We got some sunshine in Manchester today so I managed to persuade the wife to help get the CR750 out for some pictures. I have three jobs left to do now - cut back the screen to a sensible length, put two oil breather tubes in and start her up to time the ignition. However, I thought I'd get the pictures while it was sunny and post them as soon as possible.
A lot of the engine build has been posted on the ultimate engine thread and so here's where it finally led to, six years after starting the project, it's as good as complete.
In that time I've had help from a huge list of people, suppliers and general great folks on this forum, some like Axl are no longer with us but nevertheless, I want to thank you all, particularly people like Mark McGrew, Pete Rhodes, the Wife of course and our dear own Sam Green! Little does Sam know but when I was wavering on the idea of building a CR750, it was Chris Cullen's bike that was the first CR I saw in the flesh and from that moment on, it had to be done.
Rather than the 'usual' Daytona replicas or the traditional RC silver and red colours, I've gone for a copy of the 1969 Suzuka 8-hour winning colour scheme. The bike, ridden by Honda development riders Hishiki and Sumiya, won the race. This is the earliest 750 race victory I can find record of and so this is my tribute to that bike (The original is now housed in the warehouse at the Honda Motegi museum).
But, you have to start somewhere, so I sourced a donor bike through my good friend Pete Rhodes. As most of it was going to be junked, the year wasn't so important, enter the humble CB750 K3 formerly owned by Donald E. McGlothlin of Sunbury Ohio....
