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Dresda Honda CB750 (Identification needed)
Yoshi823:
Nice pic Steve...but the CB750K had differant side panels to the era of the CB900FZ
I very nearly bought one of these bikes back in '79. Sort of glad that i spent the time & money modifying my 750F2 instead...
Eric Frith:
Here's a pic of the seat and tank unit. Clearly inspired by the CB900f's etc, which sort of confirms that it's been retro fitted.
Thanks for the help so far
Eric
K2-K6:
Eric, I think your bike maybe out of a company called "Japauto" a big french Honda dealer that raced alot of CB750 stuff in 70's endurance racing.
If you search for "japauto+dresda" and change to images, then it even pulls up some wheels that seem to be the same as yours.
It seems that japauto ran three dresda framed 750's during the 1972 race season, so you may have something connected with that.
That missing cush drive, it's just possible that it could of used a quick detach sprocket arrangement to facilitate fast wheel changes while leaving the sprocket on the spindle/swingarm with the chain in place.
K2-K6:
There's even more info about this once you connect it to japauto (if that's the case) it appears that Dave Degens supplied 5 frames in 1970 to them.
And this bit is really interesting, he designed and built a 4 into 1 exhaust....5 examples....for these bikes. This it seems was against the belief of the Honda factory that they would work well, his reasoning was that they needed more ground clearance than outright power.
Your exhaust looks pretty unique, so it's possible that you have a historically important system that maybe a precursor to any of the japanese production systems.
Dave Degens apparently confirmed this to the SOHC.net site in the past.
You could have something very interesting Eric.
Eric Frith:
I live in hope......I'll continue to gather info until I start the re-furb, probably in 2015.
Thanks to all that have helped so far.........
Eric
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