1974 May Big Bike - Vintage Motorcycle Magazine

Description: Yes we combine shipping for multiple purchases.Add multiple items to your cart and the combined shipping total will automatically be calculated. 1974 May Big Bike - Vintage Motorcycle Magazine - Honda 750 Test ON THE COVER: Rich Goepfrich’s street-legalrace bike poses a serious threat on Van NuysBlvd. So does our intrepid photographer RickValasek when he's got a camera in his hand.The local law gave us a total of ten seconds toget this shot. . . thanks.ROAD TEST18 HONDA 750It’s still super, but not as quick as beforeFEATURE BIKES24 BUSCH BIKENo deposit, no return32 RICH’S TICKET GETTERWalter Mitty would have loved itTECHNICAL26 TRIUMPH VALVE JOBIt’s what’s on top that counts36 SMOOTHING THE ’74 SPORTSTERBranch/Mikuni conversion43 IGNITION TIMING BASICSA spark(ling) storySPECIAL FEATURES40 ANAHEIM TRADE SHOWInside the IndustryDEPARTMENTS4 ON THE MAINJETThe enemy6 READERS WRITE AND WRONGDo we get letters8 WARNER’S CORNERHarley tips10 ASK THE ASSASSINHonda tips12 NOTES FROM AN AGING ROAD RACERA little dirt never hurt14 TECH TALKLet’s talk about it47 NEW PRODUCTSMore goodies It wasn’t too many years agowhen a multi-cylindered enginemeant a twin, and then within a fewmonths of each other Honda andKawasaki introduced real, honest-to-God multis, machines that hadmore than two cylinders. Kawasakibrought out their 500cc two-stroketriple, and of course Honda intro-duced the 750cc Four. Both set theindustry back on their respectiveears, but especially the Honda. Itwas filled with things that wentwhir, clank, whompa and otherweird sounds that most bikes didn’tmake.Until these two bikes, theJapanese motorcycle industrywasn’t taken seriously by the rest ofthe manufacturers. Many said thatthe Japanese could make smallmachines, but when it came to thebig-bores they couldn’t handle it.Boy, were they wrong. Today 85percent of the big bikes sold comefrom across that body of water toyour immediate west.The 750 Four started it, and aftera few years of its being around, wedecided to take a look at the latestversion and see what’s happened tothe "first” of the multis.For openers, it has slowed down.In a drag race the oldest versionswill put it to a ’74 model in a fairlybig way. What with the feds puttinga downer on performance and boost-ing the smog regulations, Hondahas had to use more restrictive muf-flers, a different air box, a muchmilder cam, and in general take theedge off the Four. This, however,has led to a bike that holds its tunelonger; the first versions neededlooking at every 1500/2000 miles,... And much more! 12478 RL- mb2111

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