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Marketplace => For Sale => Topic started by: facthunt on September 17, 2009, 10:36:32 pm
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I have about 70% of an MR175.
Anyone interested?
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Probably a MT 175
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WTF's a MT175 ???
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yep we got MR175's here. Only in limited numbers and sold only by a few select Honda dealers in some states.
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Where is it and how much??
I had an MT125(very empty) cause I want a Cr125 but needed to ride to work and so settled on the trail version(not) so the MR175 was something I could have wanted if they ever had come to NZ back then.
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Leith , any idea how many were sold in Oz?
Roger
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No i wouldnt. From what ive read in old Two wheels magazines, trail and track etc, they were just made for the american cross country/desert racing market and they had no compliance plates so Honda here as a whole wasnt interested in importing them, but there was some individual Honda dealers who did put in special orders and brought some here in low numbers, so i cant imagine there would be many here at all.
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when I was at Kingo's circa 1978 we had a few MR's go through the shop. There was an MR250 as well ;) more popular in the US but they did come here. probably sold 3 or 4 MR's in the years I worked there which doesn't equate in comparison to the million XL250S' that went out the door ;)
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Where is it and how much??
I had an MT125(very empty) cause I want a Cr125 but needed to ride to work and so settled on the trail version(not) so the MR175 was something I could have wanted if they ever had come to NZ back then.
Located south of Melbourne and cheap.
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Any pics? depends which 70% you're selling ???
Roger
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I have about 70% of an MR175.
Anyone interested?
What year and whats missing?
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Computer issues no pics.
0435026524
Cheers
Kurt
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'77 was the only year we got out here ??? ???
Roger
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Would it be right to assume that parts are plentiful in the US??
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a friend has a complete running genuine mr175 1977
he wants to sell also has a spare motor
wants $1000.00 buckos for it
would be a great resto project ;)
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I saw three mr175's in a shed this afternoon. Honda nut, he's got a restored cr125 elsinore and wants to do one for each year.
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........did you sell the bike ??
Roger
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I seem to remember that the Honda said no to importing them so the Honda Dealer from Orange and one or two other dealers from across oz imported them as a group.
Now here's where the memory lets me down, I think the numbers were very low like 10 or 20 (250's) and maybe 50 (175's) or vise versa . A fellow apprentice picked up a new 175 from Orange (Bennett Honda I think) at the beginning of 1978 and was the last one on the floor. The story about the imports was in either T&T or ADB at the time and that had the actual numbers imported.
I also recall that the Canobalas Enduro in 1977 or 1978 had about 6 or 8 MR's in it and I'm not sure any finished!
The same year another apprentice got the XL 250 and there was light years between the two bikes. The MR was slow and low more like a DT175A in most ways apart from an added inch or two at each end, the XL, fast high and reliable.
PB
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Its still available.