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Drum brakes. That's what I need. I need me some of them tasty drum brakes.
If I remember they cost about 550 dollars new at the Brown home and auto hardware store where I lived.
The only street bike that came with a disc in 1965 or '66 was the MV 600.
And that was a "mechanical" disc brake, where a cable operating on pucks via a little "ramp" squeezed the disc, well sort of ....Lannis
I believe that was 34 dollars an ounce. Were you the one who started the inflation of the price of gold?Just think, 16 troy ounces of gold could buy you a Honda Dream brand new.
That was when $35.00 bought an ounce of gold..
The only street bike that came with a disc in 1965 or '66 was the MV 600. Me, I think a drum on a Dream is just fine.How many times has the difference between disc and drum saved you?
....The same engine with two larger carbs was the 305 scrambler CL 77, and with a bigger pair of carbs and a 180 degree crankshaft it was the 305 hawk CB 77, which by mid sixties standards was a pretty good performer. On the road it could stay with most of the big dogs when ridden properly. These were the bikes that Put Honda in high favor with American buyers.
That dream engine was Hondas' copy of an NSU engine from back when NSU was the largest motorcycle manufacturer on the planet. And one of the best. That engine in 500ccs and supercharged was the first motorcycle ever to exceed 200 MPH.
This was the Honda that "copied" the NSU:More:http://www.thebenlyshop.com/currentprojects.htmSoichiro Honda traveled to Europe in 1954 to visit a number of motorcycle factories in the UK, Italy and Germany. He then returned to Japan and produced a series of new designs. The Honda Cub, Benly and Dream models were not copies, but exhibited strong NSU influence in their detail design. This suggests that Mr Honda was very impressed with NSU technology, and confirms the importance of NSU in the evolution of the two-wheel industry that we know today. During his 1954 tour, Mr Honda witnessed Werner Haas's impressive Victory in the TT aboard the R22-54 Rennmax, and it was this machine above all that he built his dreams on. He even named his bike the dream when it entered production.
A close cousin bought a new Dream in high school. He road the crap out of that bike and after graduation he knew he was going to be drafted soon so he rode that Dream double up from Kansas through Canada and back, stored it in our barn (His father and my father farmed together) and ended up in Vietnam. When he returned it was was in fairly sorry shape but he more than got his money worth out of it. GliderJohn
That dream engine was Hondas' copy of an NSU engine from back when NSU was the largest motorcycle manufacturer on the planet. And one of the best.