Mugen Honda

Canvas mx made me this last year

Love the Mugen Honda's. This is the pride of my collection of older bikes.

O´Mara win the 125 GP in Switzerland 1982

Don't tell people on here that you had someone make you a replica jersey. The legal beagles will be crawling out of the woodwork...

1979 Mugen Honda ME 360









1979 Mugen Honda ME 380









1980 Mugen Honda ME 480






Didi Larcher's 1980 Mugen Honda CR 480















1982 Mugen Honda ME 250











1987 Mugen Hona MER 125

I second that. Awesome thread.

Bring it on! My original artwork, just very similar Anyway I'd seen a few going on ebay for hundreds claiming to be original but when I looked closely they were definitely not. So I did my own. Great quality from canvas by the way..

3rd that!!!

Doing my apprenticeship at a Honda car and motorcycle dealer, Honda's will always lye close to my heart.
Mugen also was heavily involved with automobiles going back to the first gen Honda Civic's in 73.

They took two banks of Gold Wing GL1200 carbs, made a manifold and distributor drive off the end of cam shaft instead of where they are showing number one carb, plus a heap of internal bits and pieces for the EB1 1200cc Civic engines.


In 1973, the first racing project of the newly formed Mugen Co. Ltd. was the MF-318. Based on the Civic EB1 Civic 1200 engine features dry sump lubrication and Keihin 35mm CV carbs to make 135 ps at 8000 rpm. It was very successful race engine in both formula car and sedan racing. The team at Mugen completely remade or modified every aspect of this engine. Boring the engine to 1300cc, the Mugen MF-318 was victorious in its very first race in the Formula FJ 1300 racing series in Japan. It went on to become the dominant engine in this series for many years to come.

I just read that Guy Martin will be riding for Team Mugen in the zero race alongside McGuiness.. They're both riding Honda's this year as well.. Am I to assume they're in charge of Honda's electric stuff?

And...funnier, still...

Those 460 kits were not too cool when the 480 came out.

This is the only honda at the top of my must have/can't have list......new nsx

In charge (pun?) - No.

Just a continuation of the Honda /Mugen symbiotic relationship.

I always have taken the Mugen labelling of the E Bike as an 'arms length' thing by Honda. They've done that sort of thing for decades now, Mugen being the usual 'front'. Perhaps it's to avoid the "Honda Fails" headlines, with risky projects.

I'd say the second Honda do enter the E Bike market as Honda, you'll see the Mugen name defer to Honda.

Don't get me wrong, Mugen have a lot to do with it, but it's predominantly the Might , Money and Engineering of Honda.

Other than last year, I've gone to the IOM every year for the last few decades, with various MX GPs / other MC events before and after it that I can get to. The trickest things ( along with some of the biggest abominations, but enthusiastic / incredibly clever ones, nonetheless) at the event are the E Bikes - specifically the Moto Czyx ( I never get that right) when they were there, and then the 'Mugens'.

They eventually need to push the E race out to at least a couple of Laps, but then I doubt they'd have anyone but Honda, oops, Mugen out there, if they did.

You Moto Heads need to pull your fingers out, and get your arses to the Isle Of Man TT races. SX, as fearful / fearfully difficult as it is for we average blokes, through to the highest levels of riders, is child's play compared to Real Roads Racing. Nothing, and I mean Nothing, compares to it. A six lap Senior race, is the Supreme racing test. Ride the course, then you'll have just the faintest idea of just how incredible those Racers are.

I'd not be surprised to see the lap average speed go to 135mph this year, but it's taking near , well no, it IS taking short circuit levels of riding styles, to go as fast as they do. Michael Dunlop, Hutchy and a few others, seem to be routinely pushing the front, smoking the rear, like you see in the GPs. Frightening / Awe inspiring stuff.