Will It Run and Drive? Sat Since the 80's, 1972 Hodaka Wombat 125

Those Hodaka's were rippers I remember a friend of mine's dad had a dealership where he sold them Ducati and Moto Guzzi my friend raced moto cross in high school on Hodakas I remember one called Super Rat and he always finished in the top 5 great to see you bring this one back

In Mesquite Texas we had a Hodaka dealer in town and every time we went by we would drool on the showroom windows , With the chrome tanks and great colors and wild names they were the bike of our dreams !!

The WOMBAT was marketed as a street legal trail bike, Mine would wind out to about 55mph on the road. Was a blast to ride, Wish I still had it. Great video Thank-you.

I'm not really a bike person but I watched both episodes on the Hodaka,I was entertained and educated in equal measure,Topman.

Heck yeah loved that cornet

Man, I just love the old two stroke dual sport bikes! That tank cleaned up really nice, and the seat looks pristine, not a single rip! You had the right idea running the big boy fuel filter, catch all the big junk til it's clean then switch to the smaller ones. Definitely check the points, I had a 74 Suzuki TS185, and it started getting hard to start and wouldn't stay running. New points and it was back to rippin! Sweet bike Brad!

Great video. From what i can remember from those days is those bikes only ran good with the rpms always up. Nice to hear that sound again.

Muscle cars & Hodaka YES flash back to the past! 2 STROKE OF CORSE!😊😅😊😅😅😅😊😅 I love that gas tank.

Love Hodakas I've had two first one was a 72 ace I still have a 76 dirt squirt they are so cool looking kinda like old Mopar cars from the late 60s and early 70s.

Hellyeah Brad, nothing like the… ding, ding, ding, of an ol two stroke. Cool vid man.😎💯

I used to race a Combat Wombat (Hodaka Model 95) after I got out of the Army in 1972 (I'm 77 now). They were wonderful bikes. The shift mechanism of Hodakas is pretty sophisticated and allows for minimal use of the clutch. I set up mine with a milled head, ported piston, and a reed valve. For reference, the Wombat (Model 74) you have is a little bit heavier than the Combat Wombat with a less highly-tuned motor. The recommended spark plug for the Wombat was an NGK B8HS or equivalent and the fuel mixture (oil/gas ratio) was 1:32. The current selling price of Hodakas in good condition is pretty high. Keep up the good work!

Those old Fuji engines were very self-repair friendly and had very logical mechanical mechanisms. Soak the carburetor in a solvent bath clean out the air filter completely and I would even suggest making sure you decarbonize the cylinder and the ports and if you have a deburring tool polish the ports as well you'll thank me for that later if you can decarbonize the muffler the chambers in that muffler back up with a lot of carbon and will become highly restricted but you don't have high mileage so they should be fairly clean. I ran Hodakas and I love them because I could take them apart top to bottom with no stupid construction they weren't the toughest bikes for sure but mechanically everything had a good purpose. Very important: always use a fresh NGK brand japanese-made spark plug. I've tried every other brand of plug and nothing worked as well for the characteristic electrical systems and combustion flavor of the Fuji engine in the Hodakas 😮

Perfect little bike

I love the sound of two stroke engine

That was awesome when you bit it inside the shop! 🤣

Sounds like a 1970s motorcycle! Love it.

The Combat Wombat was the shit back in the day !!

Loved this video! Great job and start! You’re putting it thru the paces. Thanks for sharing! 💯👍

I had that same bike in 1979, my stepdad bought it in Montana when we were on vacation. We brought it back to Washington state and I rode that thing all over the place as a 15 year old. No helmet, riding through town and hitting the fire roads and trails everywhere! It was sold to someone about an hour from my house, I never heard whatever happened to it. Fast forward all these years later to about 3 years ago, and my mom was digging through a box of old pictures, and there was a picture, the only picture of my bike! I've been looking for one of these bikes for years now. Good times.

I loved my first dirt bike Hodaka.