Local vintage club breakfast this morning. I rode the ‘69 350 down to the cafe today. Nice turnout of new and old, even an MGA. Last pic is a photo op going back up the mountain on the way home.
Looks like a great morning! I need to find an older model Honda twin, and open a Vintage Cafe.
Tom - 1982 CM450E
(“Noob”, but learning fast!)
You absolutely should, but of course it would be 900 miles away from me...
Maybe... maybe not. The Mrs and I are quite fond of Florida. And, as I also belong to the 50+ club, there’s always retirement and new beginnings.
Tom - 1982 CM450E
(“Noob”, but learning fast!)
I've gotta say I like the DOHC 750 faked up as an early K. Had a K4 and have always wanted to replace it but prices for halfway decent ones have gone way out of my budget. DOHCs are still pretty easy to come by at a decent price...
Yep, think you're right. Pretty good job done on it.
Looks like it was a beautiful day for a ride with a fun place to stop.
I almost commented on the early CB750 myself until I looked closer... the giant clutch cover and huge dual discs give it away, but it's quite stealth from a glance and very cool.
The guy who owns the retro-kitted CB1100 also owns a nice ‘71 CB750 and a V65 Sabre.
I believe that's a recent CB1100 fuel injected modern bike (look at the wheels), $6k is a low price for one used in Boston, but YES cool K0 camo on that one.
they didn't take full advantage of the technology on the 1100 and I read somewhere it's only rated at something like 90 hp IIRC
https://albany.craigslist.org/mcy/d/ghent-2014-honda-cb1100/7308904092.html
I can resist, I can resist!
Less even. 82 horsepower for my 2013. I improved it a bit with the Tadao exhaust and PowerCommander, but it was still disappointing, at best. The press had all sorts of durability and modern emissions excuses, but I think Honda could have done much better.
https://albany.craigslist.org/mcy/d/ghent-2014-honda-cb1100/7308904092.html
I can resist, I can resist!
No doubt, very nice and certainly not something you see all the time. I wish more vintage Hondas would show up at my local hangout, but only people who want to talk about vintage Hondas instead...
Well, talking about them is half the fun. Looking at them is even more fun, and riding them completes the experience...lol
This little beauty showed up at breakfast this morning.
Beauty, indeed!
One, and there are few, disadvantage to living in a very small rural town is not having a weekend morning coffee hangout - though maybe I should widen my riding circle and find one. If we did have one in town, you’d be hard pressed to find anything but HD in attendance… not that there’s anything wrong with that.
(We do, however, have a great dive bar in operation since 1933.)
Tom - 1982 CM450E
Great group of people, good conversation. Most of them are still nice to me when I ride the old Sportster instead of my Honda 350, too...wink wink
I overhear anti-Harley talk in the vintage club from time to time. I can understand some of it because of the ‘Jap crap’ attitude of a lot of biker wannabes, but to me, vintage is vintage, no matter what the brand.
vintage is vintage, no matter what the brand.
Another fine morning at the Blue Plate. Different version of my CL350 today.
It’s pretty crazy that it’s just a switch of the tank, seat/rear fender, and side covers.You could wear a mask and no one would know it was you, the bike looks so much different.
It’s pretty crazy that it’s just a switch of the tank, seat/rear fender, and side covers.
Less even. 82 horsepower for my 2013. I improved it a bit with the Tadao exhaust and PowerCommander, but it was still disappointing, at best. The press had all sorts of durability and modern emissions excuses, but I think Honda could have done much better.
I stopped by a neighbor’s house on the way home from the Blue Plate this morning to see a couple of his recent acquisitions, take a fresh look at some of his other bikes and visit a while. There’s a lot of money tied up in these bikes. A 1920s Henderson four, a 1917 Indian military model with sidecar, a 1947 Harley knucklehead, a 1913 Excelsior, and a 1916 Harley, which has competed in the Cannonball Run a couple times.
He started up the Henderson and asked me if I wanted to ride it. I sat on it, but declined the ride. No front brake, rear brake pedal on the right, foot clutch and hand shift on the left…sounds like a risky setup on a very expensive motorcycle that I’d have to pay for if I had a mishap…lol