BadAss Bikes On A Budget: 1967 Honda CB450 Black Bomber @ ClevelandMoto - SOLD
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 พ.ย. 2018
- Another bike you should know about, The Honda CB450 Black Bomber. A piece of road-bike history, twin cams, torsion bar springs, rev's for days and factory built. Another nail in the coffin for the British 650's of the era. - This bike has been sold.
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I gotta get back to their podcast. Cheers to you guys and Porco!
Good video... Thanks!
The engine technology from this bike helped to create vtec.
What a great looking motorcycle
Owned one from the same year. Remember sitting alongside a Norton Dominator at a level crossing and looking at it jumping up and down while mine was not moving. I cannot honestly say it was as sporty as you suggest. By the way, I bought it new for £299 in 1967. At the time many British dealers were failing so there were bargains around.
I see Scoot-bacca!
Great info, shame I can’t afford that beautiful bike...
Great video phil!
We have a lot of the 350's in the SF Bay Area but the 450 is much more useful in 2018.
From the linked website: "According to the previous owner dealers had trouble selling these bikes in their black/grey paint schemes and many dealers opted to paint the grey parts black to give the bike a more cohesive look. The previous owner claimed this was a "dealer special" paint scheme." Previous owner is full of shit, and seller knows it. Dealers did not commonly paint the fenders and sidecovers of these bikes black before selling. The black fenders and sidecovers are the result of a shitty restoration. If you look at the pictures on the linked site you can tell someone just rattle canned over the fenders (especially noticeable on rear fender) with zero prep work. You'd have to be blind not to see that when looking at the bike in person. The 'restorer' also filled in the channels on the sidecovers where the decals went and rattle canned them. The seat is either a shitty after market replacement, or the world's worst recover.
HOWEVER - $3000 is a decent price (assuming it currently runs and no major engine or transmission issues). Just know that you're buying a bike that will need to be properly restored.
Since you are clearly the god of all things honda, and you assert that the previous owner is "full of sh.."
: www.bonhams.com/auctions/24509/lot/179/?category=list
And I've owned 3 of these Black Bombers, and I obtained the information about the "dealer special" black fenders and side panels from Barber Motorcycle Museum.
Oh, and if this isn't enough for you...
From: www.motorcycleclassics.com/classic-japanese-motorcycles/classic-honda-motorcycles/1966-honda-cb450k0-zmmz16mjzhur
. It also seems Honda painted the U.S. bikes black because they thought it the color most appealing to Yanks. Case in point, the popularity of the 1950s Triumph Thunderbird, originally factory-painted blue then re-painted black and called the Blackbird for the U.S. market after a blacked-out T-bird was ridden by “Johnny” in the Marlon Brando flick The Wild One.
You must be fun at parties..
Some people don’t care about stuff like that, I’m one of those. My K0 has black fenders and fairings, and I don’t give one single... I like to ride it.. and it looks good in black.. jeez
I wanted to hear that bike run..😫
In ,2021 three thousand dollar black bombers are incomplete basket cases
this one shows evidence of considerable neglect. Nearly every bolt on the thing is rusty. I don't even want to look inside the gas tank!
That bike cant do 100. mid high 80s maybe. But still very nice bike. It performed about like a 650 single carb brit. PS, without the Lucas, "Prince Of Darkness", electrics.
I've owned 4 of them. I've never personally had one "OVER" 100, but I've had one with the needle tapping the 100. According to period reviews and magazine articles they were good for over 100mph. www.motorcycleclassics.com/classic-japanese-motorcycles/honda-cb450-black-bomber/
3500 dollars? If that was close to me I would've snapped it up.
I have only ever seen ONE 450 vintage racer. In all the old racing stories and photos I've NEVER seen one of these bikes being raced. I have heard that they didn't do so well because of valve issues but its here-say. Cool bike but I don't buy the hype.
"Torsion bar suspension system for the valves...." What an idiot. I put over 10k miles on a new 1968 CB450, and it was a piece of crap. Yes, it would rev, but it ran out of steam above 80 mph. Eventually, it might top 90. And the cams went flat on ALL of them.
www.chinonthetank.com/2012/12/how-cb450-torsion-bars-work/
I had one of these in 1971 and can attest that it did what we brits call " a ton" (100 mph) without any trouble on the road between Petersfield and Portsmouth - with my pillion passenger (scared shitless) giving me rabbit punches to try to get me to slow down. I also toured mainland Europe with it and it worked perfectly except when we ended up in a ditch after the right silencer grounded on a bumpy bend - a weak point on these bikes was the spongy back suspension. After the trip the bike seized on me one day in traffic at about 20 mph. Another weak point on the early models was that they had a factory fitted copper or ferrous metal internal oil filter of some sort that was prone to shattering due to engine vibrations. Later built bikes had an alloy type filter and avoided this problem. I hate to think what would have happened if the seizure was on a Swiss mountain pass with high speed bends and no crash barriers at the edge as was normal in those days.