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250 Superdream
Johnny4428:
Absolutely loved the design of the 250 and 400 back in the day I think Honda got it spot on appearance wise in my opinion. Drooled over a black one in the local showroom here I think around the 800 - 900 mark for the 250 in the late 70’s. But struggling to even run my old car at the time it was out of my league.
Bryanj:
400 had its problems as well, would hole a piston for no reason and only cure was a new generator, Bout £300 in the late 70's
Johnny4428:
Bloody hell Bryan! Third of cost of new bike! 😳😳
Lobo:
I’m gonna have to bite Bryan… how did changing the alternator cure the piston holing??
The 250 / 400 SuperDreams were indeed beautiful looking likes; and would not look out of place if they hit the market now… almost 50 years later.
Bryanj:
The ignition was cdi box fired by charge and pulse coils in and round the generator permag rotor but honda did not sell the stator seperately and, according to them, the resistances varied with temp and revs when failing altering the timing and making superlow compression pistons.
Later on they said machining had got better and gave us a part number for just the stator but when you ordered it(about £160 from memory) a complete stator rotor assembly turned up.
Only seemed to be 400 and usually lh pot
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