User:Cford2/Honda CH250

The Honda Elite Ch 250 This delightful Honda scooter was first seen in North America in 1985 in Canada and a year later in the U.S. It was a "sit up" scooter wich was later morphed into the CN20 Helix Bacalounger, i.e. feet forward scooter, the precuser of the a lot of the modern scooter particularly the larger "Mega Scooters". The Elite CH 250 was a fast and comfortable machine delivering reasonable mileage. As in all motorcycles the old adage appplies, "the last quarter of the throttle uses three quarters of the gas." Incidentally the same applies to automobiles.

As the Elite was the early type of scooter it didn't have the storage that the more modern scooters do. It had a small capacity compartment under the handle bar and nothing under the seat. It did come with a small luggage rack behind the seat. It had a top speed of about 120 km/h or 70 mph under ideal conditions and under normal conitions, speed, it would average about 4liters per 100 kms, or 60 mpg. There were a number of iterations of the CH designation and in North America there were just two, the CH125 and the CH250. Honda issued a Service Manual for the CH250 for the model years 1985 to 1988 the final year before the Helix CN250 took over. they two models did run side by side for a while.

I have had two Ch250s a 1985 and now a 1986. The fist one I added a trunk and two hard side cases.

I would like to add a couple of photographs here, how?