CR/CYB confused, amused and generally bemused

[Dgormley]

Davo, I drooled over one at my Honda Dealers' showroom, they even let me sit on it. I think they were about 15k new. There was one on E-bay a while back with almost zero miles on it, 25 or 30k was the price.................................Whew, luckily I have more brains than money..............D

[305racer]

Let's not forget the RC30, with all hand laid glass body work. A homologation bike built in the late 80s, and sold in limited numbers to the public.

Davo

Thanks for jogging my memory. I almost forgot bout Honda keeping the RC designation and applying it to the production model based racers not works bikes(which is debatable depending to who you talked with and what series they ran. lol) like VFR's(RC 30,32,34,45) and RVT/VTR 1000 (RC51). As well as the production racer RC125R(MT125R previous designation) RC was not used as a works designation for road racers from around '80(RC/RCBB1000/RS1000) til '02(RC211V/212V).
Regardless,just about any bike that carried the RC,CR or RS designation was/is bad ass!

[rbaselt]

The CR110, CR93 and CR72/77 of 1962-1963 were all gear-driven DOHC. There was also a CR71 in 1959, 250 cc with chain-driven cams and leading-link front suspension, about 45 made, that few folks are aware of. Also the CR450 that appeared in 1967 at Daytona, only 3 made at the request of Bob Hansen. And the CR750 that went to Daytona in 1970. The latter two had chain-driven cams, as I recall. --Randall

[Hotshoe]

The CR110, CR93 and CR72/77 of 1962-1963 were all gear-driven DOHC. There was also a CR71 in 1959, 250 cc with chain-driven cams and leading-link front suspension, about 45 made, that few folks are aware of. Also the CR450 that appeared in 1967 at Daytona, only 3 made at the request of Bob Hansen. And the CR750 that went to Daytona in 1970. The latter two had chain-driven cams, as I recall. --Randall

Swede Savage rode the CR450 in the '67 Expert 200 at Daytona and finished OK but Jimmy Odom rode one in the Amateur class and led the race till he crashed.
Dick Mann won the '70 200 on the CR750 after the other Hondas broke their camchains, I think one burned in the pits too.... must have been pretty tense in that pit!
Here's a classic shot of Mann on the 750 smokin' everyone off the line at the start of the '70 200.
There was a CR750 flattracker around for a short while about this time too, I think Dick Mann may have ridden it till sanity returned.