I am link challenged
I found this tho,
http://www.tmck72.org/cb750.html
I fixed the link..
Great collection, 754!
I remember it well. I think I was just reciting the story to Moto-Bunny: I worked in a Honda shop (Spring Honda, Elmhurst, IL), and could not get a CB750 to save my soul. I even paid a "holding fee", while being an employee, and got bumped in the delivery order by customers who paid more. When I reached $250 "down" (3rd raise-to-reserve attempt), and the manager still sold the next incoming 750 to someone else, I got pissed and went to a competitive shop (Mannheim Honda) and "got in line" there. That only took a week, as someone else bailed out on his order, and I got my K1. When I rode it back to my employer's shop the next day, the service manager started a general attack on me, via the other mechanics, for being "unfaithful" to the shop. The next day, after working late, I came out to find the shift lever missing from my bike. I walked back into the shop and demanded a new one from the owner, who took one from stock for me. I also demanded my last paycheck, right there. He didn't want me to quit, but I told him what was going on, and I was through with it. A few days later he called to ask me to come back, that he had fired the service manager and put several other mechanics "on notice", but I told him sorry, I was going to head up the Honda shop in Pekin, IL the following week, which I did.
After I had been there several months, and had gotten into the racing thing in midstate IL, I got to be friends with the Honda rep (midstate) and tried to get Honda to do something under warranty about the miswelded frame on my K1: the rear wheel was nearly 3/4" off to one side (left, I think it was) because the right frame loop was out of position at the lower attachments. Honda could not even come close to matching the huge demand for the bikes then (prices had rocketed from $1295 for the K0 in 1969 to $1695 by now, August 1970, I paid $1750 for the K2), and they were completely uninterested in replacing my obviously defective frame. I needed a better ride for the track work, so they arranged for me to get one of the very first shipment of K2 bikes, which I immediately bought. It was fun: a brand new (brown metalflake) color, quieter, better handling, smoother,...everywhere I went, it was like it was all starting over again, with people crowding around to see the latest 750. It was well before the K2 appeared in dealer's shops, so for a while it was real notoriety! Such were the heady days of this bike.
As far as I'm concerned, it never really ended.
