Classic Motorcycle Mechanics

Honda CB750F/CB900F

If your memory goes back to the Sunday evening satire show Spitting Image, then you may just recall the foam latex Sir John Gielgud nodding off and being poked with a stick when he fell asleep. Pretty much the same happened when Honda finally wrenched itself from the arms of Morpheus in the late 1970s.

The apparently slumbering industrial giant had, in the eyes of its two-wheeled fans, variously gone catatonic, lost

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