Classic Motorcycle Mechanics

Down Under DOHC!

I was actually looking around for an early Yamaha FZ750 to restore, when a friend told me about a Honda CB750 he had picked up.

I went to look at it and although it hadn’t run for a long time, it looked half decent, with plenty of dust and patina, but it is a 1980 CB750 DOHC and I remember very well the reputation for camshaft chain issues that these bikes got when they came out. On the positive, there wasn’t much wrong with it – apart from the colour

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