Kind of reminds me of Saigon in 1970 except that there would be up to a family of 5 on a single Honda 90. For those not familiar with a Honda 90 it was just a notch above a bicycle. No helmets either. The father driving, the mother (sidesaddle behind him) behind her was a kid sitting on the makeshift "luggage rack" and the smallest on the handle bars. If there was a baby, mamma would be holding it. If it was a larger child they would be straddling the gas tank in front of Dad. I guess that if you live in a war zone for a few decades safety doesn't even cross your mind. BTW, stop signs existed and were promptly ignored. Just driving in the city was a very big risk and for a GI, it was double jeopardy. If you had an accident and someone was injured, the local authorities were able to process punishment (In the form of large fines from those rich Americans) and when you got back to your unit, the military came down on you as well. I was fortunate that nothing happened when I was driving, but, I knew some guys that were involved in an accident, like hitting one of those cycles, and just kept driving and didn't stop.
The Honda 50’s and 70’s had even smaller motors...
As I’ve posted before...
We had a 1969 Honda Trail 90 back in the day, that looked exactly like this one...
We used to ride it on trails in No Cal, and it was also street legal, so pop rode it to work and back to IBM just a coupla’ miles down the road plenty of times, especially during the “oil crisis”.
We also used to haul it with us back to Texas every summer, and ride it around on the farms.
It also came in handy one time when the water pump went out in the truck on a backroad in Arizona one morning. No cell phones then, and we couldn’t raise anybody in the area on the CB at the time, so pop just hopped on the Honda and headed to the nearest town (we did have stone tablet maps back then
). He came back a while later riding in a tow truck with the 90 in the back (tow trucks were a bit different back then, too).
The truck was fixed, with the help of my pop
, and we were on the road again that afternoon...!!!
The setup for hauling the Honda 90 was similar to this, with plenty of room between the camper door and bike, but, my pop built it himself...!!!!!
