Honda CB450 D

1966 Honda CB450D. These bikes came about when Honda were having problems shifting the CB450 K0. The factory sent over styling kits to fit to some of the K0s to try and make them more appealing to the buying public.

Honda CL350

This wee Honda CL 350 arrived a few months ago, bought by my mate who owns the Honda 400/4 I've been slowly restoring in between my own bikes. Its a 1972 model, bought from DK Motorcycles about ten years ago by the previous owner to restore but he never got round to it. Its fairly original with only a few minor parts missing, most of which we have managed to pick up. Work on it will probably start next Spring once the other bikes are totally finished. Hope to have a couple of up dates on the BMW R75/6 and the Honda 400/4

Honda CB400/4

This is the latest project that my mate James has bought ( the owner of the BMW R75/6 from a few months back, an update of that later), a 1976 Honda CB400/4. Bought on ebay from DK Motorcycles a few weeks back. A bit rough round the edges, but surprisingly totally rust free (California import). A few things are on the way for it and paint work is off to the painter. This should be a fairly easy tidy up with the plan to have it registered and on the road by the end of the month.......

Honda 60s Adverts

A couple of Honda America Adverts for the C models of the 60s

Friday Bike

Honda CB750 Cafe Racer with ARD Magneto, Drouin Supercharger and a lot more
click the title for more info

Honda P50

A 1967 Honda P50, I did a deal with Vic at the weekend to get this nice wee P50. I first heard of it , and the PC50 he has, about a year ago. I'd had a PC50 many moons ago so thought the P would be interesting. So heres looking forward to getting it on the road in the next month or so and head for the back, flat, roads

Heres the Monty Python vid sfb sent me on FB, the star is at the end....?



For those interested there is a link to a P50 shop manual in the title

Friday Bike

Honda CB450 Cafe Racer

Little Honda

It looks so good I just had to post the pic. A lot of effort and time went into building this bike, click on title for the story

Friday Bike

This bike is a 1976 Red Line Engineering XR75. It has a nickel plated chrome-moly frame and swingarm, Ceriani forks and clamps, 17” front wheel, P.K. Racing ignition and 82cc piston, DG pipe.. list goes on. Its far from standard but most were modified as soon as they bought them.

Ok its a "Kiddies" bike, but very important as these bikes were the stepping stones to an interest in motorcycles and the sport. The honda XR75 would have been every Kids dream bike back in the 70s, it looked like the "big" bikes and was a great bike in Jnr motocross, being the bike to have
I came across this blog BBR Motorsports Inc (click title to go to link) and it shows the interest is still there with the small bikes, just the owners are a bit older.
On the home page of the blog you'll see a link to their shop, have a look its interesting.

Old Adverts

A magazine advert for the Honda CB550F. I am a bit bias towards this bike as it was the first Jap four I bought. Bought mine in 1981 and did about 50000 mls on it. Its in a few large parts just now,just needs a few weeks work, once the new sheds up it'll join the queue.

CB750 Cafe Racer

Quite a good take on a Honda CB750 Cafe Racer

Friday Bike

Honda CB750 K2, took this pic at Squires Cafe in Yorkshire at the Classicbike Up North event in 08. Link to the Cafe site, click on title (Friday Bike)

Hondas history on the bike
http://world.honda.com/history/challenge/1969cb750four/text/01.html

Kats Bros

Just a quick post here, nice pic of my friend Kats Honda 400 Bros, my 900ss behind it. Was taken during the summer between Perth and Dundee.