Damnit Mike, now you got me wanting an old Honda 750. Those were cool old motorcycles in their day!
No you don’t!
Single overhead cam, two (??) valves per cylinder, drum brakes.
By today’s standards they’re dog slow and dull as a post. After that they continued on for several years as the 750 Nighthawk series; DOHC, three (??) valves per cylinder, disk brake up front.
Nothing wrong with the Nighthawk series, maybe they were just too sensible is all.
Mostly the significance of that CB750 four of course is that it was a technological milestone. It also showed up the flaws in those motorcycles that had come before it.
They wanted to stand up pretty hard if you braked in a turn, too. The memory is better than the reality.
