Your Favourite Honda ;o)

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1st of all my 70 Breganzie 750 SF0 had it all over the infamous Honda CB750 ;o)
However; there were a couple of Honda's which I really liked to ride.
The Honda CB450 Twin and the Honda 4 CB900F Sport:
A friend had a Honda 750 VFR which I never had chance to mount - The Crud ;o)
 
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I bought a used 750F, rode it a year or two, then sold it to buy a brand new 900F for $3200. I got the European Sport Handling kit from the dealer which was just the bars and slightly rearset pegs from the Euro model. I loved that bike! It would do everything and anything you asked it too!

Sold it to buy my Executive…… I still think of buying another one…..
 
Can't remember if we had them in Oz. They eventually morphed into the CBR1000R (some designation like that - long before the Fireblade), fully faired, wiped the floor in proddy racing.
 
Of those I`ve ridden ........ SL125 and CB400F .......

Of those I haven`t ....... XL250 Motosport , NS400R , and 954 Fireblade ........ the early ohc twins from the `sixties were nice as well .


Of those I`ve ridden and disliked ....... CB250G5 and CB550K ......... asthma sufferers , the pair of them .....
 
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The best but massively flawed Oval Piston last great attempt back then of a competitive 4-stroke GP bike. Honda threw the kitchen sink at it, including running the fuel tank under the bike, such a completely new design of everything. They never tried that again, ever bike after gradually improved over time. Never a completely new bike till the 4-stroke became mandatory for all. So brave and dumb all at once. My least favourite, my desperate attempt at buying a cheap dirtbike with my holiday pay, an old Motosport 250 Honda, it ran for 2 days. They ran their ignition, points still, I think off the end of the camshaft, said camshaft ran directly on the head metal. If, as was typical for meatheads, you never changed the oil or filter, said bearing surface flogged out and wobbling cam allowing massively fluctuating points and ignition. The fix was either an expensive line bored and replaced surface or a new head. I binned it. That cemented my obsession with changing oil LOTS.
 
CB77, great little bike. I had a CB900F at one time, decent bike but I was forever unseizing the brakes and as soon as the cam chain started rattling and wouldn't adjust I got rid of it.
 
CB900F was replaced by the 1100F, heavier and clumsier and rubber mounted engine, later came with a half type fairing (to Oz). Both (all!) had camchain tensioner woes.
First edition CB1100R was without the fairing, won absolutely everything.
VF1000R had useless cooling and boiled themselves, shoulda coulda bike.
Quote from a mate riding a CB750 today: "It shows just how far bikes have progressed". Riding my sorted SF, shows why I never sold it.
 
my favourite Honda (as Cam D) is the 250 or 297 Honda sixes, the 297 being competitive and a race winner in the 350 class when it was designed as a 250 and dominated that class plus the 350's, very impressive, Goerge Beal made six replicas (circa 100K) with Hondas blessing and they loaned him an original plus bought one of the reps! hows that for provenance! there is an original six out there somewhere, Rodney Gould Partnered SMBH is a bike shop and following SMBH's demise he sold Hailwoods six for £15,000, he did time for exportation fraud on that one, but the bike has never been seen since, I hope to high heaven that it still exists, it would be worth 150 grand, probably more, but oh! what a desirable thing to play with.

My second favourite Honda is my Pan Eueopean 1100, no ABS, bomb proof bike if fitted with a stainless exhaust, remove and service the alternator occassioally, and you unbolt the fuel tank, deal with water retention under it, and then it will last a lifetime, massive fuel tank, shaft drive, excellent lighting (realy excellent) very effective streamlining, very slow tyre wear (ironicaly for a heavy old pig) super comfort, massive load carrying ability, 350mile without stops and more, who needs a ten grand or fifteen grand Bike Made Weedilly.

Oh yeah I like the cub, but I own a Yamaha Townmate 80cc, 4 not 3 gears, shaft not chain drive and electric start not kick, a vastly superior moped than the Honda and about one third the price like for like, plus the Townmate is more economical.
CLEM
 
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CLEMTOG said:
my savourite Honda (as Cam D) is the 250 or 297 Honda sixes, the 297 being competitive and a race winner in the 350 class when it was designed as a 250 and dominated that class plus the 350's, very impressive, Goerge Beal made six replicas (circa 100K) with Hondas blessing and they loaned him an original plus bought one of the reps! hows that for provrenance! there is an original six out there somewhere, Rodney Gould Partnered SMBH is a bike shop and following SMBH's demise he sold Hailwoods six for £15,000, he did time for exportation fraud on that one, but the bike has never been seen since, I hope to high heaven that it still exists, it would be worth 150 grand, probably more, but oh! what a desirable thing to play with.

My second favourite Honda is my Pan Eueopean 1100, no ABS, bomb proof bike if fitted with a stainless exhaust, remove and service the alternator occassioally, and you unbolt the fuel tank, deal with water retention under it, and then it will last a lifetime, massive fuel tank, shaft drive, excellent lighting (realy execellent) very effective streamlining, very slow tyre wear (ironicaly for a heavy old pig) super comfort, massive load carrying ability, 350mile without stops and more, who needs a ten grand or fifteen grand Bike Made Weedilly.

Oh yeah I like the cub, but I own a Yamaha Townmate 80cc, 4 not 3 gears, shaft not chain drive and electric start not kick, a vastly superior moped than the Honda and about one third the price like for like, plus the Townmate is more economical.
CLEM
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George Beal commissioned six replicas. Made in France by JPX.
Paul
 
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