Who Had a CB750

Django_imp said:
Where exactly was this barn? :cool:
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I'll never tell :P

I haven't been in there in all these years and I doubt he still has them. He collected them up for an international buyer and they've likely long since left the country.
 
What a pity the CB1100 viewed from the rear doesn't look James Tiberius' excellent example:



Well ... perhaps the round indicators look better. But, those pipes. :cool:
736cc_imp said:
I stopped counting after restoring and owning around 40, several National show winners. None in my garage currently.
Here's my FB link to pics:
https://m.facebook.com/andy.morris.904/albums/1723788687915/?ref=bookmarks
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For those on a computer, here's a better link to 736cc's pictures. https://www.facebook.com/andy.morris.904...613&type=3
 
Long Ranger, there's a '78 F2 just like yours (not as perfect, of course) for sale near my brother in Monterey. Very tempting, but then I start thinking of the smell of gas in the garage, searching for a new stock pipe when this one goes, etc. Still might be fun for a year or two. You don't miss yours, eh?
 
I've owned two of the "originals". A 1969 (the blue/green/turquois color - with 4 separate carb throttle cables!) and a red 1976 that a friend in Florida still owns - in fact I just "visited" it last week. Nothing matches the CB1100 though.
 
My first bike was a brand new 73 green 750 had it for a year before I totaled it doing wheelies. Then a 74 750 that I completely chopped. Custom paint, 18 over springer, raked frame, the whole 9 yards. Then in 78 fell in love with the 750 super sport that I had to have. In 1981 I went with a 650 custom that I had for awhile. I have had so many bikes over the years its hard to keep track of them but always loved the CBs. So after two hip replacements and the 1800 Goldwing getting harder to manage it was time for something smaller and lighter. I walked into the Honda shop and they had a 13 cb1100 with 900 miles on it and it was love at first sight. The bike brought me back to my CB roots and I love everything about the bike except the seat lol
 
Very discerning, slolane. The seat has little to recommend it.
 
I didn't had one but saw a nicely restored mother of all fours today at a gathering place on sundays near Kiel called Rastdorfer Kreuz. Two other CB750 were also among all the motorbikes. One of them is also on the pic.




Wisedrum
 
I had a CB750F1 Supersport like the one pictured. It was one of the first batch of five imported to the UK in 1975. If memory serves, the clutch was screeching like a stuck pig when I rode away from the shop and had to wait a week or so for replacement thrust bearing to be fitted. Because it was so new I loaned it to some local businesses who made cast wheels, exhausts and other accessories. As a result I received a 4-2 exhaust, a 4-4 exhaust (hairs on the back of my neck are standing up even now just thinking about it), engine crash bars, spotlight mount bar with Cibies and a rear rack. It even appeared in a London bike show but was totally changed with a custom seat, tank, clipons and rearsets, cast wheels and a 4-1 exhaust. I was a keen photographer at the time but, inexplicably, I don't have any photos of it then.

 
Fruitbat_imp said:
I had a CB750F1 Supersport like the one pictured. It was one of the first batch of five imported to the UK in 1975. If memory serves, the clutch was screeching like a stuck pig when I rode away from the shop and had to wait a week or so for replacement thrust bearing to be fitted. Because it was so new I loaned it to some local businesses who made cast wheels, exhausts and other accessories. As a result I received a 4-2 exhaust, a 4-4 exhaust (hairs on the back of my neck are standing up even now just thinking about it), engine crash bars, spotlight mount bar with Cibies and a rear rack. It even appeared in a London bike show but was totally changed with a custom seat, tank, clipons and rearsets, cast wheels and a 4-1 exhaust. I was a keen photographer at the time but, inexplicably, I don't have any photos of it then.
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Yea, Baby! I had a blue 1975 (first year here in the US). I didn't do very much to mine, just CB400F handlebars and a slip-on megaphone, along with several sets of Dunlops. Man, I loved that motorcycle! That pic sure brings back such wonderful memories.
 
Fruitbat_imp said:
I had a CB750F1 Supersport like the one pictured. It was one of the first batch of five imported to the UK in 1975. If memory serves, the clutch was screeching like a stuck pig when I rode away from the shop and had to wait a week or so for replacement thrust bearing to be fitted. Because it was so new I loaned it to some local businesses who made cast wheels, exhausts and other accessories. As a result I received a 4-2 exhaust, a 4-4 exhaust (hairs on the back of my neck are standing up even now just thinking about it), engine crash bars, spotlight mount bar with Cibies and a rear rack. It even appeared in a London bike show but was totally changed with a custom seat, tank, clipons and rearsets, cast wheels and a 4-1 exhaust. I was a keen photographer at the time but, inexplicably, I don't have any photos of it then.
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Great bike, pic and story :thumbsup::clap:
 
I bought a 1980 CB750F Supersport in 2002. I never though it was as fetching or sophisticated as the original CB750s from the '70s were. I envied people with those bikes, but this was the closest I could find at the time. It seemed over-styled in a way that Japanese designers are often prone to do. Making it worse, someone had put an enormous Vetter Windjammer fairing on it which was not only hideous from 50ft away, its weight made the bike over steer badly. It's a wonder I bought the thing. A few months later, I threw the Windjammer in the dumpster, and replaced it with a clear Plexiglas fairing. What an improvement! The bike was now light and precise in handling, and I was beginning to enjoy it. Next, I junked those ponderous dual exhausts, and replaced them with a light 4 in 1 Vance and Hines Megaphone header. What joy! A genie was let out of her bottle, and my DOHC CB750F just flew down the road, unbound.

What fun I had with that bike. One Saturday night I took it to explore the back country of Guilford County, NC. Lost and alone for hours on empty, dark serpentine two lane roads, I rolled past turpentine mills, farms, and through antique towns with one main street, like the fictional Mayberry. When serious lightning from a line of thunderstorms lit up the horizon, I knew it was time to head back to my motel, but how? I had no idea where I was. All I had was a compass, but I figured if I just kept bearing South, I would hit East-West Rt. 40, by and by. The plan worked, but when I got to Rt. 40, the rain was coming down like out of a fire hose. I zipped up onto the highway with maybe an inch or two of rain on the roadway and 18 wheelers roaring by, spraying huge amounts of water on me from either side. The Plexifaring rescued me, shedding most what came at me. I was further from my start than I imagined, but the CB750 got me back.

When I think of that bike, I always remember my Piedmont adventure. How reliable in so many ways that bike was. Sadly, I was lured away from it, seduced by the raw energy of a Kawasaki GPz 1100. I got rid of the 750F, and thought nothing of it. I was so enthralled by the GPz. Older now, in my late sixties, I miss my old friend, and the stable, comfortable relationship we had. And that's exactly how I came to buy a '17 CB1100 EX last week.
 
That was a great story Paris, makes me want to forgo the comforts, convenience and safety of my ‘14 and dust off my ‘76 and ‘71 Ks and get them back on the road. At least for short trips
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