Ken makes a good point here, and for me I also noticed how annoying it gets shifting that cub 3 times just to get to puch speeds then when you slow down more shifting.
The low gearing of the Honda does shine when offroad, but on road I'd rather be puching.
Also those cubs tend to get hard to shift, the shift lever digs into the top of your shoe when forcefully pulling them up to upshift due to binding or something., the CT transmissions seem better.