[Jeff in Kentucky]

This bike was a gamechanger- I remember seeing the ads for it in the motorcycle magazines when I was 10 years old. If I won the big lottery, I would probably buy one to ride a few miles a year, along with a 1959 Harley Panhead and a 1940s Indian four cylinder:

http://www.motorcyclistonline.com/features/122_0401_1969_honda_cb750/index.html

[Del]

These bikes are all older than me, but i can appreciate the style and aestheticism, and im right there with you. Love at first sight, and you know, they just do not make bikes like this anymore. And hell, it was the cb750 that revolutionized the superbike.

Im at the end of my shift so ill post tomorrow, but is he planning to build a cb750 from scratch? @_@

[TrialsRider]

I rode a couple cb750’s back when, …wouldn’t be surprised if the one friend still has his. One was a stock bike but with a windjammer frame mounted fairing that made it very heavy feeling in the front end. Like driving a fast train, it took a while to wind up and to slow down. The second one I rode was punched out to 810cc’s and had koni shocks. Insanely fast for the suspension and brakes of the time, riding two up, it sat so low and wide that when you leaned into a corner the passenger footpegs would pop up and the exhaust would grind on the pavement.

Some would argue that the Kawasaki 750 2-stroke triple was the first real superbike, similarly ill handling it was far more single purpose, go fast & uncontrollable wheelies.

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