Topic: Eddie Grant / Electric Avenue [name that motorcycle]

[UnCrash]

Honda & Suzuki??  I see Comstars and a set of wheels I don't recognize.

[Ecosse]

geez, i remember this song. junior in high school?

glimpses of bike: .31 side, .55 front,1.26 a tach with inset fuel gauge, 1.33 comstar shot, 2.21 front wheel isn't comstar but a cast looking cross lace and slotted disk, 2.38 and 2.46 more shots. man i suck at this.

came out in '82 so maybe that helps.

[HavocTurbo]

Scroll to 2:21 and look at the head/valve covers.... that's def a GS motor. As for the wheels I am hard pressed to find a wire wheel that looks like that except from Yamaha. But in the grainyness it could be a cast wheel.


This is a 550 I know but it's close to the wheel... A GS750 engine is exactly in frame 2:21.


As for the blue bike...

More than likely a Honda. I'm thinking a DOHC 750 with SOHC 650 wheels.

Look at the portions of them side by side going down the street. The blue bike has TWO horn medallions. But every pic of the 650 I can find only has ONE.

650 with one horn.


650 wheel.


750 with two horns.



Just for clarification these are all pics of bikes of the 1981-82 model year.

But who knows.... they could be harley davidsons. We may never know.

[seaweb11]

If it was filmed in Jamaica, it would have to be no more than a 550.  That's the max cc allowed in the country

[Ecosse]

But who knows.... they could be harley davidsons. We may never know.

nooo... we can't give up! this is important!!  seriously, good detective work; i think it's the cast wheel you posted. also, i noticed a horizontal bar underneath the headlight of one bike like the suzuki you show. noticed the dual horns too. but who had the tach with fuel gauge?

seaweb, that's pretty cool info. i'm odd in that i thrive on trivia. the irony being i have a crappy memory. 

[ChrisR]

Nothing to do with the bikes but as I a note of trivia I think the 'Electric Avenue' of the title is the actually street  'Electric Avenue' in Brixton, South London. This was a cool, buzzing, poor largely immigrant area of London in the '80s when I used to live there as a student.  I remember watching the 1981 riots through my front window. How the cars and shops burned - happy days!
Cheers Chris

[MickeyX]

I think the red one is a Suzuki GS550, maybe 78-82 or so.

The blue one looks like a Honda CB750F2.

maybe  

[mcpuffett]

Hi the Honda in the video  could be 650 750 or 900 dohc model and the suzuki is from the GS range i'll do some more digging and see what i come up with  cheers Mick.

[sangyo soichiro]

If it was filmed in Jamaica, it would have to be no more than a 550.  That's the max cc allowed in the country

Not sure where it was filmed, but Eddie Grant is from Barbados.  I saw his house when I was there many moons ago.