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UK here also, Some blank vin plates are remade mostly by one make specialists for restorers . You could contact David Silver if he hasn’t got any he may put you on to someone who has. Then use stamps and put your numbers on . It must then be permanently affixed to the frame. As far as the...

You can try a proper engineering fixings and fastenings factor / supplier. In the past I have gone to my local factors in the forlorn hope they could find me a fastener to fit a Douglas Dragonfly 350 . Douglas had a nasty habit of using their own thread and pitch I just wanted something that...

If the plates are worn you will get a lot of revs and not much go ( clutch slip ) this can be down to a worn friction plates or worn steels . Or even incorrect oil being used. Once removed place the steels on a flat piece of glass to see if they are warped. A recalcitrant clutch action can...

Just a couple of daft thoughts and I have come across this before working on my old bikes. A knackered coil will work fine for a short while until it gets warm then starts to bugger about, changing them over will show you if it’s a coil issue. A partially blocked fuel tap filter will be fine...

Ex Moto Guzzi rider and owner of a venerable BSA and CB 750 A. One of the first things I do with a new to me old motorbike is methodically and gently spray contact cleaner into any in line electrical connection I find and then go around the loom gently separating the bullet connectors and...

When I bought my Japanese market CB 750 A it had already had the gubbins removed from the carbs . To get around this I did a full service on the bike including new points , re set the timing and points gap, new plugs, re set the valves and timing chain, carbs ultrasonically cleaned with new...

My Honda is a 1976 machine and the riders manual says “ please note the machine will not be charging at idle speed . So to check the state of charge going to the battery get someone to increase the revs and hold it at a constant rpm whilst you check the charge rate with a multi meter to the...

That would be a very long side panel :)

I thought the same thing as you but the more I looked at it the more I thought maybe it’s a style of Japanese calligraphy. Or as a friend says it just says “ seven fifty “ in Japanese bit he wears a jacket with Kawasaki on the back so I ignore him :)

I have found here in the UK the majority of Japanese exhausts from this era rot from the inside out if the bike is not used often as condensation eats away at them when not used and salty roads eat away at them from the outside . I had had a stainless steel exhaust made for a Honda PC800 most...

Hi that’s a very nice ride. Most old Hondas here in the UK got used and abused and through the winter months covered in salt off the roads so a lot of them died by the mid 90’s, or the original exhausts rotted out along with anything with chrome on it . A lot of bikes of that era had by the...

Hi Hinksey, I know what you mean regarding new fuels . I try to use my machines all year around ( weather and arthritis permitting ) but I also use a product called “Stabul fuel additive “ which I add to a full tank of fuel if the bike is going to be stored . Once added to the tank then...

I hope this works

Hi Hinksy I’m not sure how to on here but I will try. The badge is I think the same size as the 750 script on the side panel of the USA market bikes. The script is stylised and leans to the right, painted red on silver against a metallic dark green side panel with gold pinstripes. All the...

This is exactly what we used to do in my youth we would scour the local bike breakers for a CB 750 F set of fork legs and all the rest of the bits needed for a Honda twin disc set up . Sadly few back street bike breakers exist any longer but eBay comes up with a few things now and then. But the...

I have always liked my SOHC Honda’s, but after 50 years of riding arthritis in my left hand convinced me I now needed a semi automatic. So now my Honda is a 1976 Japanese market CB 750 A Hondamatic which I’m over the moon with. It has a lot of differences to the USA...