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Over on the ST Owners Forum is this thread:
https://www.st-owners.com/forums/threads...go.168329/
The introduction of the Honda inline 4 CB750. It might be of some interest to some here.
Being laid up, I have far too much time to troll the forums.
Jim
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it's funny to me that the i4, in all its various incarnations, is so perfect and so balanced that it will lead the motorcycle industry all the way into the electric age. when 90% of the bikes on the road are electric, most of the remaining 10% dino bikes will still be i4's.
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150 years ago: completion of the transcontinental railroad
50 years ago: Neil Armstrong sets foot on the moon
Amazing what can be accomplished in 100 years!
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Everything in a man's life time.
50 years ago when the CB750 was introduced, my dad was riding a Harley flat head 45 belly shift, I was riding a Cl 77 Honda Scrambler, and my younger brother was riding a CA 150 Honda Dream. We all rode up to the local Honda dealer for the unveiling of the CB 750 who had it on a revolving display in the show room. We all agreed it was too big and too complicated, and would never sell. We repeated the stupid scenario and predicted the same stupid out come at the same dealer in 1975 when the new Gold WIng came out. Another sales loser for sure lol.
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reminds me of what i thought when i went to see the unveiling of the new Yamaha Niken at my local Dealership.
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An aside: how’s the recovery going, Jim?
I think I was just amazed that anyone would build a motorcycle with 4 cylinders, but I can’t be sure. As someone once said, ‘if you can remember the 60s, you weren’t there’.
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(05-14-2019, 05:04 AM)The ferret_imp Wrote: Everything in a man's life time.
50 years ago when the CB750 was introduced, my dad was riding a Harley flat head 45 belly shift, I was riding a Cl 77 Honda Scrambler, and my younger brother was riding a CA 150 Honda Dream. We all rode up to the local Honda dealer for the unveiling of the CB 750 who had it on a revolving display in the show room. We all agreed it was too big and too complicated, and would never sell. We repeated the stupid scenario and predicted the same stupid out come at the same dealer in 1975 when the new Gold WIng came out. Another sales loser for sure lol.
Don't feel bad. Long ago I realized that predicting success for a new product isn't that easy. In '93 I was working for a brokerage firm that decided they were going to start an Internet trading platform for stocks and bonds. I came up with half a dozen reasons why it wouldn't work. I'm really glad no one listened to me.
BTW, I'm still not sure what the point of Twitter is.
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Sounds like E*Trade. I'm still with them.
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(05-14-2019, 10:06 AM)LongRanger_imp Wrote: Sounds like E*Trade. I'm still with them.
Close. It was Schwab.
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(05-14-2019, 08:48 AM)Flynrider_imp Wrote: (05-14-2019, 05:04 AM)The ferret_imp Wrote: Everything in a man's life time.
50 years ago when the CB750 was introduced, my dad was riding a Harley flat head 45 belly shift, I was riding a Cl 77 Honda Scrambler, and my younger brother was riding a CA 150 Honda Dream. We all rode up to the local Honda dealer for the unveiling of the CB 750 who had it on a revolving display in the show room. We all agreed it was too big and too complicated, and would never sell. We repeated the stupid scenario and predicted the same stupid out come at the same dealer in 1975 when the new Gold WIng came out. Another sales loser for sure lol.
Don't feel bad. Long ago I realized that predicting success for a new product isn't that easy. In '93 I was working for a brokerage firm that decided they were going to start an Internet trading platform for stocks and bonds. I came up with half a dozen reasons why it wouldn't work. I'm really glad no one listened to me.
BTW, I'm still not sure what the point of Twitter is.
It enables our leaders to communicate directly with us.
