77 Honda CB750 SOHC, basket case?$400

[Buffalo Bill]

Would you buy a disassembled bike $400? No Title? X-tra parts included?

I dunno, looks like a bargain, for a vintage race bike project.
At Friday's track night, I talked to a guy about his AHRMA vintage race bike, 77 Honda CB750 SOHC.
Really well done racer.
Now I learn a few interesting things about these bikes:
They only weigh 408 lb topped off!!!
They still make race cams for them!!!

 

[Buffalo Bill]

Oops…looks like I'm gonna buy this bike.

 

[robertbarr]

Yeah, I've noticed that trend: If I photograph a motorcycle more than about seven times, it often winds up in my garage. Not always, but it's a good predictor...

Looks like fun!

 

[Nessism]

No way a 1977 CB750 weighed 408 lbs with a full tank. 508 lbs maybe...

 

[Rob S.]

No way a 1977 CB750 weighed 408 lbs with a full tank. 508 lbs maybe...

Got to agree with Ness - at least a stock CB. My '73 KAW 900 had a claimed weight of less than 510, but I'm sure that was dry. (The owner's manual claimed 12.0 quarter mile - only off by less than a second.)

 

[Buffalo Bill]

Gotta agree about the weight, must be a typo.
Yes, the spec sheet of the 76 CB750 reads: 479 lb wet.
Still that's a lot less than the 76-78 Suzuki GS750 492 lb dry.

 

[Buffalo Bill]

What they looked like

What they looked like

Was there ever a heavier looking exhaust, 4 mufflers???
They did model the CB750 on the Bat Out of Hell album cover; 4 mufflers and the distinct Honda SOHC engine.

 

[Buffalo Bill]

Decided not to buy another bike, this week.
Will keep looking for another Honda SOHC CB650 or CB750, maybe later at the end of summer, when people get desperate to move unwanted bikes.

 

[Rob S.]

They did model the CB750 on the Bat Out of Hell album cover

I think you got that backwards.

If the album cover was modeled after the the most powerful UJM of the day, it was either a Kawasaki or a Suzuki. And remember, when the record came out in 1977, it had been a full decade since the Honda held that title.

I always had the impression that it was just the artist's take on the badass super bikes of the day. In any case, it was a great piece of vinyl with great cover art.

 

[Buffalo Bill]

Artist's interpretation, but that head cover only resembles the Honda SOHC. Looks nothing like the DOHC heads of Suzuki or Yamaha.

 

[Buffalo Bill]

I looked at AHRMA race results for ideas about the reality of vintage racing. There are some classes that are popular and others not so much.
I dunno why that is, but I'd rather have a bike in a popular class just so I'd have people to compete with.
Looking more like I should go with a CB750 SOHC.

 

[Grimly]

First time I've noticed the BOOH rider seems to be an amputee.

 

[allojohn]

'Def a Honda head .... although that petcock.....

 

[Rob S.]

First time I've noticed the BOOH rider seems to be an amputee.

I see arms & legs - he's bent back at the waist.

 

[Grimly]

I see arms & legs - he's bent back at the waist.

On closer look, I see the foot I thought was missing.

 

[LAB3]

On closer look, I see the foot I thought was missing.

A lot of people also think it's a male figure riding on it but it's actually a female, her name is Ilene.

 

[Buffalo Bill]

A lot of people also think it's a male figure riding on it but it's actually a female, her name is Ilene.

You can have her, I don't want her, she's too man for me…