Beschreibung:

Honda seriously began work on the Trials Bike competition model in 1974 with one of the most important persons on the Honda Trial Bikes History: Sammy Miller. He was a key person on the Honda Team, as a rider, as a bike's development and as a strategist. In April 1974 Sammy Miller flew from Heathrow to Tokyo, Japan and signed a contract with Honda for the new range trials bikes development. He was impressed on his first trip to Honda R&D headquarters, the high security levels, special sections constructed for testing new trials bikes, and everybody waiting for him. He started working with the TL125 and XL250 engines. The TL125 was the first Honda Trials bike attempt using the small 122cc two-valve sohc engine from the Honda SL125. Honda's R&D team was placed at Sammy's disposal to develop the new Honda Trials bike and Sammy decided to start with the XL250. He did a giant work on this development, big efforts to improve carburation, completely new frame, new upper yokes, also replaced the rims for alloy ones, and a lot of work on the suspension definition. The silencer was also redefined to obtain the máximum efficency. In 1974 Sammy scored several wins on the Honda 250 first prototype. This Honda TL125 Trails bike was purchased by a generous father for his young son in an attempt to promote his interest in off-road motorcycle sport. One lap of the field next to where they lived was confirmation enough of his motorcycling ambitions and the bike was returned straight away to the garage. We have been informed that this motorcycle has not been used since. As a result this example has had very little usage and if it had a speedograph it would read less than two miles; the overall condition confirms the usage described. This 1978 Honda TL125cc trail bike is described by the vendor as ready to use and is supplied with a V5 registration document.