Topic: What Was The First Honda That Got YOUR Attention?

[KayOne]

1970, young pup hauling drywall up a skip hoist on a downtown high rise. It was 5:30am as we had to have materials loaded each day before 8:00am. I heard a sound of a hot car or something approaching from a distance, there was no other traffic at this time of day. A gold CB750 pulled up to the red light and booted HARD off the green....sounded sooooo sweet. That memory has stayed with me a lifetime and has caused major expenditure on my 750 

[bjatwood]

Nice groupings of little bikes operator and bjatwood

Thanks MoMo!

[CycleRanger]

My cousin had a gold CB350, that was probably the first motorcycle I recognized by brand.
And two family friends had a CL360 and CJ360T.

I also distinctly remember the first time I ever saw a CBX parked next to the sidewalk.

[ekpent]

I came from a Suzuki family. Dad had a T500 and a GT750 and I always had a good Suzy dirt bike as a kid to tear up the "hood". My first real road bike was a 73 GT750 in 1977 right out of High school. Was working and had my own place for the heavy price of $100.00 per month. Ran that till it almost killed me and found my first Honda 750, a 76 around 1979 to see what this 4-stroke stuff was all about   

[SF]

My moms green 72 cb350g she would take me to day care on it, always remember the over sized red metal flake helmet falling over my eyes. Restoring that bike now btw.

[MoMo]

My moms green 72 cb350g she would take me to day care on it, always remember the over sized red metal flake helmet falling over my eyes. Restoring that bike now btw.

    story...Larrry

[Operator]

I wish they were mine...only thing I have is photos of my friends CT's

Although we do have a pretty good collection at this point.

My bikes are a 73 750 K3 and a 76 400f
My wife has a 75 400F and an 82 C70 Passport

Not complaining in the least

[dave500]

we called the ct70 here a "dax"they are an indestructible thing designed for kids not to break?you cant wear them out unless they have no oil,theyll take military abuse without bother,we often had one along on camping weekends as a camp bike,we had proper dirt bikes like IT yammies YZs and RMs etc,the little dax always caused the most injuries?i still have stitch scars in my right palm from the unplugged bar end going into it and cutting a wad out,sober!we managed to get five guys on it once and into second gear before #$%* happened.

[azuredesign]

I was probably in 6th or 8th grade when I went over to visit my friend Charlie, and found his older brother Bill had come to visit on a new cb450. Would have been 1966,7 or 8. Bill was wearing Devil's Disciples colors, and the club was camped out on the Boston common. At the time I thought the bike was kind of ugly compared to the Velocette posters I had started putting on my bedroom walls.

[vfourfreak]

My brother's CB77, I loved that bike and wanted one just like it. Five years later I rebuilt a CB72 from parts while recuperating from a mega off.

A year or two later, Honda came back into racing (endurance) with the RCB, crikey I would have sold my soul to the devil for one of those, and I would have had the better bargain.

RC166 was not half shabby also.

Kev

[72 yellow]

I was probably in 6th or 8th grade when I went over to visit my friend Charlie, and found his older brother Bill had come to visit on a new cb450. Would have been 1966,7 or 8. Bill was wearing Devil's Disciples colors, and the club was camped out on the Boston common. At the time I thought the bike was kind of ugly compared to the Velocette posters I had started putting on my bedroom walls.

An outlaw club riding something other than H-D or britbikes ??

[Jerry E.]

A Honda Mini-Trail. Seemed fast at the time. Wasn't very old, maybe 14 or so. Also my first bike I crashed. Small tires and potholes do not mix- over the handlebars I went. I lived, so I learned.

[750cafe]

My moms green 72 cb350g she would take me to day care on it, always remember the over sized red metal flake helmet falling over my eyes. Restoring that bike now btw.

Thanks for sharing that story and looking forward to the restoration thread.

Eric

[SF]

My moms green 72 cb350g she would take me to day care on it, always remember the over sized red metal flake helmet falling over my eyes. Restoring that bike now btw.

Thanks for sharing that story and looking forward to the restoration thread.

Eric

I could post some pics of where she sits right now. unfortunately all the pics during tare down and rebuild are lost thanks to a computer crash.

[Grnrngr]

When I was 7 or 8 (62 or 63) my dad came home on a new Dream 305. I fell in love with those duck tail fenders. We lived on Okinawa at the time, he worked a Nike Radar site there. He had it about a year and one day I came home and mom was helping him pick gravel out of his backside. Apparently, he laid it down to avoid someone who ran out into the road in front of him. My mom is a nurse, and I think she persuaded him to quit riding, he never got another bike, but they never tried to convince me not to ride motorcycles, and he did take a couple laps around the block on my GT380 when I first got it.

[rtbmrgl]

For me a 1964 Honda 50 step through, eyes got big as saucers when my uncle bought one for my cousins. Living in the Los Angeles in mid 60's, we would find an empty field and ride the crap out of it. It was amazing, the fields would be full of bikes right in the middle of the city.