Drunken Hondaguy

So I was up visiting my mom this weekend, bought a ducktail for my bike, and hung out with my moms neighbour. He is a bike guy, but strichtly a Honda Chopper guy...you get the idea already. His pride and joy is a 76 cb750 powered chopper he built. It's cool and all, just not my thing.

I am only now starting to learn the smoke and mirrors from the realities of bike tuning and old bikes capabilities, and he was either really confused or I am riding the wrong bike! He has a SOHC (with stock cam) eight hundred and something bore kit, pods, straight through exhaust ('cause it's loud, and a bike aint a bike unless it's loud) and carb tuning to match the pods and exhaust. As far as I know thats all he has, no porting or fancy headwork, no nothing else. He tells me that hes running 12.5:1 compression, and runs normal 87 octane. From what I have gathered this is crap...I told him so, maybe it's cause I am twice his size, maybe cause we were both drunk, but he started telling me he would destroy my "kz, gpc, kawasaki whatever you have" He claimed that he was getting a big bore kit that would bore his stock 750 block out to over a litre. Apparently there was enough "meat" in the block to bore that big, cause honda engineers designed it as a drag bike in '69...this again sounds like crap, so I told him so and he started telling me to ride it and see...of course I didn't cause I was smashed, but we are on for next summer....my rebuilt back to stock kz1000J vs. his lightly massaged cb750...I feel like this sort of thing has been going on for decades...

There is a big bore kit for that bike that will take it to 1000cc, but it is not cheap and I don't think it was ment as a street kit.


I know this because I think the kit will fit a kz650 with custom liners giving a displacement of 860cc's.

I asked him if he would have to bore out the aluminum and re-sleeve, and he said "noway, just bore out what I have already in there"

You now have winter motivation.......Go spank the Honda


Let me guess......He wears a German helmet too

haha close, he has a maltese cross rearview. And your signature thing says it all....I put over 5 thousand kilometers from june 25th till september when I took my bike apart, he told me over the past 6 years he has put 2500 kilometers on both his bikes combined...he can't sit on it for more than an hour...BUT he looks "cool" doing it!

There is a 900 kit for the Honda. Hell know you can beat him when you hit second gear and his mirror falls off. Roy

LOL. :laugh:

back in the day, KZ650's were stomping those old hondas regularly..

will61310 wrote:

back in the day, KZ650's were stomping those old hondas regularly..

I believe it, but he says that all that work he's done puts out 126 hp to the wheel...I don't think my bike with that work would put that out at the crank! He loves his ride, and I get that, but he's just always been silly about his choppers.

As I mentioned we were hammered, but he spent over an hour explaining how comfortable sitting on 1" of foam directly on your tailbone was, but then for another hour how having an uncomfortable bike you can't sit on makes you hardcore, and a real "rider" lol. ah well, something to look forward to next summer. I'l dust him off once I get back from riding across the country in July.

Invite him to go cross country with you - it shouldnt be a big deal,with him being so hard core and all...:laugh:

He sounds like many other guys that kind of strectch the truth slightly.:laugh: No way in this world 12.5 compression would run on regular pump gas, that's for sure. All I know is those old CB750s could be fast. There were a couple of them running low 12s in the quarter mile here in Denver years ago at 5800ft elevation which is dang good at this altitude for an old steet bike. Back in the old NMRA drag race series I remember Ed Warren running 10.1 sec runs on a CB750. No idea how big engine it actually had but that was pretty impressive.

Yeah I believe his bike is pretty fast, but he really stretches the truth expecting me to buy it. He has loads of stories about all the bikes he's beat etc. The funny thing is that when he rides (half an hour every few sundays when hes not too hung over) he always takes out his other bike...this bike in question takes quite some time before it's warm enough to run (so my mom tells me) I guess it's such a mission to get it running right that he doesn't ride it. I don't know if this is because of his carb tuning, but something just doesn't seem right...whatever, he'll get over it. lol