Honda Spree and Elite 50 Forums

It has been a while since I posted. I delivered a 1984 Honda Gyro to my customer in Raleigh, NC yesterday to add to his collection. I figured I would share the photos and the recovery since this is one rare machine. It was fun to get it up and running for an extremely enthusiastic owner.

Anyway, here are some before/after shots. The wheels were the biggest issue. They were rusted pretty bad and needed to be blasted and repainted. The plastic was polished with a light compound using a buffer. Delicate!!! New tires, new grips, some new stickers and a fresh coat of paint on the basket made this scoot look great. I also painted all the black plastic pieces and mounting brackets. It came out great! What a fun little machine to ride also.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVrA1q2Yaio

The customer also sent me home with a 1986 Honda Spree Limited Edition to do some work on also. He's got quite a collection of scoots! Stay tuned for some info on that bike.

What a nice ride that gyro is. I so wish I could find a gyro here in my neck of the woods. Sprees are rare enough here let alone a gyro. I'm so jealous

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patthesoundguy wrote:What a nice ride that gyro is. I so wish I could find a gyro here in my neck of the woods. Sprees are rare enough here let alone a gyro. I'm so jealous

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+1 - love those Gyros - thanks for the good pics

Greetings:

Drip-drip-drip. The sound of Honda-san's tears of joy falling softly in the ground below his grave. Awesomely-tidy restoration! Put it in a museum?

Wheelman-111 wrote:Greetings:

Drip-drip-drip. The sound of Honda-san's tears of joy falling softly in the ground below his grave. Awesomely-tidy restoration! Put it in a museum?

I don't think this one will be museum bound. The owner uses all of his scoots with his kids riding around the neighborhood. It would be a pretty good candidate though.

Wow you do some quality work. Awesome job thanks for sharing

Lets see that special edition spree now

nice job man, like the webpage stuff to!

So shiny, what a beaut.

If you don't mine me asking, how much was it (Gyro + restore)?

jcivince wrote:If you don't mine me asking, how much was it (Gyro + restore)?

I don't recall what he paid for the Gyro initially. Between the parts, sticker recreation/production and labor the resto work was over $1400 if I remember correctly.

how does the gyro handle and ride ive never seen anybody with one here in hawaii looks pretty cool though

motormike wrote:The '85-86 Gyro handles marvelously...eats up the corners...
The '84, not even a comparison...it is horrible.
HUGE difference in the geometry of these 2 machines...

that looks badass