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Offline Glenn Stauffer

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Honda Collection Museum
« on: October 30, 2007, 12:04:47 PM »
Ichiban 4 was kind enough to send me photos that he took at the Honda Collection Museum in Japan.  I've finished scanning them and have the photos online for your enjoyment.

http://sohc4.net/index.php?title=Honda_museum

Enjoy!
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Offline ekim98

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Re: Honda Collection Museum
« Reply #1 on: October 30, 2007, 12:12:44 PM »
Thanks, nice pictures. I even saw a couple of bikes I wouldn't mind having - like all of them. ::)
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Re: Honda Collection Museum
« Reply #2 on: October 30, 2007, 12:13:43 PM »
I have an article scanned from Classic Motorcycle Mechanics about the Honda museum. How can I send it to you Glenn? I also have many other scanned articles (in PDF with text recognition so it is possible to make text searchs), but some of them are so big in size for regular email. Do you have some ftp where I can upload them to you?
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« Reply #3 on: October 30, 2007, 08:37:55 PM »
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Re: Honda Collection Museum
« Reply #4 on: October 30, 2007, 08:58:56 PM »
Great job Al. Thanks for posting Glenn.
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Re: Honda Collection Museum
« Reply #5 on: October 30, 2007, 09:43:10 PM »
just had to send the link to dad... ahhhahhhhonda
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Re: Honda Collection Museum
« Reply #6 on: October 31, 2007, 01:17:46 AM »
http://sohc4.net/index.php?title=Image:Hcm23.jpg

WOW.... a 748cc four cyl, with 8valves per cylinder???
Oval pistons?  http://sohc4.net/index.php?title=Image:Hcm20.jpg

Some nice racers too

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Re: Honda Collection Museum
« Reply #7 on: October 31, 2007, 01:36:31 AM »
Quote from: Soos on October 31, 2007, 01:17:46 AM
http://sohc4.net/index.php?title=Image:Hcm23.jpg

WOW.... a 748cc four cyl, with 8valves per cylinder???
Oval pistons?  http://sohc4.net/index.php?title=Image:Hcm20.jpg

Some nice racers too

l8r

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The rules stated as well as the 500cc 2 stroke machines then prevalent, competitors could use a 750cc 4 cylinder 4 stroke engined bike.

Honda read this, and set about building what turned out to be an awesomely powerful 750cc V8 with 4 valves per cylinder ;D

It was only when they got to the stage where that need to homologate the engine for racing that some one checked the rules, and noticed the bit that read 4 Cylinders ::)

So after a hasty redesign, with some extreme out of the box thinking, they ended up with the world's first (and to date only) dual con-rod, oval pistoned racing engine.

I once saw an NR750 being used in anger at an Oulton Park track day.  It sound pretty close to awesome in twin plug, 4 cylinder guise 8) One can only imagine what they sounded like in their original format :o
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Offline Glenn Stauffer

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Re: Honda Collection Museum
« Reply #8 on: October 31, 2007, 02:43:17 AM »
Quote from: Raul CB750K1 on October 30, 2007, 12:13:43 PM
I have an article scanned from Classic Motorcycle Mechanics about the Honda museum. How can I send it to you Glenn? I also have many other scanned articles (in PDF with text recognition so it is possible to make text searchs), but some of them are so big in size for regular email. Do you have some ftp where I can upload them to you?

I just set up an ftp facility.  I'll have to add this information to the FAQ and the website, but, for now, in the ftp client of your choice...

ftp://ftp.sohc4.net
login: soichiro@sohc4.net
password: honda

Presently, a maximum of 50mb can be uploaded.
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Offline Glenn Stauffer

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Re: Honda Collection Museum
« Reply #9 on: October 31, 2007, 02:45:15 AM »
Quote from: Glenn Stauffer on October 30, 2007, 12:04:47 PM
Ichiban 4 was kind enough to send me photos that he took at the Honda Collection Museum in Japan.  I've finished scanning them and have the photos online for your enjoyment.

http://sohc4.net/index.php?title=Honda_museum

Enjoy!

I just looked at this page using the Firefox browser on my wife's Mac and noticed that the text all runs to the top instead of appearing beside each photo.  If anyone else sees the page this way, it isn't what is intended and I'll work on fixing it.
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Re: Honda Collection Museum
« Reply #10 on: October 31, 2007, 09:57:34 AM »
Glenn, I'm off for four days. When I'm back I will search on my archives and send you all the scanned articles that deals with Honda bikes.


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Re: Honda Collection Museum
« Reply #11 on: November 04, 2007, 01:50:52 PM »
Glenn, I have just exhausted the 50 Mb and still have about 200 MB more for you. Check out what I have uploaded -they are just the smallest articles-. If you find them interesting and want the rest let me know when the quota is increased.


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