Between 1959 and 1966, Honda build some incredible four-stroke racing motorcycles. Soichiro Honda realises early on that going racing and winning is the best way of promoting its machines around the world, setting up RSC (Racing Service Centre) in the early 1970s. There are nine-speed 50cc twins, four and five-cylinder 125cc racers, 250cc fours and sixes, and 500cc fours. But when the rules are changed, limiting the number of gears and cylinders a bike can have, Honda pull out of racing until 1979.
In August 1979, Grand Prix motorcycle racing is at the peak of its popularity in
