Old Hondas are cool too, in fact they are Dreamy

[steve murdoch]

That's a great looking Dream.
The brakes on my Superhawk are almost as bad.
A good resource for those bikes is www.hondatwins.net
Lots of tech tips and a fairly active Marketplace.

[Rob S.]

My first bike was a CB350. Eventually bored it to 435cc and put the most extreme cam possible in it. You meet the nicest people...

[LAB3]

A set of new clutch springs would probably take care of that slippage considering how old that bike is. Looks like Honda wants $8.50 ea for OEM, eBay shows full sets of aftermarket springs for $13.

[oldGSfan]

The headlight conversion worked out great, basically $17 for the bulb and $5 for the 'Goop'. It is super solid; the 'Goop' glue has the needed temp ratings and seems right. Grabs and holds pretty quick but takes 48 hours to cure., If the LED dies, a good sharp knife or an exacto will get through it. Dunno, over time may harden too much. If so, sue me. I love little mods like this. Low beam in pic below.

[steve murdoch]

My first bike was a CB350. Eventually bored it to 435cc and put the most extreme cam possible in it. You meet the nicest people...

A buddy had some t-shirts made up for a Vintage event.
MANY shops turned him down over incorporating the Honda wing logo.

[oldGSfan]

A buddy had some t-shirts made up for a Vintage event.
MANY shops turned him down over incorporating the Honda wing logo.

Errrmmm why? I can't think of a reason for that. If it is for some political reason, to avoid hurt feelings just respond: Figure it out for yourself.

[Syd]

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I love an old Honda! Here is one I resurected a few years ago and gave to my son.

I always had a hankering for a Honda 450 DOHC. The price for one here in Australia now are ridiculous

[oldGSfan]

I always had a hankering for a Honda 450 DOHC. The price for one here in Australia now are ridiculous

Me too. I keep my eyes open for one.

[Vmass]

I always had a hankering for a Honda 450 DOHC. The price for one here in Australia now are ridiculous

Yup, great looking bikes and these 70's Hondas are getting tougher to find, especially at a reasonable price. My first street bike at 15 years old was a1976 Honda 550 in the brown color scheme. I am always keeping my eye out for the right one.

[Grimly]

Errrmmm why? I can't think of a reason for that. If it is for some political reason, to avoid hurt feelings just respond: Figure it out for yourself.

I suspect Honda being protective over their logo. If it was for a one-off T, then maybe a shop would do it, but for a bunch of them, forget it.
Why invite trouble?

[Griffin]

I suspect Honda being protective over their logo. If it was for a one-off T, then maybe a shop would do it, but for a bunch of them, forget it.
Why invite trouble?

Diablo Cycle (formerly Reproduction Decals) in Canada has decals listed for sale on their website for many Suzuki, Yamaha, and Kawasaki models. No Honda. They say that Honda will go after them for copyright infringement.

They do have many sets available for Hondas if you call them and ask, however.

[Rob S.]

Yup, great looking bikes and these 70's Hondas are getting tougher to find, especially at a reasonable price.

The 1970's were a Honda heaven. You rarely saw a bike that wasn't a Harley or a Honda. And a LOT of those Hondas were CB750s. And a LOT of those were wearing Windjammers and Kerkers.

[oldGSfan]

The speedo cable gave up the ghost and I ordered a new one. Parts range all over the map, people think that billionaires are restoring old motorcycles, I guess. I got one for $30. The problem is that the routing goes up inside the fender in a narrow channel, which means the front wheel, lots of bolts, and fender have to come loose. I got the old one out and am waiting on the new one. Then it'll be done and a '73 TS250 'Savage' (ooh, you Savage!) is in the wings. In very nice shape, just the good old carb and electric system stuff to do.

[oldGSfan]

Job done, the owner is happy. Everything works as well as it can. I arc'ed or is it arched the front brake. We always called it arc-ing, i.e. having the curve of the new shoes match the drum. I used a cut belt sander, ummm, belt, 80 grit. Then I sprayed the backside of it and half of the inside of the hub with 3M spray contact adhesive and mated them up so the grit faced outward toward the shoe. So rub-a dub dub, away go the high spots. It brakes a lot better but will always be a SLS drum.


I haven't taken on the TS250 as a bike came along for me to fix, another Norton. I posted about it here

[tlg1100]

Had two Honda bikes

First one was mid 70's think 77 CB350

bought it in 83 off of a college guy for a hundred bucks, and he signed the title wrong and I made very little attempt to get a hold of him because he went back to Michigan and so I rode it around anyway.

It took so much abuse from friends and I , probably more than I think we could dish out on any other bike on the planet and it survive.

We bought so many used tires for the back because we'd do burn out after burn outs with it.

One night friend used it to go home, he lived five miles out of town and got pulled over by cops and they towed it off.

I could've paid the fifty dollar tow bill and got it back but I didn't.

If I'd got the clean title for it, I would've taken care of it and wouldn't have been afraid to take it across country,