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A Golden Age
Laverda Dave:
I think Dick traded in his CB750 for a BMW 1000RS. Murray Walker also had one (in the gold colour). Both bikers 👍.
adespin:
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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.
AshimotoK0:
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
Seamus:
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??
adespin:
--- Quote from: AshimotoK0 on April 05, 2019, 08:08:57 AM ---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
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The whole magazine is a very interesting read, thanks for posting.
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