From: Ryan Gill (rmgill@mindspring.com)
Date: Tue Feb 12 2002 - 20:28:47 PST
At 9:09 PM -0600 2/12/02, Stephen L Dussetschleger wrote:
>I prefer dusting the Hawgs with a '72 Honda CB 750 (70s orange metal
>flake with hard bags).
Fast in a straight line isn't the deal. Going through the curves is.
>*** OH boy. Drag races between old honda's & harleys. Whoopee. Course
>neither of them could handle a corner very well at the end of the
>straights. (straight lines, the wasted space between corners)
>
>Though I will bow to the odd Harley rider that actually rides more than
>he trailers the bike. Especially those that
>don't consider Evo's real bikes since they lack a kicker. (note the
>72 Honda has electric start and a kicker)
>
>*****Again, gee how cute. My real bike has ONLY a kcik starter (1980
>Triumph Bonneville 750)
First Disc brake, first electric start, '69 Honda. Back with Triumph
was having trouble figuring out casting methods and gaskets, HD was
dithering with vibration issues and Norton was well, failing slowly.
>Mil-Veh content. Harley & Indian made war bikes, as did Norton,
>Matchless, Triumph, etc. Did the Japanese make any for WWII ?
Honda is nice in that they were not one of the great Zaibatsu.
Sochiro was a maverick in his corporate direction and methods. His
post war development all started with converting bicycles to
motorized form for house wives in the post war reconstruction period
of the 50s. He used surplus military motors as I recall as the basis
for the moped conversions. Eventually he branched into making his own
engines and bikes then later automobiles (against the wishes of MITI).
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