Hello Mustie. I want to thank you. Yesterday my lawn mower quit on me. what I would usually do is take it down to the Toro shop ($120) and have them fix it because I have never worked on a small engine before and don't know the first thing about them. At lease I didn't until I started watching your videos. I have been watching for a while now and I felt like it was time to get my hands dirty. I went out and got some basic tools and was able to take the carb on my lawn mower apart, clean it and reinstall it. I also replaced the spark plug and air filter. It started on the first pull. Wow. Not only did you save me a bunch of cash, but the pride of being able to do it myself and that it worked. I can't thank you enough Mustie. I don't know if you realize the service you are providing sharing you knowledge to the You Tube community. Plus your videos are the only ones that my wife will watch with me. Thanks again and best wishes and continued success.
Hi, Musti. I love your show, here in Aus. Many of my friends are also keen followers. I chat to you, as you work, like when you were stripping the choke on the 90 and wondering if it was a 12 or a 13mm. I told you Yamaha use 13, not Honda. Maybe I am futher around the bend than first imagined but, keep up your good work; it's a class act !!
Small detail here - The handle bar lock lever is supposed to point towards the speedometer. As you mentioned about the oil and the slipping clutch concern, back in the late 70s early 80s oil companies were releasing oils with friction modifiers and that caused the clutch to slip. My dad owned the same model year CT90. The gas tank you have on your CT90 is from a CT110. Same frame just different engine displacement. I'm glad you are resurrecting an excellent trail bike. It's not fast but we always joked that with it low range and you could maintain traction it would climb vertically without bogging down. We used to own a 67, 73, 77, 78 CT90s and still own a 1980 CT110.
Heartwarming moment @ VWNuts place seeing you wearing a grin from ear to ear. Bless you Mustie1, for all the knowledge you share & joy you give we viewers. You're a special man with skilled hands gifted with humor.
Hehehe, gotta love Honda build quality!!! 42 years old and it runs like a top with a minimum of work!! And, I love the fact it has more power than I had expected!! It has some spunk!!!
even tho there are other bikes that put a smile on my face, this one puts a smile on anyone's face that rides it. Just fun as it can be. chip monk is cute.
After watching your videos for two years. I finally got a couple old Honda bikes. 1970 Sl100 and a 1970 CL125. I learned a lot from your videos and I'll be referring to many of them to help me along. Thanks for your hard work and dedication.
Nice exhaust note Mustie!! It's gotthat Harey rumble going on... Great job restoring the old Trail 90! Thank you for sharing your adventures with us viewers..
I love this project series! I love the go pro shots while you are driving. Some really good slalom drivings indoors. I can't wait to see you next resto project.
Got your next project! It’s a craftsman FF20 garden tractor that needs lots of love. Located in Boston, MA, comes with a snow blower, plow and a questionable mower deck. Save this heavyweight antique from the scrapyard. FREE
Hey Mustie lad, having fun and not harming anyone, it's what life should always be about. I'm 74 and still doing that so you've quite a way to go yet! Thanks for sharing from an old Yorkshie "Geezer" in Ireland.
Fun to watch you make a forgotten bike brought back to life. That ride is definitely something you couldn't do in the old garage. Reminds me you of avoiding the flowers in your backyard .
Justice just want to Thank You for bring back so many memories. I had a 1975 Honda trail 90. I had some much fun on that bike. Wish I had that bike now. Thanks again.
You know you made a good move when you can ride one of your shop projects around the inside of the shop !!! That ending brought back all my trail riding days growing up in the woods.....good stuff
You dont know how many memories that brings back Mustie . I remember those hondas perfectly . We had a XR 75 in the mid to late 70s . Thing would climb a tree . Awesome bikes .
Not sure if it is the same but when I was very young I had a C50 cub and the clutch could be used with the gear lever. It was a semi automatic affair and if when you put the bike into gear you held the gear lever in position( not releasing) you could gas it and release and in effect pop the clutch. You could then pull a real wheelie. I would expect on the 90 you could do it rolling into second. Have fun with the new toy!
Love checking out ur videos. I learn somthing every time I check one out. I'm an over the road driver and I just bought a huge shop. I think restoring old engines and lawn mowers would be a fun hobby. I'm going to keep my eyes peeled for an old hit and miss engine.
Oh thank you thank you thank you I've been binge-watching your videos love your custom homemade bicycles you are an absolute artist this is by far my favorite Channel and again thank you sir
Bike looks brilliant. Lots of hard work and it pays off, as we all can see. 👌👍 Just like to add: You certainly know how to ride a motorbike. Lot of skill there. 👌👍
Love it! Reminds me of the good old 1960's! Had a head on collision in the woods with one of those and me on my 1965 Yamaha 80. Got the scars to prove it. LOL
I must be one of the early watchers. You've got one hell of a nice bike there, don't drag the tail light to much or your gonna need to order more parts!. Great video, thanks for making Sundays special...😛
Im in love with the honda trail now! Have to get one! What a cocky little bike! Too bad they never sold in sweden. Sounds sweet with that hot rod pipe and hi-lo gearbox is really cool. Husqvarna did some army and civilian bikes with hi-lo range gearbox, like 12 gears in total!
Mustie1, you'd have loved my first motorbike. An unbranded trials machine with a 2-stroke 125cc Sachs-engine and an orange fibreglass tank. Watching you blast round the woods reminds me of those days.
Also known as the "Postie Bike" in Australia, use to be used by the Australian Mail carriers on rural mail routes, After seeing your trail ride I can see why. lol
Actually, the "Postie Bike" was a lesser-spec than the Trail 90. Australia Post specified that the high/low change section of gear-train be deleted, so not only was the lever absent, so was the indicator on the alloy body of the gearbox. They're still in use in my part of Melbourne with a "comfort" variation in the form of wide fairings to protect the riders' legs from the weather. Later/current "Postie Bikes" are CT110 models.
Nice job. That thing cleaned up nice. Kudos to viewer David for contributing that tank to the build. The color difference isn't noticeable and the match will probably get closer with age. They were probably the same color once.
@Ethan Evans BLASPHEMY!!!!!!! NOBODY is on par with McQueen, uber kool actor and icon......even in THE BLOB he was honing his acting chops..(just kidding!)
My father-in-law and his friend, both retired and bought trail 90's. The friend had a big piece of property in the mountains near Reno. Those old guys would go out for days at a time and ride those trail 90's. He loved it, talked about it all the time, and smiling ear to ear just like you did. Good one Mustie1.
Holy Moly ! I did the same wheely on my 1964 Red Trail 90. Went to Summer School and day dreamed of riding her in History class I had to take over due to poor grades ! Looking at her in the parking lot, the teacher threw a piece of chalk at me to wake me up and pay attention to the boring history lesson ! Good old days ! My first MO- CYCLE !
Mustie, you never fail to bring a smile to my face, thank you for all you do, the lush green and rain reminds me of when I stayed in WA for a time, oh how I miss it... The PHX area will never look as good
Very nice! That's a special bike... when I was 11 or 12 my uncle let me ride his CT90 (I don't remember if it was labeled "Trail 90", but it was this bike) on the gravel roads around the lake. I was hooked. I knew right away I had to have a motorcycle myself.
Shop is looking FABULOUS. I remember building my 40x40 shop thinking it was all the space I need. Now I drawing out a 72x40 so I have some room again lol
My right side control was broken the same place as yours. I purchased the right hand control for a CT110 from DR ATV (around $40) and used just the bottom half, screws in and with a small modification it fit like a glove. I now have breaks, stop lights and mirror and it looks stock. Great video.
Looks great ! Brings back memories of us kids riding at the beach, we lived our summers in a trailer resort park that allowed small minibikes, motorcycles and such, as long as you had a permit tag on it....
this turned out so nice. I am so impressed, and calmed down at the same time. You do this at a lvl where i fell it is possible to reach for normal People, even when i understand that your skills are awesome.
As CD S mentioned, they don't always work as designed. Everything has to be set just right. Maybe they work better with larger sized blades. I imagine Mustie 1 will show us when he does it.
Thanks Mustie, great vid. I have a '72/73 CT90 that I bought new, haven't used it in about 8 years, but had begun work to get it running again just before you posted your first vid of this series (already had my original tank soaking with evaporust). I also have a red gas tank that I bought about 30 years ago, I'm going to soak it next and then coat the inside with 2-stroke oil as you did. A word to the wise: the handlebar lock lever is supposed to be pointed to the front - less damage to the family jewels if you hit something unexpectedly!!!! thanks again. Ps. no safety inspection for any motorcycles in New Brunswick!!
Looks like a blast! Very rewarding to be out riding on one you saved from the scrap pile. Something I have done to freshen up a rebuild project is to use touch up paint in the worst areas with an artist brush. Then a combination of steel wool, fine sandpaper to scuff the unaffected areas and blend the touch ups. Then apply 2 or 3 coats of automotive clear coat. The paint remains as original as possible and the clear coat gives a new surface for polishing. If you don't want to use a spray gun, high quality clear coat is available in a rattle can. The process takes about the same time as buffing and polishing once you have done it a couple of times. Thank you for another video, this is my favorite channel of anything I watch on TV or internet.
Mustie1, you are having to much fun. Those little bikes are a lot of fun to ride. That was my first bike and I rode it a lot. They are easy to maneuver in the woods. I enjoyed all your videos on it. Great work. Keep it up.
Turned out really nice, and now a shop almost big enough to ride around ;) even if my yells of "watch out for the Satellite..watch out for Crusty!" were probably heard by all. Those were marketed to RV'ers, and reportedly that's how they got that 'altitude adjustment switch' for the carb..when feedback at a Honda event to rep about taking them around in Colorado and other areas out west, and having to stop and get the carb adjusted each time, led to it being added. They are for running around the campground..riding down to the lake..going to the 'campstore', and not much of a true 'trail' rider, but lots of fun. So totally agree how that shift pattern is screwy to get used to, for us that know the "1 down and 3 or 4 up"..and that's why I let the 110's I did of those go. Nice to get that tank by a cool viewer, as that old one was gone.
