Enter The Dax / Honda’s Dax125 Minibike Confirmed For US Buyers In 2025

Hey kids! Remember how you said you’d buy a Honda Dax, if it came to the US market? Well here’s your chance to put your money where your mouth is—CARB paperwork reveals the Dax125 will come here in 2025!

This news comes courtesy of the cool cats at Motorcycle.com—specifically, Dennis Chung. Chung found this information on the California Air Resources Board, where those state-employed blabbermouths gave the game away.

American Honda is preparing to add a new member to its Minimoto lineup in the funky Dax125. Also known as the ST125, the Dax has been available in Europe since 2023, but will finally be coming to the U.S. for 2025.

The confirmation comes to us via the California Air Resources Board which released an executive order certifying the Dax125 as a 2025 model.

The Honda Dax125 first came to Honda’s miniMOTO lineup in 2022. Here’s what we told you about it then:

Wait—the Dax? What? Turns out that’s what our Japanese friends called the CT50/CT70/CT90 lineup back in the 1970s; across the pond, they called this the ST series.

Now, Honda’s bringing this idea back, with the new Dax 125 unveiled for Europe. Looking at the bike, it’s a very familiar design, updated for the 2020s. You have a big steel tube frame with the fuel-injected, air-cooled engine hanging beneath—like the ’70s Dax, this engine is borrowed from elsewhere in Honda’s lineup. It’s the same 124cc single-cylinder that Honda uses in the Grom, the Monkey, the CT125, the Super Cub, and the MSX125 scooter. It should have a four-speed gearbox, and make roughly 9.5 horsepower at 7,500 rpm, and 7.7 pound-feet of torque at 5,000 rpm.

Since then, we’ve been waiting for this funky little machine to come to the US market. It seems that wait is almost over now.