Where do old race bikes go? It’s a legitimate question. The cynical observer might suggest ‘down the road and into the crash barrier.’
Arguably it’s kind of what they do to be honest. Even the very best riders can lose a front or rear end, get caught off-line on the marbles or get punted off buy another rider. This is the nature of track machines and you might argue very much their intended purpose. One might, quite rightly assume, there must come a point when any given race bike is either hopelessly outclassed due to its advancing years or is rendered BER (Beyond Economic Repair). Presumably such examples variously get pushed to the back of a shed, broken down for spares or even weighed in for scrap. There aren’t very many other possibilities – unless the bike in question is miraculously saved from oblivion and repurposed as a road machine. And that is where this month’s Classic Ride comes into play.
Dave Carr’s Honda CB750F is almost certainly an American market race track escapee complete with testimony of hard use and the obligatory lock-wiring evidence. The bike’s history is sketchy at best and, very likely, is a collection of parts from more than one machine. There’s a suggestion
