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[husaberg]

Yep. This is after they decided in the 80's to go after hardly ableson in Flat Track racing, and got a CX500, turned the cylinders 90 degrees, hogged it out to 750, and completely owned them.

https://www.cycleworld.com/honda-tha...racing-in-80s/

I love all racing machinery but I have a particular soft spot for these and RSC Honda endurance racers (pre-HRC) Like that Tajima racing thing that looked like an RCB1000. Ooooh errrr missus.

the RS750 was a completely unrelated bike to the cx.
The first try was a cx based but it was pretty shit.

I think it won a national but probably only due to the greatness of Freddie or Bubba? googles no it was Scott Pearson.




They then built a proper race engine the problem was they never supported the rs engines later when the AMA bowed to Harley and slowed the engines with restrictor plates to favour Harleys
Honda then pulled support after they had proven it a winner
That said it had an inherent crank weakness that effected all the offset crankpin Hondas
it won a BOTT Daytona in a welsh made frame though.

Some say it was based on the 45 v XLV750R or the shadow i do not think it was, i think it was a floor up race motor that looked like the other Hondas
looking at this pic i think this theory is right as the clutch cover looked very different so i looked at both parts fiche for the VT and the XLV705R

the RS is chain drive clearly the others are Gear.
maybe this was part of the process to reverse the rotation?

[HenryDorsetCase]

Now that I think about it, it was fucking Bauer that bought Cycle magazine and "amalgamated" it with Cycle World (which was an inferior publication) in the 80's or 90's, and it was Bauer that owned Performance Bikes and "amalgamated" it with Impractical Sportsbikes which they have now killed off.

Fucking Bauer is the problem. Didnt they also fuck over all those NZ magazines? My better half gets an architectural magazine called "Here" which arose from the ashes of some publication fucked over by Bauer.

So they can get stuffed.

[dangerous]

Yep. This is after they decided in the 80's to go after hardly ableson in Flat Track racing, and got a CX500, turned the cylinders 90 degrees, hogged it out to 750, and completely owned them.

well no, it was still a 500 but barrels were swaped so the carbs were out the front (side) and exhaust out the back (other side) tho Im not sure how that worked with the angle of the manifolds and it was converted to chain drive... the go all out was the 750 Vtwin and yes basicly a biger version of the FTV500 engine that F9 bagged out

You like the CX500 though so automatically your taste in bikes is shit

naaa... well, yeah I spose

[F5 Dave]

As soon as you said BOTT, I thought Paul Lewis, and sure enough. Angry Ant I think was his nickname. He rode RG500s but struggled with the push starts as rotary and he was not a big guy. He might have even ridden CibaGigi carbon framed setup. But I'm channeling a very old ACMN memory in black and white.

[husaberg]

As soon as you said BOTT, I thought Paul Lewis, and sure enough. Angry Ant I think was his nickname. He rode RG500s but struggled with the push starts as rotary and he was not a big guy. He might have even ridden CibaGigi carbon framed setup. But I'm channeling a very old ACMN memory in black and white.

Yip ended up working for Garne or similar
Angry Ant looked like an accountant and won it i think two years in a row once or 2 out of three plus a second on the Norton which up until then was the only Cosworth ever not to win a major race.

edit he finished second in 86 to the Ducati 851 prototype on the Norton.
The Norton with Rodger Marshall finished second again with a sick engine.
Paul Lewis was leading on the Honda and went out with i think a crank failure.

I think Rodger Marshall won 88 on the norton.
89 Ducati beat out Lewis on the Honda
90? that might have been when he won ion the Honda?
91 Lewis raced the early Britten Britten and finished second when it had issues

94 Britten won Bott Daytona
but he was doing weellies past the Ducati so he had a bit of speed over him.
He was a bloody unlucky dude he clearly had the talent he was racing in the 90s still in BOTT.
I never considered but yes that ws the push start period
He went back to Aussie and ran the biggest Harley dealership and now makes cafe racers it seems.
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[dangerous]

As soon as you said BOTT, I thought Paul Lewis,

Lewis Vs Stroud...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McnjxoBQ6TQ&t=72s

[husaberg]

Joey on the Britten when the irish did the tour in about 98
Greg i missed the other less famous John at the start first time i watched it but he has a cameo at the end.

[Grumph]

You mean of course the infamous John.....

[F5 Dave]

Oh yeah, I read about the Salt. Those mirrors are dumb. Look gumby and you have to look 4" below the handlebars .

[husaberg]

You mean of course the infamous John.....

Hi i was wrong, looking at the parts fiche for the RS750
it was indeed apparently based on the XLV750R....
It even has a old final drive modeled from the shaft of the XLV

The transmission has xlv parts as is some of the right side parts like gaskets.



Dangerous will be stoked it has a CX650 clutch plate...

[HenryDorsetCase]

Oh yeah, I read about the Salt. Those mirrors are dumb. Look gumby and you have to look 4" below the handlebars .

I learned a lot from watching THE CANNONBALL RUN when I was a kid. One was that I like busty women (thank you Adrienne Barbeau) and another was "Whats-a behind me is-a not important" which was the guy in the Ferrari throwing the rear view mirror over his shoulder.

[pete376403]

I learned a lot from watching THE CANNONBALL RUN when I was a kid. One was that I like busty women (thank you Adrienne Barbeau) and another was "Whats-a behind me is-a not important" which was the guy in the Ferrari throwing the rear view mirror over his shoulder.

Totally off topic - but if you like Adrienne Barbeau, did you ever watch a TV series "Carnivale"? A travelling carny in the 1920s USA. As usual, HBO fucked it up and didn't complete the story arc, but what they did make was very cool, a bit mystical and quite compelling viewing (well I thought so)

[neels]

"Whats-a behind me is-a not important" which was the guy in the Ferrari throwing the rear view mirror over his shoulder.

I live by this. If you're fast enough, pass me. If not, suck it up and stay behind. I'm not looking to see.

Also, most people are fast enough.....

[pritch]

Fucking Bauer is the problem. Didnt they also fuck over all those NZ magazines?

I believe it was indeed. Some mags survived the upheaval, "The Listener" was one such.

[F5 Dave]

My trip over the Rimas downhill into Featherston last Sunday had me thinking: this prick doesn't even know I'm here I bet as I was graciously waving to suggest he deviated into the slow bay so I could crawl past.