750F2 First ride at last.

[Rozabikes Tim]

At last got round to riding my F2 for the first time yesterday. Bought it last Feb. via adds section of this site. Had it running (ish) when I got it but never ridden it until yesterday.

Wow what a culture shock!!!!!  -  but good in other ways.

My other bike is a CBR600, against which the old 750 is out performed in every way as you would expect. However I do like the lazy way the F2 rides. In a funny way if you know it won't really perform by modern standards, you don't try - just enjoy it in other ways.

I was really just giving the bike a try out before strip down / cafe racer treatment in the future. Gearbox / clutch etc. fine, carburation understandably lumpy after standing a few years and I know ignition not 100%. Anyway good fun and can't wait to get stuck into it but I know this will be the winter realistically.

Tim

[K2-K6]

Sounds good, any pics for us to have a look at it?

They are a bit different to modern stuff, much longer and harder to change direction. They need some persuasive pressure that would have a newer race-rep straight upside down if used. It's much more like a big bore moto-crosser in that it's a lot of footpeg weighting and big pull of counter-steer to deviate it from straight ahead at speed, respectably quick though.

We had a small guy owned one early 80's and with ad-hoc drag racing (ahem, not on the public highway officer!!) that F2 would beat most things in it's era till CB900 Suzuki GSX etc came around.

Hope you enjoy it.

[Rozabikes Tim]

Have some piccies on my other pc / will post sometime.

Closest thing I have ridden previously was my old Honda 750 DOHC but even that was tweaked to 95BHP at the backwheel so not too shabby! However the slow handling and weight very similar from what I remember. Anyway blazing performance was never expected. This is just something to fiddle with and hopefully be interesting and good to look at when done.

[SteveD CB500K0]

I have been riding a Bandit 1250 this week as a nice young man in a white van destroyed my Sprint.

It reminds me of the first time I ever rode a CB750 - it was an F1 in about 1977 (it was yellow and I'd borrowed it from a mate). The turbine-like smoothness of the engine, the transmission whine and the stifled exhaust. The wide bars and high frequency vibes through the footrests.

Don't get me wrong, the Bandit is as dull as ditchwater and the F1 in its day was a "superbike" - I loved it!

[Read Replica]

Know what you mean about the culture shock Tim. My Read Rep, basically an F2, gave me a not unfamiliar feeling to yours when I first got it back on the road with all its little issues. Gradually getting these sorted now and the more I ride it and work on it the more I like it. It will never compare to a modern bike and that is why it is so much fun to own and ride. It just takes you back to a rose tinted past.

Have fun with yours
Andy

[florence]

Hmmm...  Having never ridden anything newer than 1979, these comments make me wonder what is so different about modern bikes.   These SOHC Hondas were made in the seventies, which in my book makes them pretty modern; surely, at road legal speeds, they're not that different to new bikes are they?

[Rozabikes Tim]

Difference?

An analogy for you. Torrey Canyon versus motor torpedo boat. Accelerate / Stop / Turn (at the same speed), compare and contrast!!

Anyway that ain't the point, I love both my bikes for different things. One of the big reasons for the SOHC Hondas have character in buckets. My CBR maybe an eggcup full!! Hope to add at least half a bucket more  of the afore mentioned with the cafe mods to the 750 too - if I ever get round to it.

[sim2011]

A Big difference My last Modern 750 was a Duke 748R awesome handling, brakes etc now back to a CB750K3 with brakes and handling are comensurate with a bike from 40 years ago , both have their place.

[p@ul]

Hmmm...  Having never ridden anything newer than 1979, these comments make me wonder what is so different about modern bikes.   These SOHC Hondas were made in the seventies, which in my book makes them pretty modern; surely, at road legal speeds, they're not that different to new bikes are they?

Ha ha ha just read this thread... You woudn't want to jump on my R1 and thats a 1st generation one with carbs.... Scary stuff i can tell ya !!