The golden years The Honda race history For most people, the Honda race history starts with the 1959 entry of the Honda team in the Isle of Man TT. However, although practically unknown in Europe at the time, Japan in those days had a fast growing motorcycle industry, but their models...

Hi all! Just joined the club. I'm 57 years old and thought its about time I restored a bike from the period I was most fond of ie. the 60's or 70's. I owned a Yamaha v90 in 76, a Yamaha YB100 in 77 and a Yammy RD200DX in 78. Then marriage happened and no bike till 87 and a Honda CX500 which I...

NOTE: This has been reposted on Page 6 #109 thru #113 with pictures to match the text This is dealing with the VB22 carbs in particular but most of it applies to the VB21 and VB24 carbs. As everyone knows that has done these they are problematic to get right the first time at best so hopefully...

I finally got my cb450 head reassembled with Delta Cam’s second attempt at grinding my followers, and this time they are too tight! Last time they were too loose to even reach the max gap. This time I can’t get a feeler gauge to slide between the follower and the cam for any of the valves. I’ve...

Hi everyone, I just got my first bike over the summer, a 1981 CM200T. I rode it around all summer and love it. I put ut away for the winter and need to get some stuff done on it, mainly chain out the chain an sprockets. I noticed that the teeth on the sprockets are staring to wear the chain is...