Classic Bike | March 2017
STREET SCRAMBLERS
Honda didn’t invent the street scrambler concept, but boy, did they embrace it with open arms. Triumph and BSA had shown the way with their desert-racer
variants of their popular big twins, but once Honda got in on the act in 1962 nobody worked harder at promoting and marketing the genre. From their first effort, the CL72 twin in 1962, Honda offered a street scrambler-styled version of practically every model they produced from 50cc upwards. And it was only when the bubble burst and trail bikes became ever more specialised in the mid-seventies that they brought the curtain down on the CL series, but not before they’d sold hundreds of thousands of them.
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Articles in this issue
Below is a selection of articles in Classic Bike March 2017.