even cleaner emission and better fuel efficiency.

Other Super Cub models

Honda Super Cub "Street" model 50 cc

Honda Super Cub "Standard" model 50 cc

via: Wikipedia