Game Changer...
Classic Motorcycle Mechanics|October 2018

This month marks the 50thanniversary of Honda’s seminalCB750. It was 50 years ago that the almost futuristic shape of the Honda CB750 Four was first revealed at the Tokyo Automobile Show in October 1968.

Bertie Simmonds
Game Changer...

Futuristic? Well, at a time when singles and twins were the norm and triples were something special, to see a four-cylinder machine was something very different indeed and yet here it was and it was coming to a Honda dealer near you in 1969.

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