Posts tagged '1976'

Widely known as the "little brother" of the ever-legendary CB750, the Honda CB550 is considered by some to be one of the most balanced motorcycles that came out of Japan in the 1970s. At the time, Honda Motor Company was in need of a motorcycle that could fill the mid-capacity vacancy in their product line. The overall performance of the forerunning CB500 left the company and its fanbase with a lot to be desired. The CB750 was too powerful and bulky for the average rider, while the smaller CB350's and CB400F were too small and handling was not ideal at top speed. In 1974, the CB550 was born and Honda had found its happy medium, producing the model through 1978 with minor tweaks along the way...

Today we're here with our very own Norton and a gorgeous CB550. Norton how are you doing? Good Jaymes thanks a lot buddy, appreciate it. Norton not only heads up our customer service and technical service departments he's also got some restoration superpowers. Norton this is clearly not your ordinary garden variety CB550.

David Mandujano might just be the big brother we all wish we had. The 36-year-old Portland, Texas native spends his days creating custom automotive upholstery through his shop, DMD Kustoms, but when his little brother was heading off to college, he decided to build him a small displacement motorcycle to get around campus on.

Sundays were special days in the garage of the Wright family home. While Mrs. Wright worked on gardening prep projects, her 30-something daughter, Ellen, was busy tinkering on a 1976 Honda CB550F...

When Bob Morris was diagnosed with ALS and his deteriorating muscles prevented him from riding and wrenching on his motorcycles, he started giving his son instructions on how to finish one particular project that was important to him: a 1976 Yamaha RD400...

"A few years back when I was about 18, the vintage motorcycle bug, in the form of a 1976 Suzuki GT250 bit me hard. The bike was out for sale a few miles from my house, and man was she sexy. Running and in very nice shape for its age, she was begging to be mine. I spoke with the guy and swapped him a paltry $75 bucks for my soon to be freedom machine. In my then blissful ignorance, before I bought it, he told me 'it doesn't have a title, but you can just go get one.' HA! To this day I wish it were that easy..."