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Seeley Honda #SH7-672
Zunspec:
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Very nice indeed, but oh so fragile the bevel.
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Hi Mark/hairygit,
Unfortunately I only got to ride it to the MOT shop and from there back to the owner. All on 12 year old tyres so I could not give it a good blast ;D. I do know that the first owner road it to several events in Europe, when I first got it the pannier bracketry was still attached. He even did a bit of club racing on it I was told. So it was obviously moderately reliable.
Cheers Geoff
Green1:
Nice to see someone else getting it in the neck for going italian for a change ;D
westfieldandy:
Hi,
I dont post much on here, but had to throw something on here,
Yes I also am a seeley honda owner, mine is no 792 i think from memory. It does'nt get out much, due to my racing and development of my cr750, but now maybe it'll get out, as I have now been working on my business working on old classics etc
www.good-bits.co.uk
I have owned the pike for years now, and always was a fan of the seeley from when i was a lad, I think you have a really good example of the marque here, as when you look on the register and see the pics of others so many of them are modded too much, but this one really shines,
I have had the exhausts remade like you, but never managed to get it to run nice on them. I reckon its because the wrong cylinders are linked together. it should be 1&3 and 2&4. so a bridge pipe between the two silencers just after y piece might help.
thats what i think, but not had time to test my theory yet.
andy
Zunspec:
Hello Andy,
Regarding the Seeley exhaust set-up, the sound from mine has (to my ears) an odd harmonic to it. It's as if the engine is not firing as it should but then I am more used to the sound of 4-1 systems. Is it the result of the way the cylinders are paired up, not something that occured to me. At 6000+ rpm and a WOT it sounds absolutly wicked mind 8).
If you have followed this post post from the beginning you know that this Seeley is almost pure period Seeley apart from the silencers and brake lines. It was "factory" built and as I had the ear of the man himself recently I asked how many of the 300 odd frames he actually assembled in house. The answer was "not very many" as contrary to my previous belief that Honda supplied the necessary parts Colin had to buy a complete doner bike and transfer the parts just as all other builders had to.
Your CR750 is gorgeous, is it raced with CRMC? . That 836cc big bore kit on your website also looks mighty tempting but I am spending far too much on my own race bike (Seeley T500 replica) to afford it at the moment ;D
Cheers Geoff
Zunspec:
Hi,
The feature on my Seeley Honda 750 was published in the October Classic Bike magazine. A good write up from Gez Kane. Colin Seeley confirms that only 6 bikes were "factory" built by CSRD so it makes my bike a pretty rare example.
Classic Bike feature Oct 2016 by zunspec, on Flickr
Here is a link to my flickr album page. Select a photo then If you go to the bottom right of the page you will see an arrow pointing down. Click on this and then "view all sizes", you then have a choice of photo sizes, Large is OK to read (you don't actually have to download the photo) https://www.flickr.com/photos/zunspec/albums/72157671221523016
Cheers Geoff
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