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My obsession began with the Sears & Roebuck catalogs of The Fifties. Immediately after perusing the bra and panty departments, the next place to go in the new Sears catalog was always the Allstate Motorcycle department. Back when the most common motorized two-wheelers were Cushmans, Whizzers, and Simplex Motorbikes, the Puch/Allstate lineup sold by Sears was pretty doggone excitin’! The next big event in my life was when my best friend got a new Harley-Davidson Super 10 in 1960. This was followed only months later by my favorite cousin’s new acquisition, a black 1960 Honda 150cc Benly Touring. Not only were the Allstates beginning to look klunky in a hurry, but this turn of events put me in on the ground floor of what I would later name The Tiddler Invasion. The next Honda I had a close encounter with was a Super Sport Cub with its 3-speed transmission, manual clutch, and cream tank. Within a couple of years, America was covered up in small Hondas, Yamahas, and Suzukis. Kawasaki would not arrive until a few years later, beginning under the Omega nameplate. I was quite a Yamaha fanatic in those early days, at least partly because I have always enjoyed rooting for the underdog. This is a website dedicated to those wonderful little machines from the days of our youth. The gamut includes the ubiquitous Honda 50, the unknown Pointer Super Lassie, and all those in between these two extremes. For the purposes of this site, the bottom of the line is the Allstate Moped and the top is the Honda CL Scramblers. Let’s consider anything in the 500c and up class as serious motorcycles instead of tiddlers. These parameters place the beginning in the ‘50’s and the end in the very early ‘70’s with the last production of the Honda CL-450. Honorable homage should certainly be paid to the early Cushman scooters and the ‘40’s DKW 125 that inspired the H-D Hummer, but the principal business of this site is to disseminate information about the Japanese invasion of The Sixties.