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Honda Monkey Z50 Africa

Honda originally built the first “Monkey Bikes” for a theme park in Japan, they got their name because of how adults look when they ride them, with their knees up and their arms out wide like a monkey. These theme park minibikes proved to be so staggeringly popular that Honda put them into limited production as the Z series, where they quickly sold out before becoming one of the company’s most loved models.

The Honda Monkey Baja Africa is one of the rarest and most desirable iterations of the beloved Japanese minibike ever offered, although interestingly it was never actually built by the Honda factory.

The Africa version of the Monkey bike was a kit made by Honda that you could buy and bolt on to your Baja Monkey, this kit included a bolt-on central unit that included the fuel tank, side covers and rear cowl/bump stop, it also included a front fender, an engine bash plate, a wind deflector for above the twin headlights, and all the fixings required.

Despite the relative simplicity of the kit it totally transformed the look of the Baja, turning it into a miniature version of the much-loved Honda Africa Twin. It quickly became the single most desirable special kit for the Monkey ever made, they were produced in relatively limited numbers and today the Monkey Baja Africa is (arguably) the most collectible of the special versions of the Z series.

This Monkey Baja featured knobbly tires, twin headlights mounted within a protective frame, an off-road style seat, and a slew of other smaller features to make it resemble its bigger siblings. It formed the perfect base for the Africa bodykit, the original fuel tank is kept, though now it’s filled through a cover in the Africa bodywork up top, eve

Over the decades-long production run of the Monkey bike Honda produced dozens of low production volume special editions. Some had custom designed frames and bodywork and others were a little less intensive, the Honda Monkey Baja was designed to replicate the off-road racing endurance motorcycles that took part in races like the Baja 1000

Source silodrome.com