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Old Hondas are cool too, in fact they are Dreamy

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

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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 said:
I always had a hankering for a Honda 450 DOHC. The price for one here in Australia now are ridiculous
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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.
 
oldGSfan said:
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.
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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?
 
Grimly said:
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?
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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.
 
Vmass said:
Yup, great looking bikes and these 70's Hondas are getting tougher to find, especially at a reasonable price.
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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.
 
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.
 
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
 
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,
 
1973 saw the last CB350. From '74 to '76 it was the CB360. Don't know what came after that. I had a '71 350, and it was virtually indestructible.
 
tlg1100 said:
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,
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That's an old-school story if I ever heard one!

When I moved to CA with my dad in '77, my Jr year of HS, I somehow ended up with my older brother's '71 SL350 in the moving truck. I should have been thrilled, but it was a complicated time in my life, family breaking up like a big explosion left me a bit rootless. Anyway, I cross-threaded the spark plug and was heartbroken. I didn't know how to fix something as complicated as a motorcycle cylinder head, although I ended up doing a cam chain tensioner on my Toyota shortly afterward. Somehow, life was too bewildering for a Boston kid who knew everyone in town, to a 'new kid in town' in CA, to bother chasing down the problem. Didn't help that I was pitifully penniless and my dad wouldn't help, as he hated motorcycles. I can't even remember what happened to it. It's all such a weird blur in the mists of time.

To this day I still feel like I should have figured out that it could have been heli-coiled, and also that I owe my brother a motorcycle. But he's cool with it, what a guy.
 
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