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    77 Honda CB750 SOHC, basket case…$400

    Would you buy a disassembled bike $400? No Title? X-tra parts included?

    I dunno, looks like a bargain, for a vintage race bike project.
    At Friday's track night, I talked to a guy about his AHRMA vintage race bike, 77 Honda CB750 SOHC.
    Really well done racer.
    Now I learn a few interesting things about these bikes:
    They only weigh 408 lb topped off!!!
    They still make race cams for them!!!



    1982 GS1100G- road bike
    1990 GSX750F-(1127cc '92 GSXR engine)
    1987 Honda CBR600F Hurricane
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    Oops…looks like I'm gonna buy this bike.
    1982 GS1100G- road bike
    1990 GSX750F-(1127cc '92 GSXR engine)
    1987 Honda CBR600F Hurricane

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      #3
      Yeah, I've noticed that trend: If I photograph a motorcycle more than about seven times, it often winds up in my garage. Not always, but it's a good predictor...

      Looks like fun!
      and God said, "Let there be air compressors!"
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        #4
        No way a 1977 CB750 weighed 408 lbs with a full tank. 508 lbs maybe...
        Ed

        To measure is to know.

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          #5
          Originally posted by Nessism View Post
          No way a 1977 CB750 weighed 408 lbs with a full tank. 508 lbs maybe...
          Got to agree with Ness - at least a stock CB. My '73 KAW 900 had a claimed weight of less than 510, but I'm sure that was dry. (The owner's manual claimed 12.0 quarter mile - only off by less than a second.)
          1982 GS1100E V&H "SS" exhaust, APE pods, 1150 oil cooler, 140 speedo, 99.3 rear wheel HP, black engine, '83 red

          2016 XL883L sigpic Two-tone blue and white. Almost 42 hp! Status: destroyed, now owned by the insurance company. The hole in my memory starts an hour before the accident and ends 24 hours after.

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            #6
            Gotta agree about the weight, must be a typo.
            Yes, the spec sheet of the 76 CB750 reads: 479 lb wet.
            Still that's a lot less than the 76-78 Suzuki GS750 492 lb dry.
            1982 GS1100G- road bike
            1990 GSX750F-(1127cc '92 GSXR engine)
            1987 Honda CBR600F Hurricane

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              #7
              What they looked like

              Was there ever a heavier looking exhaust, 4 mufflers???
              They did model the CB750 on the Bat Out of Hell album cover; 4 mufflers and the distinct Honda SOHC engine.
              1982 GS1100G- road bike
              1990 GSX750F-(1127cc '92 GSXR engine)
              1987 Honda CBR600F Hurricane

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                #8
                Decided not to buy another bike, this week.
                Will keep looking for another Honda SOHC CB650 or CB750, maybe later at the end of summer, when people get desperate to move unwanted bikes.
                1982 GS1100G- road bike
                1990 GSX750F-(1127cc '92 GSXR engine)
                1987 Honda CBR600F Hurricane

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by Buffalo Bill View Post
                  They did model the CB750 on the Bat Out of Hell album cover
                  I think you got that backwards.

                  If the album cover was modeled after the the most powerful UJM of the day, it was either a Kawasaki or a Suzuki. And remember, when the record came out in 1977, it had been a full decade since the Honda held that title.

                  I always had the impression that it was just the artist's take on the badass super bikes of the day. In any case, it was a great piece of vinyl with great cover art.
                  1982 GS1100E V&H "SS" exhaust, APE pods, 1150 oil cooler, 140 speedo, 99.3 rear wheel HP, black engine, '83 red

                  2016 XL883L sigpic Two-tone blue and white. Almost 42 hp! Status: destroyed, now owned by the insurance company. The hole in my memory starts an hour before the accident and ends 24 hours after.

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                    #10
                    Artist's interpretation, but that head cover only resembles the Honda SOHC. Looks nothing like the DOHC heads of Suzuki or Yamaha.
                    1982 GS1100G- road bike
                    1990 GSX750F-(1127cc '92 GSXR engine)
                    1987 Honda CBR600F Hurricane

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                      #11
                      I looked at AHRMA race results for ideas about the reality of vintage racing. There are some classes that are popular and others not so much.
                      I dunno why that is, but I'd rather have a bike in a popular class just so I'd have people to compete with.
                      Looking more like I should go with a CB750 SOHC.
                      1982 GS1100G- road bike
                      1990 GSX750F-(1127cc '92 GSXR engine)
                      1987 Honda CBR600F Hurricane

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                        #12
                        First time I've noticed the BOOH rider seems to be an amputee.
                        ---- Dave

                        Only a dog knows why a motorcyclist sticks his head out of a car window

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                          #13
                          'Def a Honda head .... although that petcock.....
                          -Mal

                          "The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once." - B. Banzai
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                          78 GS750E

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                            #14
                            Originally posted by Grimly View Post
                            First time I've noticed the BOOH rider seems to be an amputee.
                            I see arms & legs - he's bent back at the waist.
                            1982 GS1100E V&H "SS" exhaust, APE pods, 1150 oil cooler, 140 speedo, 99.3 rear wheel HP, black engine, '83 red

                            2016 XL883L sigpic Two-tone blue and white. Almost 42 hp! Status: destroyed, now owned by the insurance company. The hole in my memory starts an hour before the accident and ends 24 hours after.

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                              #15
                              Originally posted by Rob S. View Post
                              I see arms & legs - he's bent back at the waist.
                              On closer look, I see the foot I thought was missing.
                              ---- Dave

                              Only a dog knows why a motorcyclist sticks his head out of a car window

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