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Offline Sam Green Racing

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Quiz Question
« on: May 21, 2012, 09:29:50 AM »
I asked in another thread where members were talking about bikes that were banned from competition in the USA.
Question, which model of Honda was the first to be banned from racing by the AMA ?

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Re: Quiz Question
« Reply #1 on: May 21, 2012, 09:32:02 AM »
I think it was the automatic.  Too fast for its own good.
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« Reply #2 on: May 21, 2012, 09:44:36 AM »
REALLY?  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D I thought that was the third one and it was only banned because it had........































































black rims ::)

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Re: Quiz Question
« Reply #3 on: May 21, 2012, 03:00:57 PM »
Come on you old US historians, if I heard about it in England, I'm sure some of you old timers must have a CLUE or is that what you want ?  42 views and no serious guesses ::)

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Re: Quiz Question
« Reply #4 on: May 21, 2012, 03:24:15 PM »
I think you need to go to Dirty Dicks and have a pint or two.
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Re: Quiz Question
« Reply #5 on: May 21, 2012, 04:00:34 PM »
I did and it was 5.  ::)
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« Reply #6 on: May 21, 2012, 04:14:56 PM »
good one.... thought i had a good memory but drawing a blank here... doesnt ring a bell at all. could it be the CB450 banned from dirt track back in 65' for being a DOHC?

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« Reply #7 on: May 21, 2012, 04:23:36 PM »
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Re: Quiz Question
« Reply #8 on: May 21, 2012, 05:17:07 PM »
If it was not the CB750 then it had to pre-date the AMA ban placed on multi-cylinder transverse motors showing up on the flat-track circuit in I think '76.
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Re: Quiz Question
« Reply #9 on: May 22, 2012, 06:35:05 AM »
Quote from: turboguzzi on May 21, 2012, 04:14:56 PM
good one.... thought i had a good memory but drawing a blank here... doesnt ring a bell at all. could it be the CB450 banned from dirt track back in 65' for being a DOHC?

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Re: Quiz Question
« Reply #10 on: May 22, 2012, 07:11:01 AM »
Like this Frank  ::) ::) ::)

 How about the super hawk in roadracing/ or that funny twin with the little flyscreen . CB 92 or something..?
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Re: Quiz Question
« Reply #11 on: May 22, 2012, 07:26:29 AM »
Very close indeed young Frankie, roll those big pop out eyes upwards. ::)

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« Reply #12 on: May 22, 2012, 07:32:40 AM »
Like this Yossef  ::) ::) ::)

yep, that leaves only the early slanted 125/250/305's in the game... just not the CR's as those were dohc four valvers
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Re: Quiz Question
« Reply #13 on: May 22, 2012, 01:37:56 PM »
got it :) but to be honest had no idea....

"Honda’s little twins dominated the 125cc and
175cc classes in local scrambles races for nearly
a year until Southern California’s AMA District 37
referee outlawed the CB95s (after a 1-2-3-4 State
Championship sweep) because the 150cc CB95s
were not for sale in the U.S."
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Re: Quiz Question
« Reply #14 on: May 22, 2012, 03:43:58 PM »
Yossef wins and Italian at that, shame on you Americans ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

http://motohistory.net/featuredstory/ekin_feature.html

These bikes were Japanese home market only apart from the 4 that went to AHM and a couple went to Honda Argentena.

The one in my workshop came from the Honda Argentina race department.
There were so few made, even Honda don't have a genuine one in their museum. ;D

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Re: Quiz Question
« Reply #15 on: May 23, 2012, 03:01:29 PM »
Gee, what a great story!

As an aside, can anyone help me with a "The Honda Winners Are Here" or the Dick Mann Daytona winner poster? Another Honda triumph - wait, wrong word - victory - no, not quite.....OK, win.

Good contest with an unlikely answer. I still think though that the Civil Service answer was a bit "trick" - you could've raced them at non-AMA races. But a good one nonetheless. Congratulations!

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Re: Quiz Question
« Reply #16 on: May 23, 2012, 03:33:24 PM »
Spirit, first part of question, contact Bill benton (bellcow54) he has all sorts stashed away in Z bat cave. ;D
Second part went over my head ::) got lost in translation :-\ Civil service, James Bond and all that stuff. Give me a bell to explane, 0161 775 (007) 1, don't forget the time difference, off to bed soon. ;)

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« Reply #17 on: May 23, 2012, 04:01:32 PM »
its funny how your appreciation of machinery can change in time.
never saw a CB95 but when i was a young lad, two friends with early honda twins asked for my help, one had a CA72, the other a CD175..... compared to my "big" british singles these seemed so toy like with their tiny engines and sheet metal frames that i sort off dismissed them as cheap junk. oh boy, now they look to me so much jewel like, and a real pitty that i never tried to find out where they ended up.  ditto for a a NSU 250 Max that could have been mine for 50$ or something... it looked so odd at the time
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Re: Quiz Question
« Reply #18 on: May 24, 2012, 03:49:57 AM »
What  or Who will be going 164MPH at the CUP RACE = IN 1320"
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Re: Quiz Question
« Reply #19 on: May 24, 2012, 03:58:22 AM »
NOT ME  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D I'm sure you lot are trying to scare me off....it's working :o :o :o

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Re: Quiz Question
« Reply #20 on: May 24, 2012, 08:12:25 AM »
Quote from: SamCR750A on May 22, 2012, 03:43:58 PM
Yossef wins and Italian at that, shame on you Americans ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

Sam. ;)

Sam, you mean you fell for the "Americans know everything trick?"  ;D Fooled you, didn't we. ;)
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