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Found out today who has 1010371 1st UK batch .. Also imported bike Pre-UK Batch
AshimotoK0:
Wonderful story Mick ...which you have told me about before great that you shared on here, paricularly the photo with the royal seals on it.
Here is a shot of the Lords with the same Bombers from Lord L's biography book. Again, posted on here before by me but good for comparison with your photo.
Can anyone identify any of the other bikes?
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kettle738:
Fantastic photos, wonderful era.....but that particular group of 'bikers' were probably unlike most at the time.
Incidentally.....tomorrow is a significant day for me and for Ash, our first batch CB750s turn 50 years old, manufactured on the 22nd October 1969. Yours (Ash) is only a couple of numbers from mine, so they would have been made on the same day.
The specific date was supplied by Honda when Eamon (last owner of mine) was researching the history, it's somewhere in the file and if I can find it, I'll drag it out....but the file is well over a foot thick, Eamon was an unbelievably prolific letter writer and if he wanted to know something, he just persisted until every possible line of enquiry was exhausted.
The letters file is a who's who of 1960s through 1970s motorcycling, loads of famous names, racers, authors, journalists, companies that he wrote to seeking information, and every one retained....many with the envelopes.
Eamon was very well known and highly regarded within motorcycling circles so I suspect he probably elicited replies and information more readily than most would have done, but the main thing was his sheer persistence.
On another note, does anyone reproduce these quality control stickers?
Mick.
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Laverda Dave:
You could try Piki on here for those stickers. He made the DID stickers for my wheel rims on the CB250RS and did a great job.
kettle738:
--- Quote ---You could try Piki on here for those stickers. He made the DID stickers for my wheel rims on the CB250RS and did a great job.
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I'll do that, I've only ever seen a few tools with their original stickers....unsurprisingly.....so I guess most won't even be aware they were ever there.
Thanks.........Mick.
MCTID:
Wonderful History lesson there Folks. 'You meet the nicest people on a Honda' !
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