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Re: DAVID SILVERS CB750 SHOW ON SATURDAY
« Reply #45 on: October 01, 2018, 07:55:43 AM »
Mick's bike... 1st official UK bike ...mine is 13 up in VIN from this. Both bikes probably from same day production in Oct 1969

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Re: DAVID SILVERS CB750 SHOW ON SATURDAY
« Reply #46 on: October 01, 2018, 08:19:28 AM »
The first batch of 50, 750's to the UK would of gone straight to warehouse and they would not of looked for the earliest VIN as a press bike, they would of just pulled one out  ;)

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Re: DAVID SILVERS CB750 SHOW ON SATURDAY
« Reply #47 on: October 01, 2018, 08:48:49 AM »
The first batch of 50, 750's to the UK would of gone straight to warehouse and they would not of looked for the earliest VIN as a press bike, they would of just pulled one out  ;)

It wasn't from the 1st batch Graham ;)   ..much later VIN
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Re: DAVID SILVERS CB750 SHOW ON SATURDAY
« Reply #48 on: October 01, 2018, 08:55:35 AM »
The first batch of 50, 750's to the UK would of gone straight to warehouse and they would not of looked for the earliest VIN as a press bike, they would of just pulled one out  ;)

It wasn't from the 1st batch Graham ;)   ..much later VIN

The numbers would not of been in sequence for the UK  ;)

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Re: DAVID SILVERS CB750 SHOW ON SATURDAY
« Reply #49 on: October 01, 2018, 09:12:05 AM »
The first batch of 50, 750's to the UK would of gone straight to warehouse and they would not of looked for the earliest VIN as a press bike, they would of just pulled one out  ;)

It wasn't from the 1st batch Graham ;)   ..much later VIN

The numbers would not of been in sequence for the UK  ;)

Well ..the UK CB750 guru and probably 2nd to Vic World on knowledge of the early 750 , who was a judge on Saturday told me they were ........ ;)   and it wasn't John Wyatt cos he wasn't there !
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Re: DAVID SILVERS CB750 SHOW ON SATURDAY
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Re: DAVID SILVERS CB750 SHOW ON SATURDAY
« Reply #51 on: October 01, 2018, 03:02:35 PM »
Judges, experts and guru's !
Sorry to inform you but, Karran's K2 is NOT a 1972  ;)

Class 1 - Earliest VIN No. Honda CB750. Winner = Ole Larsen from Sweden with his 1969 CB750

Class 2 - Earliest UK Honda CB750. Winner = Michael Taylor from Kent with his 1969 CB750

Class 3 - Most Original (unrestored) Honda CB750. Winner = David Warton from Suffolk with his 1973 CB750-K3

Class 4 - Best Presented Honda CB750. Winner = Karen Wicks from Lincolnshire with her 1972 CB750-K2

Class 5 - Furthest Travelled (Ridden to the event) Honda CB750. Winner = Nick Harvey from Inverness, Scotland (605 miles)*

Class 6 - Highest Mileage Honda CB750. Winner = Chris Rushton from Nottinghamshire with his 1969 CB750 (134,943 miles)

Class 7 - Best Custom Special Honda CB750. Winner = Julian Clements from Buckinghamshire with his unique racer special CB750

Class 8 - Judges Favourite Honda CB750. Winner = Tony Brown from Lancashire with his rare Pre-Production CB750.

* Erling Kleve was due to arrive from Norway on his Honda CB750 but he was forced to retreat due to heavy snow conditions!

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Re: DAVID SILVERS CB750 SHOW ON SATURDAY
« Reply #52 on: October 01, 2018, 03:56:43 PM »
She would probably be more miffed that you spelt her name wrong Trig  ;D ;D ;D
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Re: DAVID SILVERS CB750 SHOW ON SATURDAY
« Reply #53 on: October 01, 2018, 04:15:39 PM »
Please excuse my ignorance but what is “the Brighton bike”?
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Re: DAVID SILVERS CB750 SHOW ON SATURDAY
« Reply #54 on: October 01, 2018, 04:51:21 PM »
Please excuse my ignorance but what is “the Brighton bike”?

No worries. It was one of four pre-production prototypes, two of which were at the Motorcycle show held in Brighton in 1969. The one at the event was the gold one, the other was was green and nobody I believe, knows where it is or if indeed it still exists.

see here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EszC7DBt-XU
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Re: DAVID SILVERS CB750 SHOW ON SATURDAY
« Reply #55 on: October 01, 2018, 05:06:58 PM »
Please excuse my ignorance but what is “the Brighton bike”?

No worries. It was one of four pre-production prototypes, two of which were at the Motorcycle show held in Brighton in 1969. The one at the event was the gold one, the other was was green and nobody I believe, knows where it is or if indeed it still exists.

see here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EszC7DBt-XU

Thanks for the link. God that makes me feel old  :(
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Re: DAVID SILVERS CB750 SHOW ON SATURDAY
« Reply #56 on: October 01, 2018, 07:26:18 PM »
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The first batch of 50, 750's to the UK would of gone straight to warehouse and they would not of looked for the earliest VIN as a press bike, they would of just pulled one out

The first batch of CB750s for the UK from what I've read over the years was approx 20 bikes and they were allocated to dealers who were particularly in favour with Honda UK at the time for whatever reason; the first batch was small because Honda had recently had their fingers burnt with unsold CB450s and they were not confident the CB750 would be a good seller in the UK.

My bike went to Ken Ives of Leicester.....unsurprising really as he had helped dig Honda out of their CB450 problem by creating the 'Ken Ives special'.......Black Bombers with some questionable quality British parts, some paintwork and extra chrome added to get them out the door.

I recall reading somewhere that the serial numbers of the first batch of UK CB750s were sequential.

The Honda press bike was quite a bit later, it had a 1015 chassis number IIRC which meant the first twenty bikes were on the road long before Honda UK even had a brochure printed.

Mick.

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Re: DAVID SILVERS CB750 SHOW ON SATURDAY
« Reply #57 on: October 01, 2018, 08:59:14 PM »
YLY 70H's  VIN is 1015262  so just under 5000 VIN's after ours Mick. I got this info from the Bonhams auction catalogue.

I agree on key dealers getting preference on allocations as mine came from Mountains in York and at one time he was working through the night assembling tiddlers to keep up with demand because he was shifting so many bikes to factory workers.

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Re: DAVID SILVERS CB750 SHOW ON SATURDAY
« Reply #58 on: October 02, 2018, 12:29:57 AM »
I have 1015280 (AYO 63H) and 1015278 (AYO 64H) - both sold from the same dealership and I suspect part of the batch that the press bike came across with..

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Re: DAVID SILVERS CB750 SHOW ON SATURDAY
« Reply #59 on: October 02, 2018, 07:05:08 AM »
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YLY 70H's  VIN is 1015262  so just under 5000 VIN's after ours Mick. I got this info from the Bonhams auction catalogue.

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I have 1015280 (AYO 63H) and 1015278 (AYO 64H) - both sold from the same dealership and I suspect part of the batch that the press bike came across with..

On the face of it, from a batch with sequential numbers; it would make perfect sense to produce small batches for limited markets such as the UK all at the same time in terms of organising state specific parts, particularly if they briefly interrupted production of much larger quantities destined for elsewhere.

Mick.   

 

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