Honda-SOHC
Other Stuff => Misc / Open => Topic started by: adespin on April 04, 2019, 10:39:01 AM
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I love this video of a better time, this is how i had to ride during my motorcycle test in 1964, no indicators on bikes back then (unless you rode a Ariel Leader or Honda Benly) and no traffic, no traffic camera's, no yellow lines, truly a golden time, wish i had a time machine!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViSyN0T2-G4
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Also examiners that got run over when they jumped out in front of the wrong bike for an emergency stop!!!
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And these videos are almost comical but relevant for the time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adoKYJf16fk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGpGxhHSd7U
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Also examiners that got run over when they jumped out in front of the wrong bike for an emergency stop!!!
That happened at the test centre were I passed my test!
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And that Tiger Cub was same as my first bike (although never made it to the road) - great viseos
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I stoped about 20 yards in front of the examiner I could see him hiding behind a car.
How many of you then went around the corner and pulled a wheelie ;D ;D
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In the early sixties on my test, a small dog shot out of a gate and attacked my jean bottoms, I pulled to a halt with the growling dog attached to my jeans with its teeth, to hear a voice shouting "kick the b*st*rd", it was the excited examiner shouting, but he did pass me at the end of the test.
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What a great video, the bikes, the bike gear, the cars and trucks, took me back quite a bit. I passed my test on a Yamaha 80 after selling my 250 AJS, my mate told me to bounce up and down on the forks when I did the emergency stop to make it look good, I did and I passed, probably nothing to do with the theatrics.
Cheers
Den
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There is something decidedly wrong with the bike taking the video from a mechanics point of view!
Due to the age of the video it has to be a british bike probably fitted with St Joseph Lucas, Prince of Darkness, electrics BUT the ammeter is always showind zero or very slightly +ve which means it was actually CHARGING.
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Great video ! ...cheers for posting. I had a little trike like the ones at the beginning :-[
Was that a 'non-PC' wolf whistle as his 'new friend' on the scooter turned the corner.
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Great video, the swinging 60's.
I took my test on a similar bike, a 250CSR in 1979. The examiners first words when he saw it in the car park dripping oil was 'Is that thing legal'. The bad start got worse when he asked me to read a number plate and I got it wrong! He gave me a second chance and I got it wrong again! He gave me one last chance reading a different plate, when he told me I got that wrong as well I argued the 'W' was a 'V'. He said 'I should know what the number plate is, its my bloody car'.....opp's! I still passed despite him trying to confuse me by showing me a picture of countdown markers for an unmanned railway crossing in the highway code question section of the test. We have a lot of unmanned level crossings in London!
I wonder if Mr A J Seddon is still an examiner, a name I will never forget (and he probably still remembers my name!!!).
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What a lovely old film. It's a bit before my biking escapades started. Took test in 1978 on a CD175 with wooden brakes front and rear but just managed to stop in time to avoid the examiner for a pass 😁😁😁
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Our old CB750K0 owner comedian friend on driving tests.
https://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video?fr=mcafee&p=dick+emery+driving+test#id=1&vid=7bd955a71a2a10c2e963b63e31639636&action=click
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Dick Emery is sorely missed, it seemed at the time in the 60's and 70's that he was never off the telly, a very funny man.
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Now that surprised me I used to watch his programmes's and thought that with the passage of time my sense of humour would have changed but I enjoyed it and still ended up laughing
Cheers
Den
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I think Dick traded in his CB750 for a BMW 1000RS. Murray Walker also had one (in the gold colour). Both bikers 👍.
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He also had a Z1, certainly liked his bikes.
I wonder who has his Honda now?
Sorry gone off track a bit with this thread.
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I paid some rip-off price to get that B&W Emery bike photo without the 'alamy' logo on it .. so if anyone wants a copy PM me.
I spoke to a bloke last year who was the head mechanic at Freddy Frith's (Honda dealer) in Grimsby and he said that Dick Emery popped in when he was in pantomime in Cleethorpes for a test ride on the then new CB750. He then went back to London and bought the one in the picture from Tippetts of Surbiton. Evidently there was a photo of him test riding in Grimsby but the chap can't find it.
He told me that very early on, the 1st time they had to go inside the CB750 engine was when an airbox nut came off and ended up in the engine somehow (this was a recall in one of the Service Bulletins ... so a known problem)
The link below is old hat but for newer members it took a lot of tracking down on my part, so here goes again with apologies to those who have seen it before. Dick reviewing the Tamiya CB750 model kit for Meccano Magazine in 1971.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/puajxcyc1aarmfp/Meccano%20Magazine.pdf?dl=0
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The Honda doesnot appear on the MoT database, so has not been on the road after 2005, perhaps in a collection somewhere, the KJawasaki was last tested in 2010 and is on sorn, again in a collection??
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I paid some rip-off price to get that B&W Emery bike photo without the 'alamy' logo on it .. so if anyone wants a copy PM me.
I spoke to a bloke last year who was the head mechanic at Freddy Frith's (Honda dealer) in Grimsby and he said that Dick Emery popped in when he was in pantomime in Cleethorpes for a test ride on the then new CB750. He then went back to London and bought the one in the picture from Tippetts of Surbiton. Evidently there was a photo of him test riding in Grimsby but the chap can't find it.
He told me that very early on, the 1st time they had to go inside the CB750 engine was when an airbox nut came off and ended up in the engine somehow (this was a recall in one of the Service Bulletins ... so a known problem)
The is old hat below but for newer members it took a lot of tracking down on my part, so here goes again with apologies to those who have seen it before. Dick reviewing the Tamiya CB750 model kit for Meccano Magazine.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/puajxcyc1aarmfp/Meccano%20Magazine.pdf?dl=0
The whole magazine is a very interesting read, thanks for posting.
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...at 1minute 20seconds in, how does Tom manage to pull away without holding the throttle?! Must have a very slow return spring...
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I was wondering exactly the same thing, and he does it more than once, maybe a rusty throttle cable through rideing to work in the rain every day.
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I paid some rip-off price to get that B&W Emery bike photo without the 'alamy' logo on it .. so if anyone wants a copy PM me.
I spoke to a bloke last year who was the head mechanic at Freddy Frith's (Honda dealer) in Grimsby and he said that Dick Emery popped in when he was in pantomime in Cleethorpes for a test ride on the then new CB750. He then went back to London and bought the one in the picture from Tippetts of Surbiton. Evidently there was a photo of him test riding in Grimsby but the chap can't find it.
He told me that very early on, the 1st time they had to go inside the CB750 engine was when an airbox nut came off and ended up in the engine somehow (this was a recall in one of the Service Bulletins ... so a known problem)
The is old hat below but for newer members it took a lot of tracking down on my part, so here goes again with apologies to those who have seen it before. Dick reviewing the Tamiya CB750 model kit for Meccano Magazine.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/puajxcyc1aarmfp/Meccano%20Magazine.pdf?dl=0 (https://www.dropbox.com/s/puajxcyc1aarmfp/Meccano%20Magazine.pdf?dl=0)
The whole magazine is a very interesting read, thanks for posting.
Wow. The Jetex jet engine I had forgotten about them. I never did get mine to do anything but a fierce fart then go out.
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Interesting how enthusiastic Emery wasn't about bikes.
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Presumably youve seen the above illustration of the 750 Ash.