Super Hawk!!

[JJ]

C'mon now...you know you secretly WANT one!  This is a nice example!!  Time capsule!

https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1967-honda-cb77-super-hawk-305-3/

[Wayne Orwig]

I had one of those.

It got real exciting when the primary chain balled up in the side and locked up the rear wheel.

[trippah]

Me also, but mine was ever reliable.  Sold it to a Lance Corporal who was at Fort Holabird with me for the princely sum of $1.00  I had received my order for Vietnam and he had  already been.

[JJ]

Never had one...but always wished I did, but I was too young at the time! 

It's little brother, the CB160 from that same era was also sweet.

When I was a freshman in high school, two senior guys had an identical pair of these, and I remember watching them take off from our parking lot, all packed up, for a jaunt down to Virginia Beach.  I was so envious...

[berniebee]

I love the combined speedo and tach within the same glass and the vertical odometer is cool too.

[Stretch]

That's a beautiful machine!   

                          -Stretch

[twowheeladdict]

A coworker of mine (recently retired) has one sitting in his basement that he had in college.  He has too many memories attached to it to sell it, but it hasn't run in 40 years. 

[jas67]

The high-shoulder alloy rims are a nice upgrade!

Here's mine low-miles example (just under 3k miles on it).

[jrt]

My grandfather had one- probably the first motorcycle I ever got a ride on.  I inherited it, road it a couple years, but it was in very poor shape so I gave it to a relative who fixes up cars.  Apparently it is in great shape now.  I'm just happy to know it has a good home.

[Lumpy Idle]

i owned 2 of their near cousins, the CL77. i loved those bikes and wish i had one now. same drive train - the Cl was just outfitted with the scrambler gear instead. really distinctive sound if you removed the can and added snoffernots.

[Lumpy Idle]

https://silodrome.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Honda-CL77-Scrambler-1536x1024.jpg

[JJ]

i owned 2 of their near cousins, the CL77. i loved those bikes and wish i had one now. same drive train - the Cl was just outfitted with the scrambler gear instead. really distinctive sound if you removed the can and added snoffernots.

OK...I give up, what is a..................."SNOFFERNOT?!?"   

[JJ]

Snuff-or-Not , basically a washer on a pivot pin across the back of the muffler .

 Bob Pirsig rode a Super Hawk .

 TS

OK - That's what I thought...I remember those now!

[ohiorider]

Snuff-or-Not , basically a washer on a pivot pin across the back of the muffler .

 Bob Pirsig rode a Super Hawk .

 TS

Had 'em on my BSA 650 Spitfire Scrambler in the day.  Didn't think they sounded good, but they did what their name suggested ......... allowed you to 'snuff' the exhaust noise .... or not!

Bob

[JJ]

Snuff-or-Not , basically a washer on a pivot pin across the back of the muffler .

 Bob Pirsig rode a Super Hawk .

 TS

[centauro]

That is the motor that inspired the Laverda brothers to build a very similar 650 model.

[Lumpy Idle]

yeah, really similar. i can see it clearly. interesting.

[Bob Wegman]

I have a1965 model cb77.  It was white but previous owner painted it avocado green.  I removed all the paint and am hoping to get the motivation to put the thing back together.  It has 10,000 miles and runs very nice.

[ohiorider]

One of the guys who rode with us in the mid 1960s owned a CB160 Scrambler.  It punched above its weight!

Bob

[JJ]

That is the motor that inspired the Laverda brothers to build a very similar 650 model.

Then, of course, this paved the way for the legendary 750cc SF2!!