Brown Derby!

Last time we overhauled the carburettors and made sure that we had a reasonable supply of clean fuel, so now we have moved on to the engine’s mechanical condition.

I know that the engine does work but to give it a fair test I am going to give it a service to make sure that all the adjustments are correctly set.

I shall start with the valve clearances and this is one area which is rather different from other contemporary Hondas. When the CB450 was introduced in 1964 it had a couple of things which were quite unusual, and