Honda SS50

The Honda SS50 is a 50 cc motorcycle manufactured by the Honda Motor Company. Its predecessors were the OHV C110, C111 and C114 and the OHC S50. The 50 Sport, types C110 and C111, produced from 1961 as a variant of the Super Cub, laid out the basics of all later models, with a pressed-steel frame, hydraulic front and rear forks, a 49 cc OHV four-stroke engine with a horizontally laid cylinder for cooling, and a chain final drive in an enclosed case, and the S50 had an all-new OHC alloy head engine. The SS50, the SS standing for Super Sports, replaced these in the late 1960s with a new T-shaped frame, a separate rear mudguard and telescopic front forks in place of leading links. The first SS50s had a chrome-panelled tank, later replaced by a longer, thinner 7 litre petrol tank in red, blue or yellow.