Sorry Wheelie, but your wrong: the C90 will be like the wife everybody is looking for: low maintenance, reliable and up for it every time, all the time

The C90 is the most sold motorbike in the world. Spares ARE everywhere. Oh and it is a 4 stroke, so it drinks everything, even if it is from a barrel or a jerrycan in the back of some dudes hut.

Password, if you go for the C90 get a good chaincase. The best 18 quid you can spend on your bike, your chain and sprockets will last for ever!

Realistic cruising speed fully loaded is 45 mph (97cc Wave engine, will be lower on the 87cc C90), top speed in the 50 - 55 mph range, but you have all the time in the world, so don´t worry about that. At these speeds there is a lot of time to think, you´ll come back a changed man, guaranteed!

Good luck and happy scootering!

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Your post bought back many a happy memory of un-hurredly puttering round East Anglian country roads in the summer on my first ever bike...the indestructable Cub90. Oh the grin on my face at the filling station... when having to part with little over a pound a tank (late '80's I think). I literrally grimace when I fill up the Volvo Estate these days!

In the intervening years I toured a fair bit of the world under my own steam on a bicycle, round Oz, Uk to Hong Kong but always wondered what viable motorised alternative I could use apart from my own legs... Somthing that would offer economy, low speed as so to safely enjoy the quiet back roads whilst still covering a couple of hundred miles a day... and I always come back to that first bike, the C90 Cub.

Varients on the Cub I noted in many countries, as well as the CG125 a worthy alternative- several in Turkey Iran Pakistan.. which means alot fewer spare parts to carry.

On my second trip to Oz I toured big bike style on a heavy cumbersome CX500(eek!) covered about 5000Km's but some how the speed led me to use faster roads and the trip just became a drive Thru experience... Not my cup of tea.

If you've the time and it sounds like you have definately give it a go, trust me as a cyclist those quiet back roads do exist, you certainly don't want to be going flat out 50 all the way... what you don't spend on petrol spend on detailed maps. Getting in and out of cities might be the only hair raising experience, I try and avoid them if possible.

Several times i've hired the Honda Wave (very similar to the Innova) in back country Thailand often covering several hundred KM's a day without fuss and on one occasion taking it up Thailands highest road at over 2500metres..

So when my legs eventually give out I might be doing the same thing!

Good Luck

Steve

"some how the speed led me to use faster roads and the trip just became a drive Thru experience"

That's a good quote for some of us. I know others like to just blow through things, but I like going slow. If I wasn't so lazy I'd do this on a bicycle.

--Dave

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