
1972 Honda CB350F: Petit Four
From our Old Bike Archives – Issue 74 – first published in 2018. • Story Peter Laverty and Tony Sculpher • Photos Tony Sculpher and Jim Scaysbrook Honda had, of course, made a 4 cylinder 350 prior to […]
From our Old Bike Archives – Issue 74 – first published in 2018. • Story Peter Laverty and Tony Sculpher • Photos Tony Sculpher and Jim Scaysbrook Honda had, of course, made a 4 cylinder 350 prior to […]
By the late ‘seventies, Honda’s venerable across-the-frame four was looking a bit tired, at least in marketing terms. Inside the world’s biggest producer of motorcycles, it was time for a change. A V change. Leaving […]
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 […]
Story and photos Jim Scaysbrook The longest running motorcycle ever to come out of Japan made its public bow in 1974, and over 40 years later is still going strong, at least in name. Ever […]
Story: Jim Scaysbrook • Photos: Charles Rice, Keith Ward, Tom Perry The feeling of disbelief that followed the death of Tom Phillis on the Isle of Man in 1962 was palpable. How could Tom, fast […]
Story and photos: Jim Scaysbrook • Technical assistance: Jim Merrick, Tom Battison. Faced with stiffening opposition from all fronts for the title of King of the Road, Honda went for the coup d’état. December 1977. […]
Story: Alan Cathcart • Photos: Kyoichi Nakamura, Ross Hannan, Dick Darby, Chris Sim, OBA Archives It’s highly unlikely that any other Classic era road racer has been replicated as frequently around the world as the twin-cylinder […]
Story: Jim Scaysbrook • Photos: John Fretten, Jim Scaysbrook, Rob Lewis From virtually owning the big bike market from 1969 to 1972, Honda steadily divested itself of the crown as the ‘seventies rolled by. Initially under […]
40 years after its launch, Derek Pickard retraces the career of Honda’s most unusual motorcycle – th eHonda CX500 – and explains why such an innovative design was ditched after a brief but successful career. […]
Besides the Japanese motorcycle manufacturers that exist today, there were plenty of smaller producers who left the scene, particularly in the late 1950s. They went out of business, merged with other companies, were taken over, […]