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pauliexjr:
Your 'gold' K1 is exactly the same colour and model as the bike that made me fall in love with the CB750 waaaaay back in the late 60's.

Our local Honda dealer, Eddy Grimshaw, on the Eastern Avenue near Newbury Park underground, had one of the first K1s imported to the UK. He set it up on a revolving stand in the front window of his showroom with spotlights angled down to show off the gleaming paintwork and the four (Yes four, honest, count 'em, four!) chrome exhausts.

Up until then we had been used to British tin in it's many and varied hues of black, green, red or maroon (unless you knew somone with a Norton Atlas and that could be blue or silver!) and the most extreme was the Aerial square four, an ugly brute by anyone's standards! Suddenly there was this marvel of exotic, far-eastern promise that looking like it was doing the 'ton' just standing still!

Me and my pal, Dave Barr, used to walk past the showroom of an evening on our way home from school, press our noses against the window and promise ouselves 'one day mate, one day'.....

Yoshi823:
Well done Peter. After all of those Winter hours, it must have seemed a long way off while fettling those small bits. I see that you have managed to even place the small red dot on the front calipers as well...authentic touch. Is that mark on the gear selector cover where you have worn some of the paint off already? Or was that like that before? Your FZ1 looks quite small alongside the 750F2...something that I will always remember about that big bike fel the very first time that I rode my on back in 1979.

As for Paul's remembering back to the days when the Honda 750 first came out, I had absolutely no inkling of bikes back in the late '60s when I was at secondary school. There were no bike dealers about that I could peer through the windows at. It was not until I first had a bike in 1975 that I started to yearn for something bigger...fortunately the 750 came along not that much longer afterwards.

Sigh...(harking back to the old days...)

UK Pete:
Tim the paint that is scratched off was done by a walking boot on my first ride out, the metal lace tie sticks out and so scratches the casing, to say i was pissed off is an understatement, i also dropped a tray of tools from a height right on to the engine chipping paint everywhere, i have just left it as i need to buy some more of the paint i used , anyway i just ride it now there are many things that could still be done to the bike, but i am content with the used look for now
Pete

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