This is an original ad for the kit, you can see each of the individual parts in the top left image. The Honda Monkey Bike was the first motorcycle owned by many, the small and inexpensive 50cc minibikes were ideally suited for children learning to ride for the first time. Honda Z50 – Good Things Come In Small Packages In the years since many have been exported and they make popular collector’s items.
The Africa bodykit was built in 1992 for the Japanese market only in limited numbers.The kit could be bolted onto any Honda Z50 Baja motorcycle, a dual-sport version of the Japanese company’s venerable Monkey Bike.The Baja Africa kit was developed to celebrate the four consecutive Paris-Dakar victories taken by the Honda Africa Twin in the mid-to-late 1980s.Fast Facts – The Honda Monkey Baja Africa The kit itself was relatively simple (see the image below), however it transformed the Honda Monkey into a miniature version of the much-loved Honda Africa Twin – an adventure bike that won the Paris-Dakar Rally four times in succession from 1986 to 1989. Instead the bike was built by Honda Monkey owners using an official kit that could be bought from Honda.
The Honda Z50J Monkey Baja Africa is an exceedingly rare motorcycle, in fact none of them were ever built by the Honda factory.
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