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Contents: Road Tests – Honda CB700S Nighthawk S (The Universal Japanese motorcycle in 1985, the world standard.), Harley-Davidson 883 Evolution Sportster (Evaluating Sportster technology while lowering the price.) Special Features – The Honda Classics (Honda’s here, there, everywhere.), C100 Super Cub (The nifty Honda 50 spelled fun, fun, fun at dawn in America.), CB92 Benly (Small package, high performance, proud tradition.), CB72 Hawk & CB77 Super Hawk (On a clear day you can hear a Super Hawk forever.), CB450 (The Japanese would never build a proper motorcycle, would they?), CL350 (Street Scramblers: as fashionable in 1968 as college riots.), CB750K0 (Simply put, the most significant bike in American motorcycling.), Elsinores: CR125 & CR250 (When two-strokes must be built, Honda will build them.), GL1000 Gold Wing (Stamped in Japan: “Made for the USA”.), CBX (Shimmering icon ending an era.) Features – Cycle And The Honda Dream: Road Test #99 (The first of many encounters.), Did We Say That? (A brief excursion through old road tests, not gone and not forgotten.), Soichiro’s Ladder (Twenty-five years of technical progress.), Riding Pirelli’s MP7: What’s The Deal? (In a word, mileage.) Technical – NR500: Brave New Oval World (The world is round. Honda is busy and the NR pistons are oval.) Departments – Editorial (Summer busy and the CB92.), Pipeline (Scottish six days trials.), Letters (RSVPtttt.), TDC (Getting there.)
Issue: September 1985
Condition: Very Good