Honda CB750F1: Single-cam sayonara
From our Old Bike Archives – Issue 70 – first published in 2017. Story: Jim Scaysbrook • Photos: John Ford, Ross Hannan and Jim Scaysbrook. It is a testimony to the brilliance of the original […]
Honda CB750
Honda CB500: Petite four
Story and photos: Jim Scaysbrook Straddle a Honda CB750 today and it seems like a nice compact package, certainly not overly large by current standards. Yet when it was released in 1969, the media applied […]
Bryan Hindle: One quick chemist
Story: Jim Scaysbrook • Photos: Merv Whitelaw, John Hiscock, Rob Lewis, Dick Darby, Greg Heath, Ken Duperouzel. Is there a stereotype motorcycle racer? If so, Bryan Hindle probably would not have fitted the bill; teetotal, […]
Z1 Kawasaki: New York steak… well done.
It was late 1972 when the Z1 arrived in Australia, initially in very small numbers. But the Z1 story had begun almost six years previously at Kawasaki’s Akashi factory in central Japan; the task being […]
Len Atlee: Quite a career
Towards the end of the 1960s, a group of callow youths from the south of Sydney, though somewhat intimidated by the stories they’d heard, decided to take the plunge and ride their shiny new Japanese […]
Two litres of sheer terror.
We’ve met Mark Walker before. In Issue 12 we got acquainted with his humungous creation, Big Ned. Now, here’s one he prepared earlier… What was originally known as the MW Special came into being because […]
CB750 stopping power
Brilliant as the original K series CB750 Hondas are, braking is not their strong point, and it gets no better with age. You can change pads, brake lines and fluids, which helps, but part of […]
