Frustrated with the Ossa Monocasc and its bazillion little breakable rivets, but wanting to complete a bike, I tackled the Gunze Sangyo High Tech kit of the Honda RC 110, an unsuccessful 50 cc GP contender from 1962.
Typically for the High Tech series, there is a lot of white metal and assorted bits of tube, rod and wire. But so far so good and there are a heck of a lot fewer parts here! Although to be fair there are 72 spokes made of 0.010" wire involved (63 still to go).
This 50 cc 4-stroke only managed about 10 hp and its only 1962 win was in the Finnish GP (held in Tampere that year) on a course that was "better suited to go-karts" according to one snarky online source -- top speed was apparently not an issue. Luigi Taveri managed 3rd in the 1962 50 cc world championship on the basis of this win. The other riders all had bikes with 2-stroke motors and lots more power, and this situation was not improved in 1963 with the RC112 and its twin cylinder motor, still a 4-stroke.
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