Honda CB 350-450-450-500-550-750: Books - History and Types

Honda CB350 & 400 Fours 1972-78 - Brooklands Portfolio

Brooklands Portfolio book about the Honda CB350 and 400 Four motorcycles from the years 1972-78. Describes the Honda CB350F, CB400F, F2 and Super Sport.

• The articles, taken from contemporary British and American motorcycle magazines, provide much information about history, model changes and technology.
• Also driving impressions, tests, comparison tests, technical specifications, etc.

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Details:	140 pages, 27 x 20.5 x 0.8 cm / 10.6 x 8.1 x 0.31 in, paperback
Illustrations:	250 photos
Publisher:	Brooklands Books (GB, 1999)
ISBN:	9781855204157

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Honda CB500 & 550 Fours (1971-1977) - Brooklands Portfolio

Brooklands Portfolio book about the Honda CB500 and 550 Four motorcycles from the years 1971-1977. Describes the Honda Super Sport, CB500, 500K2, CG550, 550F and F2, 550K and K3, 550F-77.

• The 29 articles, taken from contemporary British and American motorcycle magazines, provide much information about history, model changes and technology.
• Also driving impressions, tests, comparison tests, technical specifications, etc.

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Details:	140 pages, 27 x 20 x 1 cm / 10.6 x 7.9 x 0.39 in, paperback
Illustrations:	250 photos
Publisher:	Brooklands Books (GB, 1998)
ISBN:	9781855204959

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Original Honda CB750 - The Restorer's Guide to K & F Series 750 SOHC Models, 1968-1978

Although the Japanese companies had effectively changed the face of motorcycling in Europe and the USA in the years up to 1968 with a multitude of well-engineered models, their success had been in the main achieved through a painstaking process of improving and elaborating on the traditional outline of the motorcycle as laid down long before by the established makers of Italy and Britain.

The CB750 changed all that. This was no careful, uprated, well- made variation on an antique theme. It was well made, all right, but overwhelmingly it was new. Revolutionary, some people said - and it is easy even today to see what they meant.
It had a four-cylinder engine as big as a small cars and more powerful, disc braking, a 120-130mph top speed - and above all there was the sheer impressive size and weight of it. As was soon revealed, it also had amazing, car-like reliability.

The author of this book, raised on British bikes, came to the CB750 35 years ago. His first ride caused him to adjust his standards and expectations in motorcycling.
Drawing on his experience as a private owner and a professional restorer, he has transcribed CB750 lore into a detailed account of the many variations of big four that have served motorcyclists during and beyond the 1968- 78 production span of the model.

As is customary in the Original series, an authoritative text is matched by over 200 colour photographs specially commissioned to illustrate just about every external feature, large and small, that helped make Honda's sohc CB750 the most important motorcycle of its time.

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Author:	John Wyatt
Details:	128 pages, 29.5 x 22.5 cm / 11.6 x 8.9 in, hardback
Illustrations:	220 colour photos
Publisher:	Herridge & Sons Ltd (GB, 2012)
Series:	Original Restorer's Guide
ISBN:	9781906133405

Honda CB750 Four

In the 1960s, Japanese motorcycle manufacturers were eating into the markets in Europe and the United States with genuinely new designs and modern technology. In 1968, Honda dropped its four-cylinder bombshell in the form of the CB750, complete with electric starter, five-speed gearbox and front disc brake. More than that, it offered speed, convenience, reliability and oiltightness, features that were normally mutually exclusive. The first 'superbike' had arrived.

In this book, Rod Ker tells the story of the Honda CB750 and its development during the 1970s. The author also covers the Four's subsequent rebirth as a classic, its present iconic status and includes buying advice for the twenty-first century.

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Author:	Rod Ker
Details:	96 pages, 23.5 x 16.5 cm / 9.25 x 6.5 in, paperback
Illustrations:	100 b&w and colour photos
Publisher:	Amberley Publishing (GB, 2015)
ISBN:	9781445651217

Honda CB750 (1969-1978) - Brooklands Portfolio

Brooklands Portfolio book about the Honda CB750 motorcycles from the years 1969-1978. Describes the Honda CB 750 Automatic, Super Sport, K2, K3, K5, K6, K7, F1, F2 and 960.

• The 38 articles, taken from contemporary British and American motorcycle magazines, provide much information about history, model changes and technology.
• Also driving impressions, tests, comparison tests, technical specifications, etc.

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Details:	172 pages, 27 x 20 x 1.1 cm / 10.6 x 7.9 x 0.43 in, paperback
Illustrations:	300 photos
Publisher:	Brooklands Books (GB, 1998)
Series:	Gold Portfolio
ISBN:	9781855204669

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Génération Honda - La révolution CB 750

Presented as a world premiere in Tokyo at the end of 1968, the Honda CB 750 Four was available in the USA in June 69, the last days of August in France. Fifty years ago, the first big cube signed Honda, with its four-cylinder engine and its front disc brake, instantly made everything that rolled out of fashion. The revolution was such that we speak of the motorcycle of the century.

The success was immediate: every biker on the planet dreamed of owning a "4-Pattes", as it was immediately nicknamed in France. The first modern big-cylinder, the Honda Four shook up the motorcycle industry and set new standards. After 1969, nothing was the same!

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Author:	Eric Breton
Details:	224 pages, 32 x 24.5 x 2.2 cm / 12.6 x 9.7 x 0.87 in, hardback
Illustrations:	profusely illustrated
Publisher:	Casa Éditions (FR, 2019)
ISBN:	9782380580228

Honda CB 750 - Nanahan - Das Motorrad des Jahrhunderts

Nanahan - these words simply mean 7 and 50 in Japanese, but five decades ago they started a revolution. Honda's CB 750 was not only voted "Motorcycle of the Century", it also took the entire motorcycle industry into new dimensions.

Reinhard Hopp, who knew Soichiro Honda personally, outlines the stages of this dream that has been built millions of times. He describes development, technology, variations and prototypes, and examines the accessories as well as the subsequent generations.
An extensive data section rounds off this monograph of the first big bike, which is garnished with numerous photos.

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Author:	Reinhard Hopp
Details:	224 pages, 26.5 x 23 cm / 10.4 x 9.1 in, hardback
Illustrations:	41 b&w and 289 colour photos
Publisher:	Motorbuch Verlag (D, 2017)
ISBN:	9783613039704

Honda CB 750 Four - Vier Zylinder und zwei Räder

Beautiful, fast, revolutionary and exciting - Honda's CB 750 Four turned the motorcycle world on its head. The legendary four-cylinder was the first mass-produced superbike. In 1999, the Four was voted "Motorcycle of the Century".
For ten years, the CB 750, introduced in 1968, was built in almost unbelievable numbers with minor changes.

In this lavishly illustrated book you will find the story of the Four, as well as the technical data, the model series, the motorsport (keyword Bol d'Or) and tuning history - from Bimota to Egli to Rickman - as well as a lot of period color.

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Author:	Giorgio Sarti
Details:	96 pages, 27 x 24 cm / 10.6 x 9 in, hardback
Illustrations:	270 b&w and colour photos
Publisher:	Heel-Verlag GmbH (D, 2014)
ISBN:	9783868528992

Honda CB 750 Four

In a list of the 10 most significant motorcycles in two-wheel history, there is no doubt that the Honda 750 must take one of the top places. But it would also be included if the list were to be whittled down to five models - or and even three. Because when the machine went on sale in 1969, it radically changed the world motorcycle panorama.
If two wheeled machines were seen as a mere substitute for the car in previous decades, a spartan vehicle and, with rare exceptions, one of little fascination, a revolution took place with the arrival of the Four. Now, the motorcycle - this motorcycle - is even preferred to an open sports car in that it is a vehicle of enthusiasts' dreams due to its extremely modern appearance and high performance: for the first time, a production bike was capable of 200 kph.

The technical content was extraordinary, with its 4-cylinder engine, which had previously been reserved for racing, the front disc brake and its five speed gearbox. On top of that, the machine had an electric starter, a feature that alone pushed many a "motorcyclist" into buying it, people who until that day would never have dreamt of giving up their 4-wheel transport the day before the Four came out.
Competition was off-guard, so the arrival of the 750 meant the opposition immediately aged at least 10 years. And if that's not a revolution...

Text in Italian.

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Author:	Giorgio Sarti
Details:	96 pages, 2.5 x 2.5 cm / 1 x 1 in, paperback
Illustrations:	19 b&w and 180 colour photos
Publisher:	Giorgio Nada Editore (IT, 2012)
ISBN:	9788879115483