This is the bike on display at Fay Myers Motorcycle world
The one I got was titled in '62 but is a '61 which is a year of many small changes for that model. Only 246 were imported to the US in that year.
Once the dust from sitting in a warehouse for 39 years was washed off, it wasn't as cosmetically pleasing as I had hoped, but I figured if I ever planned on getting one it probably should be now, and then work at making it better if and when I can find the stuff to do it.
So after a road trip to Iowa and the Davenport meet, where it was so hot and humid I thought I was about to croak, I went to an auction that had this Honda.
Had to put the thing on the back carrier because I was just too hot and tired to rearrange my load as I had left my trailer home to save on fuel cost. Here it is loaded for the long haul back to Colorado.
At least it fires up on the first kick (after fuel system cleaning and tuning adjustments) and sounds good. Here's a youtube clip of it running!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoR1IGEfK4o
A few more pics of my CB92 project.
I guess you could say it's the only cafe racer looking bike I like, especially the tank style, which is very unusual.
One thing I found strange was the shift pattern is 1 up for first and the rest of the gears down. Guess it's called a GP pattern, but it's just like my Honda C110 also. Apparently they had 3 different patterns used on this bike depending on where it was sold, including rotary shift and the normal return shift we're all used to.
So far I've changed out the tank badges and found part of the windscreen hardware new wheels and spokes. Also have purchased an NOS set of the seamless mufflers as well as a used pair of the racing megaphones. After riding it a bit it is now in pieces, all labeled and bagged. Ready to go to media blasting and paint sometime in mid December.
Then I'll post up a build thread, here if there's interest.
Here's parts ready to be blasted!
Again, I feel fortunate to get to own and ride this rare collectible. It is rated as the second most collectible Honda production bike sold in the US, only topped by the CB750 sandcast edition. Most are in museums or private collections such as my own.
I'm hoping to have it ready for showing by April, if all goes well.
