where was my honda motorcycle made?
Tokyo
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 Once interested , Soichiro Honda began developing the Super Cub on his return to Japan . The following year Honda displayed a mockup to Fujisawa that finally matched what he had in mind , Fujisawa declaring the annual sales would be 30 @,@ 000 per month , half again as many as the entire monthly two @-@ wheeler market in Japan . His goal was to export motorcycles on a scale yet unseen in the economic disorder of postwar Japan , when most companies ' halting trade efforts were handled through foreign trading companies . Honda would have to establish its own overseas subsidiary to provide the necessary service and spare parts distribution in a large country like the United States . To this end American Honda Motor Company was founded in 1959 . In 1961 a sales network was established in Germany , then in Belgium and the UK in 1962 , and then France in 1964 . 

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 An 1869 Roper machine is now in the Smithsonian Institution , and one from 1868 is in private hands after being offered at auction in 2012 . An 1894 Roper velocipede was exhibited in the Guggenheim Museum 's The Art of the Motorcycle show at their Las Vegas venue , and was shown in 2011 at the Deeley Museum collection in Vancouver . 

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 Motorcycle engineer Norbert Riedel recognized the need for a simple and economical light motorcycle during Germany 's recovery from the Second World War and began to design one . By the summer of 1947 , a prototype frame had been built and tested . The spine frame was made from 40 mm steel tubing , as were the steering head , the single @-@ sided front fork , and the single @-@ sided swingarm . The wheels were interchangeable , and were mounted from the left on stub axles attached to the suspension on the right . 

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 To make the new motorcycle , Honda built a new ¥ 10 billion factory in Suzuka , Mie to manufacture 30 @,@ 000 , and with two shifts , 50 @,@ 000 , Super Cubs per month . The factory was modeled on the Volkswagen Beetle production line in Wolfsburg , Germany . Until then , Honda 's top models had sold only 2 @,@ 000 to 3 @,@ 000 per month , and observers thought the cost of the new plant too risky an expenditure . Edward Turner of BSA went to Japan to see the motorcycle industry in September 1960 , and said that investments the size of the Suzuka plant were " extremely dangerous " because the US motorcycle market was already saturated . When completed in 1960 , the Suzuka Factory was the largest motorcycle factory in the world , and was a model for Honda 's mass production facilities of the future . The economies of scale achieved at Suzuka cut 18 % from the cost of producing each Super Cub when Suzuka could be run at full capacity , but in the short term Honda faced excess inventory problems when the new factory went into operation before the full sales and distribution network was in place . 

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 The next year , he relocated to some disused buildings on his parents ' farm in San Martin , California that had previously been used for dehydrating prunes . In 1977 , he patented use of large diameter aluminum alloy tubes to increase stiffness , and in 1980 , he moved from San Jose , California , to Chehalis , Washington . He started production runs of road bicycles in the early 1980s and mountain bikes in the mid 1980s . 
