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Art Webb Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 3007 columbus, Texas Gender:	Re: 1973 Honda cb450 Reply #15 - 12/09/15 at 08:05:55 the CB 450 is a pretty good bike, I with Honda still made the 450 Nighthawk, I'd really like one of those
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Re: 1973 Honda cb450
Reply #16 - 12/09/15 at 10:13:39

Art Webb wrote on 12/09/15 at 08:05:55:

the CB 450 is a pretty good bike, I with Honda still made the 450 Nighthawk, I'd really like one of those

Dang, Art, I hadda read that three times. I know how it happens. The computer finishes what we start. It eventually became clear what you were saying,when I read
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Re: 1973 Honda cb450
Reply #17 - 12/09/15 at 11:51:30

justin_o_guy2 wrote on 12/09/15 at 10:13:39:

Dang, Art, I hadda read that three times. I know how it happens. The computer finishes what we start. It eventually became clear what you were saying,when I read
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As if you typed with a lithp.

I've been reading your stuff so long I don't even realize I'm doing it... internal auto-correct.

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MMRanch Serious Thumper Offline Evil flourishes if Good Men do Nothing. Posts: 5837 LYNCHBURG TN Gender:	Re: 1973 Honda cb450 Reply #18 - 12/09/15 at 12:00:32 I like the 450 Rebel/Night Hawk motor too. Probably has power like a Savage . but as a twin . Be nice to have a new one that might last as long as a Savage .
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Art Webb Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 3007 columbus, Texas Gender:	Re: 1973 Honda cb450 Reply #19 - 12/11/15 at 08:56:29 I will never be a good typist The Nighthawk actually made 45 HP, 15 over the savage, and had a 6 speed gearbox drool
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Rodger Senior Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 256	Re: 1973 Honda cb450 Reply #20 - 01/18/16 at 06:57:23 Yep, had one of those 6 speed, 3-valves-per-cyl 450 twins. The 6th gear was an overdrive, worked well for cruising on the flat or mild hills.
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Re: 1973 Honda cb450
Reply #21 - 01/19/16 at 09:16:39

A friend got a new late '60s CB450 back in the day. It was a beautiful bike, aimed at unseating the British twins, which it surpassed engineering-wise. But it was heavy.

The other guys in school had Honda 65's and 50's and one guy had a Suzuki 120 single. The 450 reduced everybody else to no-class status. I got to ride it around the neighborhood one time, scared the bejeezus out of me. It felt like straddling a steam locomotive. How times have changed...

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Reply #22 - 01/19/16 at 14:02:18

Art : Here one is : Thing is : this and the S-40 would serve the same purpose . Of course 45 Hp. and 6 speeds and twin cylinder smoothness Huh

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If the Honda had a single carb , I believe I would do it !

I had a Honda CD 175 with a single Carb and it worked good (for a 175).

http://www.ebay.com/itm/301847240903?_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=...

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HovisPresley Serious Thumper Offline Good Vibrations! Posts: 991 Midlands, UK Gender:	Re: 1973 Honda cb450 Reply #23 - 01/19/16 at 15:34:20 MMRanch wrote on 01/19/16 at 14:02:18: I had a Honda CD 175 with a single Carb and it worked good (for a 175). ............................................................... They are great little bikes!
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Re: 1973 Honda cb450
Reply #24 - 01/19/16 at 19:26:36

MMRanch wrote on 01/19/16 at 14:02:18:

Art : Here one is : Thing is : this and the S-40 would serve the same purpose . Of course 45 Hp. and 6 speeds and twin cylinder smoothness Huh

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If the Honda had a single carb , I believe I would do it !

I had a Honda CD 175 with a single Carb and it worked good (for a 175).

http://www.ebay.com/itm/301847240903?_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=...

Is it me or does it look like the forks are bent?
Either way 1000 bux for a 1982 motorcycle is sorta steep, let alone 2500, unless it is SOOPER PERFECT, which you don't know untill you look at it in person

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Art Webb Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 3007 columbus, Texas Gender:	Re: 1973 Honda cb450 Reply #27 - 01/19/16 at 19:53:50 still too much for a 34 year old Nighthawk, unless it was gold plated I think you are right though
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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: 1973 Honda cb450 Reply #28 - 01/21/16 at 21:30:49 Savage, curb weight 381 Honda 450, dry, 392 Id sure like to ride one and see how it goes, off the line and around the corner.
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Re: 1973 Honda cb450
Reply #29 - 01/21/16 at 21:47:04

The linked review of the CB450 gives a wet weight of 430lb. The weight was carried higher than on a Savage.

It felt heavy as a bank safe to me at age 16 or 17, but all I knew were some friends' Honda 50's, 65s, a Suzuki 120. Those things felt like bicycles.

This is a pretty good article, with a bunch of MC history in it.

http://www.motorcycleclassics.com/classic-japanese-motorcycles/honda-cb450-bl...

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