Suzuki and Kawi don,t make a 125 or 250 either,or sell them in the USA. At least Honda has the sack and gave everyone a 1 year notice saying that in 07 will be the last year the 85,125,250 will be produced. Suzuki and Kawi just pulled the plug on there 125 and 250. If anyones should be upset it,s the 85 riders, they haven,t made changes to the bikes since about 1995 and 85 senior kids are great riders, that could use frame,suspension changes,egos,etc. I rarely have a problem geting parts from service honda, for my 04,06 cr125. That where green phrase started in 06,in 04 our semis-big trucks got the 2nd generation epa mandated engines,that sound like messed up vaccums,07 low sulfer fuel,months later ultra low sulfer fuel 8 prts per million, 08 the next epa mandated parlament filter engine,commonly called regeneration engine. The parl. filter-looks like a weird muffler with steel hoses,etc. going to it, gets plugged or parchialy plugged idiot lights in 3 different stages come on the driver info screen, you have to park in a safe area and try to do a maual regen, usually it won,t and 90 % of your power is gone,so your top speed is 45mph if that. Sometimes the mauel regen works,you hv. to be parked, temps. of 2,000 degrees, the engine doing a regen sounds like a jet for 40-45 min.,the parliment fuel is turned into a rocket engine, it,s burning the soot from the parliment filter. There,s alot more to it, alot of trucks end up being towed, 2,3 mile tow can cost 1,500 bucks. If your pulling a heavy load at a constant speed,it can regen going down the road,blowing 12 inche flames out the smoke stacks,usually the engine wants a regen in grid lock traffic, the engine is a joke.So the engine maufactures are really struggling to meet the epa,s demands, CAT called it quits, for a while saying the 2010 epa engine isn,t possible,I think they teamed with another manufacture. I don,t think there,s a state where, you can idle for heat or ac anymore,fines can be 2,500 bucks,local cops writing tickets at truckstops.Everyone needs a truck delivering to live,chemicals to water treatment plants, you wouldn,t last 3 days drinking untreated water,food,butt wipe, everything you see and use. Point is the clean air act is very serious, it cost much more to transport everything,making peoples lives more difficult because everything cost much more. We the truckers had numerous srtikes in 08, to fight the 6.00 plus a gal. fuel, gov. long list of new regs.,etc. things that hurt us,but the biggest loser in the end is the consumer,because the fuel surcharge goes right to the consumer.Honda,s stance really don,t make sense,the epa isn,t attacking dirtbikes, they,ll change there tune,just like a politician.
