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LITTLE INDIAN MINI BIKE KIT MANUAL
LITTLE INDIAN MINI BIKE KIT SERIES

It’s not known exactly how many of these kits were sold or how many ended up being built, we do know that the bike is very rare and almost unseen outside of Japan. This kit was a very simple affair, the fuel tank (cover), seat, side covers, and rear cowl were all a single moulded unit, and it came with a bash plate, a front fender, and the decal kit. The Honda Z50J Monkey Baja Africa was built in very limited numbers by enthusiasts using a kit developed by Honda. This is how the bike looks when completed, with all the kit parts installed along with the decals.

LITTLE INDIAN MINI BIKE KIT MANUAL

In 2018 Honda delighted the motorcycling world by debuting a brand new Monkey bike, an all-new model based on the small Honda Grom with classic styling and a 125cc single-cylinder engine with a 4-speed manual transmission.

LITTLE INDIAN MINI BIKE KIT SERIES

The Honda Z50 series would stay in production from 1968 until 2017 including the sub-designations Z50A, Z50M, Z50J, and Z50R. The most common was the Z50 series that is typically characterized by their 49cc OHC single-cylinder, air-cooled engine with a 3-speed semi-automatic transmission to ensure that it was easy to rider for children and novice adults. Over the following decades Honda would sell countless Monkey bikes around the world in a vast array of different configurations. The little motorcycles proved wildly popular, taking Honda executives by surprise, and they decided to create a production version. Honda originally developed the motorcycle that would become the Monkey Bike back in the 1960s as a fairground ride. That said, they have long been a favorite of adults too, in fact it’s the posture of an adult riding the bike that gave it its nickname – with their knees up, they back hunched over and their arms and shoulders up in the air, they look like monkeys when viewed from behind. 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.