Topic: Great Bikes of the Seventies

[Stev-o]

Ran across this website over on the Triples forum, thought it was pretty good and wanted to share.

Of course the CB750 is on there as well as the CB500 [I would have voted for the CB550 instead]

I was happy to see a couple of my other bikes on there, Kaw H1, H2 and the Yammie RD350 [all three are two strokes] and also the big beast Kaw Z1!

There are a couple more I'd like to have...


http://greatbikesoftheseventies.com/bikes/honda-cb750f/honda-cb750f.html

[ewanhughes]

That's a cracking site Stev-o

Don't know if this has been posted before but it's quite a good watch.

[mrbreeze]

That's a cool site Steve. It has the different years of the bikes listed so you can see some of the changes that were made.

[ekpent]

 I enjoy reading the period road tests which this link has plenty of. Those old vintage road tests were much more comprehensive than what they do nowadays in the moto rags.

[MoMo]

Looks like they left off the bowling ball special. How could they?

[ekpent]

Looks like they left off the bowling ball special. How could they?

Lost me on that Larry.  What was the bowling ball special ?

[Stev-o]

Looks like they left off the bowling ball special. How could they?

Lost me on that Larry.  What was the bowling ball special ?

The AMF Harley bikes, Eric. 

The most impressive CB450 is not on there either, how could they miss that?

[ekpent]

Ahh - yes Steve the infamous AMF period how could I forget, not enough coffee yet the morning.  Black Bomber should be there maybe though. Guy sold one recently for 6 grand at the Gilmore bike show this summer and said he could have sold at least 3 more. Pretty impressive 

[MoMo]

Ahh - yes Steve the infamous AMF period how could I forget, not enough coffee yet the morning.  Black Bomber should be there maybe though. Guy sold one recently for 6 grand at the Gilmore bike show this summer and said he could have sold at least 3 more. Pretty impressive 

It actually was an impressive bike, especially the torsion bar valves and double overhead cams-Honda was always at the forefront of technology

[eigenvector]

Looks like they left off the bowling ball special. How could they?

It took me a second to understand the reference, AMF of course, but now that I've seen a few - I kind of like the AMF scramblers that they produced.  They are just so off-the-wall for Harley.

[ekpent]

   When I was a wee young lad I kind of lusted after a Baja 100 I had seen at the dealership, ended up being an exclusive Suzuki guy for many years though till 1981 and my first four stroke, a Honda 750 1976 K model..