CB72 rebuild. Cafe racer?

G-Man · Post by **G-Man** » Tue Aug 08, 2017 8:55 am

You could do a lot worse than talk to Bernard Saunders who has restored bikes for Honda in Japan and is a dealer for a lot of go-faster Honda parts....

http://www.motorcyclewebsite.com/b-c-saunders-ltd

Just do some Googling to look for a style of parts you might be after.

This is high end stuff...

http://www.jl-exhausts.com/honda-493-c.asp

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G-Man · Post by **G-Man** » Tue Aug 08, 2017 12:43 pm

You're welcome. I'm not very far (in global terms) from you.

Bernard was at the Donington Classic Bike Festival at the weekend.

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Guerini7 wrote:Many thanks G Man. Much appreciated,
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G-Man · Post by **G-Man** » Tue Aug 08, 2017 1:55 pm

These were my favourites.....

Guerini7 wrote:I was at Donnington too. Lots of inspiration!
Loved the Tommy Robb Honda in the paddock.

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GORDON BROWN · Post by **GORDON BROWN** » Thu Aug 10, 2017 4:57 pm

Hello everyone

Did not see you at Donnington G-Man, the big difference between the bikes in the picture and most of the bikes in the paddock with Mike Hailwood, Tommy Robb etc. on them is that these are / were genuine period race bikes, that said the I thought standard of some of the "replicas " was very high ( including the ones with 6 cylinders ! )
Did you see the two ( there might have been others, it was a big paddock ) racing CB72/77's, one in the parade and one being raced.
Guerini7, there have been some nice Café Racers on this site over the years, I hope the project goes well.

Gordon
SAFOJ

G-Man · Post by **G-Man** » Fri Aug 11, 2017 1:13 am

Gordon

I didn't think you were going to be there! Other wise I'd have given you a call.

Didn't see any CB72 based racers. I only went on Saturday and was dodging the rain most of the time!

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GORDON BROWN wrote:Hello everyone

Did not see you at Donnington G-Man, the big difference between the bikes in the picture and most of the bikes in the paddock with Mike Hailwood, Tommy Robb etc. on them is that these are / were genuine period race bikes, that said the I thought standard of some of the "replicas " was very high ( including the ones with 6 cylinders ! )
Did you see the two ( there might have been others, it was a big paddock ) racing CB72/77's, one in the parade and one being raced.
Guerini7, there have been some nice Café Racers on this site over the years, I hope the project goes well.

Gordon
SAFOJ

malcolmgb · Post by **malcolmgb** » Fri Aug 11, 2017 5:51 pm

I was there too Gordon, all weekend, and spent some time with Graham on Saturday. My CL72 was on the VJMC stand.

GORDON BROWN · Post by **GORDON BROWN** » Sat Aug 12, 2017 6:50 am

Hello

Malcolm/Graham, that's the third year I have been and still have not made it to the club hall yet.
We had two race bikes with us ( unfortunately neither CB72/77 based ), with them and all the race bikes to look at the time seems to pass very quickly ! ( apparently I do a lot of talking as well ! )
Gurrini7 seems we have hijacked your post.

Gordon
SAFOJ

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