STREET -SLEEPER

Enlivened by Frank’s comment that he thought Rowena’s BSA B25SS was a good-looking little bike, I just had to put paw to keypad. It may well be a decent bike to ride, but to me it looks like a load of disparate parts thrown together in desperation. I mean, that dangling throttle cable – really? – and the blobby tank which looks like the front right corner underneath has been bent up to miss the aluminium… thing… is that the famous electrical box? Wow. RealUgly. At least that fuel tank has been replaced now by something a bit better-looking.

So what is my response? The Honda CL250SC, which belongs to my own other half! We think it is a neat little bike of the same sort of street scrambler-ish genre, tidy and integrated in the way the Beeza just isn’t to my eye. Your opinion may differ. I’ll just get that dagger of Rowena’s out of my back and then I’ll begin.

The tale really starts just before we were married, back in the mists of time, or 1983 as it is known to some. Honda’s range at that time was full of V4s of dubious reliability and bright red trail bikes of every size. Technology of the time was to the fore;