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The correct way to say it is HODOCKA. Clarence

Hey Clarence,
Maybe you ought to make this one a "sticky post" so it's always on top!

When I bought my first Ace 90 from a local dealer in 1965 they pronounced it Hodaaka. When I got my dealership our distributor in Oklahoma pronounced it the same. The're all Hodaakas in southeast Kansas and surrounding areas. I try to say it the right way when talking to foreigners (not from these parts.) Forgive me if I slip when talking to me in person.

Maxie

I copied it out of an old resonator from Hodaka .
Clarence

In the 1970s when I was first introduced to this brand, it was taught to me as Hodaka with an A "like APPLE". I found out later (although in all fairness and old friend did call it Hodaka with a short "A". I thought he was wrong.
When I made my first pilgrimage to Oregon in 2005, I was corrected with the "open your mouth and say AAAAH" A sound. I think it was Ed Chesnut that was the one.
So I think we here in the East used the Apple A and the West used the doctors request AAAH sound. Not duck.

Vowel sounds in English can drive me nuts. Just my observation.

I've never pronounced it any other way than Hoe-daah-kuh! Even when I didn't own one! ; D Victor

Ho-dock-a from a old resonator? clarence

Just to remove the requirement to interpret letter or phrase sounds . . .

Hoe-dock-uh.

Ed

And Ed has the final word.........**

Oh wait, I just did, HA!

Here it is in Japanese:
3 syll. ho-da-ka, hod-aka ] The baby boy name Hodaka is pronounced HHOW-D-ahKaa- †. Hodaka's language of origin is Japanese and it is also used mainly in the Japanese language. The name's meaning is 'tall ear of grain'.

So the mountain in Japan which is named Hodaka (namesake of Hodaka Motorcycles) is a "tall ear of grain"? Interesting.

The pronunciation provided was reviewed and approved by all levels at PABATCO before being published in the Resonator - including Maurice Lee (Engineering) who came to PABATCO from his job at the Hodaka factory in Japan. I have some "inside" knowledge on that particular little blurb . . . I wrote it wayeeee back when.

Ed

Potaaato, potahhto, still a spud.

Wish I had a dime
for every time
someone called mine
a Hondaka....

Scribbler wrote:Wish I had a dime
for every time
someone called mine
a Hondaka....

There was a Hondaka for sale on Craigslist recently....

Little off the subject but I am amazed at the number of clerks in automotive stores and even local motorcycle shops that have never heard of a Hodaka. If they are under 50 years old there is a good chance they never heard of it. I just tell them to write it down and search for it on Google when they get home.

I must say I've never heard of a Hondaka but it did make me laugh! ----Funny.

Maxie

What would one call a Honda with a Hodaka motor?

A good start!....

It is a hondaB or a wannaB

Rick, I would call it a Hondaka. I installed a 1962 Dodge motor and push button transmission in a 1957 ford when I was 20 years old. I called it a Fodge. Wonderful memories.

In High School, one of my auto-tech-school classmates family owned a junk yard. They pulled a stolen 1958 Corvette out of a water filled quarry that had no engine. He put in a 312 CI Ford V-8 and tranny. Used a Ford rear too. Fast little devil, but I always thought of it as a Frankenstein car.

I was a MOPAR man in High School.

2 years ago I built a Hodaka powered Rokon Trail Breaker.I call it a Rodaka.

Greetings

If you paint it green, you could call it a "Rodaka Toad"!

Just a RT (random thought)

Tom

Larry, I've told you before on the Forum that the Rodaka is one of the coolest bikes ever. Good work! Don't ever sell that thing without calling me.

Maxie

Thank you Maxie for the kind words . If it is ever sold , it will be sold by my heirs.