Honda CB 750 - CB ? - Page 5

 

A helmet with a scratched-up face shield?

 
What is in an alphanumeric model designation? Would a Honda *suck* any
less, if a different tag was applied to it?

The "C" designation for Honda twins has probably been around since
1958.

My 1960 Japanese home market 250cc Dream was a C71.

C72, and CS72 were 250cc and 305cc Dreams of the early 1960's with
ugly square tanks and fenders and pressed metal frames.

CB72 and CB77 were 250cc and 305cc Hawks. With steel tube frames, they
looked like "real" motorcycles.

CL72 and CL77 were 250cc and 305cc Scamblers.

Honda was building various CR 4-stroke racing motorcycles in
displacements from 50cc up to 500cc during the 1960's.

Then the CR prefix was assigned to 2-stroke motocross machines in the
mid-1970's.

Who can explain the logic of why bolting headlights and turn signals,
a quieter exhaust system and a barrel with milder porting onto a CR250
made it into an MT250?

And why was a 2-stroke Honda GP racer called an MR125, instead of a
CR125?

Only Soichiro knows, and he ain't talkin'...