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Old 06-14-2012, 11:42 PM
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Considering the year this bikes in bloody good condition!

Honda C72 Dream - not CA72, C77 or CA77 | eBay

Quite like the white wall tyres The advertiser says:-


I would recommend that the purchaser considers a trailer or van for collection as the white wall tyres are of "unknown vintage".



Could you imagine riding this home????

Mind you the thrill of hitting 35mph on those old tyres would firm the buttock cheecks better than a month in the gymn!!
 
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Old 06-15-2012, 01:00 AM
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Could you imagine riding this home????

If you put some "goo" in the tyres and go sloooooowly.......maybe.

What a nice old girl !
Good find, Hawk !
 
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Old 06-15-2012, 03:09 AM
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What a cute bike Wonder how many are left of them.
 
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Old 06-15-2012, 05:57 AM
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Looks like a postie bike on steroids!
 
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I find these older bikes fascinating.

Legend has it that after the D-type's first tests the entire workforce went for a drink to celebrate and try to think of a name for the bike.
One man broke one of those silences you get when people are thinking, exclaiming 'This is like a dream'
'Thats it!' shouted Soichiro Honda, and so the Honda Dream was christened.
 
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Old 06-15-2012, 07:12 AM
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Originally Posted by Hojen77
What a cute bike Wonder how many are left of them.
Very good question. I was astonished to recently read in a classic car mag that there are probably less than 50 Mk1 Cortina GT's left in Britain.

****, I owned a real tidy one of them back in the 80's.

So.... if you live in the Mother Country, bid on this thing; I am almost absolutely certain that there will be no more of them made.
 

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Old 06-15-2012, 07:33 AM
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Here's one in my locale

HONDA CA77 305 DREAM
 
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Go on Dave, you know you want it.

Otherwise you you wouldn't have found it.
 
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I think I'd rather have this 70's model

1972 Honda CB350
 
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Old 06-15-2012, 01:24 PM
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That dream front end was no dream. I knew riders with them and they found out that the dream suspension was darn near deadly. It would washout and you'd find yourself taking a ride through the tulips.
 


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