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I sure loved my Honda 1974 750-4. Had to tune all four carbs in synch but when you did that was one sweet machine. I heard 74 was the year they dropped the compression, but I didn't know any different, it was a great bike. Sold it to a guy that drove it all over the country.

Here is a parts bike for anyone in the KC area.

https://kansascity.craigslist.org/mcy/d/1974-honda-xl-100/6612568653.html

We used to call them the Nifty 50. Cool old bikes.

All 5 of my Grandkids have motorbikes and would ride them till the chicken's come home. Ages 5-11.






DMc

Weird.
Do you still spank at a fire?

Vinny

P.S. QA50?

My neighbor just got her 70's 175 road bike back on the road. All original down to the tires. 10k miles on odometer, 4 decades of storage and all it needed was a tune up, carbs freshened up.

I wouldn't mind having one of those 305 Scramblers with the high pipes for around town either. I had the 305 Super Hawk, but the Scrambler was geared a little lower. I smiled all the way through that Beach Boys video on page 2. Good memories.

Fires are very special to me. They put me in a celebratory mood.

NASCAR and biker rally hipsters will be all over the Monkey..

With a few disguised modern enhancements this would be pretty cool.

They make a CB1100 but it's just not the same. It's big and heavy, they only put a retro seat and rear shocks on it to appeal to oldsters guys who really know what motorcycles should look like.

I like that.

The first Superbike, in an era of two-stroke.ring- sings, Brit bikes and Shovelhead Harley’s.

It’d be considered dog-slow today though.

Did Honda ever stop making air-cooled itransverse 750 fours? They were calling ‘em Nighthawks in the 80’s and even with four valves per and DOCH they were STILL considered boring, and they would run rings around the gutless SOC predecessors.

My cousin had a CB 750, IIRC 1970. In conformity to fashion at the time he put extended forks and a sissy bar on it, didn’t alter the steering head at all, just put extended forks on it (6” over??) We thought it rocked.

I’d be all over a Honda CB350 ca. 1973 with was the first year they had a front disc brake, but wouldn’t turn up my nose at a prior year. Simple, reliable upright twin in a relatively lightweight bike with good acceleration due to a good power/weight ratio plus great handling and stopping characteristics.

If Eric Von Zipper hears about this his gang might make a comeback.

True THAT! Scary thought!



....but the bikini's won't be so bad!!!

Return of Kings: “Do not doubt the poon-harpooning power of the humble motorcycle”






DMc

I had a buddy that owned a CB 750 that had semi extended forks on it and it turned a lot of heads, didn't sound bad either. I'd love to won one.

I bought a new CB550 SS in 1975. It out ran every Triumph, Shovelhead, and Sportster in the area, at least in the first 1/8 mile.

As a kid everybody in my neighborhood had a minibike. Wasn't the Honda Trail 50 also called a 'Mini 50'?
We had to be different so i got a XR75 , as a 4th grader that thing near killed me on multiple occasions, but damn it was quick!
The neighborhood had plenty of Trail 50's, 70's, 90's and one or two 110's and my best friend graduated from one I've not seen mentioned here- Yamaha QA50 up to a Honda CL100
There were several of the QA 50's in the hood as well.

Didn't grow up riding. But as cool as the monkey and cub are I'd rather have a Kawasaki Z125 with a chimera extension.