Honda Z series

The Honda Z series, or Monkey Bike, was a line of minibikes made by Honda with model numbers starting with the letter Z. The original model was the 1961 prototype Honda Z100, produced as a children's ride at the Tama Tech amusement park in Japan, which was refined and put into mass production and reached the European market in 1964. Most Z-series bikes are small, light, collapsible motorcycles made for convenience and ease of transportation, with 50 cc four-stroke overhead cam engines; some have a centrifugal clutch and a standard three-speed foot-shift lever, making a semi-automatic transmission, while others have a conventional manual clutch and a three- or four-speed gearbox. Monkey bike is the name for the small, low-powered motorcycles introduced by Honda in the 1960s, the first being the 1961 Z100, and later ones were designated Z50, such as the Z50A, J, M, R and Z.