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Originally Posted by mexicanyella  I like the pipe on mx470's 1980 bike, and that low pipe on Godfried's 50cc Dax is funky-cool! Never seen that setup before. Were the Dax bikes available with low or high pipes, or do people fit CT pipes to them as mods, or is it just down to different years, or what? |
Dan is mixing up my red original dax with the orange one. I am indeed running a stainless/titanium takegawa one on the 124cc dax.
The red one does have an original honda lowswept exhaust:
They came original on the early ST50 and ST70 for the UK, Japanese and Australian market, as well as on the early General Export model. I don't think they are still available from honda, but replica's can be found on ebay, as well as NOS or second hand ones. It shouldn't be to hard to put one on your CT, but you will have to make up a bracket to hold the exhaust, as the orginal bikes that came with these had an extra bracket on the frame, just behind where the brake pedal is.
The 1970's honda chaly had a very similar one, here's a picture of one on my chaly:
The bike is in bits at the moment (has been for a while now actually), awaiting a complete metamorphosis...
Cheers,
Godfried
PS: as for the top speed of the orange dax: it does over a genuine 80 mph. It was clocked at 78 mph with a police speed gun a couple of years ago. This was on a flat road, hardly any wind... A light backwind, slipstream, downhill etc. will easily add a couple of MPH to that...